Qi Li

Professor of Physics
Qi Li

Honors and Awards

  • Petroleum Research Foundation Starter Award (1997)
  • National Science Foundation ROW Award (1997)
  • Civilian Research and Development Foundation young investigator award (1997)
  • National Science Foundation Career Award (1998)
  • Outstanding Young Scientist award, Chinese Natural Science Foundation (2006)
  • Hsun Lee Research Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society since 2007
  • Editorial board member: Acta Metallurgica Sinica; ISRN Condensed Matter Physics

Selected Publications

List of Publications on Research Group Page

  1. P. A. Rondomanski, A. B. Heltman, J.J. Glaser, J. M. Redwing, and Qi Li. “Tilted ab-axes MgB2 films with high Tc and anomalous upper critical field anisotropy”. IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconductivity. 34, (2024)
  2. Z. Q. Wang, W. Yang, K. Chen, X.X. Xi, and Qi Li. “Anisotropic high upper critical field in ultrathin MgB2 films”. IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 33, 8600205 (2023).
  3. Jue Jiang, Weiwei Zhao, Fei Wang, Renzhong Du, Ludi Miao, Ke Wang, Qi Li, Cui-Zu Chang, Moses H.W. Chan,Long-Range Superconducting Proximity Effect in Nickel Nanowires” Phys. Rev. Research 4, 023133 (2022).
  4. Shalini Kumari, Dhiren K. Pradhan, Shi Liu, M. M. Rahaman, Peng Zhou, Kevin Roccapriore, Dillip K. Pradhan, Gopalan Srinivasan, Qi Li, Ram S. Katiyar, Philip D. Rack, J. F. Scott, and Ashok Kumar “Room-temperature large magnetoelectricity in a transition metal doped ferroelectric perovskite” Phys. Rev. B 104, 174415 (2021)
  5. Morteza Kayyalha, Di Xiao, Ruoxi Zhang, Jaeho Shin, Jue Jiang, Fei Wang, Yi-Fan Zhao, Run Xiao, Ling Zhang, Kajetan M. Fijalkowski, Pankaj Mandal, Martin Winnerlein, Charles Gould, Qi Li, Laurens W. Molenkamp, Moses H. W. Chan, Nitin Samarth, Cui-Zu Chang “ Absence of evidence for chiral Majorana modes in quantum anomalous Hall-superconductor devices”. SCIENCE, 367 64-67 (2020).
  6. DukSoo Kim, Renzhong Du, Shih-Ying Yu, Yuewei Yin, Sining Dong, Qi Li, Suzanne E Mohney, Xiaoguang Li, and Srinivas Tadigadapa “Enhanced thermoelectric efficiency in Nnanocrystalline bismuth telluride nanotubes” Nanotechnology 31, 365703 (2020)
  7. J. Fan, C. Ma, T. Y. Wang, C. Zhang, Q. L. Chen, X. Liu, Z. Q. Wang, Q. Li, Y. W. Yin, and X. G. LiQuantum superconductor-insulator transition in titanium monoxide thin films with a wide range of oxygen contents,”, Phys. Rev. B 98, 064501 (2018).
  8. Weichuan Huang, Yue-Wen Fang, Yuewei Yin, Bobo Tian, Wenbo Zhao, Chuangming Hou, Chao Ma, Qi Li, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Chun-Gang Duan, Xiaoguang Li. “Solid State Synapse Based on Magnetoelectrically Coupled Memristor”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10, 5649-5656 (2018).
  9. Wenqing Dai, Anthony Richardella, Renzhong Du, Weiwei Zhao, Xin Liu, C.X. Liu, Song-Hsun Huang, Raman Sankar, Fangcheng Chou, Nitin Samarth, and Qi Li. Proximity-effect-induced Superconducting Gap in Topological Surface States – A Point Contact Spectroscopy Study of NbSe2/Bi2Se3 Superconductor-Topological Insulator Heterostructures. Scientific Report 7, 7631 (2017)
  10. Yuewei Yin and Qi Li, “A Review on All-perovskite Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions”, Materiomics 3, 245-254 (2017)
  11. Ludi Miao, Renzhong Du, Yuewei Yin and Qi Li “Anisotropic magneto-transport properties of electron gases at SrTiO3 (111) and (110) surfaces”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 261604 (2016).
  12. Renzhong Du, Hsiu-Chuan Hsu, Ajit C. Balram, Yuewei Yin, Sining Dong, Wenqing Dai, Weiwei Zhao, DukSoo Kim, Shih-Ying Yu, Jian Wang, Xiaoguang Li, Suzanne E. Mohney, Srinivas Tadigadapa, Nitin Samarth, Moses H.W. Chan, Jainendra. K. Jain, Chao-Xing Liu, and Qi Li “Robustness of Topological Surface States Against Strong Disorder Observed in Bi2Te3 Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. B 93, 195402 (2016).
  13. Su-Yang Xu, Nasser Alidoust, Ilya Belopolski, Anthony Richardella, Chang Liu, Madhab Neupane, Guang Bian, Song-Hsun Huang, Raman Sankar, Chen Fang, Brian Dellabetta, Wenqing Dai, Qi Li, Matthew J. Gilbert, Fangcheng Chou, Nitin Samarth,  Zahid Hasan, “Momentum-space imaging of Cooper pairing in a half-Dirac-gas topological superconductor”, NATURE PHYSICS, 10, 943-950 (2014)
  14. W. Yin, J. D. Burton, Y.-M. Kim, A. Y. Borisevich, S. J. Pennycook, S. M. Yang, T. W. Noh, A. Gruverman, X. G. Li, E. Y. Tsymbal, and Q. Li, “Enhanced tunneling electroresistance effect due to a ferroelectrically induced phase transition at a magnetic complex oxide interface”, Nature Materials 12, 397 (2013).
  15. Chen, W. Dai, C. G. Zhuang, Qi Li, S. Carabello, J. G. Lambert, J. T. Mlack, R. C. Ramos, and X. X. Xi, “Momentum-dependent multiple gaps of MgB2 probed by electron tunnelling spectroscopy on MgB2/native oxide/Pb junctions“, Nature Communications. 3, 619 (2012).

Research Interests

  • Quantum Materials in Reduced Dimension and Nanostructures
  • Topological and Unconventional Superconductivity  in Thin Films and Nanostructures.
  • High Mobility Two Dimensional Electron Gas at Transition Metal Oxide Interfaces.
  • Spintronics, Ferroelectric, and Ferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions.