Yuan Lin obtained her PhD in condensed materials from the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, China, in 1999. She continued as a research associate in the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academic Science in Bejing, China, followed by the University of Houston and Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, as well as a senior engineer at Intel Corp., ... Read moreUSA. Currently, she is a Yangtze River Scholar Chair Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, China. She has worked in the field of thin film and nanomaterials for about 20 years. Her area of expertise includes advanced material research using pulsed laser deposition, rf-sputtering and chemical-solution deposition. Dr. Lin has authored more than 90 scientific publications and 13 patents. Show Less