Head of Department of Applied Physics
Education：
PhD, Ecole Centrale Paris, Energy (2013)
M.A., Southwest Jiaotong University, Material Science (2010)
B.S., Southwest Jiaotong University, Biomedical Engineering (2007)
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, School of Physical Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2016-present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA (2007-2008)
Professional Activities
Fellow of Material Research Society, USA (2011–2013)
RESEARCH
Nanoscale heat transfer
Thermoelectrics
Research Group
Dr. Ni is a member of “Nanomaterials and material physics” group.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[1] Zhang, H., Han, H., Xiong, S., Wang, H., Volz, S., & Ni, Y.*, Impeded thermal transport in composition graded SiGe nanowires. Applied Physics Letters, 111(12), (2017).
[2] Sun, S., Meng, F., Wang, H., Wang, H., & Ni, Y.* Novel two-dimensional semiconductor SnP3: high stability, tunable bandgaps and high carrier mobility explored using first-principles calculations. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6(25), 11890-11897, (2018).
[3] Zhang, H., Wang, H., Xiong, S., Han, H., Volz, S., & Ni, Y.*, Multiscale Modeling of Heat Dissipation in 2D Transistors Based on Phosphorene and Silicene. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122(5), 2641-2647, (2018).
[4] Sun, S., Meng, F., Xu, Y., He, J., Ni, Y.* & Wang, H.*, Flexible, Auxetic and strain-tunable two dimensional penta-X2C family as water splitting photocatalysts with high carrier mobility. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 7, 7791-7799, (2019).
[5] Zhang, H., Xiong, S., Wang, H., Volz, S., & Ni, Y.*, Thermal transport in graphene/h-BN lateral heterostructures with interface compositional diffusion. EPL 125, 46001, (2019).
[6] Zhang, H., Hu, S., Wang, H., Chen, Y., Wang, H., & Ni, Y.*, Thermal transport in three-dimensional carbon honeycombs. Chinese Journal of Physics, 59, 567-571, (2019).
[7] J. Hou, B. Liu, Y. Zhang, X. Lu, C. Liu, Y. Tang, M. Wang, F. Dong, Y. Ni* and H. Zhang* , Atomistic understanding of interfacial interactions between bone morphogenetic protein-7 and graphene with different oxidation degrees. Materials Chemistry Frontiers, DOI: 10.1039/C9QM00324J,(2019).
[8] Hu, S., Zhang, H., Xiong, S., Zhang, H., Wang, H., Chen, Y., Volz, S., and Ni, Y.* , Screw dislocation induced phonon transport suppression in SiGe superlattices. Physical Review B, 100, 075432, (2019).
[9] Ni, Y.*, Zhang, H., Hu, S., Wang, H., Volz, S., and Xiong, S.*, Interface diffusion-induced phonon localization in two-dimensional lateral heterostructures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 114, 118608, (2019).
Lecture:
Material Physics
Reserach Highlighats:
Top physics journal twice testifies to new findings of associate professor Ni Yuxiang’s team
https://en.swjtu.edu.cn/info/1063/1628.htm
