Prof. Xiaozhong Zhang, obtained his BSc in Physics from Fudan University (China) in 1982, MSc in Physics from Shanghai Jiaotong University (China) in 1984. He then won the Chinese Government Scholarship to study at Oxford University (UK) during 1985-1989, and obtained his PhD. in Materials Science from Oxford University in 1989. He then worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Royal Institution of Great Britain for three years. During 1992-1999 he worked as a Faculty (research fellow, then lecturer and then senior lecturer) at Physics department, National University of Singapore. In 1999 he jointed Tsinghua University as a professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was a director of Electron Microscopy Laboratory during 1999-2006. He has been the deputy director of the Education Ministry Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials since 1999. He is now serving as the deputy chief of Chinese national nano-technology standardization committee, member of consulting committee of Chinese analytic and measuring society and member of Chinese national micro-beam analysis standardization committee. His research interests are spintronic materials and devices, multiferroic materials, solar cell materials, nanomaterials and nanostructure, electron microscopy, and computational materials science. Since he returned to China in 1999, he has obtained many Chinese national projects including two “973” projects and five NSFC project (1 key project and 4 ordinary projects). He has published more than 140 SCI papers and been awarded ten Chinese patents.
Education background
1989, PhD, Dept. of Materials, University of Oxford，UK
1984, MSc, Dept. of Physics, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
1982, BSc, Dept. of Physics, Fudan University, China
Experience
1999-, Professor,
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
1992-1999, Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer,
Dept. of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore
1989-1992, Post-doctorial Research Fellow,
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK
Concurrent Academic
The deputy director of the vKey Laboratory of Advanced Materials
Social service
Deputy Chief of Chinese national nano-technology standardization committee
Member of consulting committee of Chinese analytic and measuring society
Member of CODATA China national committee
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Spintronic materials and devices
Multiferroic Materials
Solar Cell materials
Nanomaterials and Nanostructure
Electron Microscopy
Computational Materials Science
Research Status
Currently, Prof. Zhang is mainly working on carbon based and silicon based spintronic materials and devices. He is also working on multiferroic materials, solar cell materials, and nanomaterials. At moment he has one “973” project, one NSFC key project and one NSFC ordinary project.
Honors And Awards
1985, Chinese Government Scholarship for Overseas Study，
2003, First Prize of Chinese Analytic and Measuring society，
2007, National Elite Course “Electron Microanalyses”
Academic Achievement
Selected Publications
1. C. H. Wan , X. Z. Zhang, X. L. Gao, J. M. Wang & X. Y. Tan, Geometrical enhancement of low-field magnetoresistance in silicon, Nature 477, 304-307 (2011)
2. L H Wu, X Zhang, J Vanacken, N Schildermans, C H Wan, and V V Moshchalkov, Room-temperature Non-saturating Magnetoresistance of Intrinsic Bulk Silicon in High Pulsed Magnetic Fields, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 (2011) 112113.
3. Q.P. Chen, J.J. Yang, Y.G. Zhao, S. Zhang, J.W. Wang, M.H. Zhu, Y.Yu, X.Z. Zhang, Zhu Wang, Bin Yang, D. Xie and T.L. Ren, Electric-field control of phase sepatation and memory effect in Pr0.6Ca0.4MnO3/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.7Ti0.3O3 heterostrctuctures, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 (2011) 172507.
4. Chengguo Zhang, X. Zhang, Yonghao Sun, et al., Atomistic simulation of Y-site substitution in multiferroic h-YMnO3, Phys. Rev. B 83（2011）054104.
5. Xili Gao, Xiaozhong Zhang, Caihua Wan, Xin Zhang, Lihua Wu, and Xinyu Tan, Abnormal humindity-dependent electrical properties of amorphous carbon/silicon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 97（2010）212101.
6. Su Li and Xiaozhong Zhang, Sb2O3-induced tapered ZnO nanowire arrays: the kinetics of radial growth and morphology control, J. Phys. Chem. C, 114 (2010) 10379–10385.
7. Caihua Wan, Xiaozhong Zhang，Xin Zhang, Xili Gao and Xinyu Tan, Photoconductivity of iron doped amorphous carbon films on n-type silicon substrates, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 (2009). 022105
8. Xin Zhang, Xiaozhong Zhang, Caihua Wan and Lihua Wu , A bias voltage dependent positive magnetoresistance in Cox–C1-x /Si heterostructure, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95 (2009) 022503.
9. F.L Tang and X. Zhang, Hole distribution and local structure in La2 - xSrxCuO4, Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, (2007) 142501.
10. Xiao Liao and X. Zhang, Zinc Oxide nanostructures and their core-shell luminescence properties, J. Phys. Chem. C 111 (2007) 9081-9085.
11. P. Tian , X. Zhang and Q.Z. Xue, Enhanced Room-temperature Positive Magnetoresistance of a-C:Fe Film, Carbon 45 (2007) 1764-1768.
12. X. Zhang, W.G. Yang, L. N. Zhang, J. J. Qi and J. Yuan , Correlation of Bonding of Grain Boundary and Fracture Mode with Local Electronic Structure in Steels by Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett.90 (2007) 171905.
13. F.L. Tang and X. Zhang, Atomic distribution and local structure in charge-ordered La1/3Ca2/3MnO3, Phys. Rev. B 73 (2006) 144401
14. Lisheng Wang, X. Zhang, Songqing Zhao, Junjie Qi, Guoyuan Zhou , Y. L. Zhou, Synthesis of well aligned ZnO nanowires using simple PVD approach on c-axis oriented ZnO thin films without catalysts, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 (2005) 024108.
15. Xue QZ, Zhang X, Anomalous electrical transport properties of amorphous carbon films on Si substrates, Carbon 43 (2005) 760-764.
16. Q.Z. Xue, X. Zhang, P. Tian, and C. Jin, Anomalous current-voltage characteristics and colossal electroresistance of amorphous carbon film on Si substrate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 (2004) 4397-4399.
17. Jun Liu, X. Zhang, Y.Han. F.S. Xiao, Direct observation of nanorange ordered microporosity within mesoporous molecular sieves, Chem Mater. 14 (2002) 2536-2540.
18. Y. J. Zhang, N. L. Wang, S. P. Gao, R. R. He, S. Miao, J. Liu, J. Zhu, X. Zhang. “A simple method to synthesize nanowires”. Chem. Mater. 14(2002): 3564-3568.
19. Yu Han, Shuo Wu, Yinyong Sun, Dongsheng Li, Feng-Shou S Xiao, Jun Liu and Xiaozhong Zhang, “Hydrothermally stable ordered hexagonal mesoporous aluminosilicates assemblied from triblock copolymer with preformed aluminosilicate precursors in strong acidic media", Chem Mater., 14 (2002) 1144-1148.
20. Yingjiu Zhang, Jun Liu, , Rongrui He, Qi Zhang, Xiaozhong Zhang, Jing Zhu, Synthesis of aluminum nitride nanowires by carbon nanotubes. Chem. Mater.13 (2001) 3899-3905.
Awarded Patent: 12