• 2021/6-present Tsinghua University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Professor

• 2017/12-2021/6 Tsinghua University, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Professor (Tenured)

• 2011/10-2017/12 Tsinghua University, Dept. Materials Science and Engineering, Lecturer, Associate Professor (Tenure Track)

• 2009/03-2011/08 University of Regensburg (Germany), Dept. Physics, Research Assistant Humboldt Research Fellow

• Undergraduate students course: Fundamental Materials Science and Technology

2020.12 Second-class award of Teaching competition for young teachers in Tsinghua

2014.12 Second-class award of Teaching competition for young teachers in Tsinghua

• Magnetic Films and Spintronics

At present there are 2 engineers, 2 postdoc., 15 PhD candidates (including 4 co-supervised students and 1 exchange students), 3 undergraduate students working in the spintronic materials and devices group.

Spintronics become an extensively investigated field in the materials physics and electronics community with the main purpose of usage of electron spins in information technology. Either using the spin alone or adding the spin to traditional charge-based devices has the potential advantages of nonvolatility, higher integration density and data processing speed, as well as lower power consumption, compared with conventional electronic devices.

• Title: Spintronic Materials; Source: the National Science Foundation of China, 2023/1-2027/12

• Title: All-electrical control of ferrimagnetic/antiferromagnetic moments and the preparation of prototype devices; Source: the National Science Foundation of China, 2023/1-2026/12

• Title: Control of antiferromagnets with strong spin-orbit coupling and their prototype devices; Source: the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2022/12-2027/11

• Title: New spin-orbit torque materials and mechanisms; Source: the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2022/1-2025/11

• Title: Spin Acoustic Electronics; Source: Beijing Natural Science Foundation, 2020/10-2023/12

• Title: Electrical control of antiferromagnetic Mn2Au films and relevant tunneling junctions; Source: the National Science Foundation of China, 2019/01-2022/12

• Title: New type of ferromagnetic semiconductors and their multi-field manipulation; Source: the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2017/8-2021/07

• Title: Manipulation of antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in FeRh; Source: the National Science Foundation of China, 2017/01-2020/12

• Title: Size effect of resistive switching random memory; Source: the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2016/06-2021/05

Title: Spintronic materials and devices; Source: the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, 2014/01-2016/12

• Title: Key technology for high-density information storage and key materials for magneto-electronics; Source: the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, 2014/01-2016/12

• Title: Formation mechanism of metallic conductive filaments in redox resistive random access memory. Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013/01-2017/12

• Title: Electrical control of ferromagnetism in heterostructured films and its intrinsic mechanisms; Source: National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013/01-2015/12

• 2023 Outstanding Young Graduate Mentor Award Fund

• 2022 First-class award of Beijing Municipality for Science and Technology Award

• 2022 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars

• 2020 Excellent reviewers for Chinese Scientific Journals

• 2020 Most cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)

• 2020 Beijing Outstanding Youth Fund

• 2019 Excellent User for the 10th Anniversary of Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility

• 2018 Second-class award of National Science and Technology Progress Award

• 2018 Second-class award of Beijing Municipality for Science and Technology Award

• 2016 Young Yangtze river scholars

• 2015 Excellent supervisor of "Challenge Cup" National Science and Technology College of extra-curricular academic competition works

• 2015 Liubing award of Tsinghua University

• 2014 Second-class award of young teacher teaching competition of Tsinghua University

• 2012 Second-class award of the state natural science award

• 2011 First-class award of natural science of the Ministry of Education

More than 200 papers are published on functional antiferromagnet, electrical-control of ferromagnetism, Spin Hall effect and spin injection devices, including papers in Nat. Mater., Nat. Electron., Nat. Commun., Sci. Adv., Phys. Rev. Lett., Adv. Mater, Prog. Mater. Sci., and Mater. Sci. & Eng. R.,. Sum of times cited of these papers is >13000 according to Google Scholar, H-index=58. (https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?hl=zh-CN&hl=zh_CN&pli=1&user=gtahJOIAAAAJ)

Selected publications:

1. Yongjian Zhou, Tingwen Guo, Lei Han, Liyang Liao, Wenqing He, Caihua Wan, Chong Chen, Qian Wang, Leilei Qiao, Hua Bai, Wenxuan Zhu, Yichi Zhang, Ruyi Chen, Xiufeng Han, Feng Pan, Cheng Song*. Spin-torque–driven antiferromagnetic resonance. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk7935 (2024).

