Curriculum vitae 1. Name: Mingwei Zhu 2. Date and place of birth: January, 1978, Shandong, P .R. China. 3. Present Address Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenhua Road 72, 110016 Shenyang, China Phone: +86-24-8397-8750 Email: mwzhu@imr.ac.cn 4. Education Experience and Position held 1997.9-2001.7 2001.9-2004.3 2004.9-2008.3 2006.5-2007.6 Since 2008.4 B.S., Department of Metallurgy Science and Engineering, North-eastern University, Shenyang, China. M.S., Department of Metallurgy Science and Engineering, North-eastern University, Shenyang, China. Doctor Candidate of Material Science and Engineering, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Shenyang, China. Thesis title: Investigation on crystallization behavior and properties of sol-gel derived ZnO based thin films. Research Associate, Prof. Xin Jiang’s group, Institute of Materials Engineering, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany. Research Associate, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Shenyang, China. 5. Research interests (1) Preparation of advanced functional films by physical and chemical method and their application in devices. (2) Synthesis and growth mechanism of one, two and three dimensional nanomaterials and their properties. (3) Preparation of composite films and the coupling of different properties (electrical, magnetic and other properties) for the new properties and new application. (4) Effect of surface and interface on the properties of oxide thin films. 6. List of publications (1) Mingwei Zhu, Zhanjie Wang, Yanna Chen and Takeshi Kobayashi. Effect of RTA heating rate on the microstructure and electrical properties of sol-gel derived PZT films. (to be submitted) (2) Nan Huang, Mingwei Zhu, Lijun Gao, Jun Gong, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. A template-free sol-gel technique for controlled growth of ZnO nanorod arrays. Applied Surface Science. (under review) (3) Mingwei Zhu, Nan Huang, Jun Gong, Bin Zhang, Zhanjie Wang, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Growth of ZnO nanorod arrays by sol-gel method: transition from two-dimensional film to one-dimensional nanostructure, Applied Physics A: Materials science & Processing. (published online) (4) Zhanjie Wang, Yanna Chen, Yoshikada Otsuka, Mingwei Zhu, Ziping Cao and H. Kokawa. Crystallization of ferroelectric lead zirconate titanate thin films by microwave annealing at low temperature, Journal of American Ceramic Society (in press) (5) Mingwei Zhu, Jun Gong, Chao Sun, Junhai Xia and Xin Jiang. Investigation of correlation between the microstructure and electrical properties of sol-gel derived ZnO based thin films. Journal of Applied Physics, 104 (2008) 073113 (6) Mingwei Zhu, Junhai Xia, Ruijiang Hong, Hisham Abu-Samra, Hui Huang, Thorsten Staedler, Jun Gong, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Heat activated structural evolution of sol-gel derived ZnO thin films, Journal of Crystal Growth, 310 (2008) 816-823 (7) Mingwei Zhu, Hui Huang, Jun Gong, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Role of oxygen desorption during vacuum annealing in the improvement of electrical properties of aluminum-doped zinc oxide films synthesized by sol gel method, Journal of Applied Physics, 102 (2007) 043106 (8) Mingwei Zhu, Hui Huang, Jun Gong, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Effect of sol stabilizer on the sol-gel derived ZnO films, China Surface Engineering, 20 (2007) 1-4 (in Chinese) (9) Hui Huang, Mingwei Zhu, Jun Gong, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Effects of solvent, sol stabilizer and heat treatment on the microstructure of ZnO films prepared by sol-gel dip coating. ACTA Metallurgica Sinica, 43 (2007) 1043 (in Chinese) 7. Conference contribution (1) Mingwei Zhu, Nan Huang, Zhanjie Wang, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Investigation on the preparation and growth process of ZnO nanorod by sol-gel method, 2009 China Materials Research Forum, October 10-17, 2009, Suzhou, China. (Oral presentation) (2) Zhanjie Wang and Mingwei Zhu. Microwave irradiation of lead zirconate titanate thin films, Second International Conference on Smart Materials and Nanotechnology in Engineering, July 8-11, 2009, Weihai, China. (proceeding) (3) Zhanjie Wang, Y. Otsuka, Ziping Cao, Mingwei Zhu, N. Yoshikawa, H. Kokawa. Low-temperature processing of PZT thin films by 2.45 GHz microwave heating, Smart Materials V, December 9-12, 2008, Melbourne, Australia. (Invited talk and proceeding) (4) Mingwei Zhu, Chao Sun and Xin Jiang. Scattering mechanism in aluminum doped zinc oxide films before and after vacuum annealing, 2007 National Conference on Thin Films (TFC’07), August 26-28, 2007, Lanzhou, China. (Oral presentation)