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York Laboratory
for Spintronics and Nanodevices
York Laboratory for Spintronics and Nanodevices, directed by Professor Yongbing Xu, consists of three laboratories including
MBE growth Lab, magneto-transport measurement lab, and
magneto-optical characterisation lab.
Prof. Xu is the Chair in Nanotechnology, and currently supervises five
PhD students, in the University of York, one of the top universities in UK. The research interests of his laboratory
are in the areas of nano scale science and nanotechnology, and in particular,
spintronics, magnetic nanomaterials, nanofabrication, nanoelectronics and
nanomagnetism. Before he moved to York in 2000 as a lecturer, he was a
post-doctoral research associate and late an EPSRC advanced fellow in Cavendish
Laboratory and Microelectronics Research Centre,
University of Cambridge. He was awarded the PhDs by
Nanjing University, China, in 1993, and
Leeds University, UK, in 1996. He has published more than 120
papers in academic journals, given many talks and invited talks in national and
international academic conferences and organised the 7th
Oxford-Kobe Materials Seminar on Spintronics, 2004 and the 1st WUN International
Conference on Spintronic Materials and Technology, 2007. He is
the coordinator and Chair of the Steering committee of the WUN (Worldwide University Network) Grand Challenge
Project “Spintronics”,
which includes 20 partners from 12 leading UK, USA, and China universities. Professor Xu is the Co-director
of the York-Nanjing Joint Research Center. He is the section editor in
Spintronics of the journal “Current
Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science” by Elsevier. He is the
editor of the book “Spintronic
Materials and Technology” published by Taylor and Francis. Prof. Xu
is also the series editor of “Electronic Materials and Devices” by
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, and editor-in-Chief of “Handbook of
Spintronics” a Major Reference Work by Springer. He is a member of the
EPSRC Peer Review College and Institute of Physics. In 2000, he was awarded the
prestigious EPSRC advanced research fellowship.
Prof. Xu is the Guest Professor of Nanjing University and Yongqiang Lecture Professor of
Zhejiang University. He
collaborates extensively with several leading research groups and
international companies in UK and around the world; and promotes
the science and technology to the public: “Carbon-based
spintronics may boost performance”, New Scientist, 2006; “Hard-disk
breakthrough wins Nobel Prize”, New Scientist, 2007; 2007,
“Putting
electronics in a spin”, Science and technology reporter, BBC News 24, 2007.
Prof. Yongbing Xu
Department of
Electronics
The University of York
York YO10 5DD
Tel: 01904-432349 (Office)
01904-432320
(Ms. Sarah Hobbs, Secretary)
Fax: 01904-432335
Email: yx2@ohm.york.ac.uk