2. Lei Han, Xizhi Fu, Rui Peng, Xingkai Cheng, Jiankun Dai, Liangyang Liu,, Yidian Li, Yichi Zhang, Wenxuan Zhu, Hua Bai, Yongjian Zhou, Shixuan Liang, Chong Chen, Qian Wang, Xianzhe Chen, Luyi Yang , Yang Zhang, Cheng Song*, Junwei Liu*, Feng Pan*. Electrical 180° switching of Néel vector in spin-splitting antiferromagnet. Sci. Adv. 10, eadn0479 (2024)

3. Yichi Zhang, Hua Bai, Lei Han, Chong Chen, Yongjian Zhou, Christian H. Back,Feng Pan, Yuyan Wang,* and Cheng Song*.Simultaneous High Charge-Spin Conversion Efficiency and Large Spin Diffusion Length in Altermagnetic RuO2. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 2313332

4. Ruyi Chen, Chong Chen, Lei Han, Peisen Liu, Rongxuan Su, Wenxuan Zhu, Yongjian Zhou, Feng Pan, Cheng Song*. Ordered creation and motion of skyrmions with surface acoustic wave. Nat. Commun. (2023) 14: 4427

5. Chong Chen, Lei Han, Peisen Liu, Yichi Zhang, Shixuan Liang, Yongjian Zhou, Wenxuan Zhu, Sulei Fu, Feng Pan, Cheng Song*. Direct-Current Electrical Detection of Surface-Acoustic-Wave-Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance. Adv. Mater. 2023, 35, 2302454.

6. Shixuan Liang, Ruyi Chen, Qirui Cui, Yongjian Zhou, Feng Pan, Hongxin Yang,* and Cheng Song*. Ruderman−Kittel−Kasuya−Yosida-Type Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii−Moriya Interaction in Synthetic Magnets. Nano Lett. 2023, 23, 8690−8696

7. H. Bai, Y. C. Zhang, Y. J. Zhou, P. Chen, C. H. Wan, L. Han, W. X. Zhu, S. X. Liang, Y. C. Su, X. F. Han, F. Pan, and C. Song*. Efficient Spin-to-Charge Conversion via Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effect in Antiferromagnet RuO₂. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216701 (2023)

8. Hanchen Wang^#, Rundong Yuan^#, Yongjian Zhou^#, Yuelin Zhang, Jilei Chen, Song Liu, Hao Jia, Dapeng Yu, Jean-Philippe Ansermet*, Cheng Song*, and Haiming Yu*. Long-distance coherent propagation of high-velocity antiferromagnetic spin waves. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 096701 (2023)

9. Wenxuan Zhu, Cheng Song*, Qian Wang, Hua Bai, Siqi Yin, and Feng Pan*. Anomalous displacement reaction for synthesizing above room-temperature and air-stable vdW ferromagnet PtTe₂Ge_1/3. Natl. Sci. Rev. 10: nwac173, 2023

10. Ruyi Chen, Feng Xu, Qirui Cui, Jinghua Liang, Yongjian Zhou, Ning Wang, Feng Pan, Fei Xue*, Hongxin Yang*, Cheng Song*. Anisotropic interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in synthetic ferromagnetic multilayers. Science Bulletin 68 (2023) 878–882

11. Hongsong Qiu, Tom S. Seifert, Lin Huang, Yongjian Zhou, Zdeněk Kašpar, Caihong Zhang, Jingbo Wu, Kebin Fan, Qi Zhang, Di Wu, Tobias Kampfrath,* Cheng Song,* Biaobing Jin,* Jian Chen, and Peiheng Wu. Terahertz Spin Current Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Hematite. Adv. Sci. 2023, 2300512.

