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Smart Microdevices Group was established in Sept 2007. Click Here you can
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Group Leader: Dr. Richard (Yongqing) Fu
Lecturer on Micromachining and Bioengineering
Contact Information
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E-mail: R.Y.Fu@hw.ac.uk
Room:
NS 2.28
Department of
Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering
and Physical Sciences,
Heriot-Watt
University
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS,
UK
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Telephone: +44 (0)131 451 4381
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Fax: +44 (0)131 451 3129
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About
group’s publications, pls. click here.
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About Dr. Fu’s teaching and other academic
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Highlight of Recent news
1.
From Feb
2011, Dr.
Fu is now a Reader in Thin Film
Centre in University of the West of Scotland. www.thinfilmcentre.co.uk. Some
equipment in Thin Film Centre can be found from here.
It was a wonderful experience for Smart Microdevice
Group during the past three years:
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The small group has once had 7 research
members in total (excluding MSc or BSc students of course).
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We have obtained various research funding
from different resources (PI and mainly Co-I together for millions of pounds)
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We have contributed an excellent research
output for the University (although being a small group)!! In the past three
years: we have two books, three edited journal issues, five book chapters, 20 journal papers, and about 15 conference
papers.
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Dr. Fu was nominated in shortlists for Teaching
Oscar Award from students in 2010.
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Dr. Fu has been listed in Who
is Who is the World 2009.
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Group members have obtained various awards!
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We have successfully organized two
“Scientific Photography Competition” in university.
2.
May 2011, Dr. Fu
has visited four universities in China, and gave an invited talk in an International
Conference on Surface Engineering in Xi’an, where he is one of the
co-organizers.
3.
May 2011, Congratulation
to Dr. Bin Xu, Who has
successfully passed his viva!
4.
April
2011: Congratulation to Mansuor
Alghane, who published his second journal paper in J. Appl. Phys.!
5.
April
2011: Congratulation to Alasdair
McKean, a final year student worked in our group, who won the best
project presentation!
6.
March
2011: H-Index of Dr. Fu’s publications is now: 23 (which means
at least 23 papers have been cited by 23 times)!
7.
Feb
2011: our paper has been accepted as oral presentation in prestigious
MEMS conference of Transducer 2011, held in Beijing, China. Good work of Yifan,
Stuart and Mansuor!!
8.
Jan
2011: Top 25 hottest downloaded paper! (with citation of 13
already within one year)
Y.Q. Fu, J.K. Luo, X. Du, A.J.
Flewitt, Y. Li, A. Walton, W.I. Milne, Recent
developments in ZnO films for acoustic wave based
bio-sensing and microfluidic applications, Sens.
Actuat. B. 2010 (impact factor: 3.122).
Oct-Dec 2010: Top 23
July-Sept 2010: Top 17
Jan-March 2010: Top 9
9.
Jan 2011. Top 25 hottest downloaded paper
again after its publication for 7 years!
My 2004
paper in Sensors and Actuators is still the No. 20 of most popular 25 hottest
papers!
Yongqing Fu, Hejun Du, Weimin Huang, Sam Zhang, Hu Min, TiNi based thin films in MEMS applications: a review, Sensors
& Actuators A, 112 (2-3) : 395-408 (2004)
Citation: 174
(from SCI)
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4th
Quarter 2010 Top 20
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3rd
Quarter 2010 Top 20
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2nd
Quarter 2010 Top 14
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1st
Quarter 2010 Top14
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4th
Quarter 2009 Top 10
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3rd Quarter
2009 Top 14
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4th
Quarter 2008 Top25
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2nd
Quarter 2008 Top25
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4th
Quarter 2007 Top24
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3rd Quarter 2007 Top
24;
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4th Quarter 2006 Top
20;
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4th Quarter 2005 Top
15;
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2nd Quarter 2005 Top
2;
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1st
Quarter 2005 Top 4
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4th Quarter 2004 Top
4;
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3rd Quarter 2004 Top
1.
10.
Jan 2011: A new paper published on texture and trenches on the TiNiCu shape memory films:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2011.01.113
11.
Jan 2011: Dr. Fu chaired a session in the conference of “AMN -
APLOC 2011”, the joint conference on Advances in Microfluidics
and Nanofluidics and Asian-Pacific International
Symposium on Lab on Chip, and gave a talk on
“Surface acoustic wave based Lab-on-chip device”.
12.
Dec 2010 to
Jan 2011: With the support of research project from
Royal Academy of Engineering, Dr. Fu visited about eight universities in China,
and gave three invited talks, and make new collaboration links. Dr. Fu was also
invited to visit and give an invited talk in Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore.
13.
Dec 2010: Mansuor’s first journal paper has been published: by J. Micromech Microeng (impact
factor: 2.33):. Congratulation for his hard work! http://stacks.iop.org/0960-1317/21/015005
M. Alghane, B. X. Chen, Y.Q. Fu, Y. Li, J. K. Luo, and
A.J. Walton, Experimental and numerical investigation
of acoustic streaming excited by using a surface acoustic wave device on a
128º YX-LiNbO3 substrate, J. Micromech. Microeng.
21 (2011) 015005.
14.
