Oct, 2024
Jin visited University of Maryland/LPS.
Oct, 2024
Jin attend NRT annual meeting.
Oct, 2024
Jin visited University of Missouri.
Oct, 2024
Prince Anagbonu joined our group. Welcome!
Oct, 2024
Gokul’s paper “Insulator-to-Metal Transition and Isotropic Gigantic Magnetoresistance in Layered Magnetic Semiconductors” has been accepted by Advanced Materials. [more>>]
Sep, 2024
The paper “Synthesis, Crystal and Electronic Structures, and Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties of Bismuthides NdZn0.6Bi2 and (La0.5RE0.5)Zn0.6Bi2 (RE = Pr or Nd)” has been accepted by Inorganic Chemistry. This is a joint effort lead by WSU. [more>>].
Aug, 2024
μATOMS’ 2nd EFRC annual meeting at Albuquerque, NM.
Aug, 2024
Review paper “Understanding and Tuning Magnetism in van der Waals-type Metal Thiophosphates”, Nanoscale” has been published in Nanoscale [more>>].
Jul, 2024
Our collaborative work “Type-II superconductivity at 9K in Pb–Bi alloy” has been published in Solid State Communications [more>>].
July, 2024
Nabi successfully passed the defensed. Congratulations Dr. Nabi!
Jul, 2024
Our work “Magneto-Transport Study on Sn-Rich Sn1-xGex Thin Films Enabled by CdTe Buffer Layer” has been published in JVST B [more>>].
June, 2024
Visit NIMS.
Jun, 2024
Our collaborative work “Possible Coexistence of Magnetism and the Paramagnetic singularity in Lightly Fe doped WTe2” has been published in Physical Review B [more>>].
May, 2024
Welcome Kassidy joining our group for REU 2024 program.
May, 2023
Site visit at Montana State for NSF and panelist to review MonArk Quantum Foundry. Nabi and Santosh presented posters on magnetic materials and hBN.
May, 2024
Our work “Evolution of magnetism in the magnetic topological semimetal NdSbxTe2−x+δ” has been published in Physical Review B [more>>]. Congrats Santosh for the first paper.
May, 2024
Our work “Field-induced spin polarization in the lightly Cr-substituted layered antiferromagnet NiPS” has been published in Physical Review B [more>>]
Mar, 2024
Nabi, Gokul, Santosh, and Dinesh presented at APS March Meeting 2024
Feb, 2023
Jin delivered an invited talk at the 63rd Sanibel Symposium.
Feb, 2024
NRT website is alive! Welcome to apply NSF traineeship on 2D quantum materials research at UA [more>>]
Feb, 2024
Our work “Distinct Composition-Dependent Topological Hall Effect in Mn2-xZnxSb” has been accepted by Advanced Physics Research [more>>]
Jan, 2024
Our work “Understanding and Tuning Magnetism in Layered Ising-Type Antiferromagnet FePSe3 for Potential 2D Magnet” has been published in Advanced Electronic Materials [more>>]
Nov, 2023
Jin delivered a colloquium talk at New Mexico State University.
Oct, 2023
ONR fund our team to continue the development of night vision technology.
Oct, 2023
Jin give a talk at EXCON23 conference. Gald to meet experts in different fields and learn from each other!
Oct, 2023
Bulk single crystal growth for hBN now stably succeeds.
Oct, 2023
Manish Sharma joined our group as postdoc. Welcome!
Sep, 2023
Sagar Dahal joined our group. Welcome!
Sep, 2023
Jin attended DOE PI meeting.
Sep, 2023
Jin delivered a seminar talk at PennState University.
Sep, 2023
Our colalboative work “Role of dislocations on Sn diffusion during low temperature annealing of GeSn layers” has been published in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B [more>>]
Aug, 2023
Sudip’s paper “Single Crystal Growth and Characterization of Topological Semimetal ZrSnTe” has been published in Journal of Alloys and Compounds [more>>]
Aug, 2023
Our team led by Prof. Morgan Ware got the NSF Research Traineeship award [NSF press release>>][UA press release>>]
Aug, 2023
Nabi’s paper “Coupling Between Magnetic and Transport Properties in Magnetic Layered Material Mn2-xZnxSb” has been published in Acta Materialia [more>>]
Aug, 2023
Jin visited UAPB for research capability building.
