Zhen FAN (樊贞)
（更新时间：2026年2月12日）
Zhen FAN, PhD, Professor
樊贞，博士，研究员，博士生导师
国家级青年人才
个人简介 (Summary)
樊贞，博士，研究员，博导，国家级青年人才、广东省青年珠江学者、广东省杰出青年基金获得者。2011年本科毕业于上海交通大学，2015年获新加坡国立大学博士学位，2016年至今先后担任华南师范大学副研究员、研究员。
研究方向为面向(感)存算一体AI硬件的信息材料与器件。该方向涉及材料、微电子、物理、AI等多学科交叉融合，契合国家重大需求，也是当前研究热点。近年来聚焦于新原理铁电(感)存算一体器件研究，取得多项突破性进展，形成研究特色。代表性成果列举如下：
(1)提出光电流型铁电光伏突触，是国际上最早面向感内高级计算的器件方案之一。进一步构建出感存算一体铁电光伏神经网络，实现了零能耗图像感知与实时处理。代表性论文：Nat. Commun. 16, 421 (2025) (高被引、Featured)、Nat. Commun. 13, 1707 (2022) (高被引)。
(2)提出光电压型铁电光伏突触，首次实现了感内图像记忆、低级处理与高级计算的一体化功能。代表性论文：Nat. Commun. 17, 408 (2026)。
(3)研制出基于铁电二极管的全铁电储备池计算系统，以及基于铁电电容器的容性储备池计算系统，实现了高精度、低功耗的时序信息处理。代表性论文：Nat. Commun. 14, 3585 (2023) (高被引、Featured)、Rep. Prog. Phys. 89, 028001 (2026)。
(4)提出并证明了新型压电神经元，实现了完备的LIF神经元功能。代表性论文：J. Materiomics 11, 101013 (2025)。
在Nat. Commun. (4篇)、Rep. Prog. Phys.、Adv. Mater. (2篇)等高水平期刊上发表第一/通讯作者论文58篇，其中ESI热点论文1篇、高被引论文4篇。论文总引用6600次，H因子41。授权国家发明专利4件。
教育及工作经历 (Education Background and Work Experience)
2020 - Now Professor, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
2020 - 现在 研究员，华南师范大学，广州，中国
2016 - 2020 Associate Professor, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
2016 - 2020 副研究员，华南师范大学，广州，中国
2011 - 2015 PhD Student, National University of Singapore, Singapore
2011 - 2015 博士研究生，新加坡国立大学，新加坡
2007 - 2011 Undergraduate Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2007 - 2011本科生，上海交通大学，上海，中国
近5年发表论文 (Papers Published in the Past 5 years)
1. Kun Liu, Shan Tan, Zhen Fan*, Haipeng Lin, Jiali Ou, Haoyue Deng, Jinghao Chen, Wenjie Li, Wenjie Hu, Boyuan Cui, Zhiwei Chen, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. In-sensor image memorization, low-level processing, and high-level computing by using above-bandgap photovoltages. Nat. Commun. 17, 408 (2026).
2. Linyuan Mo, Zhen Fan*, Jiali Ou, Zhiwei Chen, Haipeng Lin, Wenjie Hu, Wenjie Li, Meixia Li, Boyuan Cui, Hua Fan, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Minghui Qin, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. Ultralow-power reservoir computing based on bidirectionally operable ferroelectric capacitors with tunable time constants. Rep. Prog. Phys. 89, 028001 (2026).
3. Gaokuo Zhong*, Jiaqi Yan, Mingkai Tang, Haoyue Deng, Yangchun Tan, Xiangli Zhong, Changjian Li, Zhen Fan*, Jinbin Wang*, Jiangyu Li*. High-throughput design of optoelectronic–ferroelectric heterostructure from materials to sensor–memory–computing devices. Natl. Sci. Rev. 13, nwaf530 (2026).
