About
Ruomeng studied Physics in China, receiving a BSc in 2008 and a MEd in 2009. He came to Southampton in 2009 where he obtained a MSc in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology in 2010 and a PhD investigating the confined nanoscale chalcogenide phase change material and memory in 2015.
Following his PhD, Ruomeng was awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellowship in 2015 to start his independent research in functional chalcogenides and metal oxides with particular focus on application of novel non-volatile memory technologies (phase change memory and resistive switching memory) and thermoelectric (TE) materials and energy harvester. In 2018, he was appointed a lectureship in the Sustainable Electronic Technologies Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science in the University of Southampton. He was a Co-Investigator in a STFC grant (Selective Chemical Vapour Deposition for Production of Thermoelectric Micro-Generators for Energy Harvesting, £363k) for the development of thin film thermoelectric generators. He is also working in a EPSRC program grant (ADEPT – Advanced Devices by ElectroPlaTing, £6.33m) which explores the state of the art of electrodeposition and device design at the nanoscale in the areas of thermoelectrics, infrared detection, and phase change materials.
Ruomeng has published over 40 journal papers (Google Scholar) and delivered over 40 oral/poster presentations at national and international conferences. He is a regular reviewer of several journals from ACS, RSC and IEEE.
Grants:
EPSRC IAA: Flexible thin-film thermoelectric for electricity generation from heat pipes, PI
STFC IAA: Chemical deposition of earth abundant tellurium-free materials for thermoelectric micro-generator applications, PI.
EPSRC eFutures Sandpit: NanoWire for MegaPower: Silicon nanowire based micro-thermoelectric generator, PI
STFC IPS: Selective chemical vapour deposition for production of thermoelectric micro-generators for energy harvesting, Co-I.
Latest news:
- Our paper "Electrodeposition of GeSbTe-Based Resistive Switching Memory in Crossbar Arrays" is publihsed in Journal of Physical Chemistry C (IF: 4.1). This work is part of the reeearch outcomes for our EPSRC ADEPT program grant. PDRA Dr Ayoub Hamdiyah is the first author for this paper. Well done Ayoub!
- Our paper "Low pressure CVD of GeE (E = Te, Se, S) thin films from alkylgermanium chalcogenolate precursors and effect of the deposition temperature on the thermoelectric performance of GeTe" is published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (IF: 9.2). PhD student Vikesh Sethi is the co-author in this work. Well done Vikesh!
- Our paper "Artificial neural network enabled accurate geometrical design and optimisation of thermoelectric generator" is published in Applied Energy (IF: 9.7). PhD student Yuxiao Zhu and Daniel Newbrook are the first authors (equal contribution). Congratulations to Yuxiao and Daniel!
- Our paper "Accurate inverse design of Fabry–Perot-cavity-based color filters far beyond sRGB via a bidirectional artificial neural network" is published in Photonic Research (IF: 7.1). This work is in collaboration with Hunan University, China from a Royal Society International Exchange Scheme. PhD student Peng Dai is the first author. Well done Peng!
Fully funded PhD positions available! Please contact me (email: r.huang@soton.ac.uk) for more information.