Spintronics

   Our group works on different spintronic materials such as graphene, molecular junctions, and topological insulators, for the understanding of new phenomena and also for the development of new technologies.

1. R.Q. Wu "Nature of Mn Induced Spin Polarization and Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Ga1-xMnxAs", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 207201 (2005).  pdf
2. C. Weeks, J. Hu, J. Alicea, M. Franz and R.Q. Wu, "Engineering a robust quantum spin Hall state in graphene via adatom deposition", Phys. Rev. X 1, 021001 (2011).  pdf
3. Y. Jiang, Y.N. Zhang, J.X. Cao, R.Q. Wu, and W. Ho, "Real-space imaging of Kondo screening in a two-dimensional O2 lattice", Science 333, 324 (2011).  pdf
4. J. Hu, J. Alicea, R.Q. Wu, and M. Franz, "Giant topological insulator gap in graphene with 5d adatoms", Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 266801 (2012).  pdf
5. D. Qu, S.Y. Huang, J. Hu, R.Q. Wu and C.L. Chien, "Intrinsic spin seebeck effect in Au/YIG", Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 067206 (2013).  pdf