Research Experience

• Feb. 2022–present     Professor, Spin-X Institute, School of Physics, South China University of Technology

• Mar. 2021–Jan. 2022    Associate Research Scientist, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences

• Mar. 2019–Dec. 2020    Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology/Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

• Oct. 2015–Mar. 2019    Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cambridge

Education Background

• Sep. 2010–July 2015   Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics, School of Physics, Peking University

• Sep. 2006–July 2010   B.S. in Physics, Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University

• Teaching Courses

  General Physics

• Research

  Prof. Wu has solved many key problems that hinder the application of magnetoelectric nanocomposite thin films, making it possible to be used in devices such as magnetoelectric random access memory (MeRAM); he has realized the electrical readout of the magnetic properties of vdW antiferromagnetic semiconductor. At present, he has published more than 40 SCI papers in journals such as Nature Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

• Research Interests

  Novel physical effects in magnetic thin films/heterojunctions

  Magnetoelectric/multiferroic thin films and their applications in information storage and sensing devices

  Magnetic van der Waals (vdW) materials and spintronic/orbitronic devices

Selected Publications

1. Wu, R.; Ross, A.; Ding, S.; Peng, Y.; He, F.; Ren, Y.; Lebrun, R.; Wu, Y.; Wang, Z.; Yang, J.; Brataas, A. *; Kläui, M.*, Magnetotransport Study of van der Waals CrPS4/(Pt,Pd) Heterostructures: Spin-Flop Transition and Room-Temperature Anomalous Hall Effect. Physical Review Applied 2022, 17 (6), 064038.

2. Wu, R. *; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*, Recent developments and the future perspectives in magnetoelectric nanocomposites for memory applications. APL Materials2022, 10 (1), 010901.

3. Wu, R.*;  Zhang, D.;  Maity, T.*;  Lu, P.;  Yang, J.;  Gao, X.;  Zhao, S.;  Wei, X.;  Zeng, H.;  Kursumovic, A.;  Tian, G.;  Li, W.;  Yun, C.;  Wang, Y.;  Ren, Z.;  Zhou, Z.;  Liu, M.;  Zhang, K. H. L.;  Jia, Q.;  Yang, J.;  Wang, H.; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*, Self-biased magnetoelectric switching at room temperature in three-phase ferroelectric–antiferromagnetic–ferrimagnetic nanocomposites. Nature Electronics 2021, 4 (5), 333-341.

4. Wu, R.#;  Xue, M.#;  Maity, T.;  Peng, Y.;  Giri, S. K.;  Tian, G.;  MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*; Yang, J.*, Influence of atomic roughness at the uncompensated Fe/CoO (111) interface on the exchange-bias effect. Physical Review B 2020, 101 (1), 014425.

5. Wu, R.#*;  Yun, C.#;  Wang, X.;  Lu, P.;  Li, W.;  Lin, Y.;  Choi, E.-M.;  Wang, H.; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*, All-oxide nanocomposites to yield large, tunable perpendicular exchange bias above room temperature. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10 (49), 42593-42602.

6. Wu, R.;  Kursumovic, A.;  Gao, X.;  Yun, C.;  Vickers, M. E.;  Wang, H.;  Cho, S.*; MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*, Design of a vertical composite thin film system with ultralow leakage to yield large converse magnetoelectric effect. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2018, 10 (21), 18237-18245.

7. Wu, R.*;  Ding, S.;  Lai, Y.;  Tian, G.; Yang, J.*, Enhancement of exchange bias in ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic core-shell nanoparticles through ferromagnetic domain wall formation. Physical Review B 2018, 97 (2), 024428.

8. Park, C.#;  Wu, R.#;  Lu, P.;  Zhao, H.;  Yang, J.;  Zhang, B.;  Li, W.;  Yun, C.;  Wang, H.;  MacManus-Driscoll, J. L.*; Cho, S.*, Use of Mesoscopic Host Matrix to Induce Ferrimagnetism in Antiferromagnetic Spinel Oxide. Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 28 (11), 1706220.

9. Xia, Y.#;  Wu, R.#;  Zhang, Y.;  Liu, S.;  Du, H.;  Han, J.;  Wang, C.;  Chen, X.;  Xie, L.; Yang, Y.; Yang, J.*, Tunable giant exchange bias in the single-phase rare-earth–transition-metal intermetallics YMn12−xFex with highly homogenous intersublattice exchange coupling. Physical Review B 2017, 96 (6), 064440.

10. Wu, R.; Wei, J. Z.; Peng, X. L.; Fu, J. B.; Liu, S. Q.; Zhang, Y.; Xia, Y. H.; Wang, C. S.; Yang, Y. C.; Yang, J. B. *, The asymmetric magnetization reversal in exchange biased granular Co/CoO films. Applied Physics Letters, 2014, 104 (18), 182403.