Core Member

Research Interest

Professional Roles

• Guest editor for journal New Diamond and Frontier Carbon Technology

• Regular Member of Program Committee in regular conferences “International Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Devices and Microsystems”

• Member of Organizing Committee of 7^th International Conference on New Diamond Technology

• Industrial Consultant in Thin Films and Vacuum Technology

• Promoting coating technology for Hong Kong Industry

• Proposal on the construction of X-ray gun on the base of diamond anode (P. O’Hara, Vacuum Generator, UK)

• Assistance to development of Hong Kong industry - Hardness of electroplated gold layers (T.Y.F. Yip, Shipley Asia Ltd)

• Consultancy on mass flow calibrator – and standard thickness/resistivity measurements for calibration (D. Ma, Vitelic Ltd HK)

• Consultancy on PVD and CVD techniques and application of DLC coating for improving the surface properties of products (Billy K H Tsun, Tech Creator Ltd, HK).

• Proposal application of diamond on ultrasonic welding equipment (Ng Hon Yu Peter ASM HK)

• Before the HK position: a number of industrial projects all with real and working output. For example, gas thermometers for cooling systems for ice skating arenas (Canada), Continuous measurement of dielectric properties of PCB boards during their production, or approximate infared sensors (Czechoslovakia).  

U.S. Patents

Nine patents in total.

1. ST Lee, I Bello, NG Shang, “Large area silicon cone arrays fabrication and cone based nanostructure modification”, US patent No 6,761,803 July 13, 2004.
2. ST Lee, CS Lee, N Wang, I Bello, “Growth methods for Si nanowires and nanoparticle chains from SiO”, US Patent 6,313,015 B1, Nov. 2001.
3. I Bello*, W. J. Zhang and S. T. Lee “cBN/diamond composite layers” US Patent 20060147282 (2003).

Publications

Total 309 (Refereed journals: 190, Conference articles: 87, Text-books: 4, Defended industrial reports and research: 28.

1. KM Leung, HQ Li, YS Zou, KL Ma, YM Chong, WJ Zhang, ST Lee, I Bello*, Structural analysis of cBN films by ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy, Appl. Phys. Letts 88 (2006) 241922.
2. I Bello*, YM Chong, KM Leung, CY Chan, KL Ma, WJ Zhang, ST Lee, A Layyous, “Cubic boron nitride films for industrial applications” Diamond Relat. Mater. 14 (2005) 1784.
3. I Bello*, CY Chan, WJ Zhang, YM Chong, KM Leung, ST Lee, Y Lifshitz, “Deposition of thick cubic boron nitride films: Route to practical applications”, Diamond Relat. Mater., 143-7 (2005) 1154.
4. WJ Zhang, I Bello*, Y Lifshitz, KM Chan, X M Meng, Y Wu, CY Chan, ST Lee, “Epitaxy on diamond by CVD-the route to high quality cBN for elec. Applications”, Advan. Materials 16 (2004) 1405.
5. Y. Lifshitz, XF Duan, NG Shang, Q Li, L Wan, I Bello, ST Lee, “Epitaxial diamond polytypes on silicon”, Nature 42, (2001) 404.
6. I Bello, MK Fung, W Zhang, C Sun, KH Lai, HK Woo, C S Lee, and ST Lee, “Effects at reactive ion etching of CVD diamond”, Thin Solid Films 368 (2000) 222.
7. ST Lee, HY Peng, XT Zhou, N Wang, CS Lee, I Bello, Y Liftshitz, "A nucleation site and mechanism leading to epitaxial growth diamond films", Science 287 (2000) 104.
8. I Bello, WM Chang, WM Lau, "Importance of the molecular identity of ion species in reactive ion etching at low energy", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 12 (1994) 1425.
9. I Bello, WM Chang, WM Lau, "Mechanism of cleaning and etching of Si surfaces with low energy ion bombardment", J. Appl. Phys. 75 (1994) 3092.
10. I Bello, WM Lau, RPW Lawson, KK Foo, "Deposition of InN by low energy modulated indium and nitrogen ion beams", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 10 (1992) 1642.