May, 2023
Welcome Caleb Orr and Thomas Freeman joining our group for REU 2023 program.
May, 2023
Rabindra started his new journey as a postdoc at UAPB. Best wishes on your career!
May, 2023
Taksh represented Fayetteville High School to attended International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2023, and won special award again! Congrats!
May, 2023
Jin got the NSF CAREER Award, two years after receiving the DOE CAREER. Congratulations! [University press release>>]
May, 2023
Site visit at UA for NSF and panelist to review MonArk Quantum Foundry. Nabi delivered a great talk on layered magnetic materials.
Apr, 2023
Congratulations to Rabindra for passing the PhD defense!
Mar, 2023
Our collaborative paper “Visualizing the Effect of Oxidation on Magnetic Domain Behavior of Nanoscale Fe3GeTe2 for Applications in Spintronics” has been published in ACS Applied Nano Materials [more>>].
Mar, 2023
Rabindra, Nabi, and Gokul presented at APS March Meeting
Jan, 2023
Our collaborative paper “Discovery of a Magnetic Dirac System with a Large Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect” has been published in Nano Letters [more>>].
Jan, 2023
Jin presented at the DoD tri-service workshop on GeSn and SiGeSn.
Nov, 2022
Krishna’ paper “Crystal growth and Electronic Properties of LaSbSe” has been published in Crystals [more>>].
Nov, 2022
Navy funded us the 2nd phase of the joint research effort led by Fisher and joint by Greg and Jin to develop next generation night vision technology.
Oct, 2022
Jin gave a workshop on crystal growth in INBRE 2022 conference.
REU student Arantxa Pardue presented her REU work in the conference and ranked 2nd in the Best Oral Presentation (Physics category). Congrats!
Oct, 2022
Our collaborative work “Synthesis, Crystal and Electronic Structures, Nonlinear Optical Properties, and Magnetic Properties of Two Thiophosphates: KInP2S7 and KCrP2S7” has been published in Crystals [more>>].
Oct, 2021
Jin delivered a seminar talk at North Texas University.
Sep, 2022
Our collaborative work “Thermal Hysteresis and Ordering Behavior of Magnetic Skyrmion Lattices” has been published in Nano Letters [more>>].
Sep, 2022
Our collaborative work “Enhancement of 2D topological semimetal transport properties by current annealing” has been published in Applied Physics Letters [more>>].
Aug, 2022
We received a DOE EFRC grant to build the “μ-atoms” research center to study the synthesis and effects of atomic orders. This is a joint project involving ten institutions and led by UA. [DOE announcement>>] [University news release>>]
Aug, 2022
Rabindra’s paper “Emergence of Ferrimagnetism in Li-intercalated NiPS3” has been published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. This is an invited paper for a special issue. Undergraduate REU students Dawn and Kaylee also made important contributions. [more>>].
Aug, 2022
Our collaborative work “Unusually stronger quantum fluctuation with larger spins: Novel phenomena revealed by emergent magnetism in pressurized high-temperature superconductor FeSe” has been published in Physical Review Research [more>>].
June, 2022
Rabindra’s paper “Controlling magnetic exchange and anisotropy by nonmagnetic ligand substitution in layered MPX3 (M = Ni , Mn; X = S , Se)” published in Physical Review Research. Undergrad student Cory and high school student Sam also made important contributions [more>>]
May, 2022
Welcome Arantxa Pardue and Lucas Miller joining our group for REU 2022 program.
May, 2022
Our collaborative work “Visualizing discrete Fermi surfaces and possible nodal-line to Weyl state evolution in ZrSiTe” has been published in npj Quantum Materials [more>>].
