Shun-Wei Liu, Distinguished Professor (Chair of Organic Electronic Research Center & Associate Dean of College of Engineering)
Dr. Shun-Wei Liu is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Ming Chi University of Technology (MCUT), Taiwan. He concurrently serves as the Founding Director of the Organic Electronics Research Center (OERC)—Taiwan’s first university-level research center dedicated to organic electronics—and as Associate Dean for the College of Engineering, overseeing global strategic partnerships and academic-industry engagement. In 2017, Professor Liu successfully persuaded the MCUT Board of Trustees to invest $2,500,000 USD to establish the OERC, transforming MCUT into a national leader in organic and hybrid optoelectronic research. Under his visionary leadership, the center has become a multidisciplinary hub, integrating advanced materials science, device physics, and translational engineering. As Director, Professor Liu has built a robust research platform that bridges fundamental science with high-impact applications across organic and perovskite optoelectronics.
Throughout his academic career, Professor Liu has consistently demonstrated exceptional capability in securing highly competitive national and industrial research funding. Since beginning his faculty position 14 years ago, he has been awarded 15 research grants from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Taiwan, with a total funding amount of $1,856,569 USD. In parallel, he has led 16 industry-academia collaborative development projects, amounting to $871,000 USD in contracted research funding. In addition, he has successfully completed 14 know-how licensing agreements and 10 patents, resulting in a cumulative revenue of $610,000 USD. These figures reflect not only his scientific rigor, but also his consistent capacity to translate advanced materials and device research into impactful, real-world applications. Professor Liu’s research portfolio encompasses optoelectronics based on organic and perovskite materials, with significant emphasis on short-wave infrared (SWIR)/NIR imaging, transparent photovoltaics, optical sensors, and medical OLED lighting. One of his landmark innovations is a multi-source co-deposition technique that enables nanometer-precision control over organic film morphology, which has been widely adopted for high-performance organic electronics.
A hallmark of Professor Liu’s translational impact is the technology transfer of his OLED innovations to Formosa Biomedical Technology Corporation, a subsidiary of Formosa Plastics Group. He pioneered the development of a health-focused OLED light therapy, leveraging fundamental OLED device physics to engineer a commercially viable product. The system—protected by a comprehensive IP portfolio—retails at approximately $100 USD (https://www.fbshop.com.tw/SalePage/Index/9544669?lang=zh-TW&srsltid=AfmBOookJN12ofTiQN6FZeGo-VsBthsT76_ietOmYPXrFgnwp68vGjiX) and has reached an annual domestic sales volume of over 2,000 units in Taiwan alone, with expansion to global markets actively underway. Professor Liu’s organic imager technology has also attracted the attention of international company’s project to co-develop next-generation detections based on Professor Liu’s know-how.
Academically, Professor Liu has authored over 150 peer-reviewed SCI publications, with a citation count of 4,200 and an H-index of 36 (according to the Scopus database). His excellence in scientific research and technology transfer has been recognized by multiple national honors, including the Ta-You Wu Memorial Award and the Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from NSTC and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Taiwan Photonics Society. Indeed, his 2023 publication in Science Advances on near-infrared organic imagers for covert light detection was featured as a RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT in Nature (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01460-9), underscoring its scientific and technological significance in privacy protection and human-augmented vision systems. Internationally, Professor Liu was appointed Adjunct Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2024, where he leads a collaborative program on indoor perovskite photovoltaics for energy harvesting in IoT environments. This appointment reflects his sustained contributions to global innovation in optoelectronic materials and devices.
Building upon these outstanding academic and translational achievements, in 2025, Professor Shun-Wei Liu was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). This prestigious recognition not only affirms his exceptional standing in the global chemistry and materials community, but also marks the first time a scholar from a private university of technology in Taiwan has been inducted into the Fellowship, setting a historic milestone.
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Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=XJF0oUwAAAAJ&hl=zh-TW
Scopus
https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56767227300
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