Prof. Dr Lee Chee Leong

Professor & Deputy Dean

Qualifications:

  • B.Sc. (University Science of Malaysia, Malaysia),
  • M.Eng. (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  • Ph.D. (University of Strathclyde, U.K.)

Experience

  • Professor – Faculty of Computing and Engineering, QIU (2023 to present)
  • Associate Professor – School  of Science and Technology (2015-2023)
  • Assistant Professor – University of Tunku Abdul Rahman (2009-2015)

Major Research Interests

  • Photonics and related materials
  •  Semiconductor and related materials

Teaching Interests

  • Electronic Devices
  •  Engineering Mechanics
  •  Semiconductor Devices
  •  Programming in C/C++
Selected Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Web of Science Master Journal List)

Scopus: Total Citation = 262.  h-index = 7.    

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAA-6404-2019    ORCID: 0000-0002-8826-497X

  1. C.L. Lee, H.W. Choi, E. Gu, H. Murphy, M.D. Dawson, “Fabrication and characterization of diamond micro-optics”, Dia. Rel. Mat., 15, 725 (2006).
    Impact Factor: 3.3. No. of Citations: 38.
  2. C.L. Lee, E. Gu, M.D. Dawson, “Micro-cylindrical and micro-ring lenses in CVD diamond”, Dia. Rel.Mat., 16, 944 (2007).
    Impact Factor: 3.3. No. of Citations: 25.
  3. C.L. Lee, E. Gu, M.D. Dawson, I. Friel, G.A. Scarsbrook, “Etching and micro-optics fabrication in diamond using chlorine-based inductively-coupled plasma”, Dia. Rel. Mat., 17, 1292 (2008).
    Impact Factor: 3.3. No. of Citations: 97.
  4. C.L. Lee, M.D. Dawson, E. Gu, “Diamond double-sided micro-lenses and reflection gratings”, Opt.Mat., 32, 1123 (2010).
    Impact Factor: 3.0. No. of Citations: 7.
  5. Nicolas Laurand, C.L. Lee, E. Gu, J.E. Hastie, A.J. Kemp, Stephane Calvez and Martin D. Dawson,“Array-Format Microchip Semiconductor Disk Lasers”, J. Quant. Electron., 44, 1096 (2008).
    Impact Factor: 2.3. No. of Citations: 5.
  6. N. Laurand, C.L. Lee, E. Gu, J.E. Hastie, S. Calvez, M.D. Dawson, , “Microlensed Microchip VECSEL”, Opt. Exp., 15, 9341 (2007).
    Impact Factor: 4.5. No. of Citations: 23.
  7. S. Giet, C.-L. Lee, S. Calvez, M. D. Dawson, N. Destouches, J.-C. Pommier, and O. Parriaux, Opt. Exp.,“Stabilization of a semiconductor disk laser using an intra-cavity high reflectivity grating”, 15, 16520 (2007).
    Impact Factor: 4.5. No. of Citations: 13.
  8. N. Laurand, C –L. Lee, E. Gu, S. Calvez, M.D. Dawson, “Power-Scaling of Diamond Microlensed Microchip Semiconductor Disk Lasers”, IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., 21, 152 (2009).
    Impact Factor: 2.9. No. of Citations: 7.
  9. R. Mackintosh, A.J.C. Kuehne, R.A. Pethrick, B. Guilhabert, E. Gu, C.L. Lee, M.D. Dawson, G. Heliotis and D.D.C. Bradley, “Novel polymer systems for deep UV microlens arrays”, J. Phys. D.: Appl.Phys., 41, 094007 (2008).
