Phone (852) 39436161
Email ktlai(at)phy.cuhk.edu.hk
Education:PhD in Physics, Osaka University, Japan (2014)
MPhil in Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2011)
BSc (Hons) in Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2009)
Position:Research Assistant Professor (2019-Now), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2016-2019), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2016), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany
Research Interest:Synthesis of bulk inorganic crystals of correlated electron systems such as superconductors and topological materials
Characterisation of as-grown crystals via XRD and EDX
Electrical transport and magnetic property measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields
Honours and Awards:Hong Kong Research Fellowship Scheme (2017, 2018)
Thomas H C Cheung Prize, United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2008)
Selected Recent Publications:Y. J. Hu, Yuk Tai Chan, Kwing To Lai, Kin On Ho, Xiaoyu Guo, Hai-Peng Sun, K. Y. Yip, Dickon H. L. Ng, Hai-Zhou Lu, and Swee K. Goh, "Angular dependence of the upper critical field in the high-pressure 1T' phase of MoTe2
Extended Chemical Flexibility of Cubic Anti-Perovskite Lithium Battery Cathode Materials
Extremely large magnetoresistance and the complete determination of the Fermi surface topology in the semimetal ScSb
Nearly isotropic superconductivity in layered Weyl semimetal WTe2 at 98.5 kbar
Successive Phase Transitions in Fe2+ Ladder Compounds Sr2Fe3Ch2O3 (Ch = S, Se)
Anti-Perovskite Li-Battery Cathode Materials
Coexistence of spin ordering on ladders and spin dimer formation in a new-structure-type compound Sr2Co3S2O3
Multiple Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Novel Evolution of Tc in Iron-based superconductors LaFe(As1?xPx)(O1?yFy) revealed by 31P-NMR Studies
Evolution of the phase diagram of LaFeP1-xAsxO1-yFy (y = 0 - 0.1)", Phys. Rev. B 90, 064504 (2014).
