Areas of Focus
- Spintronics materials and devices
- Surface acoustic wave filters and magnetoacoustic devices
- RF filters for mobile communication
Work Experience
- 2021/06-Present Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- 2017/12-2021/06 Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- 2011/10-2017/12 Lecturer, Associate Researcher, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- 2009/03-2011/08 Research Assistant, Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2004/09-2009/01 PhD in Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- 2000/09-2004/06 Bachelor in Material Science and Engineering, Central South University
Publications
- Spin-torque–driven antiferromagnetic resonance, Cheng Song*, 2024
- Electrical 180° switching of Néel vector in spin-splitting antiferromagnet, Cheng Song*, 2024
- Simultaneous High Charge-Spin Conversion Efficiency and Large Spin Diffusion Length in Altermagnetic RuO2, Cheng Song*, 2024
- Ordered creation and motion of skyrmions with surface acoustic wave, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Direct-Current Electrical Detection of Surface-Acoustic-Wave-Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Ruderman−Kittel−Kasuya−Yosida-Type Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii−Moriya Interaction in Synthetic Magnets, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Efficient Spin-to-Charge Conversion via Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effect in Antiferromagnet RuO2, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Long-distance coherent propagation of high-velocity antiferromagnetic spin waves, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Anomalous displacement reaction for synthesizing above room-temperature and air-stable vdW ferromagnet PtTe2Ge1/3, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Anisotropic interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in synthetic ferromagnetic multilayers, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Terahertz Spin Current Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Hematite, Cheng Song*, 2023
- Control of spin current and antiferromagnetic moments via topological surface state, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Controlling antiferromagnetic moments with spin currents has low power requirements, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Observation of the spin splitting torque in a collinear antiferromagnet RuO2, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Spin homojunction with high interfacial transparency for efficient spin-charge conversion, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Orthogonal interlayer coupling in an all-antiferromagnetic junction, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Van der Waals lattice-induced colossal magnetoresistance in Cr2Ge2Te6 thin flakes, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Antiferromagnetic inverse spin Hall effect, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Piezoelectric Strain-Controlled Magnon Spin Current Transport in an Antiferromagnet, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Antiferromagnetism: An efficient and controllable spin source, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Controllable generation of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets with thermal effect, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Interface-enhanced ferromagnetism with long-distance effect in van der Waals semiconductor, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Spin Selectivity in Chiral Hybrid Cobalt Halide Films with Ultra-smooth Surface, Cheng Song*, 2022
- Observation of the antiferromagnetic spin Hall effect, Cheng Song*, 2021
Awards
- 2023 First Excellent Youth Graduate Tutor Award Fund
- 2023 Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Advisor
- 2023 First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress by the China Association of Electronic Component Industry (6th contributor)
- 2022 National Outstanding Youth Science Fund
- 2022 Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Advisor
- 2022 Beijing Science and Technology Progress First Prize (10th contributor)
- 2022 Excellent Reviewer of China's Science and Technology Journals Excellence Action Plan
- 2021 Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor
- 2021 Tsinghua University Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Advisor
- 2020 Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar in China
- 2020 Beijing Outstanding Youth Fund
- 2020 Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Advisor
- 2020 Second Prize in the 9th Young Teachers Teaching Competition at Tsinghua University (Science and Medicine Group)
- 2019 Outstanding User Award on the Tenth Anniversary of the Shanghai Light Source
- 2018 Beijing Science and Technology (Basic Category) Second Prize (3rd contributor)
- 2018 National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize (10th contributor)
- 2016 Young Scholar of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program
- 2015 National 'Challenge Cup' Outstanding Instructor
- 2015 Tsinghua University Liu Bing Award
- 2014 Second Prize in the 6th Young Teachers Teaching Competition at Tsinghua University (Science and Engineering Group)
- 2013 National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars
- 2012 National Natural Science Second Prize (3rd contributor)
- 2012 Tsinghua University 'Young Talent Support Plan'
- 2011 First Prize in Natural Science by the Ministry of Education (3rd contributor)
