Rate My Professor Wen Lei

Professor Wen Lei is a Professor in the School of Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia. He holds the position of ARC Future Fellow, Program Chair of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Chair of the IEEE Western Australia Joint ESP Chapter. As leader of the Electronic Materials and Devices Research group, his work centers on semiconductor materials, devices, and their applications including infrared detectors, lasers, and solar cells. Research specializations include molecular beam epitaxy, thin film infrared materials and sensors, novel low-dimensional optoelectronic materials and devices such as quantum dots, nanowires, and 2D materials, chemi/bio sensors for environmental monitoring, and energy conversion/storage technologies like solar cells, thermoelectric devices, and batteries.

Professor Lei's achievements include pioneering strained superlattices for defect filtering in HgCdTe/CdTe materials, the first MBE-grown HgCdSe infrared sensor, and the first Australian prototype mid-wave HgCdTe infrared focal plane arrays in commercial format. He holds multiple patents, has secured ARC Linkage awards through industry collaborations with PlanarTECH and Aselsan, and leads various ARC Discovery and Linkage projects. His publication portfolio features over 150 papers in top journals including Physical Review Letters, two in Advanced Materials, three in Advanced Functional Materials, six in Nano Letters, three in Small, and Applied Physics Reviews, plus four book chapters. A key work is 'Progress, challenges, and opportunities for HgCdTe infrared materials and detectors' (Applied Physics Reviews, 2015). With a Google Scholar h-index of 37 and over 3,700 citations, his influence is evident. Awards include ARC Future Fellowship (2013), ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006), multiple IEEE Best Paper Awards, UWA EECE Sustained High SURF Teaching Awards (2019), and UWA EMS Faculty Teaching Awards (2018). He serves as associate editor/editorial board member for five international journals, contributes to conference committees, and delivers plenary/keynote talks internationally.