Eyring Materials Center Welcomes Dr. Shize Yang

  • KE Core Facilities
  • 2020-06-30

The Eyring Materials Center is proud to welcome Dr. Shize Yang to the team. Dr. Yang brings a high level of expertise in the area of advanced electron microscopy, having focused on the field for over ten years and performing work in national laboratories.

Dr. Yang received his PhD degree from Peking University with a major in Condensed Matter Physics and specialty of in-situ optical measurement of semiconductor nanowires in 2014. Following graduation, Yang held a post-doctoral position for three years at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he worked on STEM study of energy materials using Nion microscopes. He then joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in another post-doctoral position. At Bookhaven Yang worked with soft materials and battery materials employing cryogenic STEM/TEM technique in his use of ARM200F, FEI Talos and FEI Titan E-TEM microscopes. Dr. Yang’s former experience on the running related microscopes and development of in-situ holders will help contribute to microscopy technique development for Eyring Materials Center.

Dr. Yang's work in materials science with focus on two-dimensional materials, batteries, and catalysts is extensive. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory, he focused on two-dimensional materials study. Additionally,  he was a pioneer in demonstrating the ability to manipulate single Re dopant atoms in monolayer MoS2 and developed the three-dimensional tomography technique on the same material to reveal the 3D atomic coordinates and local strains. He studied the atomic level plane view and cross-sectional view of intercalated structure of SnS2 with a specially designed sample protection method using standard sample transfer and FIB methods. These papers demonstrated Dr. Yang’s successful application and development of advanced electron microscopy technique to the study of low-dimensional materials. Dr. Yang also studied many nanoparticles as catalysts and battery electrode materials. He published over 87 peer-reviewed journal papers h-index of 25 and total citation of 2033 based on Google Scholar. Many of his papers are published in high-impact journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, Physical Review Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials. His former research experience will help promote the research at ASU through collaboration with local faculty members.

Dr. Yang’s major responsibility at Eyring Materials Center will be the operation and maintenance of the Nion and FEI Titan Environmental TEM microscopes. The Nion microscope will provide high resolution imaging at low primary voltages from 30 kV to 100 kV which will be perfect for study on two-dimensional materials. The monochromator on the Nion microscope which provides energy resolution better than 20 meV provides a technique to probe the local phonon, plasmon and exciton property of materials at very high spatial resolution. The FEI Titan Environmental TEM is also equipped with a monochromator and an environmental gas system. The microscope offers TEM, STEM and holography modes with EELS and EDX capabilities. Dr. Yang’s research will be focusing on high-resolution imaging, ultrahigh energy resolution EELS and in-operando measurement for energy materials.

Dr. Yang welcomes both project and grant collaboration discussion and is open to discussing faculty needs surrounding research and the development of new techniques.