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Yubo Zhang

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Temple University
Department of Physics
SERC 721
1925 N. 12th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone: (215) 204-9852
Email:  Yubo.Zhang@temple.edu

 

 

Yubo Zhang received his Ph.D in physics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2012 with his Ph.D training mainly carried out at the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS).  After that, he did a two-year postdoc in SICCAS.  He joined Temple University as a postdoc within the group of Prof. Xifan Wu in the Department of Physics in 2014.  He was a research assistant professor in the “Center for the Computational Design of Functional Layered Materials (CCDM)”.

Research Interests

  • Magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic materials
  • Novel Cu-chalcogenides for photovoltaic applications

5 most relevant publications

  • Yubo Zhang, Youwei Wang, Lili Xi, Ruihao Qiu, Xun Shi, Peihong Zhang, and Wenqing Zhang, Electronic structure of antifluorite Cu2X (X= S, Se, Te) within the modified Becke-Johnson potential plus an on-site Coulomb U. J. Chem. Phys. 140, 074702 (2014)
  • Yubo Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Weiwei Gao, Tesfaye A. Abtew, Youwei Wang, Peihong Zhang, and Wenqing Zhang, Near-edge band structures and band gaps of Cu-based semiconductors predicted by the modified Becke-Johnson potential plus an on-site Coulomb U. J. Chem. Phys. 139, 184706 (2013)
  • Bi-Ching Shih, Yubo Zhang, Wenqing Zhang, and Peihong Zhang, Screened Coulomb Interaction of Localized Electrons in Solids from First-Principles. Phys. Rev. B 85, 045132 (2012)
  • Yubo Zhang, Xun Yuan, Xiudong Sun, Bi-Ching Shih, Peihong Zhang, and Wenqing Zhang, Comparative Study of Structural and Electronic Properties of Cu-based Multinary Semiconductors, Phys. Rev. B, 84, 075127 (2011)