Xiuwen Zhang
Assistant AV名湿 Professor
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute

4001 Discovery Dr. Suite N324K
Boulder CO 80309

Synergistic Activities:

Referee for several peer-reviewed international scientific journals including Nature Physics,听Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B,听Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, etc.

Selected Publications:

  1. Lin-Ding Yuan, Xiuwen Zhang, Carlos Mera Acosta, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淯ncovering spin-orbit coupling independent hidden spin polarization of energy bands in antiferromagnets鈥, accepted by Nature Communications (2023).
  2. Pu Huang, Zhiguo Xia, Xiaoqing Gao, James M. Rondinelli, Xiuwen Zhang, Han Zhang, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淔erri-chiral compounds with potentially switchable Dresselhaus spin splitting鈥, Phys. Rev. B听102, 235127 (2020).
  3. Xiuwen Zhang, Qihang Liu, Qiunan Xu, Xi Dai, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淭opological Insulators versus Topological Dirac Semimetals in Honeycomb Compounds鈥, J. Am. Chem. Soc.听140, 13687-13694 (2018).
  4. Xiuwen Zhang, Leonardo B. Abdalla, Qihang Liu, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淭he Enabling Electronic Motif for Topological Insulation in ABO3听Perovskites鈥, Advanced Functional Materials 27, 1701266 (2017).
  5. Xiuwen Zhang, Lijun Zhang, John D. Perkins, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淚ntrinsic Transparent Conductors without Doping鈥, Phys. Rev. Lett.听115, 176602 (2015).
  6. Feng Yan, Xiuwen Zhang, Yonggang G. Yu, Liping Yu, Arpun Nagaraja, Thomas O. Mason, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淒esign and discovery of a novel half-Heusler transparent hole conductor made of all-metallic heavy elements鈥, Nature Communications 6, 7308 (2015).
  7. Romain Gautier, Xiuwen Zhang, Linhua Hu, Liping Yu, Yuyuan Lin, Tor O. L. Sunde, Danbee Chon, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淧rediction and accelerated laboratory discovery of previously unknown 18-electron ABX compounds鈥, Nature Chemistry 7, 308-316 (2015).
  8. Xiuwen Zhang, Qihang Liu, Jun-Wei Luo, Arthur J. Freeman, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淗idden spin polarization in inversion-symmetric bulk crystals鈥, Nature Physics 10, 387-393 (2014).
  9. Xiuwen Zhang, Liping Yu, Andriy Zakutayev, and Alex Zunger, 鈥淪orting stable versus unstable hypothetical compounds: The case of multi-functional ABX Half-Heusler Filled Tetrahedral Structures鈥, Advanced Functional Materials 22, 1425-1435 (2012).
  10. Xiuwen Zhang and Alex Zunger, 鈥淎ltered reactivity and the emergence of ionic metal ordered structures in Li-Cs at high pressures鈥, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 245501 (2010).