Areas of Focus
- Materials for ultra-low power information storage devices
- Multiferroic materials and magnetoelectric coupling effects
- Oxide spintronics materials
- Low-power magnetoelectric/spin-orbit torque memory
- Strongly correlated functional oxide thin films
Work Experience
- 2022/12-Present Associate Professor, School of Materials Science, Tsinghua University
- 2019/12-2022/11 Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science, Tsinghua University
- 2015/08-2019/11 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Collaborative Supervisor: Prof. Yuri Suzuki
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010/08-2015/07 PhD in Material Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Supervisor: Prof. Ramamoorthy Ramesh
- 2006/08-2010/07 Bachelor in Material Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Publications
- Implementing Complex Oxides for Efficient Room-Temperature Spin-Orbit Torque Switching, Di Yi*, 2022
- Ferroelectric domain-wall logic units, Di Yi, 2022
- Spin-charge conversion in transition metal oxides, Di Yi*, 2021
- Interface-Driven Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Symmetry Control in Oxide Superlattices, Di Yi*, 2021
- Emergent electrical control of phase transformation in oxide superlattices, Di Yi*, 2020
- Tailoring magnetoelectric coupling in BiFeO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 by engineering interfacial polar discontinuity, Di Yi*, 2019
- Tuning perpendicular magnetic anisotropy by oxygen octahedral rotations in (La1−xSrxMnO3)/(SrIrO3) superlattices, Di Yi*, 2017
- Engineering magnetism at functional oxides interfaces: Manganites and Beyond, Di Yi*, 2017
- Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin–orbit coupling effect in La2/3Sr1/3MnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices, Di Yi, 2016
- Tuning the competition between ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism in a half-doped manganite through magnetoelectric coupling, Di Yi, 2013
Awards
- 2022 China Building Materials Federation/Silicate Society Science and Technology Award, First Prize (Ranked 4th)
- 2019 National Overseas High-level Talents Youth Project
- 2019 American Physical Society Postdoctoral Award (APS March Meeting 2019)
- 2012 Berkeley Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
- 2010 Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate
