Papers focusing on solid-state devices (e.g., Ga2O3 Rectifiers), physical biosensors, wearable/point-of-care medical monitoring, and material implementations.

2026

• Yi-Jen Guo, Chia-Chen Li, Jin-An Huang, Kanishk Singh, Henny Mellini, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Cheng-Che Yu, Ting-Chun Fang, Ching-Chia Pi, Pin-Ching Chen, Ching-Yi Li, Sue-Yuan Fan, Wei-Chen Huang, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Li-Chia Tai, “ Wearable sensors for monitoring drug pharmacokinetics in patients with Parkinson’s disease” Scientific Report Mar 13 2026.
• M.-W. Chang, C.-W. Chiu, W.-J. Wu, W.-R. Ke, C.-H. Fan and Y.-T. Liao*, “Acoustic Monitoring for Estimating Lung Deposition in Dry Powder Inhalers,” in IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-4, Feb. 2026
• Nitish Kumar, Lester U. Vinzons, Wei-Yau Shia, Po-Hsun Chu, Yu-Te Liao, Chia-Wei Liu, Shu-Ping Lin, “Advanced nanostructured biosensors enabled by rational surface engineering for bacterial detection,” Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 292, 118112, 2026

2025

• H-H Wan, C-C Chiang, F. Ren, C.-T. Tsai, Y.-S. Chou, C-W. Chiu, Y.-T. Liao, D. Neal, C. Heldermon, M. Rocha, et al. “A High-Sensitivity, Bluetooth-Enabled PCB Biosensor for HER2 and CA15-3 Protein Detection in Saliva: A Rapid, Non-Invasive Approach to Breast Cancer Screening.” Biosensors, vol. 15, 386, June 2025.
• Zhe-Wei Lin, Yo-Lin Chen, Wan-Lou Lei, Chi-Yao Ku, Pin-Yu Su, Li-Chia Tai, Tsung-Heng Tsai, Yu-Te Liao*, Andrew E.-Y. Chuang*, Wei-Chen Huang*, “Hierarchically Structured Conductive Hydrogels for Electrically Programmable Drug Delivery in a Diabetic Wound Healing Electronic Patch,” Journal of Controlled Release, Vol. 383, pp. 113760, July 2025.
• Jian-Sian Li, Chao-Ching Chiang, Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao, Stephen J. Pearton, “Perspective on Breakdown in Ga2O3 Vertical Rectifiers” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 018501, Jan. 2025.
• Jian-Sian Li, Chao-Ching Chiang, Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao, Stephen J. Pearton,“kV-class Ga2O3 vertical rectifiers fabricated on 4-in. diameter substrates” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 012701, Jan. 2025.

2024

• Mou-Wei Chang, Fang-Hao Hsiao, Yong-Jyun Lin, Chun-Wei Chiu, Wei-Chen Chen, Hsuan-Yu Chen, Wen-Jui Wu, Mingsian R. Bai, and Yu-Te Liao*, “Development of a Sound-Based Smart Inhaler with a Mechanical Acoustic Filter for Medication Identification,” in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 24, no. 21, pp. 35456-35464, Nov. 2024
• Jian-Sian Li, Chao-Ching Chiang, Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Madani Labed, Jang Park, You Rim, Meng-Hsun Yu, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao, Stephen Pearton, “Hybrid Schottky and Heterojunction Vertical β-Ga2O3 Rectifiers” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 17563 – 17573, September 2024
• Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Haochen Zhu, Chao-Ching Chiang, Xinyi Xia, Jian-Sian Li, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Tai-Cheng Chou, Dan Neal, Joseph Katz and Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, “Functionalization Process for Commercial Viability: Oral Leukoplakia Detection Using IL-6 Biomarker” ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 8, 087005, Aug. 2024.
• Jian-Sian Li, Chao-Ching Chiang, Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Meng-Hsun Yu, Yi-Ting Lin, Ying-Yu Yang, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao, Stephen J. Pearton, “Switching of kV-class Ga2O3 heterojunction vertical rectifiers” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 053204, 1 September 2024. (Editor’s Pick Article)
• Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Haochen Zhu, Chao-Ching Chiang, Xinyi Xia, Jian-Sian Li, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Tai-Cheng Chou, Dan Neal, Josephine F Esquivel-Upshaw, “Point-of-Care Detection of HER2 and CA 15-3 in Breast Cancer Patients: Dual-Channel Biosensor Implementation,” ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 5, 057003, May 2024.
• H.-H. Wan, H. Zhu, C.-C. Chiang, J.-S. Li, F. Ren, C.-T.Tsai, Y.-T. Liao, D. Neal, J.Katz, J.F. Esquivel-Upshaw, “Sensitive Detection of Oral Leukoplakia: Analyzing P90 Biomarkers in Saliva and Tissue,” Biosensors, vol. 14, no. 6, 2024.
• Jian-Sian Li, Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Chao-Ching Chiang, Timothy Jinsoo Yoo, Meng-Hsun Yu, Fan Ren, Honggyu Kim, Yu-Te Liao and Stephen J. Pearton, “Breakdown up to 13.5 kV in NiO/β-Ga2O3 Vertical Heterojunction Rectifiers” ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 13, no. 3, 035003, March 2024.
• Hsiao-Hsuan Wan, Haochen Zhu, Chao-Ching Chiang, Jian-Sian Li, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Dan Neal, Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, Stephen J. Pearton, “High sensitivity saliva-based biosensor in detection of breast cancer biomarkers: HER2 and CA15-3” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 023202, March 2024.

