CONTACT
wzhang0@mail.xjtu.edu.cn
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Phase-Change Memory Materials
First Principles Materials Design
EXPERIENCE
2015.05 – 2017.03 Professor, CAMP-Nano, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
2015.05 – 2017.03 Distinguished Research Fellow, CAMP-Nano, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
2014.04 – 2015.04 Postdoctoral Fellow, I. Institute of Physics (IA), Department of Physics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
EDUCATION
2011.04 – 2014.03 Ph.D, Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics, Department of Physics RWTH Aachen University, Germany
2008.09 – 2010.06 M.Sc, Institute of condensed matter physics, Department of Physics Zhejiang University, China
2004.09 – 2008.06 B.Sc, Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China
HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 Young Talent Support Plan of Xi'an Jiaotong University
2014 PhD with Distinction, "Summa Cum Laude"
2013 Celebrity of "Study in Germany"
2010 DAAD-CSC PhD Scholarship
2010 Excellent postgraduate students' award
2009 First-Class Award of Honor for Graduate
2009 Graduate of Merit/Triple A graduate
2009 ASML Scholarship (2009)
CONFERENCES
1 The 1st Sino-German Symposium on Electronic and Memory Materials, Nov 1-5, 2015, Aachen, Germany.
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1 K. Ding, J.-J. Wang, Y.-X. Zhou, H. Tian, L. Lu, R. Mazzarello, C. Jia,Wei Zhang*, F. Rao*, E. Ma*, "Phase-change heterostructure enables ultralow noise and drift for memory operation", Science,366, 210-215 (2019)Link
2 F. Rao*,Wei Zhang*, E. Ma*, "Catching structural transitions in liquids",Science, 364, 1032-1033 (2019)Link
3 Wei Zhang*,R. Mazzarello, M. Wuttig and E. Ma, "Designing crystallization in phase-change materials for universal memory and neuro-inspired computing",Nature Reviews Materials, 4 150-168 (2019) Link
4 Wei Zhang*and E. Ma*, "Phase-change memory: Single-element glass to record data",Nature Materials, (2018) DOI: 10.1038/s41563-018-0114-5 Link
5 J.-J. Wang, J. Wang, H. Du, L. Lu, P. C. Schmitz, J. Reindl, A. M. Mio, C.-L. Jia, E. Ma, R. Mazzarello, M. Wuttig,Wei Zhang*,"Genesis and effects of swapping bi-layers in hexagonal GeSb2Te4",Chem. Mater., (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b01900 Link
6 J.-J. Wang, I. Ronneberger, L. Zhou, L. Lu, V.L. Deringer, B. Zhang, L. Tian, H. Du, C. Jia, X. Qian, M. Wuttig, R. Mazzarello,Wei Zhang*, "Unconventional two-dimensional germanium dichalcogenides",Nanoscale,10, 7363-7368 (2018)Link
7 F. Rao,*K. Y. Ding,Y. X. Zhou, Y. H. Zheng, M. J. Xia, S. L. Lv, Z. T. Song,* S. L. Feng, I. Ronneberger , R. Mazzarello,Wei Zhang* and E. Ma, "Reducing the stochasticity of crystal nucleation to enable subnanosecond memory writing", Science, 358, 1423-1427 (2017)Link
8 B. Zhang, Wei Zhang*, Z.-J. Shen, Y.-J. Chen, J.-X. Li, S.-B. Zhang, Z. Zhang, M. Wuttig, R. Mazzarello, E. Ma* and X.-D. Han*, "Element-resolved atomic structure imaging of rocksalt Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change material", Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, 191902 (2016) Link
9 Wei Zhang, A. Thiess, P. Zalden, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, J.-Y. Raty, M. Wuttig*, S. Blügel, and R. Mazzarello*, "Role of vacancies in metal-insulator transitions of crystalline phase-change materials", Nature Materials 11, 952 (2012) Link
10 Wei Zhang, I. Ronneberger, Y. Li, and R. Mazzarello*, "Magnetic properties of crystalline and amorphous phase-change materials doped with 3d impurities", Advanced Materials 24, 43 87 (2012) Link
