Personal pages of Professor Yongbing Xu

The University of York

 

 

 

 

Educations AND posts:

 

Qualifications: BSc (Nanjing 1987), MSc (Nanjing 1990), PhD (Nanjing 1992), and PhD (Leeds 1996)

 

·      1993- 1994:             Lecturer and Research coordinator, Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, China

·      1997- 2000:              Postdoc Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

·      2000,                         Academic staff and EPSRC Advanced fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge

·      2001 - 2005:             Lecturer, Department of Electronics, the University of York

·      2005 -2007:              Anniversary Reader in Nanotechnology, Department of Electronics, the University of York

 

·      2008 -                        Professor, Chair in Nanotechnology, Head of the Spintronics Laboratory,

                                       Department of Electronics, the University of York

 

 

ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT

 

·               Leader, MEng/BEng Programme of Electronics Engineering with Nanotechnology. 

·               Head of the Spintronics and Nanotechnology Laboratory

·        Member of the university ORS selection committee

·        Member of the University WUN steering committee

·        Member of the Asia Pacific Graduation Committee

 

 

Editorial Board

 

·        2005 -,         Spintronics Section Editor of the journal “Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science” by  Elsevier

·        2005,            Area Editor of the Penguin Dictionary of Electronics

·        2006-           Member of the editorial board, “Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science” by Elsevier

·        2007-           Member of the editorial board, “The Open Condensed Matter Physics Journal” by Bentham Science Publishers

·        2008-           Series editor of “Electronic Materials and Devices” by Taylor and Francis/CRC Press,

·        2008-           Editor-in-Chief of “Handbook of Spintronics” a Major Reference Work by Springer.

 

 

Conference committees:

 

·  2003, Co-organiser of the 5th Nanomagnetism network meeting, July 1, 2003, Glasgow.

·  2004, The Co-Chair of the 7th Oxford-Kobe Seminar on Spintronic Materials and technology, Kobe, Japan, Sept, 2004

·  2007, Symposium Chair, CMMP Spintronics symposium, 2007, Leicester

·  2007, Conference chair of the 1st WUN International conference on spintronic materials and technology, York, UK, August 2007.

·  2008, Conference chair of the 2nd WUN International conference on spintronic materials and technology, Nanjing-Zhejinag, China, July, 2008.

·  2008,  Organiser,  “Spintronics” symposium, CMMP08, March 2008, London

·  2008,   Symposium Chair, “Spintronics Roadmap” Symposium, Intermag08, Madrid, May 2008

·  2008,   Co-organiser, IoP Magnetism Post graduate workshop on “Materials Growth and lithography”, November 2008, London

 

 

International and national committees:

 

·      2004 -,             Coordinator and Chair of Steering committee of WUN spintronics.

·      2002-2004,      Member of the international advisory committee of the EU NanoCenter in Warsaw, Poland

·      2005,               Member of the delegate of the EPSRC Spintronics Commission to China

·      2006- ,             Committee member of the IoP Magnetics Group

·      2006,               Member of the EPSRC spintronics consortium visiting panel

·      2007,               Member of Congress Program Committee, International Association of Engineers

·      2008,               NSF Material Worldwide Network Panel member, February, 2008, Washington, USA.

 

 

 AWARDS and honorable appointments

 

·      2001 - 2005:  EPSRC Advanced Fellow, EPSRC, UK

·      2003 - 2005: Visiting professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

·      2007 -            Concurrent professor, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China,

 

 

 Edited book

 

 

Yongbing Xu and Sarah Thompson, “Spintronic Materials and Technology”, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, ISBN: 0849392993, Publication Date: 10/26/2006

 

 

Selected papers in journals:

 

 

[1]          Y. B. Xu, E. T. M. Kernohan, M. Tselepi, J. A. C. Bland, and S. N. Holmes, “Single crystal Fe films grown on InAs(100) by molecular beam epitaxy”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 73, 399-401 (1998).

[2]          Y. B. Xu, E. T. M. Kernohan, D. J. Freeland,  A. Ercole, M. Tselepi and J. A. C. Bland, “Evolution of the ferromagnetic phase of ultrathin Fe films grown on GaAs(100)-4x6”, Phys. Rev. B58, 890-896 (1998).

[3]          Y. B. Xu, C. A. F. Vaz, A. Hirohata, C. C. Yao, J. A. C. Bland, E. Cambril, F. Rousseaux and H. Launois,   “Magneto-resistance of a domain wall at a submicron junction”, Phys. Rev. B61, R14901-14904 (2000).

[4]          Y. B. Xu, D. J. Freeland, M. Tselepi and J. A. C. Bland, “Uniaxial lattice relaxation and uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Fe/InAs(100)-4x2”  Phys. Rev. B, B62, 1167-1170 (2000).

[5]          Y. B. Xu, A. Hirohata, H. T. Leung, T. Tselepi, J. A. C. Bland, E. Cambril, F. Rousseaux and H. Launois, “Micromagnetism in mesoscopic epitaxial Fe dot arrays”, J. Appl. Phys. 87, 7019-7021 (2000).

[6]          Y. B. Xu, M. Tselepi, E. Dudzik, C.M. Guertler, CAF Vaz, G. Wastlbauer, DJ Freeland, JAC Bland, G. van der Laan, “Spin and orbital magnetic moments of ultrathin Fe films on GaAs(100) studied by X-ray magnetic circular dichronism”, J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 226: 1643 (2001).

