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Zhang, Xiuwen

Asst Research Professor

Positions

Asst Research Professor, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI)

Research Areas

Research

research overview

Dr. Zhang's research is focusing on solar-energy harvesting materials and quantum materials. He searches for the missing materials, collaborates with experimentalists for realizing them, and performs focusing theoretical studies on the properties of functional materials.

Publications

selected publications

journal article
- Uncovering spin-orbit coupling-independent hidden spin polarization of energy bands in antiferromagnets. Nature Communications. 2023
- Ferri-chiral compounds with potentially switchable Dresselhaus spin splitting. Physical Review B. 2020
- Topological Insulators versus Topological Dirac Semimetals in Honeycomb Compounds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 13687-13694. 2018
- The Enabling Electronic Motif for Topological Insulation in ABO₃ Perovskites. Advanced Functional Materials. 2017
- Predicted electronic markers for polytypes of LaOBiS2 examined via angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Physical Review B. 2017
- Minimal ingredients for orbital-texture switches at Dirac points in strong spin-orbit coupled materials. npj Quantum Materials. 2016
- Orbital mapping of energy bands and the truncated spin polarization in three-dimensional Rashba semiconductors. Physical Review B. 2016
- Polytypism in LaOBiS2-type compounds based on different three-dimensional stacking sequences of two-dimensional BiS2 layers. Physical Review B. 2016
- Transforming Common III-V and II-VI Semiconductor Compounds into Topological Heterostructures: The Case of CdTe/InSb Superlattices. Advanced Functional Materials. 3259-3267. 2016
- Intrinsic Transparent Conductors without Doping. Physical Review Letters. 2015
- Search and design of nonmagnetic centrosymmetric layered crystals with large local spin polarization. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2015
- Design and discovery of a novel half-Heusler transparent hole conductor made of all-metallic heavy elements. Nature Communications. 2015
- Prediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of previously unknown 18-electron ABX compounds. Nature Chemistry. 308-316. 2015
- Intrinsic Circular Polarization in Centrosymmetric Stacks of Transition- Metal Dichalcogenide Compounds. Physical Review Letters. 2015
- Switching a Normal Insulator into a Topological Insulator via Electric Field with Application to Phosphorene. Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology. 1222-1228. 2015
- Structurally unstable A(III)BiO(3) perovskites are predicted to be topological insulators but their stable structural forms are trivial band insulators. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2014
- Experimental Synthesis and Properties of Metastable CuNbN₂ and Theoretical Extension to Other Ternary Copper Nitrides. Chemistry of Materials. 4970-4977. 2014
- Hidden spin polarization in inversion-symmetric bulk crystals. Nature Physics. 387-393. 2014
- Mapping the orbital wavefunction of the surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators. Nature Physics. 499-504. 2013
- Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Realization of New Stable Inorganic Materials Using the Inverse Design Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 10048-10054. 2013
- Crystal structures and metastability of carbon-boron compounds C₃B and C₅B. Physical Review B. 2013
- Strong optical absorption in CuTaN2 nitride delafossite. Energy and Environmental Science. 2994-2994. 2013
- Large insulating gap in topological insulators induced by negative spin-orbit splitting. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2012
- Sorting Stable versus Unstable Hypothetical Compounds: The Case of Multi-Functional ABX Half-Heusler Filled Tetrahedral Structures. Advanced Functional Materials. 1425-1435. 2012
- Correcting density functional theory for accurate predictions of compound enthalpies of formation: Fitted elemental-phase reference energies. Physical Review B. 2012
- Diagrammatic Separation of Different Crystal Structures of A₂BX₄ Compounds Without Energy Minimization: A Pseudopotential Orbital Radii Approach. Advanced Functional Materials. 1944-1952. 2010
- Long-range order instead of phase separation in large lattice-mismatch isovalent AX-BX systems. Physical Review B. 2009
- Possible pitfalls in theoretical determination of ground-state crystal structures: The case of platinum nitride. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. 2009

Background

education and training

Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) 2008
B.E., Tsinghua Univ (China) 2003

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ORCID iD

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-2885