    Impact Factor: 3.2. No. of Citations: 7.
  10. Jennifer Meei Yun Khoo, Swee Yong Chee, Chee Leong Lee, Sawavanan Nagalingam, “Superabsorbent polymer prepared using carboxymethyl cellulose derived from Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.(kapok) cotton”, J. Appl. Poly. Sc., 131, 9586 (2014).
    Impact Factor: 3.1.  No. of Citations: 4.
  11. Swee Yong Cheee, Meng Keong Lee, Chee Leong Lee, “Thermal Properties of Poly(Methyl Methacrylate-co-Butyl Acrylate-co-Acrylic Acid) Modified with Dinyl Benzene and Vinyltrimethoxy Silane”, J. Macromol. Sci., Part A., 53:2, 82 (2016)
    Impact Factor: 2.1. No. of Citations: 2.
  12. Suk-Wah Woo, Abdelnaser Omran, Chee-Leong Lee, Mohd Hanizun Hanafi, “The Impacts of the Waterfront Development in Iskandar Malaysia”, Env. Dev. Sustain., 19: 1293 (2017)
    Impact Factor: 3.2. No. of Citations: 4.
  13. Chee Leong Lee, Swee Yong Chee, Meng Keong Lee, “Alteration of the refractive index of polyacrylate and poly(styrene-co-acrylate) films via molecular structure modification”, Polym. Bull., 74, 857 (2017)
    Impact Factor: 2.8. No. of Citations: 4.
  14. Chee-Leong Lee, Wee-Sheng Goh, Swee-Yong Chee, Lai-Kuan Yik, “Enhancement of light harvesting efficiency of silicon solar cell utilizing arrays of poly(methyl methacrylate-co-acrylic acid) nano-spheres and nano-spheres with embedded silver nano-particles”, Phot.Nano.Fund. Appl., 23, 36 (2017)
    Impact Factor: 3.0. No. of Citations: 10.
  15. Chee-Leong Lee, Wee-Sheng Goh, Swee-Yong Chee, Lai-Kuan Yik, “Augmentation of power conversion efficiency of amorphous sili con solar cell employing poly (methyl methacrylate-co-acrylic acid) nanospheres encapsulated with gold nanoparticles”, J. Mat. Sci., 53, 5183 (2018)
    Impact Factor: 4.2. No. of Citations: 4.
  16. Bing-Yuan Tay, Swee-Yong Chee, Chee-Leong Lee, Suhaila Sepeai & Mohammod Aminuzzaman, “Improvement of light-harvesting efficiency of amorphous silicon solar cell coated with silver nanoparticles anchored via (3-mercaptopropyl) trimethoxysilane”, Appl. Nano., 10, 3553 (2020)
    Impact Factor 3.8. No. of Citations: 2
  17. Martin Jian-Hrong Lee, Swee-Yong Chee, Bing-Yuan Tay, Chee-Leong Lee, Fook-Chin Lim & Suhaila Sepeai, “Affixing poly(methyl methacrylate-co-acrylic acid) nanospheres with trimethoxyvinylsilane on silicon solar module to enhance its power conversion efficiency”, J. Mat. Sci., 56, 12364 (2021)
    Impact Factor 4.2. No. of Citations: 1
  18. Bing-Yuan Tay, Swee-Yong Chee, Chee-Leong Lee; Mohammod Aminuzzaman, “Remarkable enhancement of power conversion efficiency of silicon photovoltaic cell overlaying with novel metallic-polymer nanocomposites utilising immersion technique”, Chemical Papers, (2024)
    Impact Factor 2.2.

