Biography

Dexian Ye is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, VA. He joined the faculty at VCU in Fall 2009. Previously he was a Research Associate (2006-2009) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. He received a B.S. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China in 1997 and a Ph.D. degree from RPI in 2006.

His research is in fabrication of nanomaterials and applications. He currently focuses on growth of 3D nanostructures for energy, biosensors, MEMS, and photonic crystal applications, and exploits structural properties of 3D nanostructures to enhance the vibrational spectra of molecules. The motivations of his research along this line are biological detection and sensing, MEMS, photovoltaic cells, and spiral photonic crystals.

He has co-authored many papers in the areas of nanoscience and experimental condensed matter physics.

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Last updated 08/10/2009