4. Guo Tian*, Wentao Shuai, Wenjie Li, Zhiqing Song, Jiaqi Zhang, Yihang Guo, Houlin Zhou, Shuoshuo Ma, Jianbiao Xian, Songhua Cai, Zhen Fan*, Minghui Qin, Ji-Yan Dai*, Jun-Ming Liu, Xingsen Gao*. Construction of polar topological nanodevices for neuromorphic computing. Appl. Phys. Rev. 12, 041420 (2025).
5. Li Huang, Zefeng Chen, Zhiguo Nie, Weiwei Meng*, Zhen Fan*, Hao Yin, Weiguang Xie, Bo Wu, Guofu Zhou, Mingzhu Long*. Self-Powered, Low-Poling-Field and High-Photoresponsivity Perovskite-Based Photodetectors for Neuromorphic Vision. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 7, 4510–4519 (2025).
6. Haipeng Lin, Jiali Ou, Zhen Fan*, Xiaobing Yan*, Wenjie Hu, Boyuan Cui, Jikang Xu, Wenjie Li, Zhiwei Chen, Biao Yang, Kun Liu, Linyuan Mo, Meixia Li, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. In situ training of an in-sensor artificial neural network based on ferroelectric photosensors. Nat. Commun. 16, 421 (2025). ESI highly cited paper & Featured Article.
7. Wenjie Li, Shan Tan, Zhen Fan*, Zhiwei Chen, Jiali Ou, Kun Liu, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. Piezoelectric neuron for neuromorphic computing. J. Materiomics 11, 101013 (2025).
8. Wenjie Hu, Zhen Fan*, Linyuan Mo, Haipeng Lin, Meixia Li, Wenjie Li, Jiali Ou, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. Volatile Resistive Switching and Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity in a Ferroelectric-Modulated SrFeOx Memristor. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 17, 9595–9605 (2025).
9. Kanyu Yang, Chaojie Shi, Ruizhao Tian, Haoyue Deng, Jie He, Yangyang Qi, Zhengchun Yang*, Jinshi Zhao, Zhen Fan*, Jun Liu. High performance resistive random access memory based on Ag/TiO2 Nanorods/FTO for image recognition applications. Mat. Sci. Semicon. Proc. 171, 107998 (2024).
10. Haoyue Deng, Zhen Fan*, Shuai Dong, Zhiwei Chen, Wenjie Li, Yihong Chen, Kun Liu, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Deyang Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. A physics-based predictive model for pulse design to realize high-performance memristive neural networks. APL Mach. Learn. 1, 046110 (2023).
11. Xingyu Liu, Zhen Fan*, Yuhui Zheng, Jiajia Zha, Yong Zhang, Siyuan Zhu, Zhang Zhang, Xuyan Zhang,Fei Huang, Tong Liang, Chunxia Li, Qianming Wang*, and Chaoliang Tan*. Controlled Synthesis of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Colloidal Nanocrystals for Nonvolatile Resistive Memory Devices. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 15, 55991-56002 (2023).
12. Sifan Kong, Muyun Li, Yongqi Xiang, Yitong Wu, Zhen Fan*, Huan Yang*, Qingyue Cai, Menglong Zhang, Yong Zhang and Honglong Ning*. Machine learning-guided investigation for a high-performance electrochromic device based on ammonium metatungstate-iron(II) chloride-heavy water electrochromic liquid. J. Mater. Chem. C 11, 12776-12784 (2023).
13. Kanyu Yang, Zhuoqun Yin, Jiayi Wu, Haoyue Deng, Zhengchun Yang*, Zhen Fan*, Jinshi Zhao. Ultra-low power resistive random-access memory based on VO2/TiO2 nanotubes composite film. Vacuum 216, 112472 (2023).
14. Zhiwei Chen, Wenjie Li, Zhen Fan*, Shuai Dong, Yihong Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao & Jun-Ming Liu.All-ferroelectric implementation of reservoir computing. Nat. Commun. 14, 3585 (2023). ESI highly cited paper & Featured Article.
