Research Interests

1.Metal smart material: one-dimensional Ni-Mn-Ga wire material, multilayer film material, porous material

2.Magnetic functional materials: Fe-Ga magnetostrictive alloy, Sm-Fe-N permanent magnetic alloy

3.Functional composites: magnetic mechanical coupling effect, magnetoelectric thin films

Education Background

PhD of materials physics, Department of Physics, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, 1996

Master of materials physics, Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, 1993

Bachelor of engineering, Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, China, 1986

Work Experience

1986/9-1993/9, Research assistant, Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

1992/8-1992/11, Visiting Research Fellow, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy  

1994/5-1994/6, Visiting researcher, Rutherford National Laboratory, United Kingdom

1996/5-1997/2, Postdoctoral, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain 1997/2-1997/8, Postdoctoral, Department of Materials Science, University of Delaware, USA

1997/8-2000/12, Research associate, Institute of Energy Conversion, USA 2000/12-2003/9, Senior research associate, Center of Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, USA

2004/04-Present, Professor, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

Selected Publications

Published articles in recent 5 years:

[1] Ming Wu, Wenlong Hu, Jiaxing Shi, Jie Zhu*. A new L-T coupling mode to enhance the magnetoelectric effect of AlN/Fe-Ga device. Materials Letters. 2019, 249:136-139

[2] Jiaxing Shi, Liping Yin, Cifu Lu, and Jie Zhu*. Spatial angles sensitivity of Fe83Ga17/AlN/Mo/Si magnetoelectric device. AIP Advances. 2017, 7:055207.

[3] Jiaxing Shi, Jie Zhu*, Liping Yin, Hui Jiang, Cifu Lu, Xuexu Gao, Xiaoqian Bao, Jiheng Li. The study of Fe83Ga17 films act as magnetostrictive actuator on PZT substrate. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 2017, 53:2501804.

[4] Jiaxing Shi, Cifu Lu, Hui Jiang, Wu Ming, Wenlong Hu, Yalong Zhao, Jiquan Wang, Mingming Li, Xing Mu, Jie Zhu*. Structural, magnetic and magnetostrictive properties of Fe83Ga17 films with a Ti adhesion layer. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2019, 475:662-667.

[5] Jiaxing Shi, Jie Zhu*. Influence of permeability and d33 on FeGa/PZT/FeGa Magnetoelectric Effect. Materials Science Forum. 815 (2015) 194-198.

[6] Hui Jiang, Jie Zhu*. Modeling of the loading path dependent magnetomechanical behavior of Galfenol alloy. China Physics B. 2017, 26(3): 037503.

[7] Hui Jiang, Jie Zhu*, Xing Mu. The anisotropy of ∆E effect of Fe-Ga single crystal. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 2018,54(4): 25500306.

[8] Hui Jiang, Jie Zhu*, Xing Mu. Grain orientation dependence of ∆E effect and magnetomechanical coupling factor in polycrystalline Galfenol alloy. Computational Materials Science. 2019, 156: 67-76.

[9] Hui Jiang, Jie Zhu*, Chao Yuan. The magnetic domain rotation in the magnetostriction process of Fe-Ga alloy. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2019, 486:165274

[10] Z.Y. Ding, D.X. Liu, Q.L. Qi, J.X. Zhang, Y.L. Yao, Y. Zhang, D.Y. Cong and Jie Zhu*. Multistep superelasticity of Ni-Mn-Ga and Ni-Mn-Ga-Co-Cu microwires under stress-temperature coupling. Acta Materialia, 2017, 140:326-336.

[11] Z.Y. Ding, J. Zhu*, D.X. Liu, H. Jiang, Q.L. Qi, Y. Zhang, D.Y. Cong. Ni-Mn-Ga microwire twist caused by stress-magnetic coupling. Materials and Design, 2017, 130:521-527.

[12] Zhiyi Ding, Qingli Qi, Dan Wu, Junpeng Liu, Xiaoming Sun, Yimin Cui, Ming Yue, Yong Zhang, Jie Zhu*, Superlattice in austenitic Ni-Mn-Ga shape memory microwires[J]. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2019, 777:174-179.

[13] Z.Y. Ding, J. Zhu*, X.Z. Zhang, D.X. Liu, Q.L. Qi, Y. Zhang, D.Y. Cong. 14% recoverable strain in Ni52. 87Mn23. 82Ga 23. 32 microwires [J]. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2017, 50(9): 095303.

[14] Z.Y. Ding, J.P. Liu, Q. L. Qi, D. X. Liu, J. Zhu*. Superelasticity and acoustic emission of Ni46Mn28Ga20Co3Cu3 microwire [J]. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2018, 51: 305502.

[15] D.X. Liu, Z.Y. Ding, X.Z. Zhang, D.Y. Cong, J. Zhu*. Magnetic-field-induced twist in Ni-Mn-Ga-Co-Cu microwires [J]. Scripta Materialia, 2017, 128: 91-94.

[16] Cifu Lu, Xiufeng Hong, Zhiyi Ding, Jiaxing Shi, Xiaoqian Bao, Xuexu Gao, Jie Zhu*. Phase formation and magnetic hardening mechanism of TbCu7 type Sm-Fe-N powders. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. ,2018 , 456:6–10

[17] Cifu Lu, Jie Zhu*, Jiaxin Gong and Xuexu Gao. A method to improve the coercivity of sintered anisotropic Sm–Fe–N magnets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 2018, 461:48-52

[18] Cifu Lu, Xiufeng Hong, Xiaoqian Bao, Xuexu Gao and Jie Zhu*. The particle interaction during magnetization reversal process of anisotropic Sm2Fe17Nx powders. Rare Metals. 2018, 37(10):875-880

[19] Cifu Lu, Xiufeng Hong , Xiaoqian Bao, Xuexu Gao, Jie Zhu*,Changing phase equilibria: A method for microstructure optimization and properties improvement in preparing anisotropic Sm2Fe17N3 powders, Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 2019, 784: 980-989

Academic Services

1. Reviewer of《Scripta Materialia》、《Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials》、《Intermetallics》、《Surface and Coating Technology》、《Advances in Materials Science and Engineering》、《Journal of Alloys and Compounds》、《Rare Metals》

2. Member of MRS

3. Member of IEEE