[7]          Y.B. Xu, M. Tselepi, J. Wu, S. Wang, J. A. C. Bland, Y. Huttel, and G. van der Laan, “Interface magnetic properties of epitaxial Fe/InAs heterostructures”, IEEE Trans. on Magn. Vol. 38, No. 5, 2652-2654 (2002).

[8]          S. Lepadatu and Y. B. Xu “Direct observation of domain wall scattering in patterned Ni80 Fe20 and Ni nanowires by current-voltage measurements”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 92 (12), 127201-127204 (2004).

[9]          J. S. Claydon, Y.B. Xu, M. Tselepi, J.A.C. Bland, G. van der Laan, “Direct observation of a bulklike spin moment at the Fe/GaAs(100)-4x6 interface”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 93 (3) JUL 16, 037206-037209, 2004.

[10]      Y. X. Lu, J. S. Claydon, Y. B. Xu, D. M.  Schofield, S. M. Thompson, G. van der Laan, “Epitaxial growth and magnetic properties of half-metallic Fe3O4 on GaAs(100)” Phys. Rev. B, 70 (23), 233304-233307 DEC 2004

[11]      Ahmad E, Valavanis A, Claydon JS, Lu YX, Xu YB “Vertical spinal electronic device with large room temperature magnetoresistance”, IEEE Trans on Magn.41 (10): 2592-2594 OCT 2005

[12]      Y.B. Xu, E. Ahmad, J. S. Claydon, Y.X. Lu, S. S. A. Hassan, I. G. Will and B. Cantor, “HYBRID MAGNETIC/SEMICONDUCTOR SPINTRONIC MATERIALS AND DEVICES”, Journal            of Magnetism and magnetic Materials, 304 (1): 69-74 SEP 1 2006. 

[13]      Yongbing Xu, Jill Claydon, Yongxiong Lu and Ehsan Ahmad, “Mesoscopic magnetic/semiconductor heterostructures”, IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology, 5 (5): 455-458 SEP 2006.

[14]      S. Lepadatu, J. Wu, and Y. B. Xu, “Current-induced magnetization switching in asymmetric necked wires”

          Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 062512-062514 (2007)

[15]      Hassan SSA, Xu YB, Ahmad E, Lu YX,  “Transport and magneto-transport characteristics of Fe3O4/GaAs hybrid structure” , IEEE Trans on Magn.43 (6): 2875-2877 JUN 2007 

 

 

Selected invited conference PRESENTATIONS and seminars:

 

 

[1]                      “Micromagnetism and magneto-transport in mesoscopic magnetic structures”, The Conference on Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP), Leicester, Dec., 1999.

[2]                     “Spin-engineering in magnetic nanostructures: 2D films, 1D wires, and 0D dots”, 8th Annual International Conference on Composites Engineering, Tenerife, Spain, Aug. 5-11, 2001.

[3]                     “Micro-nano-scale magnetic/III-V semiconductor heterostructures”, 5th Joint UK Magnetics Workshop, Glasgow, July 2-4, 2003.

[4]                     “Magnetic and electrical properties of Fe on GaAs”, 6th Oxford-Kobe Seminar on Magnetic Materials, Kobe, Japan, Sept. 16-19, 2003.

[5]                     “Self-assembled and patterned Fe dots arrays on GaAs”, International Conference on Fine Particle Magnetism, London, 20-22 September, 2004.

[6]                      “Current induced magnetic switching in patterned nanowires”, 7th Oxford-Kobe Seminar on Spintronic Materials and Devices, Kobe, Japan, Sept. 2-3, 2004.

[7]                      “Spintronics: new materials and novel devices”, UK Synchrotron Radiation User Meting, September, 2004, Oxford.

[8]                     “Growth and characterization of hybrid spintronic structures”, The MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, November 28 – December 2, 2005.

[9]                      “Spin dependent transport in patterned magnetic nanowires”, The Second Conference on Nanoscale Devices and System Integrations, Houston, Texas, April 4-6, 2005.

[10]                 "Hybrid magnetic/semiconductor spintronic materials and devices”, International Symposium on Advanced Magnetic Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, August 24-27, 2005

[11]                 “Spintronics: Magnetic/Semiconductor Hybrid Materials and Devices”, Seagate Workshop on Nanomagnetism, Northern Ireland, 2005. 

[12]                  “Hybrid spintronics” The Conference of China-UK consortium for Spintronics, Beijing, October, 2005

[13]                 “WUN fostered global communities: Spintronics”, WUN Annual Meeting - Strategies for future success, Beijing, May 2007

[14]                 “Progress and Challenge in hybrid spintronic materials and devices”, Symposium of Progress and Challenge in Spintronics, WUN-SPIN07, August 2007, York (leading speaker)

[15]                 “Progress and challenge in spintronic materials and devices”, The XXVII Conference on Solid State Physics and Materials Science, Ain Soukhna, Egypt, March, 2008 (invited),

[16]                 “Half-metallic magnetic materials and hybrid spintronic Structures”, Intermag08, May 2008, Madrid.  

[17]                 “Hybrid Spintronic materials”, European MRS, Warsaw, May 2009.   

 

 

TEACHING

 

 

·        “Electronics Laboratory” to foundation year students

·        The first year “Introduction to Nanotechnology”

·        The Second year “Solid State Devices”

·        The third year “Nanoelectronics and quantum mechanics”

·        The fourth year “Advanced information storage”.

 

 

Communication with public

 

  • 2006, “Carbon-based spintronics may boost performance”, interviewed by Tom Simonite of New Scientist, October 13, 2006

      http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn10301

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6935638.stm