15. Shuai Dong, Zhen Fan*, Yihong Chen, Kaihui Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. Performance estimation for the memristor-based computing-in-memory implementation of extremely factorized network for real-time and low-power semantic segmentation. Neural Networks 160, 202-215 (2023).
16. Wenjie Li, Zhen Fan*, Qicheng Huang, Jingjing Rao, Boyuan Cui, Zhiwei Chen, Zhuosheng Lin, Xiaobing Yan, Guo Tian, Ruiqiang Tao, Deyang Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, and Jun-Ming Liu. Polarization-Dominated Internal Timing Mechanism in a Ferroelectric Second-Order Memristor. Phys. Rev. Appl. 19, 014054 (2023).
17. Kaihui Chen, Zhen Fan*, Jingjing Rao, Wenjie Li, Deming Wang, Changjian Li, Gaokuo Zhong, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. Versatile SrFeOx for memristive neurons and synapses. J. Materiomics 8, 967-975 (2022).
18. Shuai Dong , Yihong Chen , Zhen Fan* , Kaihui Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu. A backpropagation with gradient accumulation algorithm capable of tolerating memristor non-idealities for training memristive neural networks. Neurocomputing, 494, 89-103 (2022).
19. Zhuosheng Lin, Zhen Fan*. A Ferroelectric Memristor-Based Transient Chaotic Neural Network for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems. Symmetry. 15, 59 (2022).
20. Jingjing Rao, Zhen Fan*, Qicheng Huang, Yongjian Luo, Xingmin Zhang, Haizhong Guo, Xiaobing Yan, Guo Tian, Deyang Chen, Zhipeng Hou. Experimental search for high-performance ferroelectric tunnel junctions guided by machine learning. J. Adv. Dielectr., 12, 2250005 (2022).
21. Xuepeng Xiang, Jingjing Rao, Chaesung Lim, Qicheng Huang, Shijun Zhao, Zhen Fan,* Jeong Woo Han*, and Yan Chen*, Manipulating the resistive switching in epitaxial SrCoO2.5 thin film-based memristors by strain engineering, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 4, 2729 (2022).
22. Xuepeng Xiang, Jingjing Rao, Zuyun He, Mengzhen Zhou, Qicheng Huang, Yuan Gao, Zhen Fan*, Xinwei Wang*, Yan Chen*, Tailoring Resistive Switching in Epitaxial SrCoO2.5 Films by Irradiation Induced Uniaxial Strain, J. Appl. Phys. 132, 035304 (2022).
23. Boyuan Cui, Zhen Fan*, Wenjie Li, Yihong Chen, Shuai Dong, Zhengwei Tan, Shengliang Cheng, Bobo Tian, Ruiqiang Tao, Guo Tian, Deyang Chen, Zhipeng Hou, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu, Ferroelectric photosensor network: an advanced hardware solution to real-time machine vision. Nat. Commun. 13, 1707 (2022). ESI highly cited paper.
24. Wenda Yang, Guo Tian*, Hua Fan, Yue Zhao, Hongying Chen, Luyong Zhang, Yadong Wang, Zhen Fan*, Zhipeng Hou, Deyang Chen, Jinwei Gao, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Minghui Qin, Xingsen Gao*, Jun-Ming Liu, Nonvolatile Ferroelectric-Domain-Wall Memory Embedded in a Complex Topological Domain Structure, Adv. Mater. 34, 2107711 (2022).
25. Yihong Chen, Zhen Fan*, Shuai Dong, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Gougu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu, A Multifault-Tolerant Training Scheme for Nonideal Memristive Neural Networks, Adv. Intell. Syst. 4, 2100237 (2022).