May, 2022
Our collaborative work “Emitted secondary Electrons: In vacuo plasmon energy gain observation using a Three-Point probe method” has been published in Applied Surface Science [more>>].
May, 2022
Taksh represented Fayetteville High School to attended International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) 2022. He presented his work on magnetic materials and won special award. Congrats!
May, 2022
Cory graduated as a College Honors Student, Summa Cum Laude. Congrats!
May, 2022
Our collaborative work “Field-Dependent Magnetic Domain Behavior in van der Waals Fe3GeTe2” has been published in JOM [more>>].
Apr, 2022
Jin delivered a presentation at the 1st South Carolina Quantum Technology Forum.
Apr, 2022
Krishna passed PhD defense. Congrats Dr. Pandey!
Apr, 2022
Cory won DOD’s X-Force fellowship. Congrats! [more>>]
Apr, 2022
Krishna’s paper “Evolution of Electronic and Magnetic Properties in Topological Semimetal SmSbxTe2-x” is published in PRB. [more>>]
Mar, 2024
Our group attended APS March meeting. Rabindra, Krishna, Gokul, Nabi, and Cory delivered nice talks.
Dec, 2021
Cory got Honors College Research Grant. Congrats!
Dec, 2021
Jin delivered a seminar talk at IU Bloomington.
Nov, 2021
Nabi’s paper “Giant topological Hall effect in centrosymmetric tetragonal Mn2−xZnxSb” published. With this Jin got 100th papers. [more>>]
Oct, 2021
Our collaborative work “Quasi-layered Crystal Structure Coupled with Point Defects Leading to Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity in n-Type Cu2.83Bi10Se16” has been published in ACS Applied Energy Materials [more>>].
Oct, 2021
We visited the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (HBCU) to foster the existing partnership and initiate new strategic collaborations with the HBCU. Jin has been helping UAPB to enhance the quantum material research and establish crystal growth capability.
Sep, 2021
A joint navy funded research effort between Fisher Yu, Gregory Salamo and Jin Hu begins. The project is lead by Fisher to develop next generation night vision technology.
[University news release>>]
Sep, 2021
Our MSU-UA team received fund to build the MonArk Quantum Foundry – one of the two NSF Quantum Foundries. [Foundry website>>] [University news release>>]
Aug, 2021
Krishna’s paper “Magnetic Topological Semimetal Phase with Electronic Correlation Enhancement in SmSbTe” has been published in Advanced Quantum Technologies and highlighted as the back cover article [more>>].
Aug, 2021
Conference paper “Electronic Properties of Group-IV SnGe alloy topological quantum materials” has been published in proceeding: 2021 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series (SUM) [more>>].
Aug, 2021
Our collaborative work “Evidence for a Magnetic-Field induced Ideal Type-II Weyl State in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator Mn(Bi1-xSbx)2Te4” has been published in Physical Review X [more>>].
Jul, 2021
Jin gave a talk in IEEE Summer Topicals conference.
Jul, 2021
Our collaborative work “Spin-valley locking and bulk quantum Hall effect in a noncentrosymmetric Dirac semimetal BaMnSb2” has been published in Nature Communications [more>>].
June, 2021
Our collaborative work “Centrosymmetric or Noncentrosymmetric? Transition Metals Talking in K2TGe3S8(T = Co, Fe)” has been published in Inorganic Chemistry [more>>].
June, 2021
Rabindra’s paper “Highly sensitive spin-flop transition in antiferromagnetic van der Waals material MPS3 (M = Ni and Mn)” has been published in Physical Review Materials [more>>]. Part of the work was contributed by the previous undergraduate student Stephen as his undergraduate research project.
June, 2021
Welcome Taksh Patel, a new member from Fayetteville High School.
May, 2021
Jin got the DOE Early Career Award. Thank you DOE for continuous support!
[DOE announcement>>] [University press release>>]
May, 2021
Welcome Kaylee TenBarge and Dawn Ford joining our group for REU 2021 program.
May, 2021
Jin was selected as the Fulbright College 2021 Connor Faculty Fellow.
