Quanxi Jia

PhD

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Quanxi Jia

PhD

Quanxi Jia

PhD

National Grid Professor of Materials Research
SUNY Empire Innovation Professor
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Department of Materials Design and Innovation
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Topics

Synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced electronic and energy materials; investigation of the processing-structure-property relationship of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures; monolithic integration of materials with complimentary functionalities for electronic devices; and exploration of superconductors and their applications to energy and quantum devices.

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Recent Publications

  • P. Roy,A. Carr, T. Zhou, B. Paudel, X. Wang, D. Chen, K. T. Kang, A. Pateras, Z. Corey, S. Lin, J. Zhu, M. V. Holt, J. Yoo, V. Zapf, H. Zeng, F. Ronning, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “Origin of topological Hall-like feature in epitaxial SrRuO3 thin films,” Adv. Electronic Mater. 9, 2300020 (2023).
  • S. Kunwar, C. B. Somodi, R. A. Lalk, B. X. Rutherford, Z. Corey, P. Roy, D. Zhang, M. Hellenbrand, M. Xiao, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, Q. X, Jia, H. Wang, J. J. Yang, W. Nie, A. Chen, “An interface type memristive device for artificial synapse and neuromorphic computing,” Adv. Intell. Syst. 2300035 (2023).
  • K. T. Kang, Z. J. Corey, J. Huang, Y. Sharma, B. Paudel, P. Roy, L. Collins, X. Wang, J. W. Lee, Y. S. Oh, Y. Kim, J. Yoon, J. Lee, H. Htoon, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “ Heterogeneous integration of freestanding bilayer oxide membranes for multiferroicity,” Adv. Sci. 10, 2207481 (2023).
  • H. Dou, M. Hellenbrand, M. Xiao, Z. Hu, S. Kunwar, A. Chen, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, Q. X. Jia, H. Wang, “Engineering of grain boundaries in CeO2 enabling tailorable resistive switching properties,” Adv. Electron. Mater. 9, 2201186 (2023).
  • S. Dhole, X. Wei, H. Hui, P. Roy, Z. Corey, Y. Wang, W. Nie, A. Chen, H. Zeng, and Q. X. Jia, “A facile aqueous solution route for the growth of chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS3 films,” Photonics 10, 366 (2023).
  • S. Kunwar, C. B. Somodi, R. A. Lalk, B. X. Rutherford, Z. Corey, P. Roy, D. Zhang, M. Hellenbrand, M. Xiao, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, Q. X, Jia, H. Wang, J. J. Yang, W. Nie, A. Chen, “Proton: A critical element for resistive switching in interface-type memristors,” Adv. Electron. Mater., 9, 2200816 (2023).
  • S. Wei, P. Roy, X. Tong, H. Yue, M. Liu, H. N. Jaiswal, S. Shahi, Y. I. Gata, T. Butler, H. Li, Q. X. Jia, and F. Yao, “Two birds with one stone: prelithiated two-dimensional nanohybrids as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 35673 (2022).
  • E. Enriquez, P. Lu, L. Li, B. Zhang, H. Wang, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “Reducing leakage current and enhancing polarization in multiferroic 3D super-nanocomposites by microstructure engineering,” Nanotechnology 33, 405604 (2022).
  • Y. Sharma, B. Paudel, A. Huon, A. M. Schneider, P. Roy, Z. Corey, R. Schoenemann, A. C. Jones, M. Jaime, D. A. Yarotski, T. Charlton, M. A. Fitzsimmons, Q. X. Jia, M. T. Pettes, P. Yang, and A. Chen, “Induced Ferromagnetism in epitaxial uranium dioxide thin films,” Adv. Sci. 9, 2203473 (2022).
  • Z. J. Corey, P. Lu, G. Zhang, Y. Sharma, B. X. Rutherford, S. Dhole, P. Roy, Y. Wu, H. Wang, A. Chen, Q. X. Jia “Structural and optical properties of high entropy (La,Lu,Y,Gd,Ce)AlO3 perovskite thin films,” Adv. Sci. 9, 2202671 (2022).
  • N. Cucciniello, D. Lee, H. Y. Feng, Z. Yang, M. Zhu, and Q. X. Jia, “Superconducting niobium nitride: a perspective from processing, microstructure, and superconducting properties for single photon detectors,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34, 374003 (2022).
