Overview

1.23 funded projects as PI/Co-PI since April 2010 (including 3 funded by the National Science Foundation of China), accumulative funding has reached ~US $ 1 million (monetary value).

2.83 papers (46 since 2014, including 1 Nat. Commun., 1 Adv. Funct. Mater., 1 Adv. Energy Mater. and 6 Acta Mater.), Google Scholar Citations: 1374 (12/30/19), h-index: 20, i-10: 37.

3.12 patents filed (including 3 U.S. patents), 8 granted; multiple U.S. patents in preparation.

4.110 contributed presentations (88 as the presenting or corresponding author) in 50 academic conferences, 6 graduate students advised received best poster awards in 5 conferences.

5.Supervising and mentoring an active group consisting of postdoc (1), PhD (4) and M.S. students (2) in my areas of research.  4 Ph.D. and 18 M.S. graduated during 2010-2018.  Three graduated PhDs are now junior faculty members in engineering fields, while most of my graduate students are now working in high-tech companies, including Intel, Hisense, etc.

Work/Research Experiences

(1)Research Professor, 03/2017-present, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College, CUNY

(2)Guest Researcher/Visiting Professor, July 2014 - Feb. 2017, working in a Materials Genome Initiative project supported by Materials Measurement Lab, NIST, and teaching at the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 

(3)Professor, Apr. 2010 -present, Shandong University, China, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Team Leader of 5 faculty members (Functional Films and Coatings Group).

(4)Electrical Design and Dielectric R&D Engineer, Jun. 2005 - Apr. 2010, Seagate Technology, developing nanoscale thin film electronic materials and transducing devices, Minnesota, USA.

(5)Guest Researcher, Aug. 2004 - Jun. 2005, NIST, Materials Science and Engineering Lab, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA.

Research Interests

Electronic Materials for energy-related applications, including energy harvesting, conversion and storage in Si-based electronics and flexible electronics: design, fabrication, characterization and integration of perovskite thin film materials & devices (high performance dielectric capacitors, ferroelectric/piezoelectric thin film devices including sensors and actuators integratable into piezo-MEMS, multiferroic thin film devices, etc.); applied continuum mechanics and nano-mechanics; environment friendly and bio-compatible energy harvesting materials for wearable electronics & self-powered biomedical devices etc.

Research Projects

National Science Foundation and Ministry of Education:  

1.“Design, preparation and characterization of high energy density ferroelectric ceramic films”, National Science Foundation of China, 2018.01-2021.12, RMB ￥720,000.

2.“Preparation of highly-oriented perovskite-based multifunctional thin films via magnetron sputtering and optimization of their properties”, University New Century Talent Supporting Program, Ministry of Education, China, 2014.01-2016.12, PI, RMB ￥500,000.

3.“Design and preparation of epitaxial ferroelectric films with an elastic polydomain microstructure”, National Science Foundation of China, 2012.1-2014.12, PI, RMB ￥500,000.

4.“Investigation of the extrinsic piezoelectric properties of polydomain ferroelectric thin films”, National Science Foundation of China, 2011.1-2013.12, PI, RMB ￥200,000.

5.“Design and optimization of the extrinsic electromechanical properties of polydomain ferroelectric films”, research project for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (ROCS, SEM), sponsored by the Scientific Research Foundation (SRF).  2012.10-2014.10, PI, RMB ￥40, 000.

National Labs and Research Institutes:

6.“Preparation of highly weathering-resistant gradient nitride solar thermal coatings”, Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Inorganic Coating Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), 2014.1-2015.12, PI, RMB ￥50,000.

7.“Preparation of self-assembled ferroelectric-ferromagnetic nanocomposite films and investi-gation of their percolative dielectric behavior”, Open Fund of the Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials and Devices, CAS, 2014.1-2015.12, PI, RMB ￥50,000.

8.“Preparation and characterization of high quality, high throughput graphene by chemical vapor deposition”, project supported by Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials (BIAM), 2013.3-2014.6, Co-PI with a share of RMB ￥350, 000.

9.“Preparation and characterization of BaTiO₃ thin film capacitors with a high energy storage

density”, Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing,

   Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2013.1-2014.12, PI, RMB ￥ 50,000.

