Wireless power transfer (WPT) technology offers significant improvement in convenience and electric safety for electric vehicle (EV) charging. Our research aims at novel designs that con-siderably reduce size and cost while increasing the coupling coefficient and improving the misalignment capability. We will first introduce the basics of WPT, followed by discussion of a double-sided LCC topology which further enhances the system efficiency.

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Metal oxide semiconductor device technology is to date widely accepted as a technology that enable the development of next generation device applications such as flexible, transparent and low cost electronic devices because of its superior material property such as reasonably high electron mobility (>10cm2(Vs)-1) and wide compatibility of processing including solution process.

With the demanding requirement of nanotechnology in the semiconducting industry, the challenge will become unprecedented as the fabrication approaches the scaling limit in the next few years. The rise of 2D materials seems to be a probable solution for developing the next-generation semiconducting devices. As 2D lateral junctions bring a revolutionary breakthrough in the past few years, nanoscale sized devices are no longer limited to the vertical direction.

Ferroelectric polymers such as poly (vinylidenedifluoride–trifluoroethylene) P(VDF-TrFE) are great alternative to conventional ceramics based non-volatile memory (NVM) devices owing to their low temperature and easy processing, compatible with flexible electronics. We have shown that the ferroelectric properties, in particular coercivity, can be dramatically improved by suitably controlling the microstructure of P(VDF-TrFE) thin films through manipulating the cooling rate of the samples after annealing between Tc and Tm.

This presentation outlines the techniques used to produce some of the most successful and widely sold products in broad band wireless industry. Many of the designs are non-intuitive and would be impossible to develop using conventional methods. The products spectrum includes directional, sector and omni antennas as well as filters, circuits and cell phones. The approach has also be applied to MIMO algorithms, propagation analysis and self-organizing networks. Some novel ongoing and future applications are discussed.

A new generation of power plants called Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) that uses the sun as a heat source to generate electricity is on the rise. The first subsystem in a CSP plant are large mirrors that collect and concentrate the sunlight onto a fluid carrying receiver, hence the name solar collector or solar concentrator. These solar concentrators accurately track the sun daily and yearly to maintain high energy yield.  In this talk, the function of