Chenxiao Zhao received his PhD degree in Condensed Matter Physics in 2020 from Shanghai Jiaotong University (China). During the period of doctoral research, he mainly worked with a combined system with scanning tunneling microscopy and molecular beam epitaxy to study low dimensional materials including 2D topological insulators and topological superconductors, layered transition metal dichalcogenides, and some confined material systems such as nano-island and nano-particles under the supervision of Prof. Jinfeng Jia. In February 2021, he joined the nanotech@surfaces Laboratory at Empa as postdoctoral researcher. His focus is on the magnetic properties of nano graphene and spin chains as well as their combination with superconductors.

nanographene with magnetism; graphene nanoribbons; interplay between magnetism with superconductor; nontrivial topology in graphene nanoribbons

C. Zhao, L. Li, L. Zhang, J. Qin, H. Ma, B. Xia, B. Yang, H. Zheng, S. Wang, C. Liu, Y. Li, D. Guan, P. Cui, Z. Zhang, J. Jia, Robust topological edge states and superconductivity in few-layer stanene (2021) (in submission)

C. Zhao, M. Hu, J. Qin, B. Xia, C. Liu, S. Wang, D. Guan, Y. Li, H. Zheng, J. Liu and J. Jia, Strain Tunable Semimetal–Topological-Insulator Transition in Monolayer 1T’− WTe₂ , Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 (4), 046801 (2020). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.046801

C. Zhao, and J. Jia, Stanene: A good platform for topological insulator and topological superconductor, Frontiers of Physics 15 (5), 1-15 (2020). DOI: 10.1007/s11467-020-0965-5

J. Qin, C. Zhao, B. Xia, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, B. Yang, D. Guan, S. Wang, Y. Li, H. Zheng, C. Liu, J. Jia, One dimensional electronic states in mirror twin boundaries of Bi (111), Appl. Surf. Sci. 512, 145644 (2020). DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.145644

J. Qin, C. Zhao, B. Xia, Z. Wang, Y. Liu, B. Yang, D. Guan, S. Wang, Y. Li, H. Zheng, C. Liu, J. Jia, Coupling of superconductivity and Coulomb blockade in Sn nanoparticles, Nanotechnology 31, 305708 (2020). DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab8763

Z. Wang, C. Zhao, G. Wang, J. Qin, B. Xia, B. Yang, D. Guan, S. Wang, Y. Li, H. Zheng, C. Liu, J. Jia, Controllable Modulation to Quantum Well States on β-Sn Islands, Chin. Phys. Lett. 37, 096801 (2020). DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/37/9/096801

X. Yang, G. Wang, C. Zhao, Z. Zhu, L. Dong, A. Li, Y. Lv, S. Yao, Y. Chen, D. Guan, Y. Li, H. Zheng, D. Qian, C. Liu, Y. Chen and J. Jia, Surface Structure and Reconstructions of HgTe (111) Surfaces, Chin. Phys. Lett. 35 (2), 026802 (2018). DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/35/2/026802

C. Zhao, et al., Anomalous temperature dependent magneto-conductance in organic light-emitting diodes with multiple emissive states, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 023302 (2015). DOI:10.1063/1.4926406