10.“CMOS compatible, mid-to-low temperature preparation of barium titanate thin films”, Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2011.1-2012.12, PI, RMB ￥30,000.

Provincially or Locally Funded (including industry-funded projects):

11.“Preparation of CMOS-compatible high k, low loss nanocrystalline BaTiO₃ thin films and their device applications”, Nano Projects of Soochow City’s High-Tech Park, 2014.07-2016.06, PI, RMB ￥400,000.

12.“Development of highly weathering-resistant solar spectral selective absorbing coatings”, Shandong Solar Energy Corp., PI, 2013.05-2014.05, RMB ￥130, 000.

13.“Investigation of weathering-resistant solar spectral selective absorbing coatings”, Shandong Solar Energy Corp., PI, 2011.5-2012.5, RMB ￥200,000.

14.“Development of mid- to high-temperature weathering-resistant flat-panel solar selective absorbing coatings”, Shandong Province Scientific and Technological Development Project, 2012.10-2015.12, PI, RMB ￥200, 000.

15.“R&D of highly weathering-resistant solar selective absorbing coatings sputtered on stainless steel sheets for flat-panel solar water heaters”, Jinan City Entrepreneur Start-up Fund for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, 2011-2013, PI, RMB ￥80, 000.

16.“Investigation of the piezoelectric properties of ferroelectric thin films with a self-assembled heterophase polydomain microstructure”. Shandong Province Outstanding Young Scientist

   Research Award, 2010.10-2013.10, PI, RMB ￥60,000.

University-funded Projects:

17.“Piezoelectric thin film cantilever-based environment energy harvesters and micro-/nano-transducers – design, preparation and system optimization”, Key Cultivating Projects of Interdisciplinary Research, Shandong University, 2018.01-2020.12, PI, RMB ￥330,000.

18.“Low temperature, In-situ sputtering preparation of highly-oriented nanocrystalline perovskite ferroelectric thin films and their integration into the CMOS-Si technology”, Key Cultivating Projects of High-Impact Research, Shandong University, 2017.08-2017.11, PI, RMB ￥150,000.

19.“Ultra-precision Actuators Based on Lead-free Piezoelectric Ceramics - Materials, Devices and Systems”, Key Cultivating Projects of Interdisciplinary Research, Shandong University, 2015.01-2017.12, Co-PI with a share of RMB ￥150,000.

20.“Building Today’s Coating Product Using Tomorrow’s Technology - Development of an Integrated High Power Impulsed Magnetron Sputtering (HiPIMS) System”, Novel Instrument & Equipment Development Project, Shandong University, 2015.01-2016.12, PI, RMB ￥400,000.

21.“Preparation of weathering-resistant spectral selective absorbing coatings in the flat plate solar heat collectors by magnetron sputtering”, Key Leading Project of the Independent Innovation Foundation of Shandong University, 2011.6-2013.12., PI, RMB ￥600,000.

22.“Anti-corrosion, wear-resistant surface coating materials for mining machinery”, Shandong University-Komatsu Ltd. (Japan) Collaborative Project, 2011-2012, Co-PI, RMB ￥100, 000.

23.“Qi-Lu Young Scholar Professorship” research start-up fund (“985” University Faculty Early Career Award at Shandong University), 2009.12-2013.12, PI, RMB ￥1,000,000.

Awards

1.“Outstanding Research Achievement Award”, the Chinese Ceramic Society, 2018.

2.“(University) New Century Talent” (awarding rate <1%), Ministry of Education, China, 2013.

3.Shandong University Teaching Award (Undergraduate), 2012.

4.Shandong University Undergraduate Practical Training Project Award, First Class, 2012.

5.Shandong University Summer School Key Teaching Project Award (1^st place), 2011.

6.Alumni Representative (Materials Science & Engineering 99’), Tsinghua University 100^th Anniversary Celebration, the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, April, 2011.

7.“Qi-Lu Young Scholar Professorship”-“985” University Faculty Early Career Award, RMB￥2.1 million (~US $330,000) in start-up fund and compensation, 2010-2016.  

