.
York Laboratory
for Spintronics and Nanodevices
York Laboratory for
Spintronics and Nanodevices, directed by Dr. Yongbing Xu,
consists of three laboratories including MBE growth Lab, magneto-transport
measurement lab, and magneto-optical characterisation lab. Dr. Xu is an Anniversary Reader 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. 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”, which will be published by Taylor and Francis
in summer 2006. 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. He collaborates extensively with
several leading research groups and international companies in UK and around the world.
Dr
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