Ming-su Si

Professor, Lanzhou University

B.S., 2003, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Ph.D., 2008, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

Office: Science&Engineering Building 1308
Phone: +86-931-8914160
E-mail: sims@lzu.edu.cn

Recent News

Jiafeng Xie got a paper to be published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett. [Nov. 12, 2014]

Gaoxue has a paper accepted by Appl. Phys. Lett. [Sep. 12, 2014]

Jiafeng Xie got a paper accepted by J. Appl. Phys. [Aug. 10, 2014]

D. Z. Yang got a paper accepted by Europhys. Lett. [Jun. 26, 2014]

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Research Interests

My research interests include (i) electronic strcutures of nano materials, (ii) transport properties of spintronic devices, (iii) femtosecond magnetism, and (iv) topological insulator and Dirac cone in new materials.

Selected Publications

55. Manifestation of high-temperature ferromagnetism in fluorinated graphitic carbon nitride nanosheet, Daqiang Gao, Yonggang Liu, Minyue Song, Shoupeng Shi, Mingsu Si, and Desheng Xue, J. Mater. Chem. C, 3, 12230 (2015).

54. Effect of band filling on anomalous Hall conductivity and magneto-crystalline anisotropy in NiFe epitaxial thin films, Zhong Shi, Hang-Yu Jiang, Shi-Ming Zhou, Yan-Liang Hou, Quan-Lin Ye, and Ming Su Si, AIP Advances, 6, 015101 (2016).

53. The mechanical exfoliation mechanism of black phosphorus to phosphorene: A first-principles study, Yunsheng Mu and M. S. Si, Europhys. Lett., 112, 37003 (2015).

52. Femtosecond magnetism when the orbital angular momentum is quenched, M. S. Si, D. Z. Yang, D. S. Xue, and G. P. Zhang, Spin, 5, 1540009 (2015).

51. Laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization time and spin moment in ferromagnets: First-principles calculation, G. P. Zhang, M. S. Si, and T. F. George, J. Appl. Phys., 117, 17D706 (2015).

50. Tunable half-metallic properties and spin Seebeck effects in zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons adsorbed with V atom or V-benzene compound, X. F. Yang, H. L. Wang, X. K. Hong, Y. S. Liu, J. F. Feng, X. F. Wang, C. W. Zhang, F. Chi, and M. S. Si, ORGANIC ELECTRONICS, 24, 80 (2015).

49. Bandgap engineering in van der Waals heterostructures of blue phosphorene and MoS2: A first principles calculation, Z. Y. Zhang, M. S. Si, S. L. Peng, F. Zhang, Y. H. Wang, and D. S. Xue, J. Solid State Chemistry, 231, 64 (2015).

48. Orientation and strain modulated electronic structures in puckered arsenene nanoribbons, Z. Y. Zhang, H. N. Cao, J. C. Zhang, Y. H. Wang, D. S. Xue, and M. S. Si, AIP Advances, 5, 067117 (2015).

47. Temperature-dependent asymmetry of anisotropic magnetoresistance in silicon p-n junctions, D. Z. Yang, T. Wang, W. B. Sui, M. S. Si, D. W. Guo, Z. Shi, F. C. Wang, and D. S. Xue, Sci. Rep., 5, 11096 (2015).

46. Spin caloritronics of blue phosphorene nanoribbons, Y. S. Liu, X. Zhang, X. F. Yang, X. K. Hong, J. F. Feng, M. S. Si, and X. F. Wang, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 10462 (2015).

45. Magnetic spin moment reduction in photoexcited ferromagnets through exchange interaction quenching: beyond the rigid band approximation, G. P. Zhang, M. S. Si, Y. H. Bai, Thomas F. George, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27, 206003 (2015).

44. Manifestation of unexpected semiconducting properties in few-layer orthorhombic arsenene, Zhiya Zhang, Jiafeng Xie, Dezheng Yang, Yuhua Wang, Mingsu Si, and Desheng Xue, Appl. Phys. Express 8, 055201 (2015).

43. Negative Poisson’s ratios in few-layer orthorhombic arsenic: First-principles calculations, Jianwei Han, Jiafeng Xie, Zhiya Zhang, Dezheng Yang, Mingsu Si, and Desheng Xue, Appl. Phys. Express 8, 041801 (2015).

42. Laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization time and spin moment in ferromagnets: First-principles calculation, G. P. Zhang, M. S. Si, and Thomas F. George, J. Appl. Phys. 117, 17D706 (2015).

