（1）Oxide-based thin-film transistors and their logic circuits
(2)）Wearable thin-film-transistor-based sensors for various signal (temperature, UV/visible light, biochemistry, strain, etc) detection.
(3) Physics and chemistry of materials and devices: bulk, surface and interface.

2023-present: Professor, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS, Ningbo, Zhejiang, P.R.China
2011-2022: Associate Professor, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS, Ningbo, Zhejiang, P.R.China
2018-2019: Visiting Scholar, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2010-2011: Professor assistant, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS
2008-2010: Post-Doc Fellow., Department of Division of Functional Materials and Nano Devices, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology &. Engineering, CAS
2003~2008: M.S./Ph.D., Material Physics & Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials Science, Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS).
1999~2003: B.S., NanJing University, P.R.China

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