Sam HY HSU
Assistant Professor
University of Hong Kong
China
Biography
Dr. Sam H. Y. Hsu obtained his PhD degree under supervision of Prof. Kirk S. SCHANZE at University of Florida with focusing on photophysical behaviors of functional metallopolymer materials for solar energy applications. After that, he received the two-year postdoctoral and research associate’s appointments respectively with Prof. Allen J. BARD and Prof. Edward T. YU in Center for Electrocemistry and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Texas at Austin. During thhe period of his postdoc and research associate, he completed many outstanding multidisciplinary projects. The area of his expertise stretches from multistep synthesis of organic-inorganic semiconductors to new related disciplines involving diverse areas of applications and material characterization, including solar fuels, organic and inorganic photovoltaic cells, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy imaging.
Research Interest
Dr. Sam H. Y. Hsu’s research interests involve the material design, synthesis, processing, imaging, spectroscopy and solar energy application, aiming to explore fundamental properties and interactions of hybrid perovskite semiconductors and functional metallopolymer materials for developing efficient solar energy conversion processes. He has keen interests in photoinduced charge transfer processes, interfacial electron transfer, electrochemical hydrogen generation, and photoredox reactions for photovoltaics and solar fuel production. The investigations between material phenomena rely heavily on concepts and techniques of material and physical engineering, consisting of photophysics, electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry, scanning photoelectrochemical microscopy imaging, ultrafast transient absorption and time-resolved photoluminescence spectra