Xiaolin Wang (scientist)

Xiaolin Wang is a Chinese/Australian scientist recognised for his work in advanced materials synthesis and characterisation and spintronics. He is Director of the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong. Wang is a University of Wollongong Senior Professor, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow.

Significant discoveries

Wang was the discoverer of a new class of materials in 2008, the spin gapless semiconductor, creating great interest and activity in the global condensed matter community.[1][2]

In 2012 he observed resistance dependence on applied magnetic field in a topological insulator nano-sheet at room temperature, paving the way for topological insulator applications in magnetoelectronic sensors, spin electronic devices, mechatronics, and other multifunctional devices.[3]

Career

Wang has a BSc (Physics) and MSc (Physics) awarded at Tsinghua University, China or Shandong University, China, and a PhD (Materials Eng) awarded at the University of Wollongong, Australia in 2000.[4]

He was Research Fellow Johannes-Kepler-University Austria 1993-1995, Guest Research Scientist at Atomic Institute of Austrian Universities Austria 1995-1996, Associate Fellow University of Wollongong 2000-2002, Australian Research Council APD Fellow 2002-2005, Visiting fellow, National Institute for Materials Science Japan 2003, Visiting Scholar, Ohio State University 2004 and QEII Fellow University of Wollongong 2005-2009.[4]

He was made an Associate Professor at the University of Wollongong 2006-2008, and Professor from 2008. He has supervised more than 30 PhDs and Mphil, plus more than 10 academic staff.[4]

He is a Theme Leader and node leader at ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET).[5]

From 2013 he has coordinated University of Wollongong and FLEET topological-insulator charge and spin transport research collaborations with Xue Qikun at Tsinghua University, the discoverer of the quantum anomalous Hall effect. In 2017, he received the University of Wollongong Vice-Chancellor's Research Excellence Award For Researcher Of The Year.[6]

Selected publications
  • X. L. Wang, “A proposal for a new class of materials: Spin gapless semiconductors”, Physical Review Letters 100, 156404 (2008).
  • X.L. Wang, Y. Du, S.X. Dou, and C. Zhang, “Room Temperature Giant and Linear Magnetoresistance in Topological Insulator Bi2Te3 Nanosheets”, Physical Review Letters, 108, 266806 (2012)
  • M. Veldhorst et al, “Josephson supercurrent through a topological insulator surface state”, Nature Materials, 11, 417 (2012)

References
  1. "Invention of new class of materials has physics world in a spin". media.uow.edu.au.
  2. "Awards for Research Excellence". www.uow.edu.au.
  3. "Research team make materials breakthrough". media.uow.edu.au.
  4. "Xiaolin Wang Homepage". isem.uow.edu.au.
  5. "FLEET Team". ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies. 31 October 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
  6. "2017 VC Awards Recipients". www.uow.edu.au.
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