  • D. Li, B. Zhu, D. Backes, L. S. Veiga, T.-L. Lee, H. Wang, Q. He, P. Roy, J. Zhang, J. Shi, A. Chen, P. A. van Aken, Q. X. Jia, S. S. Dhesi, D. O. Scanlon, K. H. L. Zhang, and W. Li, “Manipulating the metal-to-insulator transition and magnetic properties in manganite thin films via epitaxial strain,” Phys. Rev. B 105, 165426 (2022).
  • H. Dou, N. Strkalj, Y. Zhang, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, Q. X. Jia, and H. Wang, “Optical dielectric properties of HfO2-based films,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 40, 033412 (2022).
  • O. G. Licata, J. Sarker, M. Bachhav, P. Roy, X. Wei, Z. Yang, N. Patibandla, H. Zeng, M. Zhu, Q. X. Jia, and B. Mazumder, “Correlation between thickness dependent nanoscale structural chemistry and superconducting properties of ultrathin epitaxial NbN films,” Mater. Chem. Phys. 282, 125962 (2022).
  • P. Roy, S. Kunwar, D. Zhang, D. Chen, Z. Corey, B. Rutherford, H. Wang, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “Role of defect and power dispassion on Ferroelectric memristive switching,” Adv. Electron. Mater. 8, 2101392 (2022).
  • S. Dhole, A. Chen, W. Nie, B. H. Park, and Q. X. Jia, “Strain engineering: a pathway for tunable functionalities of perovskite metal oxide films,” Nanomaterials 12, 835 (2022). (Invited review)
  • Z. Corey, H. H. Han, K. T. Kang, X. Wang, R. A. Lalk, R. Paudel, P. Roy, Y. Sharma, J. Yoo, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “The role of oxygen transfer in oxide heterostructures on functional properties,” Adv. Mater. Interfaces 9, 2101867 (2022).
  • H. Dou, X. Gao, D. Zheng, S. Dhole, Z. Qi, B. Yang, M. N. Hasan, J. H. Seo, Q. X. Jia, M. Hellenbrand, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, X. Zhang, and H. Wang, “Electroforming-free HfO2/CeO2 vertically aligned nanocomposite memristors with anisotropic dielectric response,” ACS Appl. Electronic Mater. 3, 5278 (2021).
  • Y. Hu, S. Broderick, Z. Guo, A. T. N’Diaye, J. S. Bola, H. Malissa, C. Li, Q. Zhang, Y. Huang, Q. X. Jia, C. Boehme, Z. V. Vardeny, C. Zhou, and S. Ren, “Proton switching molecular magnetoelectricity,” Nat. Commoun. 12, 4602 (2021).
  • R. Wu, D. Zhang, T. Maity, P. Lu, J. Yang, X. Gao, S. Zhao, X. Wei, H. Zeng, A. Kursumovic, G. Tian, W. Li, C. Yun, Y. Wang, Z. Ren, Z. Zhou, M. Liu, K. H. L. Zhang, Q. X. Jia, J. Yang, H. Wang, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, “Self-biased magnetoelectric switching at room temperature in three-phase ferroelectric-antiferromagnetic-ferrimagnetic  nanocomposites,” Nat. Electronics 4, 333 (2021).
  • Y. Zheng, Z. Feng, A. F. M. A. Uddin Bhuiyan, L. Meng, S. Dhole, Q. X. Jia, H. Zhao, and J. H. Seo, “Large-size free-standing single-crystal b-Ga2O3 membranes fabricated by hydrogen implantation and life-off,” J. Mater. Chem. C 9, 6180 (2021).
  • X. Lü, C. Stoumpos, Q. Hu, X. Ma, D. Zhang, S. Guo, J. Hoffman, K. Bu, X. Guo, Y. Wang, C. Ji, H. Chen, H. Xu, Q. X. Jia, W. Yang, M. G. Kanatzidis, and H. K. Mao, “Regulating off-centering distortion maximizes photoluminescence in halide perovskites,” National Sci. Rev. 8, nwaa288 (2021).
  • X. Wei, P. Roy, Z. Yang, D. Zhang, Z. He, P. Lu, O. Licata, H. Wang, B. Mazumder, N. Patibandla, Y. Cao, H. Zeng, M. Zhu, and Q. X. Jia, “Ultrathin epitaxial NbN superconducting films with high upper critical field grown at low temperature,” Mater. Res. Lett. 9, 336 (2021).
  • Z. Yu, X. Wei, Y. Zheng, H. Hui, M. Bian, S. Dhole, J. H. Seo, Y. Y. Sun, Q. X. Jia, S. Zhang, and H. Zeng, “Chalcogenide perovskite BaZrS3 thin-film electronic and optoelectronic devices by low temperature processing,” Nano Energy 85, 105959 (2021).
  • C. Yun, Y. Wang, Z. Ren, Z. Zhou, M. Liu, K. H. L. Zhang, Q. X. Jia, J. Yang, H. Wang, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll “High performance, electroforming-free, thin film memristors using ionic Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3,” J. Mater. Chem. C 9, 4522 (2021).
  • N. F. Haberkorn, Y. Y. Zhang, Z. X. Bi, B. H. Park, L. Civale, and Q. X. Jia, “Effect of Co2N impurity on the superconducting properties of d-MoN thin films grown by polymer assisted deposition,” Mater. Chem. & Phys. 259, 124184 (2021).
