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Functional Oxide Thin Films Lab
Chen research group is located in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. We are a materials physical lab with interest in complex functional oxide thin films and nanostructures, particularly, ferroelectric and multiferroic thin films and heterostructure.
OUR LAB
OUR RESEARCH INTEREST
Our research interest focuses on
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Rational Control of Ferroelectric Materials
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Electric Field Control of Magnetism using Multiferroic Materials
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Emergent Phenomena in Oxide Heterostructures
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Self-Assembled Oxide Nanostructures via Spontaneous Phase-Separation.
Electric Field Control of Magnetism Using Multiferroic Films
Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Heterostructures
Self-Assembled Nanostructures Via Spontaneous Phase-Separation
LATEST ARTICLES
2019
Shanquan Chen, Haiping Zhou, Xing Ye, Zuhuang Chen, Jinzhu Zhao, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Lei Zhang, Eduardo Lupi, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Dun Jin, Haoliang Huang, Yalin Lu, Xiaowen Li, Meng Wu, Shanming Ke, Hu Xu, Xierong Zeng, Chuanwei Huang, L. W. Martin and Lang Chen, Advanced Functional Materials, Accepted
Michael Saccone, Kevin Hofhuis, Yen-Lin Huang, Scott Dhuey, Zuhuang Chen, Andreas Scholl, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Sebastiaan van Dijken, and Alan Farhan, The dipolar Cairo lattice: geometrical frustration and short-range correlations, Phys. Rev. Materials, Accepted
X. Y. Lu*, Z. H. Chen*, Y. Cao, Y.-L. Tang, R. Xu, S. Saremi, Z. Zhang, L. You, S. Das, Y. Q. Dong, H. B. Zhang, L. M. Zheng, H. P. Wu, W. M. Lü, G. Q. Xie, X. J. Liu, J. Y. Li, L. Chen, L.-Q. Chen, W. W. Cao, L. W. Martin*, Mechanical-Force-Induced, Non-Local, and Collective Ferroelastic Switching in Epitaxial PbTiO3 Thin Films, Nat. Commun., 10, 3951 (2019)
R. Xu, S. Liu, S. Saremi, R. Gao, J. J. Wang, Z. J. Hong, H. Lu, A. Ghosh, S. Pandya, E.Bonturim, Z. H. Chen, L. Q. Chen, A. M. Rappe, and L. W. Martin, Kinetic Control of Tunable Multi-State Switching in Ferroelectric Thin Films, Nat. Commun. 10, 1282 (2019)
A. Farhan, M. Saccone, C. F. Petersen, S. Dhuey, R. V. Chopdekar, Y.-L. Huang, N. Kent, Z. H. Chen, M. J. Alava, T. Lippert, A. Scholl, and S. van Dijken, Emergent magnetic monopole dynamics in macroscopically degenerate artificial spin ice, Sci. Adv. 5: eaav6380 (2019)
H. Yan, Z. X. Feng, S.-L. Shang, X. N. Wang, Z. X. Hu, J. H. Wang, Z. W. Zhu, H. Wang, Z. H. Chen, H. Hua, W. K. Lu, J. M. Wang, P. X. Qin, H. X. Guo, X. R. Zhou, Z. Leng, Z.-K. Liu, C. B. Jiang, M. Coey, Z. Q. Liu, A Piezoelectric, Strain-Controlled Antiferromagnetic Memory Insensitive to Magnetic Fields, Nat. Nanotechno. 14, 131 (2019)
Y. Ahn, A. Pateras, S. D. Marks, H. Xu, T. Zhou, Z. L. Luo, Z. H. Chen, L. Chen, X. Y. Zhang, A. D. DiChiara, H. D. Wen, and P. G. Evans, Nanosecond optically induced phase transformation in compressively strained BiFeO3 on LaAlO3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045703 (2019)
Y. L. Tang, Y. L. Zhu, X. L. Ma, Z. J. Hong, Y. J. Wang, W. Y. Wang, Y. B. Xu, Y. Liu, B. Wu, L. Chen, C. W. Huang, L. Q. Chen, Z. H. Chen, H. J. Wu, and S. J. Pennycook, A coherently strained monoclinic [111] PbTiO3 film exhibiting zero Poisson’s ratio state, Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1901687 (2019)
M. Saccone, A. Scholl, S. Velten, S. Dhuey, K. Hofhuis, C. Wuth, Y.-L. Huang, Z. H. Chen, R. V. Chopdekar, and A. Farhan, Towards artificial Ising spin glasses: Thermal ordering in randomized arrays of Ising-type nanomagnets, Phys. Rev. B 99, 224403 (2019).
