PEOPLE
LAI Kwing To Toby 黎烱韜
LAI Kwing To Toby / Adjunct Assistant Professor
EMAIL: ktlai@phy.cuhk.edu.hk
ORCID: 0000-0001-9935-202X
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
- Adjunct Assistant Professor (2022-now), Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Research Assistant Professor (2019-2022), 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 Interests
- 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 Publications
- Jianyu Xie, Xinyou Liu, Wei Zhang, Sum Ming Wong, Xuefeng Zhou, Yusheng Zhao, Shanmin Wang, Kwing To Lai, and Swee K. Goh, “Fragile pressure-induced magnetism in FeSe superconductors with a thickness reduction”, Nano Lett. 21, 9310 (2021).
- Y. J. Hu, W. C. Yu, Kwing To Lai, D. Sun, F. F. Balakirev, W. Zhang, J. Y. Xie, K. Y. Yip, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, Rajveer Jha, Ryuji Higashinaka, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Y. Yanase, Yuji Aoki, and Swee K. Goh, “Detection of hole pockets in the candidate type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2 from Shubnikov-de Haas quantum oscillations”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076402 (2020).
- 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”, Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 034201 (2019).
- Kwing To Lai, Iryna Antonyshyn, Yurii Prots, and Martin Valldor, “Extended Chemical Flexibility of Cubic Anti-Perovskite Lithium Battery Cathode Materials”, Inorg. Chem. 57, 13296-13299 (2018).
- Y. J. Hu, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, K. F. Tse, C. N. Kuo, J. Y. Zhu, C. S. Lue, K. T. Lai, Swee K. Goh, “Extremely large magnetoresistance and the complete determination of the Fermi surface topology in the semimetal ScSb”, Phys. Rev. B 98, 035133 (2018).
- Yuk Tai Chan, P. L. Alireza, K. Y. Yip, Q. Niu, K. T. Lai, Swee K. Goh, “Nearly isotropic superconductivity in layered Weyl semimetal WTe2 at 98.5 kbar”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 180504(R) (2017).
- Kwing To Lai, Peter Adler, Yurii Prots, Zhiwei Hu, Chang-Yang Kuo, Tun-Wen Pi and Martin Valldor, “Successive Phase Transitions in Fe2+ Ladder Compounds Sr2Fe3Ch2O3 (Ch = S, Se)”, Inorg. Chem. 56, 12606-12614 (2017).
- Kwing To Lai, Iryna Antonyshyn, Yurii Prots, and Martin Valldor, “Anti-Perovskite Li-Battery Cathode Materials”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 9645-9649 (2017).
- Kwing To Lai and Martin Valldor, “Coexistence of spin ordering on ladders and spin dimer formation in a new-structure-type compound Sr2Co3S2O3”, Sci. Rep. 7, 43767 (2017).
- T. Shiota, H. Mukuda, M. Uekubo, F. Engetsu, M. Tashima, Y. Kitaoka, K. T. Lai, H. Usui, K. Kuroki, S. Miyasaka and S. Tajima, “Multiple Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations and Novel Evolution of Tc in Iron-based superconductors LaFe(As1−xPx)(O1−yFy) revealed by 31P-NMR Studies”, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 85, 053706 (2016). [Editors’ Choice]
- K. T. Lai, A. Takemori, S. Miyasaka, F. Engetsu, H. Mukuda, and S. Tajima, “Evolution of the phase diagram of LaFeP1-xAsxO1-yFy (y = 0 – 0.1)”, Phys. Rev. B 90, 064504 (2014).