  • A. Chen and Q. X. Jia, “A pathway to desired functionalities in vertically aligned nanocomposites related architectures,” MRS Bulletin 46, 115 (2021).
  • Y. Chen, H. Zeng, P. Ma, G. Chen, J. Jian, X. Sun, X. Li, H. Wang, W. Yin, Q. X. Jia, and G. F. Zou, “Overcoming the anisotropic growth limitations of free-standing single-crystal halide perovskite films,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60, 2629 (2021).
  • I.-S. Byun, D. Boukhvalov, S. Lee, W. Kim, J. Baik, H.-J. Shin, C. Lee, Y.-W. Son, Q. X. Jia, and B. H. Park, “Engineering ferromagnetic lines in graphene by local oxidation and hydrogenation using nanoscale lithography,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 54, 074002 (2021).
  • E. Enriquez, Q. Li, P. Bowlan, P. Lu, B. Zhang, L. Li, H. Wang, A. J. Taylor, D. Yarotski, R. P. Prasankumar, S. V. Kalinin, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “Induced ferroelectric phases in SrTiO3 by a nanocomposite approach,” Nanoscale 12, 18193 (2020).
  • A. Chen, W. Zhang, L. R. Dedon, D. Chen, F. Khatkhatay, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, H. Wang, D. Yarotski, J. Chen, X. Gao, L. W. Martin, A. Roelofs, and Q. X. Jia, “Couplings of polarization with interfacial deep traps and Schottky interface controlled ferroelectric memristive switching,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 30, 2000664 (2020).
  • E. Enriquez, G. Wang, Y. Shama, I. Sapkaya, Q. Wang, D. Chen, N. Winner, X. Gun, J. Dunwoody, J. T. White, A. Nelson, H. Xu, P. Dowden, E. R. Batista, H. Htoon, P. Yang, Q. X. Jia, and A. Chen, “Structural and optical properties of phase-pure UO2, a-U3O8, and a-UO3 epitaxial thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition,” ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 12, 35232 (2020).
  • X. Wei, H. Hui, S. Perera, A. Sheng, D. F. Watson, Y. Y. Sun, Q. X. Jia, S. Zhang, and H. Zeng, “Ti-alloying of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite for photovoltaics,” ACS Omega 5, 18579 (2020).
  • R. Yuan, P. Lu, H. Han, D. Xue, A. Chen, Q. X. Jia, and T. Lookman, “Enhanced magnetocaloric performance in manganite bilayers,” J. Appl. Phys. 127, 154102 (2020).
  • X. Wei, H. Hui, C. Zhao, C. Deng, M. Han, Z. Yu, A. Sheng, P. Roy, A. Chen, J. Lin, D. F. Watson, Y. Y. Sun, T. Thomay, S. Yang, Q. X. Jia, S. Zhang, and H. Zeng, “Realization of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite thin films for optoelectronics,” Nano Energy 68, 104317 (2020).
  • A. Chen, Y. Dai, A. Eshghinejad, Z. Liu, Z. C. Wang, J. Bowlan, E. Knall, L. Civale, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, A. Taylor, R. Prasankumar, T. Lookman, J. Li, D. Yarotski, and Q. X. Jia, “Competing interface and bulk effects driven magnetoelectric coupling in vertically aligned nanocomposites,” Adv. Sci. 6, 1901000 (2019).
  • X. Lü, A. Chen, Y. Dai, B. Wei, H. Xu, J. Wen, N. Li, Y. Luo, E. Enriquez, Z. C. Wang, P. Dowden, W. Yang, Y. S. Zhao, and Q. X. Jia, “Metallic interface induced by electronic reconstruction in crystalline-amorphous bilayer oxide films,” Sci. Bulletin 64, 1567 (2019).
  • T. O. Farmer, E. Guo, R. D. Desautels, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, A. Chen, Z. Wang, Q. X. Jia, J. A. Borchers, D. A. Gilbert, B. Holladay, S. K. Sinha, and M. R. Fitzsimmons, “Nanoscale magnetization inhomogeneity within single phase nanopillars,” Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 081401, (2019).
  • A. McDannald, S. Vijayan, J. Shi, A. Chen, Q. X. Jia, M. Aindow, and M. Jian, “Magnetic and tunable dielectric properties of DyCrO3 thin films,” J. Mater. Sci., 54, 8984 (2019).
  • A. Chen, Z. Harrell, P. Lu, E. Enriquez, L. Li, B. Zhang, P. Dowden, C. Chen, H. Wang, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, and Q. X. Jia, “Strain enhanced functionality in a bottom-up approach enabled 3D super-nanocomposites,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1900442 (2019).