Apr, 2021
Our collaborative work “Inherited weak topological insulator signatures in the topological hourglass semimetal Nb3XTe6 (X = Si, Ge)” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
Apr, 2021
Cory was awarded Charles Richardson scholarship from PHYS department. Congrats!
Mar, 2021
Our collaborative work “Anisotropic Berry phase in the Dirac nodal-line semimetal ZrSiS: The effect of spin-orbit coupling” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
May, 2021
Welcome Remington, an undergraduate PHYS student at UA.
Mar, 2021
Our collaborative work “Quasi-two-dimensional relativistic fermions probed by de Haas–van Alphen quantum oscillations in LuSn2” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
Mar, 2021
A few talks from us were given in APS March Meeting.
Mar, 2021
Jin gave a seminar at the University of Wyoming.
Jan, 2021
Our collaborative work “Low-energy electron inelastic mean free path and elastic mean free path of graphene” has been published in Applied Physics Letters. [more>>]
Jan, 2021
Welcome Cory, an undergraduate PHYS student at UA.
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Papers
Team members
Nov, 2020
“Modulation Doping via a Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystalline Acceptor” has been published in Nano letters. [more>>]
Aug, 2020
“Neel-type skyrmion in WTe2/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals heterostructure” has been published in Nature Communications. [more>>]
July, 2020
“Distinct magneto-Raman signatures of spin-flip phase transitions in CrI3” has been published in Nature Communications. [more>>]
June, 2020
“Electronic and magnetic properties of the topological semimetal candidate NdSbTe” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
June, 2020
“Gate-Defined Accumulation-Mode Quantum Dots in Monolayer and Bilayer WSe2” has been published in Physical Review Applied. [more>>]
Apr, 2020
“Measurement of the Low-Energy Electron Inelastic Mean Free Path in Monolayer Graphene” has been published in Physical Review Applied. [more>>]
Apr, 2020
“Electronic correlations in nodal-line semimetals” has been published in Nature Physics. [more>>]
Feb, 2020
“Indications for Lifshitz transitions in the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiTe induced by interlayer interaction” has been published in Physical Review B as Rapid Communications. [more>>]
Jan, 2020
“Evidence from transport measurements for YRh6Ge4 being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
Jan, 2020
“Directional massless Dirac fermions in layered van der Waals material with one-dimensional long-range order” has been published in Nature Materials. [more>>]
Nov, 2019
“Experimental evidence of crystal symmetry protection for the topological nodal line semimetal state in ZrSiS” has been published in Physical Review B [more>>].
Sep, 2019
“Growth and Strain Engineering of Trigonal Te for Topological Quantum Phases in Non-Symmorphic Chiral Crystals” has been published in Crystals. [more>>]
Sep, 2019
“Observation of Plasmon Energy Gain for Emitted Secondary Electron in Vacuo” has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. [more>>]
Aug, 2019
“De Haas–van Alphen study on three-dimensional topological semimetal pyrite PtBi2” has been published in Science Bulletin. [more>>]
Aug, 2019
“Spin Scattering and Noncollinear Spin Structure-Induced Intrinsic Anomalous Hall effect in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4” has been published in Physical Review Research as Rapid Communication. [more>>]
Aug, 2019
“Plaquette instability competing with bicollinear ground state in detwinned FeTe” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
Jul, 2019
Invited review article “Transport of Topological Semimetals” has been published in Annual Review of Materials Research. [more>>]
Jun, 2019
“Infrared spectroscopy study of the nodal-line semimetal candidate ZrSiTe under pressure: Hints for pressure-induced phase transitions” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
May, 2019