41. ZnFe2O4 nanotubes: Microstructure and magnetic properties, Xuan Guo, Haojun Zhu, Mingsu Si, Changjun Jiang, Desheng Xue, Zhihua Zhang, and Quan Li, J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 30145 (2014).

40. Theoretical prediction of carrier mobility in few-layer BC2N, Jiafeng Xie, Z. Y. Zhang, D. Z. Yang, D. S. Xue, and M. S. Si, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 4073 (2014).

39. Decoding the mechanism of the mechanical transfer of a GaN-based heterostructure via an h-BN release layer in a device configuration, Gaoxue Wang, D. Z. Yang, Z. Y. Zhang, M. S. Si, Desheng Xue, Haiying He, and Ravindra Pandey, Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 121605 (2014).

38. Probing ultrafast spin moment change of bcc iron in crystal-momentum space: A proposal, M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, D. S. Xue, G. P. Zhang, Ultrafast magnetism I (Springer proceedings in Physics) Volume 159, p47-49 (2015).

37. A theoretical study of blue phosphorene nanoribbons based on first-principles calculations, Jiafeng Xie, M. S. Si, D. Z. Yang, Z. Y. Zhang, and D. S. Xue, J. Appl. Phys. 116, 073704 (2014).

36. Crystal momentum-dependent anisotropy of the Dirac cone in the rectangular carbon allotropes, D. Z. Yang, M. S. Si, G. P. Zhang, and D. S. Xue, Europhys. Lett. 107, 20003 (2014).

35. Strain Engineering of Dirac cones in Graphyne, Gaoxue Wang, M. S. Si, A. Kumar and R. Pandey, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 213107 (2014).

34. Intrinsic ferromagnetism in hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets, M. S. Si, Daqiang Gao, Dezheng Yang, Yong Peng, Z. Y. Zhang, Desheng Xue, Yushen Liu, Xiaohui Deng, and G. P. Zhang, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 204701 (2014).

33. Crystal-momentum dispersion of ultrafast spin change in fcc Co, M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, D. Z. Yang, D. S. Xue, and G. P. Zhang, Sci. Rep. 4, 5010 (2014).

32. Indirect-direct band gap transition through electric tuning in bilayer MoS2, Z. Y. Zhang, M. S. Si, Y. H. Wang, X. P. Gao, Dongchul Sung, Suklyun Hong, Junjie He, J. Chem. Phys. 140, 174707 (2014).

31. Energy gaps in α-graphdiyne nanoribbons, X. N. Niu, D. Z. Yang, M. S. Si, and D. S. Xue, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 143706 (2014).

30. Effect of Si doping on the electronic properties of BN monolayer, S. K. Gupta, H. He, D. Banyai, Mingsu Si, R. Pandey, and S. P. Karna, Nanoscale 6, 5526 (2014).

29. Defect-related ferromagnetism in ultrathin metalfree g-C3N4 nanosheets, D. Gao, Q. Xu, J. Zhang, Z. Yang, Mingsu Si, Z. Yan, and D. Xue, Nanoscale 6, 2577 (2014).

28. Angular dependence of the magnetoresistance effect in silicon based p-n junction device, T. Wang, Mingsu Si, D. Yang, Z. Shi, F. Wang, Z. Yang, S. Zhou, and D. Xue, Nanoscale 6, 3978 (2014).

27. Dirac cone in α-graphdiyne: a first-principles study, Xiaoning Niu, Xingze Mao, Dezheng Yang, Zhiya Zhang, Mingsu Si, and Desheng Xue, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 8, 469 (2013).

26. Manipulating femtosecond magnetism through pressure: First-principles calculations, M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, D. S. Xue, and G. P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. B 88, 144425 (2013).

25. Tuning the composition of Zn-Fe-O nanotube arrays: from zinc ferrite ZnFe2O4 to hematite α-Fe2O3, X. Guo, H. Zhu, M. S. Si, C. Jiang, D. Xue, and Q. Li, CrystEngComm 15, 8306 (2013).

24. Origin of the unexpected room temperature ferromagnetism: formation of artificial defects on the surface in NaCl particles, Jing Zhang, Daqiang Gao, M. S. Si, Zhonghua Zhu, Guijin Yang, Zhenhua Shi, and Desheng Xue, J. Mater. Chem. C 1, 6216 (2013).

23. A high-efficiency double quantum dot heat engine, Y. S. Liu, X. F. Yang, X. K. Hong, M. S. Si, F. Chi, and Y. Guo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 093901 (2013).

