Physical Assistant

Curriculum Vitae

Xiaohang Zhang

Magnetic Materials Group, NIST Office: 301-***-****

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Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Email: abqmaz@r.postjobfree.com / abqmaz@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Ph. D., Physics August 2008

Advisor: Dr. Peng Xiong

Dissertation Title: Studies of Novel Magnetic Materials and Interfaces via

Electronic Transport and Superconducting Spectroscopy

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

M. E., Nuclear Engineering July 2001

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

B. E., Engineering Physics July 1998

EMPLOYMENT National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

EXPERIENCE Oct. 2011 - Present

Magnetic Materials Group, Material Measurement Laboratory

NIST-ARRA Postdoctoral Fellow

Host: Dr. Robert D. Shull

University of Maryland, College Park, MD July 2008 Sept. 2011

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Host: Dr. Richard L. Greene

Magnetic materials and spintronics

RESEARCH

INTERESTS Spin polarized transport in magnetic materials and devices; application of

multiferroic materials in spintronic devices; Interplay between spin current

and thermal current.

Correlated electron physics

Electronic and magnetic phase transitions and their interplay;

Thermoelectricity due to strong spin-orbit coupling; Tunneling spectroscopy.

High TC superconductivity

Proximity effect; Andreev reflection spectroscopy; Josephson effect; Pairing

symmetry.

Xiaohang Zhang, S. A. McGill, and P. Xiong, Origin of the Humidity

PUBLICATIONS 1)

Sensitivity of Al/AlOx/MHA/Au Molecular Tunnel Junctions, Journal of the

American Chemical Society 129, 14470 (2007).

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Xiaohang Zhang, S. von Moln r, Z. Fisk, and P. Xiong, Spin-Dependent

2)

Electronic States of the Ferromagnetic Semimetal EuB6, Physical Review

Letters 100, 167001 (2008).

3) Xiaohang Zhang, Y. S. Oh, Y. Liu, L. Q. Yan, K. H. Kim, R. L. Greene,

and I. Takeuchi, Observation of the Josephson Effect in Pb/Ba1-xKxFe2As2

Single Crystal Junctions, Physical Review Letters 102, 147002 (2009).

K. Jin, X. H. Zhang, P. Bach, and R. L. Greene, Evidence for

4)

Antiferromagnetic Order in La2-xCexCuO4 from Angular Magnetoresistance

Measurements, Physical Review B 80, 012501 (2009).

5) Xiaohang Zhang, S. R. Saha, N. P. Butch, K. Kirshenbaum, Y. Liu, L. Q.

Yan, Y. S. Oh, K. H. Kim, J. Paglione, R. L. Greene, and I. Takeuchi,

Josephson Effect Between Electron-Doped and Hole-Doped Iron Pnictide

Single Crystals, Applied Physics Letters 95, 062510 (2009).

6) Xiaohang Zhang, L. Q. Yu, S. von Moln r, Z. Fisk, and P. Xiong,

Nonlinear Hall Effect as a Signature of Electronic Phase Separation in the

Ferromagnetic Semimetal EuB6, Physical Review Letters 103, 106602

(2009).

B. Saparov, H. He, X. H. Zhang, R. Greene, and S. Bobev, Synthesis,

7)

Crystallographic and Theoretical Studies of the New Zintl Phases

Ba2Ca2Pn3 (Pn = As, Sb), and the Solid Solutions (Ba1-xSrx)2Cd2Sb3 and

Ba2Cd2(Sb1-xAsx)3, Dalton Transactions 39, 1063 (2010).

8) N. P. Butch, S. R. Saha, Xiaohang Zhang, K. Kirshenbaum, R. L. Greene,

and J. Paglione, Field-dependence of the Depressed-TC Superconducting

State in SrFe2-xNixAs2, Physical Review B 81, 024518 (2010).

9) Xiaohang Zhang, Y. S. Oh, Y. Liu, L. Q. Yan, S. R. Saha, N. P. Butch, K.

Kirshenbaum, K. H. Kim, J. Paglione, R. L. Greene, and I. Takeuchi,

Evidence of a universal and isotropic 2 /kBTC ratio in 122-type iron pnictide

superconductors over a wide doping range, Physical Review B (Rapid

Communications) 82, 020515 (2010). (Selected as Editors suggestion).

10) K. Jin, P. Bach, X. H. Zhang, U. Grupel, E. Zohar, I. Diamant, Y. Dagan, S.

Smadici, P. Abbamonte, and R. L. Greene, Anomalous Enhancement of the

Superconducting Transition Temperature in Electron-doped La2-xCexCuO4

and Pr2-xCexCuO4 Cuprate Heterostructures. Physical Review B (Rapid

Communications) 83, 060511 (2011).

11) Xiaohang Zhang, B. S. Lee, S. H. Khim, K. H. Kim, R. L. Greene, and I.

Takeuchi, Measurement of the order parameter of superconducting LiFeAs

in Pb/LiFeAs and Au/LiFeAs junctions by point-contact spectroscopy.

Physical Review B 85, 094521 (2012).

MANUSCRIPTS 12) Xiaohang Zhang, H. D. Zhou, L. Q. Yu, H. J. Gardner, S. von Moln r, C.

