Keji Lai
- Professor
- Physics
Contact Information
Biography
Trull Centennial Professorship in Physics #1 (Fellow)
Research
Experimental condensed matter physics; nanoscale electromagnetic imaging; complex oxides; nano-materials; transport in low-dimensional systems.
Research Areas
- Energy
- Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Centers and Institutes
- Texas Materials Institute
Education
- Ph.D., Princeton University, 2006
Publications
Keji Lai, Worasom Kundhikanjana, Michael A. Kelly, Zhi-Xun Shen, Javad Shabani, and Mansour Shayegan, "Imaging of Coulomb-Driven Quantum Hall Edge States", Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 176809 (2011).
K. Lai, W. Kundhikanjana, M. A. Kelly and Z.-X. Shen, "Nanoscale microwave microscopy using shielded cantilever probes", Applied Nanoscience 1, 13 (2011).
Keji Lai, Masao Nakamura, Worasom Kundhikanjana, Masashi Kawasaki, Yoshinori Tokura, Michael A. Kelly, Zhi-Xun Shen, "Mesoscopic Percolating Resistance Network in a Strained Manganite Thin Film", Science 329, 190 (2010).
H. Peng, K. Lai, D. Kong, S. Meister, Y. Chen, X.L. Qi, S.C. Zhang, Z.-X. Shen, Y. Cui, "Aharonov-Bohm interference in topological insulator nanoribbons", Nature Materials 9, 225 (2010).
K. Lai, H. Peng, W. Kundhikanjana, D. T. Schoen, C. Xie, S. Meister, Y. Cui, M.A. Kelly and Z.-X. Shen, "Microscopic Electronic Inhomogeneity in In2Se3 Nanoribbons Revealed by Microwave Impedance Microscopy", Nano Letters 9, 1265 (2009).
K. Lai, W. Kundhikanjana, M. Kelly, and Z.X. Shen, "Modeling and characterization of a cantilever-based near-field scanning microwave impedance microscope", Rev. Sci. Instrum. 79, 063703 (2008).
Awards
- International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) C10 Young Scientist Prize, 2015
- Department of Energy Early Career Award, 2013
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Global Research Partnership (GRP) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Award (2008 – 2011).
- Karel Urbanek Postdoctoral Scholar in Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University (2006 – 2008).
- Summer Fellowship, Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (July 2005).
- Graduate Fellowship, Princeton University (2001 – 2002).
- Academic Distinction Scholarship, Tsinghua University, (1997 – 2000).
- Gold Medal, 28th International Physics Olympiad, Sudbury Canada, (July 1997).