Liping Yu

Liping YuYu
Associate Professor of Physics

  • 1999  B.S., Zhejiang University
  • 2002  M.S., Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics
  • 2009 Ph.D., North Carolina State University

Office: 105 Bennett Hall

Phone: (207) 581-1029

Email: liping.yu@maine.edu

Research Interests:

  • Condensed Matter and Materials Theory
  • Inverse design of materials for energy and electronics
  • Density functional theory and first-principles computation
  • Point defects in solids
  • Surface and interface properties of materials
  • Catalysis, photovoltaics, and energy storage
  • Two-dimensional materials for flexible electronics

Recent Publications:

L. Yu, Q. yan, and A. Ruszinzsky. “Negative Poisson’s Ration in 1T-Type Crystalline Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.” Nature Communications 8, 15224 (2017)

X. Zhao, J. Yang, Y. Fu, D. Yang, Q. Xu, L. Yu, S.H. Wei and L. Zhang. “Design of Lead-free Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Solar Cells via Cation-Transmutation.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 2630 (2017)

L. Yu, A. Ruszinzsky, and John P. Perdew. “Bending Two-Dimensional Materials to Control Charge Localization and Fermi-Level Shift.” Nano Letters 16, 2444-2449 (2016) DOI

R. Gautier, X. Zhang, L. Hu, L. Yu, Y. Lin, Tor O. L. Sunde, D. Chon, K.R. Poeppelmeier, and A. Zunger. “Prediction and Laboratory Discovery of New 18-Electron ABX Compounds and Their Functionality.” Nature Chemistry 7, 308 (2015) DOI

L. Yu and R. Raj. “On the Thermodynamic Stability of the Amorphous Phase in Polymer-Derived SiCO.” Scientific Reports 5, 14550 (2015) DOI

F. Yan, X. Zhang, Y. Yu, L. Yu, A Nagaraja, T. Mason and A. Zunger. “Design of Tairge: A P-Type, Wide Band Gap Ternary Half-Heusler Semiconductor.” Nature Communications 6, 7308 (2015) DOI