Jinxing Zhang (Dr., Prof.)

Personal information

Name: Jinxing Zhang; Gender: Male; Date of Birth: May 1981;

Place of birth: Anshan City, Liaoning Province, China;

Address: Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, 100875;

Email: jxzhang@bnu.edu.cn;

Current position: Professor;

Education

Ph.D. in Applied Physics, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2009,

advisor: Prof. H.L.W.Chan and J.Y.Dai

Dissertation title: Growth and Characterization of Magnetoelectric and Multiferroic

Oxide Thin Films

(completed at University of California, Berkeley, co-advised by Prof. R.Ramesh)

M.S. in Applied Chemistry, Beijing Institute of Technology, 2006,

advisor: Prof. C.B.Cao

Dissertation title: Photo-electrical behaviors in ZnO thin films grown by magnetron

sputtering

B.S. in Chemistry, Liaoning University, 2004

(Dissertation complete in Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Science of Academy,

Shenyang)

Professional Experience

Professor, March 2012-present, department of physics, Beijing Normal University,

Beijing China.

Post-doc fellow, Nov.2009-Feb.2012 Advised by Prof. R.Ramesh,

Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA,

Probing the electrically controllable domain wall conduction in oxide thin films

Visiting researcher, 2008-2009 Advised by Prof. R.Ramesh,

Department of Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA,

Nanoscale ferroelectric/elastic switching and phase transition in oxide thin films

Research assistant, 2006-2008

Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Growth and characterization of magnetoelectric nanocomposites

Research assistant, 2004-2006

Center of Materials Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

Photo-electrical properties in ZnO and ZnO/ITO heterostructure

Research assistant, 2003-2004

National Key Laboratory of Corrosion and Protection, Institute of Metal Research,

Chinese Science of Academy, Shenyang, China

Surface modification of TiO2 nano-particles

Memberships: Materials Research Society, American Physics Society, Hong Kong

Physical Society

Brief description of the academic achievement

In recent years, Dr. Jinxing Zhang has published over 50 high-level journals,

including 2 in Nature Nanotechnology, 2 in Nature Materials, 1 in Science, 3 in

Physical Review Letters, 2 in Nature Communications, 1 in Proceedings of

National Academy of Science, etc. Jinxing Zhang was also invited to write a review

article titled as “Nanoscale phase boundary: a new twist to novel functionalities” in

Nanoscale (2012). In recent years, the peer-reviewed papers have been cited over

2500 times. The H-factor is over 20. Jinxing Zhang has been invited and contributed

to many academic talks like Hong Kong Physical Society, American Physical Society

and Materials Research Society, etc. Jinxing Zhang has been honored as the

Outstanding Research Student Award in the 13th Hong Kong Physical Society

conference in 2008, and also honored as the Best Poster Award in the Materials

Research Society fall meeting in the US in 2011.

List of publications

1. Jing Wang, Houbing Huang, Wangqiang He, Qinghua Zhang, Danni Yang,

Yuelin Zhang, Renrong Liang, Chuanshou Wang, Xingqiao Ma, Lin Gu,

Longqing Chen, Ce-Wen Nan and Jinxing Zhang, "Nanoscale Bandgap

Tuning across an Inhomogeneous Ferroelectric Interface", ACS Appl. Mater.

Interfaces. 9 (29), pp 24704–24710 (2017).

2. Yan Wei, Xiaoju Mo, Pengchao Zhang, Yingying Li, Jingwen Liao,Yongjun

Li, Jinxing Zhang, Chenyun Ning, Shutao Wang, Xuliang Deng and Lei

Jiang, "Directing stem cell differentiation via electrochemical reversible

switching between nanotubes and nanotips of polypyrrole array", ACS Nano.

11(6), pp 5915-5924 (2017).

3. Malik Iftikhar Ahmed, Xiaoxing Ke, Xin Liu, Chuanshou Wang, Xueyun

Wang,Ullah Rizwan, Chuangye song, Jing Wang and Jinxing Zhang, "Solid

State Reaction for the Formation of Spinel MgFe2O4 across Perovskite Oxide

Interface", SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy. DOI:

10.1007/s11433-017-9064-0 (2017).