R. Wiebe, and P. Xiong, Transport properties of the ferromagnetic

IN PREPARATION

pyrochlore Lu2V2O7: the effect of magnetic polarons and carrier localization.

13) Xiaohang Zhang, N. P. Butch, P. Syers, S. Ziemak, R. L. Greene, and J.

Paglione, Hybridization, correlation, and in-gap states in the Kondo

insulator SmB6.

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Josephson Effect studies of pairing symmetry in Fe-based superconductors,

CONFERENCE 1)

INVITED TALKS American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

Nonlinear Hall effect as a signature of electronic phase separation (Given

2)

by P. Xiong), 55th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, Atlanta,

GA, November, 2010.

Humidity dependence of molecular tunnel junctions with an AlOx/COOH-

CONFERENCE 3)

interface (Talk), American Physical Society March Meeting, Baltimore, MD,

PRESENTATIONS

March 2006.

Tunneling study of organic-inorganic interfaces in molecular junctions

4)

(Poster), Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, November

2006.

Spin Polarization of the ferromagnetic semimetal EuB6 (Talk), American

5)

Physical Society March Meeting, Denver, CO, March 2007.

Probing the thiol-gold interface by spin polarized tunneling (Talk), 52nd

6)

Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, Tampa, FL, November

2007.

Spin-dependent electronic states of the ferromagnetic semimetal EuB6 (Talk),

7)

52nd Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference, Tampa, FL, November

2007. (Selected as one of the five finalists for the Best Student Presentation

Award)

Unusual Hall effect due to carrier delocalization (Talk), American Physical

8)

Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

Spin-dependent band structure of the ferromagnetic semimetal EuB6 (Talk),

9)

American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

10) Observation of the Josephson Effect in Pb/(Ba,K)Fe2As2 Single Crystal

Junctions (Talk), American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA,

March 2009.

11) Josephson effect and Andreev-reflection studies on the 122 iron pnictide

single crystals (Poster), Appl. Supercond. Conf., Washington, D.C., August

2010.

12) Point Contact Andreev-reflection studies on iron pnictide superconductors

(Talk), American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011.

13) Probing the superconducting order parameter of LiFeAs via point contact

spectroscopy (Poster), 10th Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity

Conference, Washington, DC, July-August 2012.

14) Kui Jin, Xiaohang Zhang, Paul Bach, and Richard Greene, Transport

OTHER

properties in electron-doped La2-xCexCuO4 thin films (Presented by K. Jin),

CONTRIBUTED

PRESENTATIONS American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.

15) L. Q. Yu, Xiaohang Zhang, S. von Moln r, Z. Fisk, and P. Xiong,

Magnetization dependent Hall coefficient in EuB6 (Presented by L. Yu), 11th

Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, Washington, DC, January 2010.

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16) L. Q. Yu, Xiaohang Zhang, S. von Moln r, P. Xiong, and Z. Fisk,

Magnetization dependent Hall coefficient in EuB6: a signature of electronic

phase separation (Presented by L. Q. Yu), American Physical Society March

Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

17) Kui Jin, Nicholas Butch, Gabriel Droulers, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Xiaohang

Zhang, Paul Bach, Johnpierre Paglione, and Richard Greene, Quantum

criticality in electron-doped La2-xCexCuO4 (Presented by K. Jin), American

Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

18) S. R. Saha, T. Drye, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Nicholas Butch, Xiaohang Zhang,

Paul Bach, Richard Greene, and Johnpierre Paglione, Evolution of

superconductivity in SrFe2As2 with Ni and Pt substitution (Presented by S. R.

Saha), American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March

2010.

19) Richard Suchoski, Richard Greene, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch,

Shanta Saha, Kevin Kirshenbaum, Paul Bach, Kui Jin, Xiaohang Zhang, and

Ichiro Takeuchi, Superconducting SrFe1.75Co.25As2 thin films grown by

pulsed laser deposition (Presented by R. Suchoski), American Physical

Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, March 2010.

20) Liuqi Yu, Xiaohang Zhang, S. von Moln r, P. Xiong, Lingfei Wang, and W.

B. Wu, Hall effect on strain-released La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 thin films (Presented

by L. Q. Yu), American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March

2011.

21) P. L. Bach, K. Jin, Xiaohang Zhang, Richard Greene, U. Grupel, E. Zohar,

E. Diamant, Y. Dagan, S. Smadici, and P. Abbamonte, TC enhancement in

electron-doped cuprate heterostructures (Presented by P. L. Bach),

American Physical Society March Meeting, Dallas, TX, March 2011.

22) Steven Ziemak, Xiaohang Zhang, T. Drye, R. L. Greene, and J. Paglione,

Point-contact Andreev reflection spectroscopy in Pt-substituted BaFe2As2.

(Presented by S. Ziemak), American Physical Society March Meeting,

Boston, MA, February 2012.

TEACHING Teaching assistant for Intermediate Mechanics (2002 Spring) and

EXPERIENCE Intermediate & Advanced Labs (2002 Fall).

Lab instructor for College Physics B (2007 Fall).

Referee for journals including Science, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review

PROFESSIONAL

B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and Superconductor

SERVICE

Science & Technology, etc.

MEMBERSHIPS American Physical Society (since 2005)

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