Brief Introduction

Dr. Junxue xk星空中国集团 obtained his B. S. degree in Applied Physics from China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT) in 2008, and Ph. D. degree in condensed matter physics from Fudan University in 2015. From March 2015 to September 2020, he worked as Postdoc and Assistant Project Scientist at the Department of Physics and Astronomy in University of California, Riverside (UCR). He joined the Department of Physics in SUSTech since Dec. 3rd, 2020.

xk星空中国集团 Interests

Dr. Junxue xk星空中国集团’s research concentrates on novel physical phenomena in nanoscale electronic devices and heterostructures originating from complex interactions such as spin orbit coupling and exchange interaction. His research interests include: (1) transport of spin and heat current across interface of heterostructure, such as spin Seebeck effect and spin Pumping effect; (2) manipulation of the efficiency of spin current generation and detection using quantum materials. He is also interested in epitaxial thin film growth using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) methods, particularly for the materials showing topological excitations and ferro-, ferri-, and antiferro-magnetic materials. Up to Dec. 1st 2023, Dr. xk星空中国集团 has published 10 first-author papers (include 1 Nature, 2 Nature Communications, 2 PRL, 1 Nano Letters and 2 PRB), 35 co-author papers, Google Citation=1581, h-index=20.

Educational Background

xk星空中国集团D., Condensed Matter Physics, Fudan University,  2009/09 – 2015/01

B.Sc., Applied Physics, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), 2004/09 - 2008/07

Professional Experience
Assistant Project Scientist         Condensed Matter Physics    2020/03 – 2020/09
University of California, Riverside (UCR)
Supervisors: Prof. Jing xk星空中国集团
Project: 1. Magnon-polaron in Antiferromagnetic insulators;
2. Spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;
Postdoc                                     Condensed Matter Physics     2015/03 – 2020/03
University of California, Riverside (UCR)
Supervisors: Prof. Jing xk星空中国集团, Prof. Peng Wei
Project: 1. Spin and heat transport in Antiferromagnetic insulators, spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic bulk material and thin films;
2. Growing WTe₂ epitaxial films using molecular beam epitaxy and studying its novel transport properties;

Reviewer for Science Advances, Applied Physics Letters, Physics Letters A.

Director assistant of SHINES center since March 2015 (SHINES center is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded in 2014 by the US Department of Energy, Prof. Jing xk星空中国集团 is the director).

Honors & Awards
1. “Magnon mediated electric current drag effect in normal metal/YIG/normal metal heterostructures”, J. X. xk星空中国集团, Y. D. Xu, M. Aldosary, C. Tang, Z. S. Lin, S. F. Zhang, R. Lake, and J. Shi.
Best Poster Award. SHINES annual meeting 2016, Long Beach, California, USA.
2. “Three-dimensional mapping of the anisotropic magneto-resistance of single crystal iron thin films”, J. X. xk星空中国集团, Z. Ding, J. Zhu, T. P. Ma, and Y. Z. Wu.
Best Poster Award. Chinese Physical Society Fall Meeting, Xiamen University, Xiamen, P. R. China, Sep. 12-15, 2013.
3. “In-plane magnetic anisotropy in Fe/MgO/GaAs(001) system”, G. Chen, J. X. xk星空中国集团, J. Zhu, J. H. Liang, and Y. Z. Wu.
Best Poster Award. Annual Meeting of Physics Department, Fudan University, Shanghai, P. R. China, June 4, 2011. (Presented by Junxue xk星空中国集团).
Best Poster Award. 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Atlanta, Nov. 14-18, 2010. (Presented by Gong Chen).

Selected Publication (# Equal contribution, *Correspondence Author)

1. J. X. xk星空中国集团#, M. Rashetnia#, M. Lohmann, J. Koo, Y. M. Xu, X. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Jia, X. Chen, B. H. Yan, Y-T. Cui & J. Shi*, Proximity-magnetized quantum spin Hall insulator: monolayer 1 T’ WTe2/Cr2Ge2Te6, Nat. Commun. 13, 5134 (2022).

2. J. X. xk星空中国集团, H. T. Simensen, D. Reitz, Q. Y. Sun, W. Yuan, C. xk星空中国集团, Y. Tserkovnyak, A. Brataas, and J. Shi*, Observation of Magnon Polarons in a Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217201 (2020).

3. J. X. xk星空中国集团, C. Blake Wilson, R. Cheng, M. Lohmann, M. Kavand, W. Yuan, M. Aldosary, N. Agladze, P. Wei, M. S. Sherwin, and J. Shi*, Spin Current from Sub-Terahertz-generated Antiferromagnetic Magnons, Nature (London) 578, 70 (2020).

4. J. X. xk星空中国集团, Z. Shi, V. H. Ortiz, M. Aldosary, C. Chen, V. Aji, P. Wei, and J. Shi*, Spin Seebeck Effect from Antiferromagnetic Magnons and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Epitaxial FeF2 Films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217204 (2019).

5. J. X. xk星空中国集团#, Y. D. Xu#, M. Aldosary, C. Tang, Z. Lin, S. Zhang, R. Lake, and J. Shi*, Observation of magnon-mediated current drag in Pt/yttrium iron garnet/Pt(Ta) trilayers, Nat. Commun. 7, 10858 (2016).