Xiaolin Wang is a

Chinese-Australian Chinese Australians () are Australians of Chinese origin. Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups within the global Chinese diaspora, and are the largest Asian Australian community. Per capita, Australia has more people of Chines ...

scientist studying advanced

materials A material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their ge ...

synthesis and characterisation and

spintronics Spintronics (a portmanteau meaning spin transport electronics), also known as spin electronics, is the study of the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its fundamental electronic charge, in solid-st ...

. He is a

University of Wollongong The University of Wollongong (UOW) is an Australian public university, public research university located in the coastal city of Wollongong, New South Wales, approximately south of Sydney. , the university had an enrolment of more than 33,000 s ...

professor, and director of its Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, and an

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future fellow.

Discoveries

Wang discovered a new class of materials in 2008, the spin gapless semiconductor, creating interest and activity in the condensed matter community. In 2012 he observed resistance dependence on

applied magnetic field A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials. A moving charge in a magnetic field experiences a force perpendicular ...

in a

topological insulator A topological insulator is a material whose interior behaves as an electrical insulator while its surface behaves as an electrical conductor, meaning that electrons can only move along the surface of the material. A topological insulator is an ...

nano-sheet at room temperature, paving the way for

topological Topology (from the Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, wit ...

insulator applications in magnetoelectronic sensors, spin electronic devices,

mechatronic Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is the synergistic integration of mechanical, electrical, and computer systems employing mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and computer engineering, and also ...

s, and other multifunctional devices.

Career

Wang has a BSc (physics) and MSc (physics) awarded at

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

, China, or

Shandong University Shandong University (; SDU) is a public university in Jinan, Shandong, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Clas ...

, China, and a PhD (materials engineering) awarded at the

, Australia, in 2000. He was research fellow Johannes-Kepler-University Austria 1993–95, guest research scientist at Atomic Institute of Austrian Universities Austria 1995–96, associate fellow University of Wollongong 2000–02,

APD Fellow 2002–05, visiting fellow,

National Institute for Materials Science is an Independent Administrative Institution and one of the largest scientific research centers in Japan. History The growth and development of today's scientific research center has passed through several phases in a number of locations: In ...

Japan 2003, visiting scholar,

Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...

2004 and QEII Fellow University of Wollongong 2005–2009. He was made an associate professor at the University of Wollongong 2006–08, and professor from 2008. He has supervised more than 30 PhDs and Mphil, plus more than 10 academic staff. He is a theme leader and node leader at

ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies } The ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (or FLEET) was a collaboration of physicists, electrical engineers, chemists and material scientists from seven Australian universities developing ultra-low energy elect ...

(FLEET). From 2013 he has coordinated University of Wollongong and FLEET topological-insulator charge and spin transport research collaborations with

Xue Qikun Xue Qikun (; born December 1963) is a Chinese physicist. He is a professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing. He has done much work in condensed matter physics, especially on superconductors and topological insulators. In 2013, Xue was the first t ...

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.

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

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