8.4^th place, International Dragon Boat Race, Phalen Lake Park, St Paul, MN, July 2009.

9-10. Seagate Technological Achievements, 2008, 2009; Outstanding R&D   

    Performance, 2008.

11.Six Sigma at Seagate (2006-2010) – Brownbelt on manufacturing and process quality control.

12.University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering, Significant Alumni Accomplishments:

   http://www.eng.umd.edu/html/accomplish/0606/alumni.htm, Spring 2006.

13.“Outstanding Research Prize for Oversea Chinese Ph.D. Students”, 1 out of 53 awardees (4 in Materials Science and Engineering), and the only one from University of Maryland: http://www.mse.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=518, 2006.

14.“Outstanding Graduate Student Employee of the Year”, finalist, University of Maryland, 2005.

15.First and second prizes in ACerS Ceramographic Competition, Group of Scanning Probe Microscopy, 107^th American Ceramic Society annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, April 2005.

Selected Publications and Patents

1.H. Cheng, J. Ouyang* et al., “Demonstration of Ultra-high Recyclable Energy Densities in Domain-Engineered Ferroelectric Films”, 8:1999 (2017), Nature Communications.                                          [Impact Factor: 11.878]

2.C. Yang, P. Lv, J. Qian, Y. Han, J. Ouyang, X. Lin, S. Huang,* and Z. Cheng*, “Fatigue-Free and Bending-Endurable Flexible Mn-Doped Na_0.5Bi_0.5TiO₃-BaTiO₃-BiFeO₃ Film Capacitor with an Ultrahigh Energy Storage Performance”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 1803949.

                                                            [Impact Factor: 24.884]

3.J. Ouyang*, J. Slusker, I. Levin, D.-M. Kim, C.-B. Eom, R. Ramesh, A. L. Roytburd^*, “Engineering self-assembled domain architecture with ultra-high piezoelectric response in epitaxial ferroelectric films”, Adv. Fun. Mater., 17, 2094 (2007).        [Impact Factor 15.621]

4.Y. Zhang, J. Ouyang^* et al. “Strain Engineered CaBi₂Nb₂O₉ Thin Films with Enhanced Electrical Properties”, ACS Appl. Mater. & Inter., 8, 16744 (2016).            [Impact Factor:8.456]

5.C. Tan, J. Ouyang*, X. Zhong, J. Wang,* L. Gong, C. Ren, Y. Zhang, G. Zhong, M. Liao,* et al., “Crystallographically engineered hierarchical polydomain nanostructures in perovskite ferroelectric films”, Acta Materialia 171, 282 (2019).                  [Impact Factor 7.293]

6.H. Zhu, M. Liu, Y. Zhang, Z. Yu,W. Pan and J. Ouyang^*, “Increasing energy storage capabilities of space-charge dominated ferroelectric thin films using interlayer coupling”, Acta

   Materialia, 122, 252 (2017).                                     [Impact Factor 7.293]

7.W. Zhang, Y. Gao, L. Kang, M. Yuan, Q. Yang, H. Cheng, W. Pan, J. Ouyang*, “Space-charge dominated epitaxial BaTiO₃ heterostructures”, Acta Materialia, 85, 207 (2015).

[Impact Factor 7.293]

8.J. Ouyang*, W. Zhang, X. Huang, A. L. Roytburd, “Thermodynamics of formation of tetragonal and rhombohedral heterophase polydomains in epitaxial ferroelectric thin films”, Acta Materialia, 59, 3779 (2011).                                                 [Impact Factor 7.293]

9.J. Ouyang*, and A. L. Roytburd, “Theoretical modeling of coexisting tetragonal and rhom-bohedral heterophase polydomain structures in lead zirconate titanate ferroelectric films near themorphotropic phase boundary”, Acta Materialia, 54, 5565 (2006).       [Impact Factor 7.293]

10.J. Ouyang*, and A. L. Roytburd, “Intrinsic effective piezoelectric coefficients of an epitaxial ferroelectric film”, Acta Materialia, 54, 531 (2006).                   [Impact Factor 7.293]

