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2D Materials and Devices Group

Loh Leyi

 

Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy,
University of Cambridge,
27 Charles Babbage Road,
Cambridge, CB3 0FS

ll788@cam.ac.uk

 

 

Education:

  • PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (2018-2022) from the National University of Singapore (NUS)

  • BSc in Chemistry (2014-2018) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

     

Work Experience:

  • Research Fellow in Physics (2022-2024) at the National University of Singapore (NUS)
     

Honors and Awards:

  • Royal Society Newton International Fellow

Selected Publications:

  • Leyi Loh, Yi Wei Ho, Fengyuan Xuan, Andrés del Águila, Yuan Chen, See Yoong Wong, Jingda Zhang, Zhe Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Paul Pigram, Michel Bosman, Su Ying Quek, Maciej Koperski, Goki Eda, “Nb impurity-bound excitons as quantum emitters in monolayer WS2.” Nature Communications (2024): 10035.
  • Leyi Loh, Junyong Wang, Magdalena Grzeszczyk, Maciej Koperski, Goki Eda, “Towards quantum light-emitting devices based on van der Waals materials.” Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering (2024):1-15.
  • Leyi Loh, Yifeng Chen, Junyong Wang, Xinmao Yin, Chi Sin Tang, Qi Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Andrew TS Wee, Michel Bosman, Su Ying Quek, Goki Eda, "Impurity-Induced Emission in Re-Doped WS2 Monolayers." Nano Letters 21.12 (2021): 5293-5300.
  • Leyi Loh, Zhepeng Zhang, Michel Bosman, Goki Eda, "Substitutional doping in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides." Nano Research 14.6 (2021): 1668-1681.
  • Haidong Liang*, Yue Zheng*, Leyi Loh*, Zehua Hu, Qijie Liang, Cheng Han, Michel Bosman, Wei Chen, Andrew A Bettiol, "Robust n-type doping of WSe2 enabled by controllable proton irradiation.” Nano Research 16.1 (2023): 1220-1227. (*: co-first authorship)
  • Ziyu Qin*, Leyi Loh*, Junyong Wang, Xiaomin Xu, Qi Zhang, Benedikt Haas, Carlos Alvarez, Hanako Okuno, Justin Zhou Yong, Thorsten Schultz, Norbert Koch, Jiadong Dan, Stephen J Pennycook, Dawen Zeng, Michel Bosman, Goki Eda, "Growth of Nb-doped monolayer WS2 by liquid-phase precursor mixing." ACS nano 13.9 (2019): 10768-10775. (*: co-first authorship)
  • Nam Thanh Trung Vu, Leyi Loh, Yuan Chen, Qingyun Wu, Ivan A Verzhbitskiy, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Michel Bosman, Yee Sin Ang, Lay Kee Ang, Maxim Trushin, Goki Eda, "Single Atomic Defect Conductivity for Selective Dilute Impurity Imaging in 2D Semiconductors.” ACS nano 17.16 (2023): 15648-15655.
  • Yesheng Li, Leyi Loh, Sifan Li, Li Chen, Bochang Li, Michel Bosman, Kah-Wee Ang, "Anomalous resistive switching in memristors based on two-dimensional palladium diselenide using heterophase grain boundaries." Nature Electronics 4.5 (2021): 348-356.
  • Shoucong Ning, Wenhui Xu, Leyi Loh, Zhen Lu, Michel Bosman, Fucai Zhang, Qian He. “An integrated constrained gradient descent (iCGD) protocol to correct scan-positional errors for electron ptychography with high accuracy and precision.” Ultramicroscopy 248 (2023): 113716.
  • Yuan Chen, Haidong Liang, Leyi Loh, Yiwei Ho, Ivan Verzhbitskiy, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Michel Bosman, Andrew A Bettiol, Goki Eda. “Gate-Tunable Bound Exciton Manifolds in Monolayer MoSe2.” Nano Letters 23.10 (2023): 4456-4463

 

Contact Information

   ll788@cam.ac.uk

Latest Happenings in the 2DMD Sphere

2D TMDs Conference 2025

After the success of the 2D TMDs Conference in Cambridge and Hong Kong, the conference is back in Cambridge next year! The conference will gather leading researchers from academia and industry to present cutting-edge research in the field of atomically thin TMDs and related materials for fields including electronics, photonics, and energy storage. Click https://www.2dtmds2025.com/  to find out more and register!

20th - 24th July 2025

New Paper Alert!

Check out our latest paper "Effect of Substrate on Sulfur Vacancy Defect-Mediated Photoluminescence in Two-Dimensional MoS2" in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C here.

18th April 2025

New Paper Alert!

Check out our latest paper "Mapping Polysulfides in Sodium–Sulfur Batteries" in ACS Nano here.

28th February 2025

Group dinner with Prof. Jieun and Prof. Sakaushi!

The Group enjoyed a lovely dinner at The Old Spring to wrap up the week!

21st February 2025

Seminar by Prof. Sakaushi!

A very interesting talk by Prof. Sakaushi from NIMS, Japan on "Expanding the limit of human’s capability with artificial intelligence for accelerated discovery of advanced electrochemical materials" to end the week!

21st February 2025

Congratulations Dr. Li!

Congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr. Li! We wish you all the best in your next step in life and we will miss you dearly!

21st February 2025

Seminar by Prof. Jieun Yang

It was great to have Prof. Yang, a former post-doc in the group give a talk on "Synthesis of two-dimensional iron sulfides for energy applications"!

19th February 2025