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Overview

Yu-Jun Zhao is affiliated with the South China University of Technology in China. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics including 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene Research and Applications, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Machine Learning in Materials Science, Perovskite Materials and Applications, MXene and MAX Phase Materials, and Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides.

Yu-Jun Zhao has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review B, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yu-Jun Zhao include Xiao-Bao Yang, Changchun He, Wenqiang Xie, Shao-Gang Xu, and Zhongjia Chen.

Key recent publications include:

  • Gate-Tuned Interlayer Coupling in van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 Nanoflakes, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Symmetry-Protected Topological Triangular Weyl Complex, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Three-Dimensional Dirac Phonons with Inversion Symmetry, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Gate-Controlled Magnetic Phase Transition in a van der Waals Magnet Fe5GeTe2, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Ideal type-III nodal-ring phonons, 2020, Physical Review B

Best Publications

  • n -type doping of CuIn Se 2 and CuGa Se 2

    Clas Persson;Yu-Jun Zhao;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • High-Performance Color-Tunable Perovskite Light Emitting Devices through Structural Modulation from Bulk to Layered Film

    Ziming Chen;Chongyang Zhang;Xiao-Fang Jiang;Meiyue Liu

  • Effects of organic cations on the defect physics of tin halide perovskites

    Tingting Shi;Hai-Shan Zhang;Weiwei Meng;Qiang Teng

  • Structural, electronic and magnetic properties of partially inverse spinel CoFe 2 O 4 : a first-principles study

    Y H Hou;Y J Zhao;Z W Liu;H Y Yu

  • Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida-like ferromagnetism in MnxGe1-x.

    Yu Jun Zhao;Tatsuya Shishidou;Arthur J Freeman

  • First-principles analysis of MoS2/Ti2C and MoS2/Ti2CY2 (Y = F and OH) all-2D semiconductor/metal contacts

    Li-Yong Gan;Yu-Jun Zhao;Dan Huang;Udo Schwingenschlögl

  • Symbiotic CeH2.73/CeO2 catalyst: A novel hydrogen pump

    Huai-Jun Lin;Huai-Jun Lin;Jia-Jun Tang;Qian Yu;Qian Yu;Hui Wang

  • Room-temperature ferromagnetism in (Zn1-xmnx)GeP2 semiconductors

    Sunglae Cho;Sungyoul Choi;Gi Beom Cha;Soon Cheol Hong

  • Electronic structure of conducting polymers: Limitations of oligomer extrapolation approximations and effects of heteroatoms

    G. R. Hutchison;Yu Jun Zhao;B. Delley;A. J. Freeman

  • Antisymmetric magnetoresistance in van der Waals Fe3GeTe2/graphite/Fe3GeTe2 trilayer heterostructures

    Sultan Albarakati;Cheng Tan;Zhong-Jia Chen;James G. Partridge

  • Rational Design Principles of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Superlatticelike Magnetic Topological Insulators.

    Hongyi Sun;Bowen Xia;Zhongjia Chen;Zhongjia Chen;Yingjie Zhang

  • The effect of oxygen vacancies on the structure and electrochemistry of LiTi2(PO4)3 for lithium-ion batteries: A combined experimental and theoretical study

    Jia-Yan Luo;Li-Juan Chen;Yu-Jun Zhao;Ping He

  • Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of α- and β-MnAs: LDA and GGA investigations

    Yu Jun Zhao;W. T. Geng;Arthur J Freeman;B. Delley

  • Symmetry-Protected Ideal Type-II Weyl Phonons in CdTe.

    B. W. Xia;B. W. Xia;R. Wang;R. Wang;Z. J. Chen;Z. J. Chen;Y. J. Zhao

  • Gate-Tuned Interlayer Coupling in van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe 3 GeTe 2 Nanoflakes

    Guolin Zheng;Wen-Qiang Xie;Sultan Albarakati;Meri Algarni

  • Why can CuInSe2 be readily equilibrium-doped n-type but the wider-gap CuGaSe2 cannot?

    Yu-Jun Zhao;Clas Persson;Stephan Lany;Alex Zunger

  • Sn-C and Se-C Co-Bonding SnSe/Few-Layered Graphene Micro-Nano Structure: Route to a Densely Compacted and Durable Anode for Lithium/Sodium-Ion Batteries.

    Deliang Cheng;Lichun Yang;Renzong Hu;Jiangwen Liu

  • The nucleation and growth of borophene on the Ag (111) surface

    Shaogang Xu;Shaogang Xu;Yujun Zhao;Jihai Liao;Xiaobao Yang

  • Express penetration of hydrogen on Mg(10͞13) along the close-packed-planes.

    Liuzhang Ouyang;Jiajun Tang;Yujun Zhao;Hui Wang

  • Gate-Controlled Magnetic Phase Transition in a van der Waals Magnet Fe5GeTe2.

    Cheng Tan;Wen Qiang Xie;Guolin Zheng;Nuriyah Aloufi

  • Catalytic Reactivity of CuNi Alloys toward H2O and CO Dissociation for an Efficient Water–Gas Shift: A DFT Study

    Li-Yong Gan;Ren-Yu Tian;Xiao-Bao Yang;Hong-Duo Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur J Freeman
Arthur J Freeman Northwestern University
Hu Xu
Hu Xu Southern University of Science and Technology
Alex Zunger
Alex Zunger University of Colorado Boulder
Clas Persson
Clas Persson University of Oslo
Min Zhu
Min Zhu South China University of Technology
Jianrong Qiu
Jianrong Qiu Zhejiang University
Liuzhang Ouyang
Liuzhang Ouyang South China University of Technology
Stephan Lany
Stephan Lany National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bin Shan
Bin Shan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Hui Wang
Hui Wang South China University of Technology

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