11.M. Yuan, W. Zhang, X. Wang, W. Pan, L. Wang, J. Ouyang*, “In situ preparation of high dielectric constant, low-loss ferroelectric BaTiO₃ films on Si at 500^◦C”, Applied Surface Science  270, 319 (2013).                             [Impact Factor 5.155]

12.Y. Y. Wang, J. Yan, H. Cheng, N. Chen, P. Yan, F. Yang, and J. Ouyang*, “Lead zirconate titanate and barium titanate bi-layer ferroelectric films on Si”, Ceram. Inter., 45, 9032 (2019).                                                            [Impact Factor:3.45]

13.Wei Zhang, Meiling Yuan, Xianyang Wang, Wei Pan, Chunming Wang and Jun Ouyang*, “Design and Preparation of Stress-free Epitaxial BaTiO₃ Polydomain Films by RF Magnetron Sputtering”, Sci. & Tech. of Adv. Mater. 13, 035006 (2012).              [Impact Factor 3.585]

14.Z. Shi, R. Fan*, Z. Zhang, H. Gong, J. Ouyang*, Y. Bai, X. Zhang, L. Yin, “Experimental and theoretical investigation on the high frequency dielectric properties of Ag/Al₂O₃ composites”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 032903 (2011).                               [Impact Factor 3.521]

15.J. Feng, S. Zhang, Y. Lu, H. Yu, L. Kang, X. Wang, Z. Liu, H. Ding, Y. Tian, J. Ouyang*, “The spectral selective absorbing characteristics and thermal stability of SS/TiAlN/TiAlSiN/ Si₃N₄ tandem absorber prepared by magnetron sputtering”, Solar Energy, 111, 350 (2015).   [Impact Factor 4.674]

16.H. Zhu, X. Sun, L. Kang, M. Hong, M. Liu, Z. Yu and J. Ouyang*, “Charge transport behaviors in epitaxial BiFeO₃ thick films sputtered with different Ar/O₂ flow ratios”, Scrip. Mater., 115, 62 (2016).                                                       [Impact Factor:4.539]

17.W. Zhang, J. Ouyang*, A. L. Roytburd, “Effect of thickness-mediated misfit strain on the heterophase polydomain structure of epitaxial BiFeO₃ films”, Scrip. Mater. 66, 499 (2012).

                                                            [Impact Factor 4.539]

18.Y. Li, H. Cheng, M. Liu, Y. Zhang, P. Yan, C.-M. Wang, J. Ouyang*, “Creating Adjoining Polymorphic Phase Transition (PPT) Regions in Ferroelectric (Ba,Sr)(Zr,Ti)O₃ Ceramics”, J. Eur. Ceram. Soc. 37, 1421 (2017).                               [Impact Factor:4.029]

19.H. Cheng, J. Ouyang*, I. Kanno*, “Probing domain switching dynamics in ferroelectric thick films by small field e_31,f piezoelectric measurement”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 022904 (2017)        [Impact Factor: 3.521]

20.Xurong Zhao, Sumei Wang,^* Aiju Li, Jun Ouyang,* Guodong Xia, and Ji Zhou,“Universal solution-processed high-k amorphous oxide dielectrics for high-performance organic thin film transistors”, RSC Advance, 4, 14890 (2014).                          [Impact Factor 3.049]

21.A. L. Roytburd^*, J. Ouyang^* and A. Artemev, “Polydomain Structures in Ferroelectric and Ferroelastic Epitaxial Films”, invited topical review, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29, 163001 (2017) (45pp).                                    [Impact Factor 2.711]

22.A. L. Roytburd*, J. Ouyang*, B. M. Boyerinas, H. A. Bruck, “Stability of Heterophase Nano-structure and Field Induced Response of Epitaxial Ferroelectric Films”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 172902 (2011).                                                 [Impact Factor 3.521]

23.Y. Y. Wang, H. Cheng, J. Yan, N. Chen, P. Yan, F. Yang and J. Ouyang*, “Large piezoelectricity on Si from highly (001)-oriented PZT thick films via a CMOS-compatible sputtering/RTP process”, Materialia, 5, 100228 (2019).