D. H. Meng, Y. S. Xiao, H. C. He, Y. L. Liao, H. W. Zhang, J. Y. Zhai, Z. H. Chen, L. W. Martin, F. M. Bai, Enhanced spontaneous polarization in double perovskite Bi2FeCrO6 films, J. Am. Ceram Soc.102, 5234 (2019)
H. Xu, Z. H. Chen, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Q. Dong, B. Hong, J. T. Zhao, L. Chen, S. Das, C. Gao, C. G. Zeng, H. Wen, Z. L. Luo, Shear Strain-induced Anisotropic Domain Evolution in Mixed-Phase BiFeO3 Epitaxial Films, AIP Adv. 9, 025114 (2019)
Y. Z. Guo, Y. J. Qi, J. Z. Wang, T. J. Zhang and Z. H. Chen, Thickness-dependent 109° domain evolution in multiferroic BiFeO3 thin films, Appl. Phys. Express 12, 035501 (2019)
J. Liu, M. M. Hu, J. Q. Wang, P. P. Wang, Y. P. Feng, H. Wang, F. Cao, Z. H. Chen, Y. Huang, A Flexible Aqueous Asymmetric Lithium‐Ion Supercapacitor with High Voltage and Superior Safety, Ene. Technol. 7, 1900293 (2019)
2018
S. Thota, K. Roychowdhury, V. Thakare, S. C. Ganguli, Z. H. Chen*, E. J. Guo,* and S. Das*, Structural and Magnetic Properties of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/LaCoO3 Heterostructures, Appl. Phys. Lett.,113, 122405.(*共同通讯)
Zuhuang Chen†,*, Zhanghui Chen†, Chang-Yang Kuo, Yunlong Tang, Liv R. Dedon, Qian Li, Lei Zhang, Christoph Klewe, Yen-Lin Huang, Bhagwati Prasad, Alan Farhan, Mengmeng Yang, James D. Clarkson, Sujit Das, Sasikanth Manipatruni, A. Tanaka, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Andreas Scholl, Ying-Hao Chu, Z. Q. Qiu, Zhiwei Hu, Liu-Hao Tjeng, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Lin-Wang Wang, and Lane W. Martin,* Complex Strain Evolution of Polar and Magnetic Order in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films, Nature Communications, 9, 3764.
L. R. Dedon†, Z. H. Chen†, R. Gao, Y. Qi, E. Arenholz, L. W. Martin, Strain-driven Phase Competition near the Antipolar-Nonpolar Phase Boundary in Bi0.7La0.3FeO3 Thin Films, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10, 14914-14921.(共同一作)
R. J. Xu, R. Gao, S. E. Reyes-Lillo, S. Saremi, Y. Q. Dong, H. L. Lu, Z. H. Chen, X. Y. Lu, Y. J. Qi, S.-L. Hsu, A. R. Damodaran, J. B. Neaton, and L. W. Martin, Reducing Coercive-Field Scaling in Ferroelectric Thin Films via Orientation Control, ACS Nano 12, 5, 4736-4743.
L. M. Zheng, X. Renshaw Wang, W. M. Lü, C. J. Li, T. R. Paudel, Z. Q. Liu, Z. Huang, S. W. Zeng, Kun Han, Z. H. Chen, X. P. Qiu, Shize Yang, Matthew F. Chisholm, L. W. Martin, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. M. D. Coey, and W. W. Cao, Ambipolar Ferromagnetism by Electrostatic Doping of a Manganite, Nat. Commun. 9, 1897.
S. Manipatruni, D. E Nikonov, C. C. Lin, P. Bhagwati, Y. L Huang, A. R. Damodaran, Z. H. Chen, R. Ramesh, I. A. Young, Voltage Control of Uni-directional Anisotropy in Ferromagnet-Multiferroic System, Sci. Adv., 4: eaat4229.
C. F. Petersen, A. Farhan, S. D. Dhuey, Z. H. Chen, M. J. Alava, A. Scholl, S. V. Dijken, Competing ground state configurations in a dipolar square-kite tessellation, Appl. Phys. Lett. 112, 092403.