
Dr. Xi CHEN, Professor, Deputy Dean, born in China in 1972
School of Physics and Optoelectronics Email: xichen@scut.edu.cn
South China University of Technology Mobile Phone: +86 13533282649
GuangZhou, 510641
P.R. China
Education
Ph.D. in physics, June 2000, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Master D. in physics, June 196, Lanzhou University
Professional Positions Held
Professor of Physics, September 2006-present
International Communication and Visit
2000.9-2006.5:University Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, post-doc. research fellow;
2017.4-2018.3:University of California, San Diego, California, USA, visiting scholar;
Research Grants Funded So Far
I. The development and application of the on-line monitoring instruments for water leakage and water quality of the urban tap water network
The project of Guangzhou Science and Technology plans, Grant No. 201803030008, ¥1,000,000, April 2018-March 2021.
II. The influence of the interface spin frustration state on the exchange bias effect
The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 11174083, ¥600,000, January 2012-December 2015.
III. The pressure dependence of the crystal structure and the multiferroic properties of the perovskite BiFeO3
The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Grant No. 2012ZZ0078, ¥200,000, January 2012-December 2013.
IV. The spin glass state influenced the exchange bias effect
The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Grant No. 2009M0010, ¥100,000, January 2010-December 2011.
V. The spin transport properties of the magnetic nanoparticle systems with strong magnetic interactions
The key project of Chinese Ministry of Education, Grant No. 708070, ¥100,000, January 2009-December 2011.
VI. The magnetic phase diagram and the spin transport properties of the magnetic nano-granular films with strong magnetic interactions
The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 10704026, ¥250,000, January 2008-December 2010.
Representative papers
1. Haolin Jin, Kai Wang, Zhongquan Mao, Lingyun Tang, Jiang Zhang, and Xi Chen*, ‘The structural, magnetic, Raman and electrical transport properties Mn intercalation in Ti3C2Tx’, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 34, 015701 (2022)
2. Zhongquan Mao, Kaiyuan Xue, Yang Zhang, Jiang Zhang, Lingyun Tang, and Xi Chen*, ‘Strain-induced magnetic moment enhancement in frustrated antiferromagnet Cs2CuBr4’ Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 365801 (2020)
3. Huimin Xian, Lingyun Tang, Zhongquan Mao, Jiang Zhang, and Xi Chen*, ‘Bounded magnetic polarons induced enhanced magnetism in Ca-doped BiFeO3’, Solid State Communications 278, 54 (2019)
4. Zhongquan Mao, Xiaozhi Zhan, and Xi Chen*, ‘Angle-dependent loop shifts in antiferromagnetic nanoparticles’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 49, 325001 (2016)
5. Xiaozhi Zhan, Zhongquan Mao and Xi Chen*, ‘Exchange bias and coercivity for ferromagnets coupled to the domain state and spin glass state’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 49, 185002 (2016)
6. Zhongquan Mao, Xiaozhi Zhan and Xi Chen*, ‘Exchange bias in diluted-antiferromagnet/antiferromagnet bilayers’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 48, 025002 (2015)
7. Longsheng Chen, Lirong Zheng, Yonghou He, Jiang Zhang, Zhongquan Mao and Xi Chen*, ‘The local distortion and electronic behavior in Mn doped BiFeO3’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 633, 216 (2015)
8. Longsheng Chen, Yonghou He, Jiang Zhang, Zhongquan Mao, Yujun Zhao, and Xi Chen*, ‘The oxygen octahedral distortion induced magnetic enhancement in multiferroic Bi1-xYbxFe0.95Co0.05O3 powders’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 604, 327 (2014).
9. Xiaozhi Zhan, Zhongquan Mao, Xiao Xu, Xi Chen*, and Wolfgang Kleemann, ‘Spin disorder dependence of the exchange bias effect’, Physical Review B 86, 020407(R) (2012).
10. Zhongquan Mao, Xiaozhi Zhan, and Xi Chen*, ‘Defect-tuning exchange bias of ferromagnet/antiferromagnet core/shell nanoparticles by numerical study’, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 276002 (2012).
11. Zhongquan Mao and Xi Chen*, ‘Magnetic phase diagram of interacting nanoparticle systems under the mean-field model’, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 23, 226005 (2011)
12. Zhongquan Mao and Xi Chen, ‘Tunnelling magnetoresistance in disordered interacting nanoparticles’, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 43, 425001 (2010).
13. X. Chen, A. Hochstrat, P. Borisov, and W. Kleemann, ‘Successive antiferromagnetic phase transitions in a-MnS probed by the exchange bias effect’, Applied Physics Letters 94, 032506 (2009).
14. X. Chen, A. Hochstrat, P. Borisov, and W. Kleemann, ‘Magnetoelectric exchange bias systems in spintronics’, Applied Physics Letters 89, 202508 (2006).
15. X. Chen, S. Bedanta, O. Petracic, W. Kleemann, S. Sahoo, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas, ‘Superparamagnetism vs. superspin glass behavior in dilute magnetic nanoparticle systems’, Physical Review B 72, 214436 (2005).
16. P. Borisov, A. Hochstrat, X. Chen, W. Kleemann and Ch. Binek, ‘Magnetoelectric switching of exchange bias’, Physical Review Letters 94, 117203 (2005).
17. X. Chen, S. Sahoo, W. Kleemann, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas, ‘Universal and scaled relaxation of interacting magnetic nanoparticles’, Physical Review B 70, 172241 (2004).
18. X. Chen, W. Kleemann, O. Petracic, O. Sichelschmidt, S . Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas, ‘Relaxation and aging of a superferromagnetic domain state’, Physical Review B 68, 054433 (2003).
19. X. Chen, O. Sichelschmidt, W. Kleemann, O. Petracic, Ch. Binek, J. B. Sousa, S. Cardoso, and P. P. Freitas, ‘Domain wall relaxation, creep, sliding, and switching in superferromagnetic discontinuous Co80Fe20/Al2O3 multilayers’, Physical Review Letters 89, 137203 (2002).
20. X. Chen, Ch. Binek, A. Hochstrat, and W. Kleemann, ‘Dilution-induced enhancement of the blocking temperature in exchange-bias heterosystems’, Physical Review B 65, 012415 (2002).