2024/05 Welcome new group Postdoc, Dr. Yupu Wang from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Enjoy the research!
2024/04 Our work about ferromagnetic polar metal was published in Nature Materials.
This work reports the experimental realization of an intrinsic coexisting ferromagnetism, polar distortion and metallicity in a hitherto-unexplored quasi-two-dimensional Ca3Co3O8. Our work not only provides a rich platform to explore the coupling between polarity and magnetism in a metallic system, with extensive potential applications, but also defines oxygen vacancies ordering as a novel design strategy to access exotic correlated electronic states.
2023/11 Welcome new group Postdoc, Dr. Yang Liu from University of Sourthern Califronia. Enjoy the research!
2023/09 Welcome new group graduate, Caiyong Li from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Enjoy the research!
2023/08 Dr. Yang Zhang will start his postdoc position at Harvard. Good luck for the future.
2023/08 Yingjie Lyu and Sicheng Lu finished their PhD, and they started their new position in the high-tech company. Congratulations on Dr. Lyu and Dr. Lu. Good luck for the future.
2023/05 Our group enjoyed a wonderful day at Qinglong Gorge with hiking, BBQ party and some card games to celebrate the holiday.
2022/12 Our work about protonic conductor has been published in Nature Energy. This paper was highlighted by a news with a title of Cool proton conductors. This paper was also selected as a cover for this issue.
Solid oxide ionic conductors are employed in a wide range of energy-conversion applications, such as electrolytes in fuel cells. Typically, conventional ionic conductors based on metal oxides require elevated temperatures above approximately 500 °C to activate ionic transport, but the ability to operate at lower temperature could avoid mechanical instability and operating complexities. Here we report a solid oxide proton conductor, HSrCoO2.5, which shows unusually high proton conductivity between 40 °C and 140 °C. This reported crystalline structure could open up an avenue to engineer solid oxide ionic conductors through rational design and can be potentially employed for multiple applications, such as electrochemical sensors, gas separation, exchange membranes and so on.
2022/12 Welcome our new postoc Dr. Jinling Zhou from University of New South Wales.
2022/11 Congratulations to Dr. Fan Zhang for his new position at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Good luck for the future.
2022/10 Our work about tip induced hydrogenation was published in Nature Materials.
This work demonstrates a local and reversible electric-field-controlled insulator-metal transition through hydrogen evolution and presents a versatile pathway to exploit multiple functional devices at the nanoscale.
2022/07 Congratulations to Dr. Shengchun Shen for his new position at USTC. Good luck for the future.
2022/06 Our new postdoc Dr. Xinyu Shu from National University of Singapore was selected into the "International postdoctoral exchange fellowship program of China". Congratulations and welcome.
2022/06 Congratulations to Jianbing, Huining and Xinyi for successfully passing their thesis defense. Good luck for the future.
2021/06 Our new postdoc Dr. Yang Zhang was selected as the "Shuimu scholar" of Tsinghua University. Congratulations and welcome.
2021/05 Congratulations to Tongtong for successfully passing the thesis defense. Good luck for the future.
2021/03 This is a very productive month for our group. We have three papers (Adv. Fun. Mater., Phys. Rev. X and PNAS) accepted within one week. Congratulations to Shengchun, Di, Meng, Zhuolu and other group members. Enjoy the research.
2020/12 Congratulations to Guopeng and Linglong for their new positions. Good luck for the future.
2020/12 Prof. Yu was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.
2020/08 Welcome Fan Zhang (postdoc), Sijie Wu and Cong Li to join the group.
2020/08 Congratulations to Hailiang for successfully passing the thesis defense. Good luck for the future.
2020/06 Yujia was awarded the Yu-Hsun Woo Prize! As a tradition, every year the Department of Physics will select about 5 graduate students for the Yu-Hsun Woo Prize. Yujia is the second awardee from our group after Meng Wang. Congratulations!
2020/06 Zhuolu was named as the excellent Ph.D graduate of Tsinghua University in 2020. This is one of the most prestigious awards in Tsinghua to honor the best graduate students, and this year all 66 awardees were selected campus-wide. Congratulations!
2020/06 Congratulations to Zhuolu and Yujia for successfully passing their thesis defenses. Good luck for the future.
2020/05 Yujia's first author paper was published in PRX. Congratulations!
2020/02 Our group got two papers published in Nature Communications recently about the ionic liquid gating induced magnetic transition. Congratulations to Zhuolu, Shengchun and Yujia.
2020/01 Meng moved to RIKEN as a postdoc fellow. Good luck for the journey!
2019/12 Prof. Yu was awarded "The 2019 Junior Lectureship” by the Micro-nano Technology Branch of Chinese Ceramic Society!
2019/10 Zhuolu was awarded the national scholarship. Congratulations!
