Name: Zhang, Heng
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Office: Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory Building 2
Email: heng.zhang@xmu.edu.cn
Academic Education and Professional Experience
- 2026- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China
- 2023-2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Regensburg, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Rupert Huber)
- 2018-2022 Ph.D., Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Germany (Advisor: Prof. Mischa Bonn)
- 2015-2018 M.S., Tianjin University, China
- 2011-2015 B.S., Shandong University of Science and Technology, China
Research Interests
- Ultrafast THz spectroscopy
- Ultrafast microscopy
- Strong light-matter interaction
- Surface physics and chemistry, etc.
Main Publications
- Prasoon, A. *, Dacha, P. *, Zhang, H. *, Unsal, E., Hambsch, M., Croy, A., Fu, S., Ngan Nguyen, N., Liu, K., Qi, H., Chung, S., Jeong, M., Gao, L., Kaiser, U., Cho, K., Wang, H. I., Dong, R., Cuniberti, G., Bonn, M., Mannsfeld, S. C. B. & Feng, X. High-performance phototransistor based on a 2D polybenzimidazole polymer. Advanced Materials 37, e2505810 (2025).
- Fu, S. *, Zhang, H. *, Tielrooij, K. J., Bonn, M. & Wang, H. I. Tracking and controlling ultrafast charge and energy flow in graphene-semiconductor heterostructures. Innovation 6, 100764 (2025).
- Gao, L. *, Zhang, H. *, Zhang, Y., Fu, S., Geuchies, J. J., Valli, D., Saha, R. A., Pradhan, B., Roeffaers, M., Debroye, E., Hofkens, J., Lu, J., Ni, Z., Wang, H. I. & Bonn, M. Tailoring polaron dimensions in lead-tin hybrid perovskites. Advanced Materials 36, e2406109 (2024).
- Chen, Q. *, Lodi, A. *, Zhang, H. *, Gee, A., Wang, H. I., Kong, F., Clarke, M., Edmondson, M., Hart, J., O'Shea, J. N., Stawski, W., Baugh, J., Narita, A., Saywell, A., Bonn, M., Mullen, K., Bogani, L. & Anderson, H. L. Porphyrin-fused graphene nanoribbons. Nature Chemistry 16, 1133-1140 (2024).
- Zhang, H., Debroye, E., Vina-Bausa, B., Valli, D., Fu, S., Zheng, W., Di Virgilio, L., Gao, L., Frost, J. M., Walsh, A., Hofkens, J., Wang, H. I. & Bonn, M. Stable Mott polaron state limits the charge density in lead halide perovskites. ACS Energy Letters 8, 420-428 (2023).
- Zhang, H., Debroye, E., Fu, S., Gonzalez, M. C. R., du Fosse, I., Geuchies, J. J., Gao, L., Yu, X., Houtepen, A. J., De Feyter, S., Hofkens, J., Bonn, M. & Wang, H. I. Optical switching of hole transfer in double-perovskite/graphene heterostructure. Advanced Materials 35, e2211198 (2023).
- Liu, Y. *, Zhang, H. *, Yu, H., Liao, Z., Paasch, S., Xu, S., Zhao, R., Brunner, E., Bonn, M., Wang, H. I., Heine, T., Wang, M., Mai, Y. & Feng, X. A thiophene backbone enables two-dimensional poly(arylene vinylene)s with high charge carrier mobility. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 62, e202305978 (2023)
- Zhang, H., Debroye, E., Zheng, W., Fu, S., Virgilio, L. D., Kumar, P., Bonn, M. & Wang, H. I. Highly mobile hot holes in Cs2AgBiBr6 double perovskite. Science Advances 7, eabj9066 (2021).
- Zhang, H. *, Debroye, E. *, Steele, J. A., Roeffaers, M. B. J., Hofkens, J., Wang, H. & Bonn, M. Highly mobile large polarons in black phase CsPbI3. ACS Energy Letters 6, 568-573 (2021).
- Zhang, H., Zhang, Y. T., Yu, Y., Song, X. X., Zhang, H. T., Cao, M. X., Che, Y. L., Dai, H. T., Yang, J. B. & Yao, J. Q. Ambipolar quantum-dot-based low-voltage nonvolatile memory with double floating gates. ACS Photonics 4, 2220-2227 (2017).