Our Research


High Temperature Superconductivity: develop, design, exploratory synthesis and characterize new superconductors with preferably higher Tc or Jc; Synthesis bulk and high quality of single crystals of different types of superconductors, including but not limited to cuprates, Fe pnictides/chalcogenides,heavy fermion, intermetallic, and intercalated supercondcutors, and investigate their detailed magnetic and thermodynamic transport properties at low temperature and magnetic field under both ambient and high pressure conditions;

Topological Semimetals and Topological Insulators: synthesis high quality of single crystalline topological materials including topological insulators, Dirac/Weyl semimetals,and high order topological materials, carry out detailed structural, doping, and transport studies under low temperature/high magnetic field at ambient or high pressure conditions; Closely working together with theorists, exploratory synthesis new topological materials, and materials with possible signature of topological superconductivity;

Thermal Conducting Materials for Thermal Management Applications: Materials synthesis, quality crystal growth, thin film deposition, and physics studies of the novel materials with ultrahigh/ultralow thermal conductivity. Current focus are experimental studies are cubic BAs, BP and BN, and new thermal management materials in extreme environments.

Wide-Bandgap Two Dimensional Materials for Heterogeneously Integrated Power Electronics: Identify, grow and characterize new classes of wide-band gap (WBG) 2D materials as future power electronic candidate materials that could be monolithic integrated with conventional silicon CMOS technology or as standalone power electronic devices;.

Two-Dimensional van der Waals Magnets, Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics: Identify, grow and characterize new classes of 2D vdw materials with novel magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic properties, study of the exotic new phenomena and new applications in various heterstructures in combination of these materials with others.

Design and Discovery of New Materials with Interesting/Enhanced Physical Properties: Intentional materials design and exlorative synthesis and characterization new materials with interesting and enhanced electronic, magnetic optical, and catalytic properties;.

Structure and Properties Relationship for Complex Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: fundamental understanding of the emergent magnetic and electronic order in the strongly corrected electron materials, with particular interest in spin-density-wave (SDW),charge-density-wave (CDW), magnetic instability, multiferroics, non-Fermi liquid, and quantum criticality;

Large Single Crystal Growth for Physical Characterization of Novel Materials: Grown large and high quality of single crystal through flux method (metal flux, molten salts flux, intermetallic flux, or oxide flux), vapor transport method, solution growth method and floating zone techniques; optimize the synthetic methods and parameters of different kinds for sizeable single crystals for physical studies; Particularly interested in growing large size crystals of alkali, alkaline earth-based air-sensitive materials.

Developing Synthetic Routes to Novel Functional Materials: Develop new synthetic routes such as reactions in molten salts and ionic liquids, hydrothermal, thermal decomposition, and intercalation reactions for new functional materials exploration with designed functionality. .

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