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Dr. Wei Han

 

Assistant Professor

Contact Info

Office：Physics Building W669, 物理楼西669

Lab: Physics building E404 and E504

Tel：86-10-62745091     

Email：weihan@pku.edu.cn

Personal Homepage：https://www.phy.pku.edu.cn/han_group/

 

Education

Degree

Year

Major    

Institution

Ph.D.

2006-2012

Physics

University of California, Riverside, USA

B.S.

2002-2006

Materials Physics

University of Science and Technology of China

 

Professional Appointments

Year

Position

Institution

2014-Present

Tenure-track assistant professor

ICQM, Peking University

2012-2014

Postdoctoral Fellow

IBM Almaden Research Center

 

Research Interests

Spintronics, Spin superconductivity, Low dimensional quantum materials, Molecular beam epitaxy, Spin current transport.

 

Honors and Awards

2016         IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Magnetism (C9)

2012         APS GMAG student dissertation award, American Physics Society

2009         Leo Falicov student award, American Vacuum Society 56th national meeting, 

 

Recent Selected Publications

  1. Y. Yao†, R. Cai†, T. Yu, Y. Ma, W. Xing, Y. Ji, X. C. Xie, S-H. Yang*, and W. Han*, Giant oscillatory Gilbert damping in superconductor/ferromagnet/superconductor junctions, Science Advances 7, eabh3686 (2021).
  2. R. Cai†, Y. Yao†, P. Lv, Y. Ma, W. Xing, B. Li, Y. Ji, H. Zhou, C. Shen, S. Jia, X. C. Xie, I. Zutic, Q.-F. Sun, and W. Han*, Evidence for anisotropic spin-triplet Andreev reflection at the 2D van der Waals ferromagnet/superconductor interface, Nature Communications 12: 6725 (2021).
  3. W. Han*, S. Maekawa, and X. C. Xie, Spin current a probe for quantum materials, Nature Materials, 19, 139–152 (2020).
  4. W. Xing, L. Qiu, X. Wang, Y. Yao, Y. Ma, R. Cai, S. Jia, X. C. Xie, and W. Han*, Magnon transport in quasi-two-dimensional van der Waals antiferromagnets, Physical Review X 9, 011026 (2019).
  5. H. Zhang†, Y. Yun†, X. Zhang†, H. Zhang, Y. Ma, X. Yan, F. Wang, G. Li, R. Li, T. Khan, Y. Chen, W. Liu, F. Hu, B. Liu, B. Shen, W. Han*, and J. Sun*, High-Mobility Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Gases at EuO/KTaO3 Interfaces, Physical Review Letters 121, 116803 (2018).
  6. W. Han*, Y. Otani, and S. Maekawa, “Quantum Materials for Spin and Charge Conversion”, npj Quantum Materials, 3, 27 (2018).
  7. W. Yuan, Q. Zhu, T. Su, Y. Yao, W. Xing, Y. Chen, Y. Ma, X. Lin, J. Shi*, R. Shindou, X. C. Xie*, and W. Han*, Experimental Signatures of Spin Superfluid Ground State in Canted Antiferromagnet Cr2O3 via Nonlocal Spin Transport, Science Advances, 4, eeat1098, (2018).
  8. Q. Song†, H. Zhang†, T. Su, W. Yuan, Y. Chen, W. Xing, J. Shi*, J. R. Sun*, and W. Han*, Observation of Inverse Edelstein Effect in Rashba-Split 2DEG between SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 at Room Temperature, Science Advances 3, e1602312 (2017).
  9. Q. Song, J. Mi, D. Zhao, T. Su, W. Yuan, W. Xing, Y. Chen, T. Wang, T. Wu, X. H. Chen, X. C. Xie, C. Zhang*, J. Shi*, and W. Han*, Spin Injection and Inverse Edelstein Effect in the Surface States of Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6, Nature Communications 7:13485 (2016).
  10. W. Zhang†, W. Han†, S.-H. Yang, Y. Sun, Y. Zhang, B. Yan, and S. S. P. Parkin*, Giant facet-dependent spin-orbit torque and spin Hall conductivity in the triangular antiferromagnet IrMn3, Science Advances, 2, e1600759 (2016).
  11. W. Zhang†, W. Han†, X. Jiang, S-H. Yang, and S. S. P. Parkin*, Role of transparency of platinum–ferromagnet interfaces in determining the intrinsic magnitude of the spin Hall effect, Nature Physics, 11, 496–502 (2015).
  12. W. Han, R. K. Kawakami*, M. Gmitra, and J. Fabian*, Graphene spintronics, Nature Nanotechnology 9, 794-807 (2014).

*: Corresponding author; †: equally contributed author.

 

Open Positions

Post: One post-doctor position open.

Graduates: One or two PH.D students each year.

Undergraduates:Welcome to visit and join our Lab!