4. Fei Xue, Yongjun Li, Yijia Gu, Jinxing Zhang, and Longqing Chen, "Strain

phase separation: Formation of ferroelastic domain structures", Physical

Review B. 94, 220101 (R) (2016).

5. Lei Chen, Weiyao Zhao, Jing Wang, Guanyin Gao, Jinxing Zhang, Yu Wang,

Xiaomin Li, Shixun Cao, Xiaoguang Li, Haosu Luo, and Renkui Zheng,

"Semiconductor/Piezoelectrics Hybrid Heterostructures with Highly Effective

Gate-Tunable Electrotransport and Magnetic Behaviors", ACS Appl. Mater.

Interfaces. 8, 26932 (2016).

6. J. Wang; I.A. Malik; R.R. Liang; W. Huang; R.K. Zheng; Jinxing Zhang*,

"Nanoscale control of low-dimensional spin structures in manganites" ， Chinese Physics B, Vol. 25, No. 6 (2016) 067504. (invited review).

7. Chuanshou Wang#, Xiaoxing Ke#, Jianjun Wang#, Renrong Liang, Zhenlin

Luo, Yu Tian, Di Yi, Qintong Zhang, Jing Wang, Xiufeng Han, Gustaaf Van

Tendeloo, Long-Qing Chen, Ce-Wen Nan*, Ramamoorthy Ramesh* and

Jinxing Zhang*, "Ferroelastic switching in a layered-perovskite thin film",

Nature Communications 7,10636(2016).

8. B. Zhang; X.P. Wang; Z.J. Shen; X.B. Li; C.S. Wang; Y.J. Chen; J.X. Li;

Jinxing Zhang; Z. Zhang; S.B. Zhang; X.D. Han, "Vacancy Structures and

Melting Behavior in Rock-Salt GeSbTe", Scientific Reports 6,25453 (2016).

9. Y.J. Li; J.J. Wang; J.C. Ye; X. Ke; G.Y. Gou; Y. Wei; F. Xue; J. Wang; C.S.

Wang; R. Peng; X.L. Deng; Y. Yang; X. Ren; L.Q. Chen; C.W. Nan and

Jinxing Zhang*, "Mechanical Switching of Nanoscale Multiferroic Phase

Boundaries", Advanced Functional Materials 25,3405-3413(2015).

10. Xiefei Yao, Yuanhua Lin*, Cewen Nan and Jinxing Zhang*,

“Magnetoelectric coupling across the interface of multiferroic

nanocomposites”, Science China Materials, 58, 143 (2015). (invited review).

11. Q.X. Zhu; M.M. Yang; M Zheng; R.K. Zheng; L.J. Guo; Y. Wang; Jinxing

Zhang; X.M. Li; H.S. Luo; X.G. Li. “Ultrahigh Tunability of Room

Temperature Electronic Transport and Ferromagnetism in Dilute Magnetic

Semiconductor and PMN-PT Single-Crystal-Based Field Effect Transistors

via Electric Charge Mediation”, Advanced Functional Materials, 25, 1111

(2015).

12. J.M. Hu; T.N. Yang; J.J. Wang; H.B. Huang; Jinxing Zhang; L.Q. Chen;

C.W. Nan. “Purely Electric-Field-Driven Perpendicular Magnetization

Reversal”, Nano Lett. 15, 1 (2015).

13. H.M. Qian; Q. Zhao; B.S. Dai; L.J. Guo; Jinxing Zhang; J.J. Liu; J.T. Zhang;

HS Zhu. “Oriented attachment of nanoparticles to form micrometer-sized

nanosheets/nanobelts by topotactic reaction on rigid/flexible substrates with

improved electronic properties”, NPG Asia Materials 7, e152(2015).

14. J. Wang, L. S. Xie, C. S. Wang, H. Z. Zhang, L. Shu, J. Bai, Y. S. Chai, X.

Zhao, J. C. Nie, C. B. Cao, C. Z. Gu, C. M. Xiong, Y. Sun, J. Shi, S.

Salahuddin, K. Xia, C. W. Nan and Jinxing Zhang*, “Magnetic domain-wall

motion twisted by nanoscale probe-induced spin transfer”, Physical Review B

90, 224407 (2014).

