Zhiqiang Mao

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Professor, Eberly College of Science
Professor, Physics

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Recent Publications

Scanning tunneling microscopy study of room-temperature functional behavior of intrinsic magnetic topological insulators

Altfeder, I., Walko, R. C., Lee, S. H., Balatsky, A. V., Davydov, A. V. & Mao, Z., Nov 15 2025, In: Physica B: Condensed Matter. 717, 417614.

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Reactive flash sintering and characterization of bulk high entropy nitrides

Das, S., Drozd, V., Durygin, A., Sozal, M. S. I., Li, W., Bai, X., Ding, Y., Guan, Y., Mao, Z., Cinibulk, M. & Cheng, Z., May 2025, In: Journal of the European Ceramic Society. 45, 5, 117157.

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Discovery of a layered multiferroic compound Cu1−xMn1+ySiTe3 with strong magnetoelectric coupling

De, C., Liu, Y., Ayyagari, S. V. G., Zheng, B., Kelley, K. P., Hazra, S., He, J., Pawledzio, S., Mali, S., Guchhait, S., Yoshida, S., Guan, Y., Lee, S. H., Sretenovic, M., Ke, X., Wang, L., Engelhard, M. H., Du, Y., Xie, W. & Wang, X. & 5 others, Crespi, V. H., Alem, N., Gopalan, V., Zhang, Q. & Mao, Z., Jan 3 2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 1, eadp9379.

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Double-Crucible Vertical Bridgman Technique for Stoichiometry-Controlled Chalcogenide Crystal Growth

Guan, Y., Yoshida, S., Obando-Guevara, J., Mondal, S., Lee, S. H., Pfau, H. & Mao, Z., Nov 5 2025, In: Crystal Growth and Design. 25, 21, p. 9333-9342 10 p.

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Single-Crystal Growth and Characterization of High-Entropy Phosphides ASiP2

Iwabuchi, Y., Xu, M., Xie, W., Oyon, S. A., Henry, J., Gopalan, V. & Mao, Z., Aug 11 2025, In: Inorganic chemistry. 64, 31, p. 15905-15913 9 p.

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Discovery of an Intrinsic Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor EuSc2Te4 With Magnetism-Driven Nonlinear Transport

Lee, S. H., Zhao, Y., Gluscevich, N., Yi, H., Morgan, Z., Cao, H., Koo, J., Wang, Y., He, J., Gopalan, V., Wang, Y., Xie, W., Chang, C. Z., Zhang, Q., Yan, B. & Mao, Z., Aug 8 2025, In: Advanced Functional Materials. 35, 32, 2424231.

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Nanomechanical Characterization of an Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator

Liu, S., Chong, S. K., Kim, D., Vashist, A., Kumar, R., Lee, S. H., Wang, K. L., Mao, Z., Liu, F. & Deshpande, V. V., Jan 22 2025, In: Nano letters. 25, 3, p. 973-980 8 p.

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Spectroscopic evidence of intra-unit-cell charge redistribution in a charge-neutral magnetic topological insulator

Nguyen, K. D., Berruto, G., Lee, S. H., Bai, Y., Lin, H., Gao, Q., Mao, Z. & Yang, S., Apr 2 2025, In: Nanoscale. 17, 17, p. 10663-10669 7 p.

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Beyond-Hubbard Pairing in a Cuprate Ladder

Padma, H., Thomas, J., Tenhuisen, S. F. R., He, W., Guan, Z., Li, J., Lee, B., Wang, Y., Lee, S. H., Mao, Z., Jang, H., Bisogni, V., Pelliciari, J., Dean, M. P. M., Johnston, S. & Mitrano, M., Apr 2025, In: Physical Review X. 15, 2, 021049.

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Symmetry-protected electronic metastability in an optically driven cuprate ladder

Padma, H., Glerean, F., TenHuisen, S. F. R., Shen, Z., Wang, H., Xu, L., Elliott, J. D., Homes, C. C., Skoropata, E., Ueda, H., Liu, B., Paris, E., Romaguera, A., Lee, B., He, W., Wang, Y., Lee, S. H., Choi, H., Park, S. Y. & Mao, Z. & 6 others, Calandra, M., Jang, H., Razzoli, E., Dean, M. P. M., Wang, Y. & Mitrano, M., Oct 2025, In: Nature Materials. 24, 10, p. 1584-1591 8 p.

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Realizing high power factor and thermoelectric performance in band engineered AgSbTe2

Zhang, Y., Xing, C., Wang, D., Genç, A., Lee, S. H., Chang, C., Li, Z., Zheng, L., Lim, K. H., Zhu, H., Smriti, R. B., Liu, Y., Cheng, S., Hong, M., Fan, X., Mao, Z., Zhao, L. D., Cabot, A., Zhu, T. & Poudel, B., Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 22.

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Exchange-Driven Chern States in High-Mobility Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulators

Chong, S. K., Lei, C., Cheng, Y., Lee, S. H., Mao, Z., Macdonald, A. H. & Wang, K. L., Apr 5 2024, In: Physical review letters. 132, 14, 146601.

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Intrinsic exchange biased anomalous Hall effect in an uncompensated antiferromagnet MnBi2Te4

Chong, S. K., Cheng, Y., Man, H., Lee, S. H., Wang, Y., Dai, B., Tanabe, M., Yang, T. H., Mao, Z., Moler, K. A. & Wang, K. L., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 2881.

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Tunneling current-controlled spin states in few-layer van der Waals magnets

Fu, Z. E., Samarawickrama, P. I., Ackerman, J., Zhu, Y., Mao, Z., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Wang, W., Dahnovsky, Y., Wu, M., Chien, T. Y., Tang, J., MacDonald, A. H., Chen, H. & Tian, J., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 3630.

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Hidden non-collinear spin-order induced topological surface states

Huang, Z., Yi, H., Kaplan, D., Min, L., Tan, H., Chan, Y. T., Mao, Z., Yan, B., Chang, C. Z. & Wu, W., Dec 2024, In: Nature communications. 15, 1, 2937.

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