2023

• Nitish Kumar, Yi-Jie Lin, Yu-Chiao Huang, Yu-Te Liao, Shu-Ping Lin, “Detection of lactate in human sweat via surface-modified, screen-printed carbon electrodes” Talanta, vol. 265, pp. 12488, Dec. 2023.
• Minghan Xian, Jenna L. Stephany, Chan-Wen Chiu, Chao-Ching Chiang, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, and Stephen J. Pearton, “High sensitivity CIP2A detection for oral cancer using a rapid transistor-based biosensor module”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B 41, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 013201, 2023.
• Chao-Ching Chiang, Chan-Wen Chiu, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, and Stephen J. Pearton, “Evaluation of dry stored disposable sensor strip on rapid SARS-CoV-2 detection platform”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 012204, 2023.

2022

• Chao-Ching Chiang, Chan-Wen Chiu, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine Esquivel-Upshaw, Stephen Pearton,” Analytical Specificity and Microbial Interference Study of A 30-Second Quantitative SARS-CoV-2 Detection Biosensor System” ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, Oct. 2022.
• Jian-Sian Li, Chao-Ching Chiang, Xinyi Xia, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao and S. J. Pearton, “Dynamic Switching of 1.9 A/1.76 kV Forward Current NiO/β-Ga2O3 Rectifiers” ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 105003, Sept. 2022.
• Chan-Wen Chiu, Minghan Xian, Jenna L Stephany, Xinyi Xia, Chao-Ching Chiang, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine F Esquivel-Upshaw, Santosh R Rananaware, Long T Nguyen, Nicolas C Macaluso, Piyush K Jain, Melanie N Cash, Carla N Mavian, Marco Salemi, Marino E Leon, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Stephen J Pearton, “Rapid SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis using disposable strips and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor platform” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 023204, March 2022. (Featured Article)
• Minghan Xian, Chan-Wen Chiu, Patrick H. Carey IV, Chaker Fares, Liya Chen, Rena Wu, Fan Ren, Cheng-Tse Tsai, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, and Stephen J. Pearton , “Digital Biosensor for Human Cerebrospinal Fluid Detection with Single-use Sensing Strips”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 40, no. 2, 023202, Feb. 2022.

2021

• C.-L. Hu, I.-C. Cheng, C.-H. Huang, Y.-T. Liao, W.-C. Lin, K.-J. Tsai, C.-H. Chi, C.-W. Chen, C.-H. Wu, I.-T. Lin, C.-J. Li, and C.-W. Lin, “Dry Wearable Textile Electrodes for Portable Electrical Impedance Tomography,” Sensors, vol. 21, no. 20, p. 6789, Oct. 2021.
• Yen-Chi Chen, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao*, and Ying-Chih Liao*, “Bio-inspired fractal textile device for rapid sweat collection and monitoring” in Lab on a Chip, vol. 13, pp. 2524-2533, June 2021.
• Minghan Xian, Hao Luo, Xinyi Xia, Chaker Fares, Patrick H. Carey IV, Fan Ren, Siang-Sin Shan, Yu-Te Liao, Josephine F. Esquivel-Upshaw, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Steven C. Ghivizzani, Stephen J. Pearton, “Fast SARS-COV-2 Virus Detection Using Disposable Cartridge Strips and Semiconductor-Based Biosensor Platform” in Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, vol. 39, 033202, May 2021. (Featured Article)
• Chia-Hung Liu, Sook-Kuan Lee, I-Che Ou, Kun-Ju Tsai, Yu Lee, Yuan-Hu Chu, Yu-Te Liao* and Chi-Te Liu*, “Essential factors that affect bioelectricity generation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris strain PS3 in paddy soil microbial fuel cells” in International Journal of Energy Research, vol. 45, pp. 2231-2244, Feb. 2021.

