1.      Interface engineering the properties of functional oxide thin film.

2.      Graphene and related two dimension material properties and devices.

11/2014—now: Materials Science and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Associate Professor.

02/2013: Research Fellow, Department of Physcis, University of Kansas at Lawrence, USA.

08/2012: Postdoctoral, Department of Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

08/2008-08/2012:  Ph.D. in Physics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.

09/2005-07/2008:  M.S. in Theoretical Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

09/2001-07/2005:  B.S. in Physics, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China.

1.      Detangling Extrinsic and Intrinsic Hysteresis for Detecting Dynamic Switch of Electric Dipoles Using Graphene Field-Effect Transistors on Ferroelectric Gates

Chunrui Ma, Youpin Gong, Rongtao Lu, Emery Brown, Beihai Ma, Jun Li and Judy Wu

Nanoscale, 7, 18489 (2015)

2.      Interface Strain Induced Anomalous Electronic Transport Behavior in Highly Epitaxial

LaBaCo₂O_5.5+ Films

   C. R. Ma, M. Liu, J. Liu, G. Collins, Y. M. Zhang, H. B. Wang, C. L. Chen, Y. Lin, J. He,

J. C. Jiang, E. I. Meletis.

ACS Applied Materials & Interface, 6, 2540 (2014)

3.      Enhanced Dielectric Nonlinearity in Epitaxial Pb_0.92La_0.08Zr_0.52Ti_0.48O₃ Thin Films

on LaAlO₃ Substrate

C. R. Ma, B. H. Ma, S. B. Mi, M. Liu, J. Z. Wu.

Applied Physics Letter, 104, 162902 (2014)

4.  The Origin of Local Strain in Highly Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films

C. R. Ma, M. Liu, C.L. Chen, Y. Lin, Y. Li, J. S. Horwitz, J.C. Jiang, E. I. Meletis, and

Q.Y. Zhang

Scientific Reports, 3, 3092, (2013) 

5.      Magnetic and Electrical Transport Properties of Highly Epitaxial LaBaCo₂O_5.5+d Thin

Films on Vicinal (001) SrTiO₃ Surfaces

C. R. Ma, M. Liu, G. Collins, H. Wang, S. Bao, X. Xu, E. Enriquez, C.L. Chen, Y. Lin

and M. H Whangbo

ACS Applied Materials & Interface, 5, 451 (2013)

6.      Thickness effects on the magnetic and electrical transport properties of highly epitaxial

LaBaCo₂O_5.5+δ thin films on MgO substrates

C. R. Ma, M. Liu, G. Collins, J. Liu, Y. M. Zhang, C. L .Chen, J. He, J. C. Jiang, E. I.

Meletis

Applied Physics Letters, 101, 021602 (2012)

1.      Tuned Materials, Tuned Properties, and Tunable Devices From Ordered Oxygen Vacancy Complex Oxides

Chonglin Chen, Chunrui Ma and Ming Liu

US 62/003,751 (USA)