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Indiana University Bloomington

Shixiong Zhang

Shixiong Zhang Assistant Professor
Materials Physics/Condensed Matter (Experiment)

B.S., University of Science and Technology of China, 07/2004
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 12/2007
Postdoctoral Positions: Northwestern University (Materials Science& Engineering)
Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Center for Integrated Nanotechnology)

Office: Swain West 161
Phone: (812)856-1360
Email: sxzhang at indiana.edu

My research is focused on the controlled synthesis and nano-scale characterization of novel nanostructured materials. The material systems that I am currently interested in include correlated oxides and topological insulators. I use pulsed laser deposition to fabricate thin films and planar heterostructures, and chemical vapor deposition to grow 1D nanowires and 2D nanoplatelets. I am particularly interested in exploring their emergent physical (structural, electrical, magnetic and thermal) properties that arise from unique aspects associated with the nanoscale geometry, and aim to understand the underlying physical origins via correlated nano-scale characterizations using multi-functional scanning probe microscopy techniques.

Selected Publications

  • J. K. Hyun, S. X. Zhang, and L. J. Lauhon, "Nanowire Heterostructures", Annual Review of Materials Research (Invited Review, in press)
  • S. X. Zhang, S. A. Dayeh, Y. Li, S. A. Crooker, D. L. Smith, and S. T. Picraux, "Electrical Spin Injection and Detection in Silicon Nanowires through Oxide Tunnel Barriers", Nano Letters 13, 430 (2013)
  • S. X. Zhang, I. S. Kim, and L. J. Lauhon, “Stoichiometry Engineering of Structural Phase Transition from Monoclinic Phase to Rutile in Suspended Single Crystal VO2 Nanobeams”, Nano Letters 11, 1443 (2011)
  • S. X. Zhang, F. J. Lopez, J. K. Hyun, L. J. Lauhon, “Direct Detection of Hole Gas in Ge-Si Core-Shell Nanowires by Enhanced Raman Scattering”, Nano Letters 10, 4483 (2010)
  • S. X. Zhang, J. Y. Chou, and L. J. Lauhon, “Direct Correlation of Structural Domain Formation with the Metal Insulator Transition in a VO2 Nanobeam”, Nano Letters 9, 4527 (2009)
  • S. X. Zhang, E. R. Hemesath, D. E. Perea, E. Wijaya, J. L. Lensch-Falk and L. J. Lauhon, “Relative Influence of Surface States and Bulk Impurities on the Electrical Properties of Ge Nanowires”, Nano Letters 9, 3268 (2009)
  • S. X. Zhang, S. B. Ogale, W. Yu, X. Gao, T. Liu, Saurabh Ghosh, G. P. Das, Andrew T. S. Wee, R. L. Greene, and T. Venkatesan, “Electronic Manifestation of Cation Vacancy Induced Magnetic Moments in Transparent Oxide Semiconductor: Anatase Nb:TiO2”, Advanced Materials 21, 2282 (2009)
  • S. X. Zhang, W. Yu, S. B. Ogale , S. R. Shinde, D. C. Kundaliya, Wang-Kong Tse, S. Y. Young, J. S. Higgins, L. G. Salamanca-Riba, M. Herrera, L. F. Fu, N. D. Browning, R. L. Greene, and T. Venkatesan, “Magnetism and Anomalous Hall Effect in Co-(La,Sr)TiO3-δ”, Physical Review B 76, 085323 (2007)