“Chemical pressure effect on the optical conductivity of the nodal-line semimetals ZrSiY (Y = S, Se,Te) and ZrGeY (Y = S,Te)” has been published in Physical Review B. [more>>]
May, 2019
Our collaborative work “Surface Instability and Chemical Reactivity of ZrSiS and ZrSiSe Nodal‐Line Semimetals” has been published in Advanced Functional Materials. [more>>]
Mar, 2019
“Raman detection of hidden phonons assisted by atomic point defects in a two-dimensional semimetal” has been published in npj 2D Materials and Applications. [more>>]
Jan, 2019
“Exfoliation and Analysis of Large-area, Air-Sensitive Two-Dimensional Materials” has been published in Journal of Visualized Experiments. [more>>]
Dec, 2018
“A Triplet Resonance in Superconducting Fe1.03Se0.4Te0.6” has been published in Chinese Physics Letters. [more>>]
Nov, 2018
Our collaborative work “Anisotropic ultraviolet-plasmon dispersion in black phosphorus” has been published in Nanoscale. [more>>]
Aug, 2018
“Searching for topological Fermi arcs via quasiparticle interference on a type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe2” has been published in npj Quantum Materials. [more>>]
Jul, 2018
“Multiple topologically nontrivial bands in noncentrosymmetric YSn2” has been published in PRB. [more>>]
Jun, 2018
“Magnetoresistance and Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations in layered Nb3SiTe6 thin flakes” published in PRB. [more>>]
Jun, 2018
“Thickness evolution of transport properties in exfoliated Fe1+yTe nanoflakes” published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. [more>>]
Jun, 2018
“Raman Spectroscopy, Photocatalytic Degradation, and Stabilization of Atomically Thin Chromium Tri-iodide” published in Nano Letters. [more>>]
Apr, 2018
“Quantum oscillation evidence for a topological semimetal phase in ZrSnTe” published in PRB. [more>>]
Dec, 2020
Gokul passed his candidacy exam. Congrats PhD candidate Gokul.
Dec, 2020
Nabi passed his candidacy exam. Congrats PhD candidate Nabi.
Aug, 2020
Welcome Sudip joining our group. He is an MSEN graduate student at UA.
June, 2020
We received Chancellor’s Innovation and Collaboration Fund from UA.
[University news release >>]
Mar, 2020
Welcome Sam Bishop joining our group. He is a high school student from Haas Hall Academy.
Feb, 2020
Congratulations to Krishan for passing the oral candidacy exam.
Dec, 2019
Congratulations to Rabindra for passing his candidacy exam.
Oct, 2019
Anna and Brycelynn presented their REU proejcts in the multi-State INBRE conference. Anna earned first place in the Best Oral Presentation (Physics category). Congrats!
Sep, 2019
Welcome Aaron Wegner joining our group as a postdoc!
Jul, 2019
We received grant from Arkansas Biosciences Institute for Terahertz development.
May, 2019
Welcome Brycelynn Bailey and Anna Corbitt joining our group for REU 2019 program.
May, 2019
Welcome Gokul Acharya joining our group. He is pursuing Ph.D degree in physics program.
May, 2019
Stephen Storment graduated as a Departmental Honors Student, Summa Cum Laude (highest distinction). He will pursue a Ph.D. in physics at UCLA. Congratulations!
Mar, 2019
Jin gave a talk in APS March Meeting.
Jan, 2019
Welcome Md Nabi joining our group. He is pursuing Ph.D degree in physics program.
Oct, 2018
We are excited to host Dr. Tim Fitzsimmons’ DOE EPSCoR fund visit.
Oct, 2018
We are the Honors College Faculty Equipment and Technology Grant Winner! We deeply appreciate the Honors College for the generous support.
Sep, 201
We received a DOE grant with generous march fund from UA to study topological semimetals. [University news release>>]
May, 2019
Jin gave a seminar on materials physics at the Missouri State University.
Mar, 2018
Jin give a talk in APS March Meeting.
Jan, 2018
Welcome Krishna Pandey joining our group. He is pursuing Ph.D degree in microEP program.
Oct, 2017
Welcome Rabindra Basnet joining our group. He is pursuing Ph.D degree in Phys.
Oct, 2017
Welcome Adam Stivers joining our group. He is an Engineering undergraduate student.
Aug, 2017
Welcome Stephen Storment joining our group. He is a PHYS undergraduate student.
Oct, 2017
Jin started his group at U of A!