24.J. Ouyang*, R. Ramesh and A. Roytburd, “Intrinsic effective piezoelectric coefficient e_{31, f}  for ferroelectric thin films”.  Appl. Phys. Lett., 86, 152901 (2005).       [Impact Factor 3.521]

25.J. Ouyang*, S. Y. Yang, L. Chen, R. Ramesh, and A. L. Roytburd*, “Orientation dependence of the converse piezoelectric constants for epitaxial single domain ferroelectric films”.  Appl. Phys. Lett., 85, 278 (2004).                                       [Impact Factor 3.521]

Others

ServiceS

Proposal & Paper Reviewer

1.Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation of China – Division of Engineering and Materials Science, 2011-present

2.Proposal Reviewer, Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China, 2011-2017

3.Proposal Reviewer, National Scholarship Fund, China Scholarship Council, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2011-2017

4.Proposal Reviewer, National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China, Chinese Ministry of Education, 2010-2017

5.Ad hoc project appraisal, Shandong Sci. & Tech. Development Plan, Nov. 27, 2012

6.Ad hoc Proposal Reviewer, Jining City Oversea Talents Recruiting Plan, Aug. 11, 2012

7.Proposal Reviewer, Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, 2011-2017

8.Ad hoc project appraisal, Jinan City Innovation Fund, Sept. 9, 2011

9.Proposal Reviewer, Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May, 2011

10.Manuscript Reviewer for Academic Journals (>20)

      Nanoscale

      ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Sensors

Applied Physics Letters

      Journal of Applied Physics

Applied Surface Science

Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Ceramics International

Energy Harvesting and Systems (De Gruyter)

Journal of Electronic Materials

CrystEngComm

Nanoscale Research Letters

Materials Science and Engineering B-Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials

Journal of Materials Research

Journal of Materials Science

AIP Advances

Thin Solid Films

Vacuum

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Physica Status Solidi A

Functional Materials Letters

Science of Advanced Materials

Journal of Advanced Ceramics (by Springer)

Chinese Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology (EI indexed)...

Other Local and University Services

1.Vice President, Tsinghua Alumni Association at Minnesota (TAA-MN), 2007-2010

2.Deputy secretary-general, Tsinghua Alumni Association at Shandong, 2012.03-2017.03

3.Speaker as a faculty representative in the 60th anniversary of School of Materials Science and Engineering at Shandong University, Oct. 5^th, 2012

4.Member of “All-English Teaching Course Development” Committee, Dept. of International Affairs, 2012-2017

5.School of Materials Science and Engineering Faculty Search Committee, 2012 

6.Faculty Advisor of 8 funded projects of “Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Undergraduates”, 2011-2012 (1), 2012-2013 (4), 2013-2014 (2), 2014-2015 (1)

7.Faculty representative: 1^st International Congress on Advanced Materials, May, 2011, Jinan University, Jinan, Shandong Province

8.Paper editing for fellow faculty members and graduate students

Graduate Committee Services

1.Tony Le, Ph.D. student, Physics, Hunter College of the City University of New York

2.Onur Kurt, Ph.D., Physics, Hunter College of the City University of New York (defended on Dec. 12^th, 2018)

3.Qingnan Zhang, Ph.D., Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Technology (defended in June 2018).

4.David Ascienzo, Ph.D., Physics, Hunter College of the City University of New York (defended in September 2017)

5.Yanjie Liang, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed May 2016)

6.Zhenhua Tan, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Xiangtan University (completed May 2016)

7.Xiaolin Sun, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed May 2015)

8.Jing Li, M.E., Mat. Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2014)

9.Xurong Zhao, M.S., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2014)

10.Linqi Li, M.S. in Microelectronics, Xiangtan University (completed June 2014)

11.Liu Liu, M.S. in Microelectronics, Xiangtan University (completed June 2014)

12.Zhicheng Shi, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2013)

13.Pengfei Chui, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2013)

14.Yan Zhao, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2013)

15.Jinbo Zhao, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed December 2011)

16.Bao Liu, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed December 2011)

17.Lifang Nie, Ph.D., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2011)

18.Jian Gao, M.S., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2011)

19.Jing Quan, M.S., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2011)

20.Shang Wang, M.S., Mat. Sci. & Engr., Shandong University (completed June 2011)