On 3rd August, 2019, Prof. Mario Lanza from Soochow University visited Engineering Research Center for Nanomaterials of Henan university, giving a lecture entitled “Two-dimensional materials based solid-state microelectronic devices”.
Prof. Lanza introduced his research on the Conducting AFM to explore the properties and applications of 2D materials. Firstly, the work about the graphene as protective coating to modify the nanoprobes of Conductive AFM was introduced. Secondly, the piezoelectricity of 2D single-layer semiconductor material MoS2 is explored by Conducting AFM, and its application in field effect transistors is extensive discussed. Finally, the the extended applications of dielectric material h-BN in memristors were discussed.
After the presentation, the professors of ERCN had in-depth discussions with Prof. Lanza on the issue of nanoprobes modification. Through his very interesting presentation, both the teachers and students in ERCN had a better understanding on solid-state microelectronic devices based on 2D materials.
Introduction: Mario Lanza is a Young 1000 Talent Full Professor at Soochow University. Prof. Lanza got his PhD in Electronic Engineering with honors in 2010 at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. During the PhD he was a visiting scholar at The University of Manchester (UK) and Infineon Technologies (Germany). In 2010-2011 he was NSFC postdoc at Peking University, and in 2012-2013 he was Marie Curie postdoc at Stanford University. Prof. Lanza has published over 100 research papers, including Science, Nature Electronics and IEDM, edited a book for Wiley-VCH, and registered four patents (one of them granted with 5.6 Million CNY). Prof. Lanza is member of the advisory board of several journals, including Advanced Electronic Materials, Scientific Reports, Nanotechnology, Nano Futures and Crystal Research and Technology, as well as guest editor of a special issue in Advanced Functional Materials. He is an active member of the technical committee of several world-class international conferences, including IEEE-IEDM, IEEE-IRPS, IEEE-IPFA and APS. Prof. Lanza has received multiple international awards, such as the 2017 Young Investigator Award from Microelectronic Engineering (Elsevier), among many others, and in 2019 he was appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society (IEEE-EDS). Since 2013, Prof. Lanza leads a research group formed by 15-20 PhD students and postdocs at Soochow University, and they investigate how to improve electronic devices using 2D materials, with special emphasis on two-dimensional (layered) dielectrics and memristors for non-volatile digital information storage and artificial intelligence computing systems.
