Li, Zhi

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research is focused on using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and transport measurement to investigate superconductivity and exotic physics phenomena in 2D materials.

Available as Research Supervisor

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Atomically Thin Superconductors Published In Small
2021	Cross-over from weak localization to anti-localization in rare doped TRS protected topological insulators Published In Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
2021	Magneto-transport and electronic structures in MoSi2 bulks and thin films with different orientations Published In Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2021	Pressure effects on iron-based superconductor families: Superconductivity, flux pinning and vortex dynamics Published In Materials Today Physics
2020	Boosting the superconducting properties of Fe(Se, Te) through hexagonal phase manipulation Published In Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2020	Creating thin magnetic layers at the surface of Sb2Te3 topological insulators using a low-energy chromium ion beam Published In APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
2020	Spin-Gapless Semiconductors Published In Small
2019	Boosting Superconducting Properties of Fe(Se, Te) via Dual-Oscillation Phenomena Induced by Fluorine Doping Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Enhancement of superconducting properties in polycrystalline Fe(Se, Te)via a dual coordination effect Published In Scripta Materialia
2019	In-situ hydrostatic pressure induced significant suppression of magnetic relaxation and enhancement of flux pinning in Fe1−xCoxSe0.5Te0.5 single crystals Published In Scripta Materialia
2019	Modulation of Crystal and Electronic Structures in Topological Insulators by Rare-Earth Doping Published In ACS Applied Electronic Materials
2019	Possible Excitonic Insulating Phase in Quantum-Confined Sb Nanoflakes Published In Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology
2019	Quantum oscillations in iron-doped single crystals of the topological insulator S b2 T e3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2019	Quantum oscillations of robust topological surface states up to 50 K in thick bulk-insulating topological insulator Published In npj Quantum Materials
2018	Realization of flat band with possible nontrivial topology in electronic Kagome lattice Published In Science Advances
2017	Cooperative Electron-Phonon Coupling and Buckled Structure in Germanene on Au(111) Published In ACS Nano
2017	Role of Atomic Interaction in Electronic Hybridization in Two-Dimensional Ag2Ge Nanosheets Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2017	Synthesis of Multilayer Silicene on Si(111)√3 × √3-Ag Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2016	Interface-enhanced electron-phonon coupling and high-temperature superconductivity in potassium-coated ultrathin FeSe films on SrTiO3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2016	Metal-silicene interaction studied by scanning tunneling microscopy Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2016	Observation of van Hove Singularities in Twisted Silicene Multilayers Published In ACS Central science
2016	Quasi-freestanding epitaxial silicene on Ag(111) by oxygen intercalation Published In Science Advances
2016	Quasi-freestanding epitaxial silicene on Ag(111) by oxygen intercalation Published In Scientific Advances
2016	Visualizing the elongated vortices in γ -Ga nanostrips Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2015	Delocalized surface state in epitaxial Si(111) film with spontaneous √3 × √3 superstructure Published In Scientific Reports
2015	Detection of a Superconducting Phase in a Two-Atom Layer of Hexagonal Ga Film Grown on Semiconducting GaN(0001) Published In Physical Review Letters
2015	Honeycomb silicon: a review of silicene Published In Science Bulletin
2015	Mass acquisition of Dirac fermions in magnetically doped topological insulator Sb2Te3 films Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2015	Nanoscale superconductivity of y-Ga islands grown by molecular beam epitaxy Published In Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy
2015	Pauli-limited effect in the magnetic phase diagram of FeSexTe1−x thin films Published In Applied Physics Letters
2015	Visualizing superconductivity in FeSe nanoflakes on SrTiO3 by scanning tunneling microscopy Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2014	Dichotomy of the electronic structure and superconductivity between single-layer and double-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 films Published In Nature Communications
2014	Direct Observation of High-Temperature Superconductivity in One-Unit-Cell FeSe Films Published In Chinese Physics Letters
2014	Electronic evidence of an insulator–superconductor crossover in single-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 films Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Imaging the Electron-Boson Coupling in Superconducting FeSe Films Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Published In Physical Review Letters
2014	Interface charge doping effects on superconductivity of single-unit-cell FeSe films on SrTiO3 substrates Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2014	Molecular beam epitaxy growth and post-growth annealing of FeSe films on SrTiO3: a scanning tunneling microscopy study Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2013	An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Single-Layer FeSe Superconductor Published In Applied Physics Express
2013	Atomic and electronic structures of single-layer FeSe on SrTiO3(001): The role of oxygen deficiency Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2013	Fully gapped topological surface states in Bi2Se3 films induced by a d-wave high-temperature superconductor Published In Nature Physics
2013	Phase diagram and electronic indication of high-temperature superconductivity at 65 K in single-layer FeSe films Published In Nature Materials
2013	Scanning tunneling microscopy study of the superconducting properties of three-atomic-layer Pb films Published In Applied Physics Letters
2012	Electronic origin of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer FeSe superconductor Published In Nature Communications
2012	Fermi-Level Tuning of Epitaxial Sb2Te3 Thin Films on Graphene by Regulating Intrinsic Defects and Substrate Transfer Doping Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Gating the charge state of single Fe dopants in the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3 with a scanning tunneling microscope Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2012	Interface-Induced High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit-Cell FeSe Films on SrTiO3 Published In Chinese Physics Letters
2012	KFe2Se2 is the Parent Compound of K-Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Landau quantization and the thickness limit of topological insulator thin films of Sb2Te3 Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Scanning tunneling microscopy of interface properties of Bi2Se3 on FeSe Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2011	Direct Observation of Nodes and Twofold Symmetry in FeSe Superconductor Published In Science
2011	Molecular-beam epitaxy and robust superconductivity of stoichiometric FeSe crystalline films on bilayer graphene Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2011	Structural defects and electronic properties of the Cu-doped topological insulator Bi2Se3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Engineering of exotic electronic properties in atomically thin antimony Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
2021	Iron-based high-temperature topological superconductors Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2017 - 2020	Atomically thin superconductors Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2016	Coherent, tuned terahertz photons from nonlinear processes in graphene Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