2020

• Patrick H. Carey IV, Brian C. Lobo, Michael P. Gebhard, Marino E. Leon, Sherri D. Flax, Neil S. Harris, Yu-Te Liao, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Fan Ren, and S.J. Pearton,” Opportunities for Rapid, Sensitive Detection of Troponin and Cerebral Spinal Fluid Using Semiconductor Sensors” in Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 167, no.3, 037507, March 2020.

2019

• Minghan Xian, Chaker Fares, Fan Ren, Brent P. Gila, Yen-Ting Chen, Yu-Te Liao, Marko Tadjer, and Stephen J. Pearton, “Effect of thermal annealing for W/β-Ga2O3 Schottky diodes up to 600 °C” in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 37, 061201, Nov. 2019.
• Patrick H. Carey IV, Jiancheng Yang, Fan Ren, Yu-Te Liao, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Stephen J. Pearton, Brian Lobo, and Marino E. Leon, “Fast Cerebrospinal Fluid Detection Using Inexpensive Modular Packaging with Disposable Testing Strips” in Journal of The Electrochemical Society, vol. 166, no. 8, pp. B708-B712, Aug. 2019.
• Jiancheng Yang, Chaker Fares, Patrick H Carey, Minghan Xian, Fan Ren, Marko J Tadjer, Yen-Ting Chen, Yu-Te Liao, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Ribhu Sharma, Mark E Law, Peter E Raad, Pavel L Komarov, David J Smith, Akito Kuramata, Stephen J Pearton, “Comparison of High Voltage, Vertical Geometry Ga₂O₃ Rectifiers with GaN and SiC” in ECS Transactions, vol. 92, no. 7, 15-24, July 2019. (invited)
• Jiancheng Yang, Chaker Fares, Fan Ren, Yen-Ting Chen, Yu-Te Liao, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Marko Tadjer, David J. Smith, S. J. Pearton, and Akito Kuramata, “Switching Behavior and Forward Bias Degradation of 700V, 0.2A,β-Ga2O3 Vertical Geometry Rectifiers” in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. Q3028-Q3033, July 2019.
• Jiancheng Yang, Fan Ren, Yen-Ting Chen, Yu-Te Liao, Chin-Wei Chang, Jenshan Lin, Marko J. Tadjer, S. J. Pearton, Akito Kuramata, “Dynamic Switching Characteristics of 1 A Forward Current β-Ga2O3 Rectifiers,” in IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, vol. 7, pp. 57-61, March 2019.

2016

• Jin-Chern Chiou, Shun-Hsi Hsu, Yu-Te Liao, Yu-Chieh Huang, Guan-Ting Yeh, Cheng-Kai Kuei, Kai-Shiun Dai, “Toward A Wirelessly Powered On-lens Intraocular Pressure Monitoring System” in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 20, pp. 1216-1224, Sept. 2016. (Invited)

2015

• Fu-To Lin, Yu-Chun Kuo, Jen-Chien Hsieh, Hsi-Yuan Tsai, Yu-Te Liao, and Huang-Chen Lee, “A Self-Powering Wireless Environment Monitoring System Using Soil Energy” IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, No. 7,pp. 3751-3758, July 2015.

2010-2012

• H. Yao, Y. Liao, A. R. Lingley, A. Afanasiev, I. Lähdesmäki, B. P. Otis and B. A. Parviz,”A contact lens with integrated telecommunication circuit and sensors for wireless and continuous tear glucose monitoring” Journal of micromechanics and microengineering, vol. 22, July 2012.
• A. Lingley, M. Ali, Y.-T. Liao, R. Mirjalili, M. Klonner, M. Sopanen, S. Suihkonen, T. Shen, B. P. Otis, B. A. Parviz, “A single-pixel wireless contact lens display,” Journal of micromechanics and microengineering, vol. 21, Dec. 2011.
• Jagdish Pandey, Yu-Te Liao, Andrew Lingley, Babak Parviz, and Brian Otis, “A fully integrated RF powered functional contact lens with a single element display,” IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 454-461, Dec 2010.

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