International Patent Granted

Lee, Chee-Leong, Gu, Erdan, Scarsbrook, Geoffrey Alan, Friel Ian, Dawson, Martin David, as a co-inventor on an international PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patent                                     (No: PCT/IB2008/050215) entitled “Plasma Etching of Diamond Surfaces”, which licensed to Element Six (UK) Ltd.

US Patent 9,034,200 (2015)

US Patent App. 14/685,553 (2015)

Website:

http://patents.justia.com/patent/20150266741

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/wo.jsp?WO=2008090511

Current status of the patent filed:

EP2108054 – Granted, validated in GB and DE

EP2719794 – Pending divisional application

JP5341774 – granted JP patent

JP5714052 – granted JP patent (divisional application)

US9034200 – granted US patent

US 14/685553 – pending US divisional application (not yet published)

The patent was filed in the Great Britain in 2008 (EP2108054B1) & 2015 (US9034200B2) and subsequently filed in the US, Africa, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands and other international countries by Element Six (UK) Ltd, a leading diamond company in the world.

International Conferences

  1. C.L. Lee, E.F. Chor and L.S. Tan, Investigations of Plasma Surface Treatment and Its Sequence on the Ohmic Contact on P-GaN. In 44th 2002 Electronic Materials Conference, 26th to 28th June 2002, California, United States, pp. 84. (Oral presentation)
  2. C.L. Lee, E. Gu, M.D. Dawson, 16th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide (Diamond 2005), Toulouse, France, September 11th to 16th, 2005. (Oral presentation)
  3. C.L. Lee, E. Gu, M.D. Dawson, 17th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide (Diamond 2006), Lisbon, Portugal, September 3rd to 8th, 2006. (Oral presentation)
  4. C.L. Lee, E. Gu, M.D. Dawson, 18th European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like Materials,Carbon Nanotubes, Nitrides and Silicon Carbide (Diamond 2007), Berlin, Germany, September September 8th to 13th, 2007. (Oral presentation)
  5. N. Laurand, C.L. Lee, E. Gu, S. Calvez, M. Dawson, Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS) 2008 – Technical Digest Series, art. no. 4552570, 2008.
  6. Laurand, N., Lee, C. L., Gu, E., Hastie, J. E., Calvez, S., Dawson, M. D., Suomalainen, S., Guina, M.,Okhotnikov, O., Pessa, M. & Giet, S. European conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. IEEE, p. 1-1, June 2007.
  7. Guilhabert, B. J. E., Gu, E., Mackintosh, A. R., Pethrick, R. A., Lee, C. L., Campoy-Quiles, M., Heliotis, G., Bradley, D. D. C. & Dawson, M. D. 6th International Symposium on Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes. ISBLLED 2006, 15th May 2006.
  8. Chee-Leong Lee, Swee-Yong Chee, Lai-Kuan Yik & Wee-Sheng Goh, International Conference on Nano-photonics and Nano-electronics, Yokohama, Japan, 25th-27th April 2018. (Oral presentation)

Local Conferences

  1. L. K. Yik, C.L. Lee, D. Weißbach, IEEE 1st International Conference on Photonics 2010, organised by IEEE Photonics Society at Langkawi, Malaysia, 5th to 7th July 2010.
  2. Kee-Choon Yeong, Kim-Ho Yeap, Chee-Leong Lee, Lai-Kuan Yik, Temperature tuning of band edge resonant modes in one-dimensional photonic crystals, IEEE 4th International Conference on Photonics, organised by IEEE Photonics Society at Melaka, 28th to 30th Oct 2013.
  3. Lai-Kuan Yik, Kee-Choon Yeong, Pek-Lan Toh, Chee-Leong Lee. Enhancement of Second Harmonic Generation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals with Two Defective Layers, IEEE 9th International Conference on Photonics, organised by IEEE Photonics Society at Kuching, Sarawak, 21st to 23rd Mar 2016.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Guilhabert, B. J. E., Gu, E., Mackintosh, A. R., Pethrick, R. A., Lee, C. L., Campoy-Quiles, M., Heliotis, G., Bradley, D. D. C. & Dawson, M. D. Micro-optics in UV transparent polymer for deep UV LED applications, 6th International Symposium on Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes (ISBLLED 2006), 15th to 19th May 2006, Montpellier, France.
  2. L.K. Yik, C.L. Lee, D. Weibach, Study of Carbon Density for the Development of High Efficiency X-ray Optics, IEEE 1st International Conference on Photonics 2010, 5th to 7th July 2010 (ISBN: 9781424471867)
  3. Kee-Choon Yeong, Kim-Ho Yeap, Chee-Leong Lee, Lai-Kuan Yik, Temperature tuning of band edge resonant modes in one-dimensional photonic crystals, IEEE 4th International Conference on Photonics, Equatorial Hotel Melaka, 28th to 30th October 2013 (ISBN: 9781467360739).
  4. Lai-Kuan Yik, Kee-Choon Yeong, Pek-Lan Toh, Chee-Leong Lee. Enhancement of Second Harmonic Generation in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals with Two Defective Layers, IEEE 6th International Conference on Photonics, 21st to 23rd Mar 2016

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