Nov 2010: Dr. Fu has
been invited and finished to write a book chapter on “Microgripper for bioMEMS applications”
Chapter 7, in Book of “MEMS for biological Applications”, Wood Head
Publishers, 2011.
15.
Nov 2010: A book chapter published: Y.Q. Fu, J. S. Cherng, et al,
Chapter 12, Aluminium nitride thin film acoustic wave devices for microfluidic and biosensing
applications, in Acoustic Waves,
Edited by Don W. Dissanayake, Sciyo
Publisher, 2010, ISBN 978-953-307-111-4.
16.
Oct 2010. Congratulation
to Bin Xu, who won second year PhD research Prize!
17.
Oct 2010. Congratulation
to Stuart Brodie, who obtained first year PhD research prize!
18.
Oct 2010.
Congratulation to our former group member, Ms Yan Feng, who obtained first year
PhD research prize!
19.
Aug.
2010. Prof. Xiaotao Zu from Electronic Science and Technology of
China, Prof. Tianling Ren and Prof. Yi Yang from Tsinghua University, China and Prof. Jyh-Shiarn Cherng from
Mingchi University, Taiwan visited our group.
20.
July
2010. Dr. Fu, Prof. Markx, Prof. Anthony Walton, and Dr. Yifan Li
visited Tsinghua University (Prof. T. Ren), Harbin
Institute of Technology (Prof. X He and Prof. Y Li) and Xian Jiaotong University (Prof. K. Xu), and gave many invited
talks.
21.
July
2010, Dr. Fu organized a symposium on Shape Memory Thin Films in the 7th
International Conference on Advanced Thin Films and Surface coating, held in 11th
to 14th July 2010, Harbin, China.
22.
June
2010: Book Chapter Published!!
Y.Q. Fu.
Chapter 15 Duplex Surface Treatment of Light Alloys, in Book of “Surface Engineering of Light Alloys” Edited by H. Dong and published by CRC/Woodhead Publisher 2010, pp 501-540.
23.
June
2010: Congratulation to Mr. Ding Wang, who has won EPSRC summer internship from
School of EPS to study on “Smart Nanocomposite
Microsurgery Tools”.
24.
May
2010. Dr. Fu and Prof. Markx visited Taiwan and gave three invited
talks in Mingchi University, Taitung
University, and visited National Central university
and National University of Science and Technology.
25.
May
2010, Dr. Fu and B Xu, W. Chang, G Hao successfully organized HWU-EPS
Photo-Competition, and the news has been published in newspaper: Edinburgh
Evening News (May 18 2010). More details can be found from: http://www.eps.hw.ac.uk/~ryf1/HWU%20photocompetition.htm
26.
May
2010: Dr. Fu received Larger Grant from Carnegie Trust Funding for
project of “Demonstration of the feasibility of integrating AlN film with a range of advanced digital microfluidic lab-on-chip technologies”.
27.
May
2010: Congratulation to Stuart Brodie, who received 2010 RSE/J M Lessells Scholarship for collaboration with Prof. A. Wixforth from University of Ausburg,
Germany, who is a world leader in surface acoustic wave microfluidics. http://www.news.hw.ac.uk/news/5492-PhD_student_wins_the_JM_Lessels_Scholarship_Award
28.
April
2010: Congratulation to Stephen Tillie, our final year project
student, who has won the best BEng Project
presentation in Department of Mech Engng!
29.
April
2010: Dr. Fu received “Major Awards” from “The Royal Academy of
Engineering Research Exchanges with China and India Scheme” to focus his work on
“Nanocomposite Shape memory polymer for
microsurgery applications”. Collaborator is Prof. X.T.Zu
from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.
30.
March
2010: Dr. Fu received “Research
Grant” from Royal Society to focus his work on “Thin Films
based Lab-on-chip”
31.
Feb
2010: Dr. Fu received “International Exchange Award” from
Royal Society of Edinburgh to collaborate with researchers from Taiwan (Prof.
Cherng in Mingchi University of Technology and Prof.
Shu from National Taiwan University)
32.
Dec
2009: A 1.5 million pounds research boost! Dr. Fu is a Co-Investigator
in an EPSRC/IeMRC Research Funding. More can be found
from this website: http://imnssm.eng.ed.ac.uk/
33.
Nov
2009: Dr. Fu was granted with “Scotland-China Higher Education Partnership Project”
(with Prof. X.D. He from Harbin Institute of Technology, China).
34.
Oct.
2009: Congratulation to Ben! His new paper is
accepted by J. Mater.
Chemistry (impact factor: 4.65):
35.
Oct
2009: Dr. Fu is invited as Guest Editor on a topic of Special
Issue "Novel Stimuli-Responsive (co)Polymers" for
Journal of Polymers: Welcome to submit your paper on
smart polymers!
36.
Sept 2009: Book Published! S. Miyazaki, Y. Q. Fu, W. M. Huang, Book of “Thin Film Shape
Memory Alloys: Fundamentals and Device Applications”, Cambridge
University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780521 885768. total pp.590.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521885768
http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Film-Shape-Memory-Alloys/dp/0521885760
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Thin-Film-Shape-Memory-Alloys/Shuichi-Miyazaki/e/9780521885768
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