Zhaodong Chu

Postdoctoral Appointee

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, 2021

Awards (during PhD): Dissertation Fellowship (2021), Graduate Continuing Fellowship (2019-2020), Glenn Focht Memorial Fellowship (2019), OGS Summer Only Fellowship (2018), Departmental Graduate Fellowship (2016)

Research Interests

Develop and utilize cutting-edge techniques across a broad frequency range, including scanning microwave microscopy (Ph.D. work), terahertz/optical spectroscopies, ultrafast X-ray and electron nanoprobes(postdoc work), to study and control the properties of quantum materials, especially in unraveling dynamic interactions of fundamental degrees of freedom such as charge, spin, and lattice.

Selected Publications

  1. Z. Chu J. Yang, Y. Li, et al., Revealing subterahertz atomic vibrations in quantum paraelectrics by surface-sensitive spintronic terahertz spectroscopy, Science Advances 10, eads8601 (2024). See Argonne News.
  2. Y. Ahn, J. Zhang, Z. Chu, et al., Ultrafast switching of interfacial thermal conductance, ACS Nano17, 18843-18849(2023).
  3. X. Ma, F. Zhang, Z. Chu, et al., Superior photo-carrier diffusion dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites revealed by spatiotemporal conductivity imaging, Nature Communications 12, 1-7 (2021).
  4. Z. Chu, E. C. Regan, X. Ma, D. Wang, Z. Xu, M. I. B. Utama, K. Yumigeta, M. Blei, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, F. Wang, K. Lai, Nanoscale Conductivity Imaging of Correlated Electronic States in WSe2/WS2 Moiré Superlattices, Physical Review Letters 125, 186803 (2020)
  5. Z. Chu, L. Zheng, K. Lai, Microwave Microscopy and Its Applications, Annual Review of Materials Research, 50:105-130 (2020)
  6. Z. Chu, C. Wang, J. Quan, C. Zhang, C. Lei, A. Han, X. Ma, H. Tang, D. Abeysinghe, M. Staab, X. Zhang, A. MacDonald, V. Tung, X. Li, C. Shih, K. Lai, Unveiling Defect-Mediated Carrier Dynamics in Monolayer Semiconductors by Spatiotemporal Microwave Imaging, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 13908 (2020).
  7. Z. Chu, A. Han, C. Lei, S. Lopatin, P. Li, D. Wannlund, D. Wu, K. Herrera, X. Zhang, A. MacDonald, X. Li, L. Li, K. Lai,Energy-Resolved Photoconductivity Mapping in a Monolayer-Bilayer WSe2 Lateral Heterostructure, Nano Letters. 18, 7200-7206 (2018).
  8. Z. Chu, M. Yang, P. Schulz, D. Wu, X. Ma, E. Seifert, L. Sun, X. Li, K. Zhu, K. Lai, Impact of grain boundaries on efficiency and stability of organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites, Nature Communications 8, 2230 (2017). See News Coverage at NREL News.
  9. Y. Tsaiξ, Z. Chuξ, Y. Han, C. Chuu, D Wu, A. Johnson, F. Cheng, M. Chou, D. A. Muller, X. Li, K. Lai, C. Shih, Tailoring Semiconductor Lateral Multijunctions for Giant Photoconductivity Enhancement, Advanced Materials 29, 1703680 (2017).

  10. D. Wu, X. Li, L. Luan, X. Wu, W. Li, M. N. Yogeesh, R. Ghosh, Z. Chu, et al. Uncovering edge states and electrical inhomogeneity in MoS2 field effect transistors, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 13, 8583-8588 (2016). 

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