15. Fengang Zheng, Peng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Wen Huang, Jinxing Zhang,

Mingrong Shen, Wen Dong, Liang Fang, Yongbin Bai, Xiaoqing Shen, Hua

Sun and Jianhua Hao, “ Photovoltaic enhancement due to surface-plasmon

assisted visible-light absorption at the inartificial surface of lead zirconate–

titanate film”, Nanoscale 6, 2915(2014).

16. W. Tian, G.T. Tan, L. Liu, Jinxing Zhang, B. Winn, T. Hong, J.A. Fernandes-

Baca, C.L. Zhang and P.C. Dai, “Influence of doping on the spin dynamics

and magnetoelectric effect in hexagonal Y0.7Lu0.3MnO3”, Physical Review

B 89, 144417 (2014).

17. J.J. Wang, J.M. Hu, T.N. Yang, M. Feng, Jinxing Zhang, L.Q. Chen and C.-

W. Nan, “Effect of strain on voltage-controlled magnetism in BiFeO3-based

heterostructures”, Scientific Reports 4, 4553 (2014).

18. M.M Yang, X.Q. Zhao, J. Wang, Q.X. Zhu, Jinxing Zhang, X.M. Li, H.S.

Luo, X.G. Li and R.K. Zheng, “Intrinsic and quantitative effects of in-plane

strain on ferroelectric properties of Mn-doped BiFeO3 epitaxial films by in

situ inducing strain in substrates”, Applied Physics Letters104, 052902 (2014).

19. F.G. Zheng, P. Zhang, X.F. Wang, W. Huang, Jinxing Zhang, M.R. Shen, W.

Dong, L. Fang, Y.B. Bai and X.Q. Shen, “Photovoltaic enhancement due to

surface-plasmon assisted visible-light absorption at the inartificial surface of

lead zirconate-titanate film”, Nanoscale 6, 2915 (2014)

20. F.G. Zheng, Y. Xin, W. Huang, Jinxing Zhang, X.F. Wang, M.R. Shen, W.

Dong, L. Fang, Y.B. Bai and X.Q. Shen, “Above 1% efficiency of a

ferroelectric solar cell based on the Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 film”, Journal of Materials

Chemistry A 2, 1363 (2014).

21. Xiefei Yao and Jinxing Zhang, “Decade of advances in the most desired

magnetoelectric multiferroic material——BiFeO3”, Physics 43, 227 (2014)

(Invited review in Chinese).

22. Jinxing Zhang*, Xiaoxing Ke*, Gaoyang Gou, Jan Seidel, Bin Xiang, Pu Yu,

Wen-I Liang, Andrew M. Minor, Ying-hao Chu, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo,

Xiaobing Ren and Ramamoorthy Ramesh, “A nanoscale shape memory

oxide”, Nature Communications, 4, 2768 (2013). Highlighted in “News and

Views” of Nature Materials 13, 6 (2014).

23. Ming Liu*, Jason Hoffman, Jing Wang, Jinxing Zhang*, Brittany Nelson-

Cheeseman and Anand Bhattacharya*, “Non-volatile ferroelastic switching of

the Verwey transition and resistivity of epitaxial Fe3O4/PMN-PT (011)”,

Scientific Reports 3, 1876 (2013).

24. Jinxing Zhang*, and P. Yu*. “Magnetism ferroelectricy and magnetoelectric

coupling of multiferroic BiFeO3”, Journal of the Chinese Ceramic Society 07,

905 (2013) (Invited review, In Chinese)

25. P. Yu* and Jinxing Zhang*, “Emergent phenomena at multiferroic BiFeO3

superstructures”, Progress in Physics 33, 369 (2013) (Invited review, In

Chinese)

26. Jinxing Zhang*, Houren Hu, Wei Lu, Jiyan Dai and Helen Chan, “Nanoscale

free-standing magnetoelectric heteropillars”, NANOSCALE 5, 6747 (2013).

27. J. Miao, K.H. Chew, Jinxing Zhang, Q. Zhan, X.G. Xu and Y. Jiang,

“Enhanced fatigue and ferroelectric properties in multiferroic

(Ba0.7Sr0.3)TiO3/(Bi1.05La0.05)FeO3 epitaxial heterostructures”, Applied

Physics Letters 102, 232902 (2013).

