WANG Yayu-Department of Physics

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Wang,Yayu

Professor

Department of Physics, Tsinghua University

School of Sciences Building

Beijing 100084, China

Phone：8610-62789309

Fax：8610-62781604

yayuwang@tsinghua.edu.cn

Education and Employment

Education:

· 1993-1998, Univ. of Science & Technology of China, B.S.

· 1998-2004, Princeton University, Ph.D. in physics

Research Experience:

· 08/2004-08/2007: Miller Research Fellow, UC Berkeley

· 09/2007-12/2007: Visiting Scholar, MIT

· 12/2007-present: Professor of Physics, Tsinghua University

Teaching

Interests

· Strongly correlated electronic materials

· High temperature superconductivity

· Transport, magnetic, and thermodynamic measurements

· Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy

Awards and Membership

· William L. McMillan Award in Condensed Matter Physics, 2006

· Miller Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2004

· Pappalardo Fellowship award, MIT, 2004 (declined)

· Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003

· Outstanding graduate and Outstanding Thesis Award, USTC, 1998

Selected Publications

· Yayu Wang et al., “Tuning fulleride electronic structure and molecular ordering via variable layer index”, Nature Materials 7, 194-197 (2008).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Spatially-resolved electronic and vibronic properties of single diamondoid molecules”, Nature Materials 7, 38-42 (2008).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Novel orientational ordering and reentrant metallicity in KxC60 monolayers for 3≤x≤5”, Physical Review Letters 99, 086402 (2007).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Nernst effect in high-Tc superconductors”, Physical Review B 73, 024510 (2006).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Field-enhanced diamagnetism in intense magnetic field in the pseudogap state of the cuprate Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8”, Physical Review Letters 95, 247002 (2005).

· M.L. Foo, Yayu Wang et al., “Charge-ordering, commensurability and metallicity in the phase diagram of layered NaxCoO2”. Physical Review Letters 92, 247001 (2004).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Spin entropy as the likely source of enhanced thermopower in NaxCoO2”, Nature 423, 425-428 (2003).

· Yayu Wang et al., “Dependence of upper critical field and pairing strength on doping in cuprates”, Science 299, 86-89 (2003).

· Yayu Wang et al., “High field phase diagram of cuprates derived from the Nernst effect”, Physical Review Letters 88, 257003 (2002).

· Yayu Wang and N.P. Ong, “Particle-hole symmetry in the antiferromagnetic state of the cuprates”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, USA 98, 11091-11096 (2001).

· Z.A. Xu, N.P. Ong, Y. Wang, T. Kakeshita and S. Uchida, “Vortex-like excitations and the onset of superconducting phase fluctuation in underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4”, Nature 406, 486-488 (2000).