ARC DP170104116 Atomically thin 2D superconductors CI 2017 - 2020

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

condensed matter physics
electronic materials

Teaching Activities

Advanced materials: synthesis and fabrication AIIM410 lecturer 2018
Quantum Mechanics PHYS444 Lecturer 2017

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties of Topological Materials	Afzal, Wafa
Doctor of Philosophy	Study of Superconductors	Sang, Lina
Doctor of Philosophy	Novel Two Dimensional Materials	Sha, Jiuquan
Doctor of Philosophy	Nano ferroic materials for information and energy applications	Hossain, Md

Keywords

MBE, STM, condensed matter physics, functional materials

Located In Facility

Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM)

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2211-2092 (confirmed)

Research Areas

Research Overview

My research is focused on using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and transport measurement to investigate superconductivity and exotic physics phenomena in 2D materials.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2021	Atomically Thin Superconductors Published In Small
2021	Cross-over from weak localization to anti-localization in rare doped TRS protected topological insulators Published In Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
2021	Magneto-transport and electronic structures in MoSi2 bulks and thin films with different orientations Published In Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2021	Pressure effects on iron-based superconductor families: Superconductivity, flux pinning and vortex dynamics Published In Materials Today Physics
2020	Boosting the superconducting properties of Fe(Se, Te) through hexagonal phase manipulation Published In Journal of Alloys and Compounds
2020	Creating thin magnetic layers at the surface of Sb2Te3 topological insulators using a low-energy chromium ion beam Published In APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
2020	Spin-Gapless Semiconductors Published In Small
2019	Boosting Superconducting Properties of Fe(Se, Te) via Dual-Oscillation Phenomena Induced by Fluorine Doping Published In ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
2019	Enhancement of superconducting properties in polycrystalline Fe(Se, Te)via a dual coordination effect Published In Scripta Materialia
2019	In-situ hydrostatic pressure induced significant suppression of magnetic relaxation and enhancement of flux pinning in Fe1−xCoxSe0.5Te0.5 single crystals Published In Scripta Materialia
2019	Modulation of Crystal and Electronic Structures in Topological Insulators by Rare-Earth Doping Published In ACS Applied Electronic Materials
2019	Possible Excitonic Insulating Phase in Quantum-Confined Sb Nanoflakes Published In Nano Letters: a journal dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology
2019	Quantum oscillations in iron-doped single crystals of the topological insulator S b2 T e3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2019	Quantum oscillations of robust topological surface states up to 50 K in thick bulk-insulating topological insulator Published In npj Quantum Materials
2018	Realization of flat band with possible nontrivial topology in electronic Kagome lattice Published In Science Advances
2017	Cooperative Electron-Phonon Coupling and Buckled Structure in Germanene on Au(111) Published In ACS Nano
2017	Role of Atomic Interaction in Electronic Hybridization in Two-Dimensional Ag2Ge Nanosheets Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2017	Synthesis of Multilayer Silicene on Si(111)√3 × √3-Ag Published In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C: Energy Conversion and Storage, Optical and Electronic Devices, Interfaces, Nanomaterials, and Hard Matter
2016	Interface-enhanced electron-phonon coupling and high-temperature superconductivity in potassium-coated ultrathin FeSe films on SrTiO3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2016	Metal-silicene interaction studied by scanning tunneling microscopy Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2016	Observation of van Hove Singularities in Twisted Silicene Multilayers Published In ACS Central science
2016	Quasi-freestanding epitaxial silicene on Ag(111) by oxygen intercalation Published In Science Advances
2016	Quasi-freestanding epitaxial silicene on Ag(111) by oxygen intercalation Published In Scientific Advances
2016	Visualizing the elongated vortices in γ -Ga nanostrips Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2015	Delocalized surface state in epitaxial Si(111) film with spontaneous √3 × √3 superstructure Published In Scientific Reports
2015	Detection of a Superconducting Phase in a Two-Atom Layer of Hexagonal Ga Film Grown on Semiconducting GaN(0001) Published In Physical Review Letters
2015	Honeycomb silicon: a review of silicene Published In Science Bulletin
2015	Mass acquisition of Dirac fermions in magnetically doped topological insulator Sb2Te3 films Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2015	Nanoscale superconductivity of y-Ga islands grown by molecular beam epitaxy Published In Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy
2015	Pauli-limited effect in the magnetic phase diagram of FeSexTe1−x thin films Published In Applied Physics Letters
2015	Visualizing superconductivity in FeSe nanoflakes on SrTiO3 by scanning tunneling microscopy Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2014	Dichotomy of the electronic structure and superconductivity between single-layer and double-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 films Published In Nature Communications
2014	Direct Observation of High-Temperature Superconductivity in One-Unit-Cell FeSe Films Published In Chinese Physics Letters
2014	Electronic evidence of an insulator–superconductor crossover in single-layer FeSe/SrTiO3 films Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Imaging the Electron-Boson Coupling in Superconducting FeSe Films Using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope Published In Physical Review Letters
2014	Interface charge doping effects on superconductivity of single-unit-cell FeSe films on SrTiO3 substrates Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2014	Molecular beam epitaxy growth and post-growth annealing of FeSe films on SrTiO3: a scanning tunneling microscopy study Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2013	An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Single-Layer FeSe Superconductor Published In Applied Physics Express
2013	Atomic and electronic structures of single-layer FeSe on SrTiO3(001): The role of oxygen deficiency Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2013	Fully gapped topological surface states in Bi2Se3 films induced by a d-wave high-temperature superconductor Published In Nature Physics
2013	Phase diagram and electronic indication of high-temperature superconductivity at 65 K in single-layer FeSe films Published In Nature Materials
2013	Scanning tunneling microscopy study of the superconducting properties of three-atomic-layer Pb films Published In Applied Physics Letters
2012	Electronic origin of high-temperature superconductivity in single-layer FeSe superconductor Published In Nature Communications
2012	Fermi-Level Tuning of Epitaxial Sb2Te3 Thin Films on Graphene by Regulating Intrinsic Defects and Substrate Transfer Doping Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Gating the charge state of single Fe dopants in the topological insulator Bi 2 Se 3 with a scanning tunneling microscope Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2012	Interface-Induced High-Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit-Cell FeSe Films on SrTiO3 Published In Chinese Physics Letters
2012	KFe2Se2 is the Parent Compound of K-Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Landau quantization and the thickness limit of topological insulator thin films of Sb2Te3 Published In Physical Review Letters
2012	Scanning tunneling microscopy of interface properties of Bi2Se3 on FeSe Published In Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
2011	Direct Observation of Nodes and Twofold Symmetry in FeSe Superconductor Published In Science
2011	Molecular-beam epitaxy and robust superconductivity of stoichiometric FeSe crystalline films on bilayer graphene Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
2011	Structural defects and electronic properties of the Cu-doped topological insulator Bi2Se3 Published In Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Investigator On

Year	Title
2019 - 2022	Engineering of exotic electronic properties in atomically thin antimony Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
2021	Iron-based high-temperature topological superconductors Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Future Fellowships
2017 - 2020	Atomically thin superconductors Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2016	Coherent, tuned terahertz photons from nonlinear processes in graphene Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

ARC DP170104116 Atomically thin 2D superconductors CI 2017 - 2020

Potential Supervision Topics

condensed matter physics
electronic materials

Teaching Activities

Advanced materials: synthesis and fabrication AIIM410 lecturer 2018
Quantum Mechanics PHYS444 Lecturer 2017

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties of Topological Materials	Afzal, Wafa
Doctor of Philosophy	Study of Superconductors	Sang, Lina
Doctor of Philosophy	Novel Two Dimensional Materials	Sha, Jiuquan
Doctor of Philosophy	Nano ferroic materials for information and energy applications	Hossain, Md

Keywords

MBE, STM, condensed matter physics, functional materials

Located In Facility

Institute for Superconducting & Electronic Materials (ISEM)

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2211-2092 (confirmed)

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Keywords

Contact

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

Overview

Research Areas

Research Overview

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Teaching Activities

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Keywords

Contact

Located In Facility

Identity

Orcid Id

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