26. Qicheng Huang, Zhen Fan,* Jingjing Rao, Tieying Yang, Xingmin Zhang, Deyang Chen, Minghui Qin, Min Zeng, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, and Jun-Ming Liu, Significant Modulation of Ferroelectric Photovoltaic Behavior by a Giant Macroscopic Flexoelectric Effect Induced by Strain-Relaxed Epitaxy, Adv. Electron. Mater. 8, 2100612 (2022).
27. Chenglong She#, Qicheng Huang#, Cong Chen, Yue Jiang, Zhen Fan*, Jinwei Gao*, Machine learning-guided search for high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with doped electron transport layers, J. Mater. Chem. A 9, 25168 (2021).
28. Fengyuan Zhang, Hua Fan, Bing Han, Yudong Zhu, Xiong Deng, David Edwards, Amit Kumar,Deyang Chen, Xingsen Gao, Zhen Fan*, Brian J. Rodriguez*, Boosting Polarization Switching-Induced Current Injection by Mechanical Force in Ferroelectric Thin Films, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 26180-26186 (2021).
29. Jiali Zhao, Kaihui Chen, Shi-En Li, Qinghua Zhang, Jia-OuWang, Er-Jia Guo, Haijie Qian, Lin Gu, Tian Qian, Kurash Ibrahim, Zhen Fan*, Haizhong Guo*, Electronic-structure evolution of SrFeO3–x during topotactic phase transformation, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34, 064001 (2022).
30. Xuepeng Xiang, Zuyun He, Jingjing Rao, Zhen Fan*, Xinwei Wang, Yan Chen*, Applications of Ion Beam Irradiation in Multifunctional Oxide Thin Films: A Review, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 3, 1031-1042 (2021).
31. Jingjing Rao, Zhen Fan*, Lanqing Hong, Shengliang Cheng, Qicheng Huang, Jiali Zhao, Xuepeng Xiang, Er-Jia Guo, Haizhong Guo, Zhipeng Hou, Yan Chen, Xubing Lu, Guofu Zhou, Xingsen Gao, Jun-Ming Liu, An electroforming-free, analog interface-type memristor based on a SrFeOx epitaxial heterojunction for neuromorphic computing, Mater. Today Phys. 18, 100392 (2021).
完整论文列表见：https://sci-hub.org.cn/citations?user=PpH4HT0AAAAJ&hl=zh-TW&oi=sra
主持科研项目 (Projects)
1. 国家级青年人才项目，2025-2029；
2. 广东省杰出青年基金项目，2024-2027；
3. 国家自然科学基金面上项目，52172143，2022-2025；
4. 国家自然科学基金大科学装置联合基金培育项目，U1932125，2020-2022；
5. 国家自然科学基金青年科学基金项目，51602110，2017-2019；
6. 广东省科技创新战略专项资金面上项目，2020A1515010996，2020-2022。
学术荣誉与奖励 (Academic Honors and Awards)
1. 斯坦福大学评选的全球前2%顶尖科学家(2022-2025连续4年)；
2. 2025年度中国电介质物理优秀青年奖(B类)；
3. 2022年度中国新锐科技人物闪耀潜力奖；
4. 中国电子元器件关键材料与技术专业委员会2020年度学术新秀奖。
学术兼职 (Academic Appointments)
1. 广州市智能光电材料与类脑器件重点实验室副主任；
2. 中国物理学会固体缺陷专业委员会青年工作委员会副主任；
3. 中国硅酸盐学会微纳技术分会青年理事；
4. 中国电子元器件关键材料与技术专业委员会委员；
5. J. Materiomics期刊青年编委；
6. J. Adv. Dielectr.期刊青年编委。
联系信息 (Contact Information)
Email：fanzhen@m.scnu.edu.cn
Address: #512, Block 5, South China Normal University at Guangzhou Higher Educational Mega Center, Guangzhou 510006, China.
地址：华南师范大学大学城校区理5栋512办公室。
本组科研氛围良好，学生均能发表一作高水平论文，共获得国家奖学金8人次，欢迎感兴趣的同学加入！