  • E. Choi, B. Zhu, A. D. Berardo, P. Lu, J. Feighan, K. H. Zhang, J. Robinson, H. Alpern, T. Shapira, O. Millo, Q. X. Jia, X. Sun, H. Wang, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, “3D strain-induced superconductivity in La2CuO4+d using a simple vertically aligned nanocomposite approach,” Sci. Advances 5, 5532 (2019).
  • Y. S. Guan, G. Zhong, Y. Hu, A. F. Cannella, C. Li, N. Lee, Q. X. Jia, D. C. Lacy, and S. Q. Ren, “Magnetoelectric radical hydrocarbons,” Adv. Mater. 31, 1806263 (2019).
  • A. Chen, Q. Su, H. Han, E. Enriquez, and Q. X. Jia, “Metal oxide nanocomposites: a perspective from strain, defect, and interface,” Adv. Mater. 31, 1803241 (2019). (Review)
  • S. Lee, W. Zhang, F. Khatkhatay, H. Wang, Q. X. Jia, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, “Ionic conductivity increased by two orders of magnitude in micrometer-thick vertical yttria-stabilized ZrO2 nanocomposite films,” Nano Lett. 15, 7362 (2015).
  • W. Zhang, L. Li, P. Lu, M. Fan, Q. Su, F. Khatkhatas, A. Chen, Q. X. Jia, X. Zhang, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, and H. Wang, “Perpendicular exchange-bias magnetotransport at the vertical heterointerfaces in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3:NiO nanocomposites,” ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 7, 21646 (2015).
  • C. W. Nan and Q. X. Jia, “Obtaining ultimate functionalities in nanocomposites: Design, control, and fabrication,” MRS Bulletin 40, 719 (2015).
  • J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, A. Suwardi, A. Kursumovic, Z. Bi, C.-F. Tsai, H. Wang, Q. X. Jia, and Q. J. Lee, “New strain states and radical property tuning of metal oxides using a nanocomposite thin film approach,” APL Mater. 3, 062507 (2015).
  • W. Zhang, A. Chen, J. Jian, Y. Zhu, L. Chen, P. Lu, Q. X. Jia, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, X. Zhang, and H. Wang, “Strong perpendicular exchange bias in epitaxial La0.7Sr0.3MnO3:BiFeO3 nanocomposite films through vertical interfacial coupling,” Nanoscale 7, 13808 (2015).
  • S. Lee, W. Zhang, Q. X. Jia, H. Wang, and J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, “Strain tuning and strong enhancement of ionic conductivity in SrZrO3-RE2O3 (RE = Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, and Er) nanocomposite films,” Adv. Functional Mater. 25, 4328 (2015).
  • P. Jain, Q. Wang, M. Roldan, A. Glavic, V. Lauter, C. Urban, Z. Bi, T. Ahmed, J. Zhu, M. Varela, Q. X. Jia, and M. R. Fitzsimmons, “Synthetic magnetoelectric coupling in a nanocomposite multiferroic,” Scientific Reports 5, 9089 (2015).
  • Y. Park, J. S. Choi, T. Choi, M. J. Lee, Q. X. Jia, M. Park, H. Lee, and B. H. Park, “Configuration of ripple domains and their topological defects formed under local mechanical stress on hexagonal monolayer graphene,” Scientific Reports 5, 9390 (2015).
  • A. Chen, N. Poudyal, J. Xiong, J. P. Liu, and Q. X. Jia, “Modification of structure and magnetic anisotropy of epitaxial CoFe2O4 films by hydrogen reduction,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 111907 (2015).
  • Y. M. Sheu, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar, “Ultrafast optical manipulation of magnetoelectric coupling at a multiferroic interface,” Nat. Commun. 5, 5832 (2014).
  • P. Lu, E. Roemro, S. Lee, J. L. MacManus-Driscoll, and Q. X. Jia, “Chemical quantification of atomic-scale EDS maps under thin specimen conditions,” Microscopy & Microanalysis 20, 1782 (2014).
  • X. Lü, G. Wang, J. W. Howard, A. Chen, Y. Zhao, L. L. Daemen, and Q. X. Jia, “Li-rich anti-perovskite Li3OCl films with enhanced ionic conductivity,” Chem. Commun. 50, 11520-11522 (2014).
  • Q. Y. Lei, M. Golalikhani, D. Yang, W. Withanage, A. Rafti, J. Qiu, M. Hambe, E. Bauer, F. Ronning, Q. X. Jia, J. Weiss, E. Hellstrom, X. Wang, X. H. Chen, F. Williams, Q. Yang, D. Temple, and X. X. Xi, “Structural and transport properties of epitaxial Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 thin films on various substrates,” Supercond. Sci. Technol. 27, 115010 (2014).