2019/08 Welcome Nobuyoshi Hiramatsu (Xinyi) to join our group as Ph.D. student. We believe that he will enjoy the study and research here.
2019/08 Welcome Di Tian and Yongshun Wu to join our group as Ph.D. students. Good luck for the journey!
2019/07 Haobo moved to Kyoto University as a postdoc fellow. Good luck for the future!
2019/07 Congratulations to Meng Wang for winning the Yu-Hsun Woo Prize. The Yu-Hsun Woo Prize is awarded to a few excellent graduates from Department of Physics.
2019/03 Welcome Dr. Yu Zhou to join our group. She got her PhD from Shandong University. In our group, she will use the advanced Oxide MBE system to explore novel phenomena in complex oxide systems.
2018/10 Welcome Dr. Yanli Jia and Dr. Hao Kuang to join our group. They both got their PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences. In our group, they will use the advanced Laser MBE system to design novel oxide systems.
2018/10 Our work on electric field control of ionic evolution was awarded “The 2018 Oxide Electronics Prize for Excellency in Research Award” by the international Workshop on Oxide Electronics (iWOE).
2018/08 Welcome Sichen Lu and Yingjie Lyu to join our group. Sichen graduated from University of Science and Technology of China, and Yingjie graduated from Tsinghua University. They will continue as Ph.D. students in our group. Good luck for both of them!
2018/07 Our first generation, Shuzhen, Jingwen and Tianzhe graduated and moved on to their bright future. Good luck!
2018/04 Our group member Dr. Nianpeng Lu was selected as the 100 Talents Program (type A) of the Chinese Academy of Science. Congratulation to Nianpeng and wish him all the best in Institute of Physics (IOP-CAS).
2018/04 Welcome new member Dr. Linglong Li to join our group. Lilong got his PhD from Xi'an Jiaotong University. In our group, he will use the advanced SPM techniques to explore the excited physics of complex oxides.
2017/12 A research article entitled “Electric field control of ferromagnetism through oxygen ionic gating” has been published in Nature Communication, Congratulations to Haobo! This paper has been highlighted at Tsinghua webpage. In Chinese. In English.
2017/12 Group members Dr. Haobo Li, Jingwen Guo, Shuzhen Yang and Meng Wang presented their works at the "CEMS-Tsinghua- Asia Pacific Workshop (APW) Joint Workshop" at RIKEN, Japan.
2017/11 Professor Pu Yu delivered an invited talk at MRS Fall meeting at Boston.
2017/11 Group member Dr. Nianpeng Lu presented his works at the "CEMS Symposium on Trends in Condensed Matter Physics" at RIKEN, Japan.
2017/11 A research article entitled “Electric-Field-Controlled Phase Transformation in WO3 Thin Films through Hydrogen Evolution” has been published in Adv. Materials, Congratulations to Meng and Shengchun! Highlight at the department webpage.
2017/07 Welcome new member Dr. Guopeng Wang to join our group. Guopeng got his PhD from University of Science and Technology of China. In our group, he will use our advanced Laser MBE system to design novel oxide systems.
2017/06 A research article entitled “Atomic-resolution imaging of electrically induced oxygen vacancy migration and phase transformation in brownmillerite cobalt oxides” has been accepted by Nature Communication, Congratulations to Nianpeng!
2017/06 Recently, Prof. Yu got lots of interviews, such as 于浦老师：热力学的原理要求我们付出努力 by lovely undergruaduates and 这位“哥伦布” 让“老学科”撞出“新大陆” by authoritative Science and Technology Daily.
2017/06/01 A research paper entitled “Electric-field control of tri-state phase transformation with a selective dual-ion switch” is published in Nature. Congratulations to Nianpeng and all the group members!
This is such a significant work that we get so many attentions: 清华物理系于浦课题组取得重大突破：电场诱导双离子、三态相变蕴含广泛应用前景, 今日Nature: 中国学者一石三鸟、开辟离子调控物相新篇章, 从离子相变到智能玻璃, Nature重磅：中国学者首次实现电场诱导下的双离子调控可逆结构三相相变 and so on.
2017/05 After a few months' hard working, the group together with Prof. Zhou’s Lab went out for a BBQ party at YunMeng Gorge to celebrate the Holiday.
2017/04 Prof. Yu, as one of the Symposium organizers for the section of “Frontiers in Oxide Interface Spintronics—Magnetoelectrics, Multiferroics and Spin-Orbit Effects”, attended the MRS spring meeting held at Phoenix, Arizona.
2017/02 Huining Peng from University of Science and Technology of China joins our group for her B.S. thesis project and she will continue as Ph.D. student. Good luck, Huining!
