Yong Liu

I received my PhD in condensed matter physics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2005, and a bachelor of engineering in materials science and engineering from Hunan University in China in 1997. My PhD work is about the transport properties and vortex dynamics of La1.6-xNd0.4SrxCuO4 films. I am familiar with thin film growth by using magnetron sputtering and pulsed laser deposition techniques. My scientific career as a crystal grower started in February 2009 when I joined the crystal growth group at Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany. Since January 2012 I had been working at Ames Laboratory under the project “Novel Materials Preparation and Processing Methodologies.” Currently I am working at Crystal Growth Facility, Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. RESEARCH INTEREST • New Techniques for Crystal Growth and in situ Observation. • Growth of Single Crystals of Emergent Compounds and New Materials. • Thermodynamic Calculations Guided Single Crystal Growth by Flux Method. • 2D Superconductivity and Novel Electronic States at the Interfaces of Heterostructures. • Superconductivity and Vortex Dynamics in Unconventional Superconductors. • Magnetic States in Frustrated Magnetic Materials. • Spin, Lattice, Charge, and Orbital Correlations in Magnetic Materials.