Akos emphasizes in research and development. We believe this is the key element to keep us growing.

We have dedicated resources on a number of research areas and have developed strength by virtue of the cumulated talents, research achievements, research infrastructure and social impacts.

Research achievements of Akos are in areas of:

  • Advanced Materials and Applications
  • Nanoscience and Technology
  • Environmental Science and Engineering
  • Electronic Device and Sensor Development

Journal and papers published by our professionals includes areas of

Indoor and Environment

"Quantification of Indoor TVOC Levels from Different Sources in Mechanically Ventilated Building"s,
Journal of Indoor + Built Environment, Vol. 11. pp.340-350, 2002

"Quantification of Indoor VOCs in Twenty Mechanically Ventilated Buildings in Hong Kong",
Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 35(34), pp. 5895-5913, 2001

"Feasibility Study of an Indoor Air Quality Measurement Protocol on 12 Parameters in Mechanically Ventilated and Air Conditioned Buildings", Journal of Indoor + Built Environment, Vol. 10(1), pp. 3-19, 2001

"Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds in Office/ Residential Buildings in Hong Kong",
The 3rd International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp.171-180, 1999

"Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds in Office Buildings in Hong Kong",
Indoor Air '99 Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp. 442-447, 1999

"Development of Demand Control Strategy in Buildings Using Radon and Carbon Dioxide Level"s,
Indoor Air '99 Proceedings, Vol. 1, pp. 48-53, 1999

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Air Purification System

"The Use of Zeolite and Oxidant Generating Devices in Air Cleaning",
Journal of Indoor + Built Environment, Vol. 13, pp. 45-51, 2004.

"Confined Catalytic Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds by Transition Metal Containing Zeolites and Ionizer",
Atmospheric Environment, Vol. 37(38), pp.5433-5437, 2003.

"The Use of Synthetic Zeolite in Indoor Air Quality Control",
Symposium on Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficient Technology Proceedings, HKSAR, pp. 51-59, 2001.

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Chemistry of Materials

"Synthesis of elliptical vanadoborates housing bimetallic centers [Zn4-(B2O4H2)(V10B28O74H8)] 8- and [Mn-4(C2O4)(V10B28O74H8)]10-, Chemical Communications", (14): 1827-1829 2005

"Organically Modified Transition Metal Vanadates: New Directions in Polyoxometallate Clusters,
Templated Porous Oxides and Hybrid Solids", Eighth Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, 2001, O-6

"Cyclic Vanadate Ligands in Two New Porous Oxide Solids",
Seventh Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, 2000, I-70

"New Organo-ceramic Hybrid Materials in the Transition Metal Vanadate System",
Seventh Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, 2000, I-71

"Synthesis and Magnetic Studies of Organotemplated Manganese Divanadates",
Seventh Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, 2000, I-72

"Synthesis and Properties of Vanadoborate Cluster Materials",
Tenth International Conference on Boron Chemistry, 1999, IB-6

"Synthesis of Porous Metalloborate Cluster Materials",
Sixth Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research in Hong Kong, 1999, I-7

"Electronic Structure and Molecular Magnetism of Vanadium Borate Clusters with Partial Spin Pairing",
44th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,1999, 120, DS-05

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Device Characterization

"SOI flash memory scaling limit and design consideration based on 2-D analytical modeling,"
IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 51, Dec 2004, pp. 2054-2060

"Multi-bit MONOS Nonvolatile Mmeory Based on Double-Gate Technology,"
Proceeding of the 7th ICSSICT, pp. 691-694, Oct 2004, Beijing

"Effects of floating body on double polysilicon partially depleted SOI nonvolatile memory cell,"
IEEE Electron Device Letter, vol. 24, Feb 2003, pp. 75-77

"Transient Behavior of Partially Depleted SOI Non-Volatile Memory Cell and Its Impacts on Device Scaling,"
Proceeding of SSDM 2002

"Improved Oxide Quality on Polysilicon by Enhanced Metal-Induced-Lateral-Crystallization (MILC),"
Proceeding of Tencon 2001, pp. 844-846

"High quality thermal oxide on LPSOI formed by high temperature enhanced MILC,"
IEEE Electron Device Letter, vol. 22, Aug 2001, pp. 384-386

"Improved thin-film transistor (TFT) characteristics on chemical-mechanically polished polycrystalline silicon film,"
Proceeding of 1999 IEEE Hong Kong Electron Devices Meeting, pp 38-41

C "Improved Thin Dielectric Characteristics on Chemical-Mechanically Polished Polycrystalline Silicon Film,"
Proceeding of 1999 International Symposium on Integrated Circuit, Devices & System, pp. 254-257

"Direct Tunneling Stress-Induced Leakage Current in NMOS Devices with Ultra-thin Gate Oxide," accepted for IRPS 05

"Optimization of Base-to-Emitter Spacer Thickness to Maximize the Frequency Response of Bipolar Transistors,"
Solid-State Electronics, vol. 49, April 2005, pp. 554-557

"Optimizations of Spacer Thickness for Minimizing Noise Performance of Bipolar Transistors",
Proceedings of the 2004 International Electron Devices and Materials Symposia (IEDMS), pp. 115-117,
Dec. 20-23, 2004, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

"A viable self-aligned bottom-gate MOS transistor technology for deep submicron 3-D SRAM,"
IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 50, Sept 2003, pp. 1952-1960

"A 2-bit MONOS nonvolatile memory cell based on asymmetric double gate MOSFET structure,"
IEEE Electron Device Letter, vol. 24, Aug 2003, pp. 518-520

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