Chen Li Data-verified

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Federal Grant PI

Researcher

Last publication 2024 Last refreshed 2026-05-16

faculty

Food Science

13 h-index 52 pubs 476 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Chen Li's research focuses on the growth and characterization of semiconductor materials, particularly those relevant to optoelectronic devices. His work investigates methods for enhancing carrier confinement and tuning bandgaps in materials such as AlGaN, Ge, GeSn, and InAs/AlAs superlattices. These investigations often employ molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), a technique for depositing thin films with atomic-level control.

Li has published research on the growth of germanium and germanium-tin alloys on various substrates, including GaAs and sapphire, exploring strain effects and annealing-induced improvements in material properties. He has also studied the development of deep-ultraviolet light-emitting diodes based on AlGaN, focusing on the role of compositionally graded layers in device performance. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 12, with 52 total publications and 461 citations.

Li has served as PI or Co-PI on two federal grants totaling $538,030. These include an NSF grant for developing high-order algorithms for fluid dynamics simulations and an NIH/NIDA grant focused on tunable multi-timescale cortical dynamics. His collaborations at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville include researchers such as Yuriy I. Mazur, Fernando Maia de Oliveira, Shui-Qing Yu, and Hryhorii Stanchu.

Metrics

  • h-index: 13
  • Publications: 52
  • Citations: 476

Selected Publications

  • Improved Quality of InN Thin Films Using a Thin InGaN Compressive Strain Gradient Layer (2024)
  • The growth of Ge and direct bandgap Ge<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>Sn<sub><i>x</i></sub> on GaAs (001) by molecular beam epitaxy (2024)
    8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Growth of Germanium Thin Films on Sapphire Using Molecular Beam Epitaxy (2023)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Strain-Mediated Sn Incorporation and Segregation in Compositionally Graded Ge<sub>1–<i>x</i></sub>Sn<sub><i>x</i></sub> Epilayers Grown by MBE at Different Temperatures (2023)
    9 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Temperature dependent correlation of Hall effect and optical measurements of electron concentration in degenerate InN thin film (2023)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Depth-dependent photoluminescence characteristic of GeSn/SiGeSn multi-quantum wells (2022)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 2 $538,030 total

NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse Co-PI Aug 2024 - May 2027

Tunable multi-timescale cortical dynamics: fundamental theory and practical tools

National Institute on Drug Abuse $328,030 R01
NSF PI Sep 2025 - Aug 2028

Robust and efficient high-order algorithms for fluid dynamics simulations: structure-preserving methods and optimization-based limiters

OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC, COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS $210,000

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