28. Jian Zhou, Morgan Trassin, Qing He, Nobumichi Tamura, Martin Kunz, Chun

Cheng, Jinxing Zhang, Wen-I Liang, Jan Seidel, Cheng-Lun Hsin, Ying-Hao

Chu and Junqiao Wu, “Directed Assembly of Nano-Scale Phase Variants in

Highly Strained BiFeO3 Thin Films”, J. Appl. Phys. 112, 064102 (2012).

29. J. X. Zhang * , et al., “Nanoscale phase boundary: a new twist for novel

functionalities”, Nanoscale (invited) 4, 6196 (2012).

30. P. Yu, W. Luo, D.Yi, J. X. Zhang et al., “Interface electronic reconstruction

controls ferroelectric polarization state”, Proceedings of National

Academy of Science 109, 9711 (2012).31. B. Y. Lee, J. X. Zhang, et al., “Virus-based Piezoelectric Energy Generation”,

Nature Nanotechnoloy 7, 351 (2012).

32. S. Zhang, J. J. Yang, Y. G. Zhao, S. Rizwan, J. X. Zhang, et al., “Electric-

field control of switchable and non-volatile magnetization in

Co40Fe40B20/Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.7Ti0.3O3 structure at room temperature”, Physical

Review Letters 108, 137203 (2012).

33. J. X. Zhang * , et al., “Microscopic origin of a giant ferroelectric polarization in

tetragonal-like BiFeO3”, Physical Review Letters 107, 147602 (2011).

34. J. X. Zhang * , et al., “Large field-induced strains in a lead-free piezoelectric

material”, Nature Nanotechnology 6, 98 (2011).

35. P. Yu, J. -S. Lee, S. Okamoto, M. D. Rossell, M. Huijben, C. -H. Yang, Q. He,

J. X. Zhang, et al., “Interface ferromagnetism and orbital reconstruction in

BiFeO3-La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 heterostructures”, Physical Review Letters 105,

027201 (2010).

36. S. M. Wu, Shane A. Cybart, P. Yu, M. D. Abrodos, J. X. Zhang, et al.,

“Reversible electric control of exchange bias in a multiferroic field-effect

device”, Nature Materials 9, 756 (2010).

37. S. H. Baek, H. W. Jang, C. M. Folkman, Y. L. Li, B. Winchester, J. X.

Zhang, et al., “Ferroelastic Switching for Nanoscale Nonvolatile

Magnetoelectric Devices”, Nature Materials 9, 309 (2010).

38. J. X. Zhang , et al., “Interfacial engineering and coupling of electric and

magnetic properties in Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3/CoFe2O4 multiferroic epitaxial

multilayers”, Journal of Applied Physics 107, 104105 (2010).

39. J. X. Zhang, et al. Interfacial engineering and coupling of electric and

magnetic properties in Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O-3/CoFe2O4 multiferroic epitaxial

multilayers, Journal of Applied Physics 107, 104105 (2010).

40. R. J. Zeches, M. D. Abrados, J. X. Zhang, et al., “A strain driven

morphotropic phase boundary in BiFeO3”, Science 326, 977 (2009).

41. J. X. Zhang , et al., “The effect of magnetic nanoparticles on the morphology,

ferroelectric, and magnetoelectric behaviors of CFO/P(VDF-TrFE) 0-3

nanocomposites”, Journal of Applied Physics 105, 054102 (2009).

42. J. X. Zhang , et al., “Room temperature magnetic exchange coupling in

multiferroic BaTiO3/CoFe2O4 magnetoelectric superlattice”, Journal of

Materials Science 44, 1573 (2009).

43. J. X. Zhang , et al., “Magnetoelectric coupling in CoFe2O4 /SrRuO3/

Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 heteroepitaxial thin film structure”, Applied Physics Letters

92, 022901 (2008).

44. J. X. Zhang , et al., “A novel nanostructure and multiferroic properties in

Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3/CoFe2O4 nanocomposite films grown by pulsed laser

deposition”, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41, 235405 (2008).