22. Adjustable microwave permeability of nanorings: A micromagnetic investigation, Guozhi Chai, Xinhua Wang, M. S. Si, and Desheng Xue, Phys. Lett. A 377, 1491-1494 (2013).

21. Correlation between ultrafast demagnetization process and Gilbert damping in amorphous TbFeCo films, Y. Ren, Y. L. Zhou, M. S. Si, Z. Z. Zhang, Q.Y. Jin, and S. M. Zhou, IEEE TRANS. MAGN. 49, 3159-3162 (2013).

20. Ferromagnetism in freestanding MoS2 nanosheets, Daqiang Gao, M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, J. Zhang, Z. P. Zhang, Z. L. Yang and D. S. Xue, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 8, 129 (2013).

19. Hot spin spots in the Laser-induced demagnetization, M. S. Si and G. P. Zhang, AIP Advances 2, 012158 (2012).

18. Communication: Oscillated band gaps of B/N-codoped α-graphyne, Xiaohui Deng, M. S. Si, and J. Y. Dai, J. Chem. Phys. 137, 201101 (2012).

17. A proposal for time-dependent pure-spin-current generators, Y. S. Liu, X. F. Yang, F. Chi, M. S. Si, Y. Guo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 213109 (2012).

16. g-B3N3C: a novel two-dimensional graphite-like material, J. Y. Li, D. Q. Gao, X. N. Niu, M. S. Si, and D. S. Xue, Nanoscale Res. Lett. 7, 624 (2012).

15. Laser-induced spin protection and switching in a specially designed magnetic dot: A theoretical investigation, G. P. Zhang, M. S. Si, and T. F. George, Europhys. Lett. 94, 17005 (2011).

14. d0 ferromagnetism in undoped sphalerite ZnS nanoparticles, D. Gao, G. Yang, J. Zhang, Z. Zhu, M. S. Si, and D. Xue, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 052502 (2011).

13. The improvement of the adsorption abilities of some gas molecules on g-BN sheet by carbon doping, X. Deng, D. Zhang, M. S. Si, and M. Deng, Physica E: Low-dimensional systems and nanostructres 44, 495 (2011).

12. Transforming from paramagnetism to room temperature ferromagnetism in CuO by ball milling, D. Gao, Z. Yang, J. Zhang, G. Yang, Z. Zhu, J. Qi, M. S. Si, and D. Xue, AIP Advances 1, 042168 (2011).

11. Ferromagnetism induced by oxygen vacancies in Zinc peroxide nanoparticles, D. Gao, J. Zhang, G. Yang, J. Qi, M. S. Si, and D. Xue, J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 16405 (2011).

10. Resolving photon-shortage mystery in femtosecond magnetism, M. S. Si and G. P. Zhang, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 22, 076005 (2010).

9. Oxidation fracturing of the graphitic BN sheet, M. S. Si and D. S. Xue, J. Phys. Chem. Solid 71, 1221 (2010).

8. Divacancies in graphitic boron nitride sheets, M. S. Si, J. Y. Li, H. G. Shi, X. N. Niu, and D. S. Xue, Europhys. Lett. 86, 46002 (2009).

7. Magnetic properties of carbon nanotube terminally connecting metal molecular complexes, M. S. Si and D. S. Xue, Appl. Phys.Lett. 92, 081907 (2008).

6. Magnetic properties of vacancies in a graphitic boron nitride sheet by first-principles pseudopotential calculations, M. S. Si and D. S. Xue, Phys. Rev. B 75, 193409 (2007).

5. Photoluminescence property of Co3O4 nanowires, D. Xue, Y. Gong, W. Liu, M. S. Si, and Z. Liu, Chinese Phys. Lett. 24, 1756 (2007).

4. First-principles study of silicon-doped (5,5) BN nanotubes, M. S. Si and D. S. Xue, Europhys. Lett. 76, 664 (2006).

3. Bayesian interence approach to particle size distribution estimation in ferrofluids,D. S. Xue and M. S. Si, IEEE TRANS. MAGN. 42, 3657 (2006).

2. Hydrodynamic properties of Fe3O4 kerosene-based ferrofluids with narrow particle size distribution, J. Zhang, X. Xu, M. S. Si, Y. Zhou, and D. Xue, Chinese Phys. Lett. 22, 2944 (2005).

1. The fabrication and the coercivity mechanism of segmented (Ni/Fe)m composite nanowire arrays, D. S. Xue, H. G. Shi, and M. S. Si, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, 8775 (2004).

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