Rate My Professor Hoe Tan

Professor Hoe Tan is a Professor in the Department of Electronic Materials Engineering, Research School of Physics, at the Australian National University. He received his BE (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1992 and PhD in Electronic Materials Engineering from the Australian National University in 1997. Prior to his PhD studies, he worked at Osram in Malaysia producing LEDs and other optoelectronic products. He is Node Director for the Australian National Fabrication Facility ACT Node, providing state-of-the-art fabrication for micro- and nano-scale electronic and photonic devices. Tan is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems and contributes to solar photovoltaics and hydrogen economy research groups. His career includes Australian Research Council Postdoctoral, QEII, and Future Fellowships.

Tan specializes in epitaxial growth of III-V compound semiconductors and low-dimensional structures by metal organic chemical vapour deposition, ion implantation of semiconductors for optoelectronic applications, device fabrication/processing and testing/characterisation of optoelectronic devices, and technology development for optoelectronics-related products. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2019 for contributions to compound semiconductor optoelectronic materials and devices, and served as Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Photonics Society and IEEE Nanotechnology Council in 2016-2017. Editorial roles include Associate Editor for Semiconductor Science and Technology since 2020 and Electronics Letters since 2019, and he chaired the IEEE ACT Chapter of the Nanotechnology Council in 2021 and 2014-2015. Key publications are 'Identifying carbon as the source of visible single-photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride' (Nature Materials, 2020), 'Three-dimensional cross-nanowire networks recover full terahertz state' (Science, 2020), 'Over 17% efficiency stand-alone solar water splitting enabled by perovskite-silicon tandem absorbers' (Advanced Energy Materials, 2020), 'Engineering III-V semiconductor nanowires for device applications' (Advanced Materials, 2019), and 'Vertically emitting indium phosphide nanowire lasers' (Nano Letters, 2018). He has published over 450 journal papers, 6 book chapters, and delivered more than 70 invited/plenary talks, impacting semiconductor optoelectronics, nanotechnology, and clean energy.