2016/12 A new self-designed PLD chamber equipped with RHEED is ready now. Hope for good experimental data! So far, wo have four PLD chambers, and three of them are equipped with RHEED.
2016/08 Tongtong Huang graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology joins our group family as a graduate student and will work on her doctoral thesis. Good luck, Tongtong!
2016/07 Dr. Shengchun Shen will join our group as a postdoc. Welcome! He got his PhD from Beijing Normal University and will conduct the electrical transport research on oxide thin film in our group. Good luck, Shengchun!
2016/06 Undergraduate Yijing Huang, has successfully defended her Bachelor thesis and will pursue her PhD degree at Stanford University. Congratulate and Good luck, Yijing!
2016/05 The powerful PPMS and SQUID that measure the electrical and magnetic transport respectively were installed.
2016/03 Jingwen got the Tsinghua Scholarship for Overseas Graduate Studies and went to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to learn X-ray absorption and related technique. Good Luck!
2015/09 Zhuolu and Yujia finished their B.S. training from this group in this June. Clearly both of them enjoyed the stay here too much to relocate. Zhuolu will work on her doctoral thesis and Yujia will work on his master thesis in our group. Good luck for both of them!
2015/08 Our group member, Jingwen Guo got second prize for his talk in the doctoral research forum. Congratulations!
2015/07 Welcome new group member, Dr. Haobo Li! Haobo got his PhD from Nankai university. In our group, he will switch his gear from oxide bulk materials to thin films. Good luck!
2015/04 Our proposed interdisciplinary collaboration on Novel multiferroics and related devices has won the support from the university. Prof. Nan from MSE, Prof. Ren from IME and Prof. Yu are co-PIs for this study. Now while exploring the emergent properties of novel multiferroics, we also need to keep in mind about the applications.
2015/03 Our proposal for complex oxide electronics has won the support for Youth Scientist of National 973 Basic Research Program with Prof. Yu as chief PI. Co-PIs include Prof. Hongjun Xiang and Prof. Tong Zhao from Fudan University, and Prof. Yang Qi and Prof. Xiaoyan Zhong from Tsinghua University. Here is a link about this.
2015/02 Second year graduate student, Tianzhe Chen has been selected into International Program Associate program (IPA) in RIKEN. Every year, RIKEN will select a few excellent graduates around the world to participate RIKEN's joint graduate school program. Tianzhe will stay there for 3 months during this summer.
2014/12 Our home-designed laser-MBE system has won the runner up prize in No. 25th student Contribution Award for Lab Construction in Tsinghua University. Our first year graduate student, Zheng Duan is the key player for this, and all the other lab members have also contributed significantly to this. Thanks all for this nice work.
2014/11/24 Professor Yu was invited to give a invited talk at the 6th APCTP workshop on Multiferroics held in POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea. 2014/07 Dr. Nianpeng Lu jointed our group as a postdoc researcher. Nianpeng graduated from IOP-CAS and has done excellent works on antiperovskite thin films. In our group, Nianpeng will start his new journey on oxide electronics. Good luck, Nianpeng!
2014/06 Zheng Duan and Meng Wang have successfully defensed their Bachelor thesis and got excellent remark in their home institutes.
2014/04/29 We Have a BBQ Party to celebrate the National Labor Day. 2014/03/26 Professor Yu was invited to visit National Singapore University and give a invited talk at the workshop on “Science and Technology of Oxide Tunnel Junctions”. 2014/02/07 Undergraduate students, Zheng Duan and Meng Wang joined our group to work on their B.S. thesis, both of them will join our group in this Fall as Ph.D. students. 2014/01/01 Professor Yu was appointed as RIKEN-Tsinghua Career Development Chair’s Professor, holding
a joint position at RIKEN CEMS as Research Unit Leader. 2013/09/14 Professor Yu was invited to give a invited talk at the Chinese Physics Meeting at Xiamen University on “Strong magnetoelectric coupling by design”. 2013/05/02 After a few months' hard working, the group went out for a BBQ party at ShangZhuang Reservoir to celebrate the labor day. 2013/04/26 Delivery of our probe station system. 2013/04/11 Installation of our Laser MBE chamber completed. We made the very first sample in our group and start the journey of oxide electronics. 2013/03/04 Installation of our piezoresponse force microscopy completed. 2013/02/27 Senior students, Shuzhen Yang, Jingwen Guo and Tianzhe Chen joined our group to work on their B.S. thesis. They will join our group in fall 2013 as Ph.D. students. 2012/09 Our proposal about strain induced novel multiferroic received funding support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2012/02 Prof. Pu Yu was selected as a Youth 1000-talents scholarship and started to build up the lab. 
The postdocs and students from the group can have free access to the state of art facilities in RIKEN-CEMS.
Here is our webpage in RIKEN.
