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Assoc Prof Dr Lee Chee Leong

Name of Staff: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chee-Leong Lee
Designation: Associate Professor
Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Physics, March 2000, University of Science Malaysia, MALAYSIA; Master of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, March 2004, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE;  Doctor of Philosophy, Strathclyde University, November 2008, UNITED KINGDOM.

 

Awards

  1. Dean’s List holder during the undergraduate degree in USM and ranked first in the    undergraduate programme of B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics.
  2. National University of Singapore Scholarship for the Master’s degree (M.Eng.).
  3. Fully funded scholarship for the Ph.D. degree by the Department of Trade and Industry Technology, United Kingdom.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (Thomson Reuters Master Journal List)

Scopus: Total Citation = 237.  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: 37.
  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: 94.
  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:
  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: 1.
  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 3.6. 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

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.

Supervision of Postgraduate Students

  1. UTAR, Megalah a/p Balachandran (master), as a main supervisor, October 2011 – October 2012.
  2. UTAR, Lee Meng Keong (master), as a co-supervisor, January 2013 – May 2015.
  3. UTAR, Goh Wee Sheng (master), as a main-supervisor, January 2014 – April 2015.
  4. UTAR, Goh Wee Sheng (master), as a co-supervisor, May 2016 – May 2018.
  5. UTAR, Tay Bing Yuan (master), as a co-supervisor, Nov 2019 – present

Research Projects and Grants

  1. Enhancement of the quantum efficiency of photovoltaic cell utilizing micro-optics concentrator, UTARRF, RM68, 000, May 2011 – April 2012. (Principal Investigator)
  2. Synthesis and characterisation of ultra-violet curable polymers for the fabrication of photoactive material, RM63,100, UTARRF, January 2013 – January 2014. (Co-researcher)
  3. Modeling and analysis of one-dimensional photonic crystals with enhanced slow light coupling as highly sensitive temperature sensors, RM24,000, UTARRF, July 2013 – June 2014. (Co-researcher)
  4. Enhancement of optical efficiency of the solar cell using self-assembled nanospheres or microspheres. RM78,000, UTARRF, July 2014 – June 2015. (Principal Investigator)
  5. Enhancement of optical efficiency of the photovoltaic cell utilizing self-assembled nano- or micro- spheres. RM30,000, IRI, June 2016 – May2018. (Principal Investigator)
  6. Defect Passivation Effect via Modification of Charge Transport Mechanism in Tunnel Junction at Silicon-Perovskite Interface, RM67,200, FRGS 2018-1, Jan 2019 – Dec 2020. (Co-researcher)
  7. The role of nano-structures for the power conversion efficiency of silicon solar cell. RM44,500, UTARRF, 1 June 2019 – 31 May 2020. (Co-researcher)

External service to profession/discipline

  1. Co-chair of Sixth IMT-GT International Conference on Mathematics, Statistics and Its Applications
  2. Reviewer of a few international journal articles (such as Optical Materials and Journal of Materials Science)

Research Interest

  1. Diamond Field Effect Transistor or other semiconductor materials
  2. Micro- or nano-optical devices
  3. Photonics and Photovoltaic devices
  4. MEMs or NEMs devices
  5. Sensing device

Professional Working Experience

A) Jan 2003 – Nov 2004, LED Fabrication Process Engineer, Agilent Technologies Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

The role and achievements:

(i) To maintain the stability of the fabrication process

(ii) To improve the yield of the devices

(iii) To improve the fabrication process and to successfully qualify for new VCSEL nad LED devices            

 B) Mar 2009 – May 2015, as an Assistant Professor and August 2009 – May 2015, as a Head of Department of Physical and Mathematical Science, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR).

The role and achievements:

(i) To serve as head of programme for the two programmes offered by the department:

  • BSc. (Hons). Logistics and International Shipping
  • Bsc. (Hons) Statistical Computing and Operations Research

(iii) To lead the departmental members in obtaining the MQA accreditations for the above two programmes in March 2013 and February 2014, respectively.     

(iv) To co-ordinate the teaching load and to head a total number of 22 staff in the department.         

(v) Has successfully obtained the professional accreditation for the BSc. (Hons) Logistics and International Shipping programme from The Society of Logistician Malaysian in August 2014.     

C) May 2015 – present, as an Associate Professor in the School of Science and Technology in Wawasan Open University, Penang.

  • June 2015 – present, as the Senate Member of the Wawasan Open University.
  • July 2018 – Dec 2020, as the Deputy Dean (Academic and Quality Assurance) in the   School of Science and Technology in Wawasan Open University.

 

Official Correspondence Address:

School of Science and Technology,
Wawasan Open University,
54, Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, 10050 Penang.

Email Address:

cllee@wou.edu.my

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