2017 · Nature
Discovery of intrinsic ferromagnetism in two-dimensional van der Waals crystals
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Zhang Xiang is a Chinese-American mechanical engineer, currently serving as the 16th president and vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong since July 2018.
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1,628 papers in total2005 · Science
Sub-Diffraction-Limited Optical Imaging with a Silver Superlens
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2011 · Nature
A graphene-based broadband optical modulator
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2017 · Nature Nanotechnology
Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides
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2009 · Nature
Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale
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2008 · Physical Review Letters
Plasmon-Induced Transparency in Metamaterials
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2022
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2021
- Recent Progress on Two-Dimensional MaterialsActa Physico-Chimica Sinica · 474 citations
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2020
- Enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin films grown directly on siliconNature · 926 citations
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2019
- Two-dimensional magnetic crystals and emergent heterostructure devicesScience · 1,696 citations
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- Lightweight, strong, and super-thermal insulating polyimide composite aerogels under high temperatureComposites Science and Technology · 262 citations
- Roadmap on all-optical processingJournal of Optics · 209 citations
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From OpenAlex- article197
- review2
- preprint1
- Science20
- Nano Letters18
- Physical Review Letters16
- Nature Communications12
- Nature Materials11
- Yuan Wang41
- Xiaobo Yin36
- Guy Bartal19
- Nicholas X. Fang18
- Cheng Sun18
Experience and education
Universities
2021 to 2026Shanghai University
2025Kunming University of Science and Technology
2025Jiangnan University
2023University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2023Xihua University
2021Ningbo University
2020Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2015 to 2019University of Akron
1996 to 2010Northwestern University
Industry and labs
2025Wannan Medical College