• PhD, (2008-2012) Dept. of Physics, Wake Forest University, NC, USA
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University
  
• Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics

• Novel semiconductor: Organo-metal halide perovskite materials, metal organic frameworks, organic semiconductors, low band gap nano-crystals
• Opto-electronic Device integrations: Light emitting diodes, X-ray imaging devices, low energy consuming computation devices, IR imaging
• Spintronics: spin injection at the interface, polarized photo emission
• Clean energy application: Photovoltaics

• Shreetu Shrestha, Hsinhan Tsai, Wanyi Nie*, “A perspective on the device physics of lead halide perovskite semiconducting detector for gamma and x-ray sensing” Applied Physics Letters (2023) Invited Perspective
• Wanyi Nie, “Stability beyond lead”, Nature Energy, 8, 222–223 (2023)
• Hsinhan Tsai, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Eli Kinigstein, Bogdan Dryzhakov, Honora Driscoll, Magdalena Owczarek, Bin Hu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Sergei Tretiak, Wanyi Nie*, “Light-Induced Structural Dynamics and Charge Transport in Layered Halide Perovskite Thin Films” Nano Letters, 23, 2, 429–436 (2023)
• Hsinhan Tsai, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Wyatt Panaccione, Li-Yun Su, Cheng-Hung Hou, Leeyih Wang, Lei Raymond Cao, Sergei Tretiak, Wanyi Nie*, “Addressing the Voltage Induced Instability Problem of Perovskite Semiconductor Detectors” ACS Energy Letters 7, 3871-3879 (2022) Featured as a Cover art
• Hsinhan Tsai*, Hsin‐Hsiang Huang, John Watt, Cheng‐Hung Hou, Joseph Strzalka, Jing‐Jong Shyue, Leeyih Wang, Wanyi Nie*, “Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Assembled in Metal‐Organic Frameworks for Stable Blue Light Emitting Diodes”, Advanced, Science, 2105850 (2022)
• Hsinhan Tsai, Shreetu Shrestha, Lei Pan, Hsin‐Hsiang Huang, Joseph Strzalka, Darrick Williams, Leeyih Wang, Lei R Cao, Wanyi Nie*, “Quasi‐2D Perovskite Crystalline Layers for Printable Direct Conversion X‐Ray Imaging”, Advanced Materials, 34, 2106498 (2022)
• Wanyi Nie*, Hsinhan Tsai, “Perovskite nanocrystal stabilized in metal organic framework
• Shreetu Shrestha, Xinxin Li, Hsinhan Tsai, Cheng-Hung Hou, Hsin-Hsiang Huang, Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Jing-Jong Shyue, Leeyih Wang, Sergei Tretiak, Xuedan Ma, Wanyi Nie*, “Long carrier diffusion length in two-dimensional lead halide perovskite single crystals”, CHEM, 8, 1107-1120 (2022)
• Hsinhan Tsai*, Shreetu Shrestha, Rafael A Vilá, Wenxiao Huang, Cunming Liu, Cheng-Hung Hou, Hsin-Hsiang Huang, Xiewen Wen, Mingxing Li, Gary Wiederrecht, Yi Cui, Mircea Cotlet, Xiaoyi Zhang, Xuedan Ma, Wanyi Nie*, “Bright and stable light-emitting diodes made with perovskite nanocrystals stabilized in metal–organic frameworks”, Nature Photonics, 15, 843-849 (2021)
• Yuan Zhou, Kasun Fernando, Juanyong Wan, Fangze Liu, Shreetu Shrestha, Jeremy Tisdale, Chris J Sheehan, Andrew C Jones, Sergei Tretiak, Hsinhan Tsai*, Huihui Huang*, Wanyi Nie*, “Millimeter‐Size All‐inorganic Perovskite Crystalline Thin Film Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition”, Advanced Functional Materials, 2101058, (2021)