1.         Thermoelectric material

2.         Anharmonic crystal

2021.5 – Present   Xi'an Jiaotong University, China   Associate Professor

2019.6 – 2021.4   Beihang University, China      Postdoc  

2014.9 – 2019.6   Beihang University, China   Ph.D.

2018.3 – 2018.6   Northwestern University, USA   Visiting Student

2009.9 – 2013.6   Harbin University of Science and Technology, China  B.Sc.

2020  Honor for Excellent Thesis, Beihang University

2019  Graduate Student Award, International Thermoelectric Society

2019  Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, Beijing

https://publons.com/researcher/2953556/yu-xiao/

Selected Publications

1.       Yu Xiao, Li-Dong Zhao*. Seeking new, highly effective thermoelectrics, Science, 367 (2020) 1196-1197.

2.       Yu Xiao,*, Haijun Wu, Haonan Shi, Liqing Xu, Yuke Zhu, Yongxin Qin, Yang Zhang, Guyang Peng, Zhen-hua Ge, Xiangdong Ding, Li-Dong Zhao.* High-ranged ZT value promotes thermoelectric cooling and power generation in n-type PbTe, Advanced Energy Materials, 2022, 202200204.

3.       Yu Xiao*, Liqing Xu, Tao Hong, Haonan Shi, Sining Wang, Xiang Gao, Xiangdong Ding, Jun Sun, Li-Dong Zhao*. Ultrahigh carrier mobility contributes to remarkably enhanced thermoelectric performance in n-type PbSe, Energy & Environmental Science, 2022, 15(1) 346-355.

4.       Yu Xiao, Dongyang Wang, Yang Zhang, Congrun Chen, Shuxuan Zhang, Kedong Wang, Guangtao Wang, Stephen J. Pennycook, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Haijun Wu,* Li-Dong Zhao.* Band sharpening and alignment enable high quality factor to enhance thermoelectric performance in n-type PbS, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 142 (2020) 4051-4060.

5.       Yu Xiao, Haijun Wu, Dongyang Wang, Changlei Niu, Yanling Pei, Yang Zhang, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Ian Thomas Witting, Xin Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, Li-Dong Zhao.* Amphoteric indium enables carrier engineering to enhance the power factor and thermoelectric performance in n-type Ag_nPb₁₀₀In_nTe_100+2n (LIST), Advanced Energy Materials, 9 (2019) 1900414.

6.       Yu Xiao, Dongyang Wang, Bingchao Qin, Jinfeng Wang, Guangtao Wang, Li-Dong Zhao.* Approaching topological insulating states leads to high-performance n-type PbTe, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140 (2018) 13097-13102.

7.       Yu Xiao, Li-Dong Zhao.* Charge and phonon transports in PbTe-based thermoelectric materials, npj Quantum Materials, 3 (2018) 55.

8.       Yu Xiao, Haijun Wu, Dongyang Wang, Liangwei Fu, Jiaqing He, Stephen J. Pennycook, Li-Dong Zhao*. Realizing high performance n-type PbTe via synergistically optimizing effective mass, carrier mobility and suppressing bipolar thermal conductivity, Energy & Environmental Science, 11 (2018) 2486 - 2495.

9.       Yu Xiao, Haijun Wu, Meijie Yin, Wei Li, Liangwei Fu, Yuexing Chen, Stephen John Pennycook, Li Huang, Jiaqing He, Li-Dong Zhao.* Remarkable roles of Cu to synergistically optimize phonon and carrier transport in n-type PbTe-Cu₂Te, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 139 (2017) 18732–18738.

10.   Yu Xiao, Cheng Chang, Yanling Pei, Di Wu, Kunling Peng, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Shengkai Gong, Jiaqing He, Yongsheng Zhang*, Zhi Zeng, Li-Dong Zhao*. Origin of low thermal conductivity in SnSe, Physical Review B, 94 (2016) 125203.