12. Xianzhe Chen, Hua Bai, Yuchen Ji, Yongjian Zhou, Liyang Liao, Yunfeng You, Wenxuan Zhu, Qian Wang, Lei Han, Xiaoyang Liu, Jia Yin, Xufeng Kou, Feng Pan, and Cheng Song*. Control of spin current and antiferromagnetic moments via topological surface state. Nat. Electron. 5, 574-578 (2022)

13. Cheng Song and Xianzhe Chen, Controlling antiferromagnetic moments with spin currents has low power requirements. Nat. Electron. 5, 549-550 (2022)

14. H. Bai,^, L. Han, X. Y. Feng, Y. J. Zhou, R. X. Su, Q. Wang, L. Y. Liao, W. X. Zhu, X. Z. Chen, F. Pan, X. L. Fan* and C. Song*. Observation of the spin splitting torque in a collinear antiferromagnet RuO₂. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197202 (2022)

15. Lei Han,† Yuyan Wang,† Wenxuan Zhu, Runni Zhao, Xianzhe Chen, Rongxuan Su, Yongjian Zhou, Hua Bai, Qian Wang, Yunfeng You, Chong Chen, Sen Yan, Tongjin Chen, Yongzheng Wen, Cheng Song,* Feng Pan*. Spin homojunction with high interfacial transparency for efficient spin-charge conversion. Sci. Adv. 8, eabq2742 (2022)

16. Yongjian Zhou, Liyang Liao, Tingwen Guo, Hua Bai, Mingkun Zhao, Caihua Wan, Lin Huang, Lei Han, Leilei Qiao, Yunfeng You, Ruyi Chen, Zhiyuan Zhou, Xiufeng Han, Feng Pan, Cheng Song*. Orthogonal interlayer coupling in an all-antiferromagnetic junction. Nat. Commun. 13, 3723 (2022).

17. Wenxuan Zhu, Cheng Song,* Lei Han, Tingwen Guo, Hua Bai, Feng Pan*. Van der Waals lattice-induced colossal magnetoresistance in Cr₂Ge₂Te₆ thin flakes. Nat. Commun. 13, 6428 (2022)

18. Lin Huang, Yongjian Zhou, Hongsong Qiu*, Hua Bai, Chong Chen, Weichao Yu, Liyang Liao, Tingwen Guo, Feng Pan, Biaobing Jin, and Cheng Song*, Antiferromagnetic inverse spin Hall effect. Adv. Mater. 2022, 34, 2205988

19. Yongjian Zhou, Tingwen Guo, Leilei Qiao, Qian Wang, Meng Zhu, Jia Zhang, Quan Liu, Mingkun Zhao, Caihua Wan, Wenqing He, Hua Bai, Lei Han, Lin Huang, Ruyi Chen, Yonggang Zhao, Xiufeng Han, Feng Pan, Cheng Song*. Piezoelectric Strain-Controlled Magnon Spin Current Transport in an Antiferromagnet. Nano Lett. 22, 4646 (2022).

20. H. Bai, Y. C. Zhang, L. Han, Y. J. Zhou, F. Pan, and C. Song*, Antiferromagnetism: An efficient and controllable spin source. Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 041316 (2022)

21. Ruyi Chen, Qirui Cui, Lei Han, Xiaotian Xue, Jinghua Liang, Hua Bai, Yongjian Zhou, Feng Pan, Hongxin Yang, Cheng Song*. Controllable generation of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets with thermal effect. Adv. Funct. Mater. 32, 2111906 (2022).

22. Wenxuan Zhu, Cheng Song*, Lei Han, Hua Bai, Qian Wang, Siqi Yin, Lin Huang, Tongjin Chen, Feng Pan*. Interface-enhanced ferromagnetism with long-distance effect in van der Waals semiconductor. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2022, 32, 2108953

23. Qian Wang, Ying Lu, Rui-Lin He, Ruyi Chen, Leilei Qiao, Feng Pan, Zhou Yang, and Cheng Song*. Spin Selectivity in Chiral Hybrid Cobalt Halide Films with Ultra-smooth Surface. Small Methods. 2022, 6, 2201048

24. X. Chen, S. Shi, G. Shi, X. Fan, C. Song*, X. Zhou, H. Bai, L. Liao, Y. Zhou, H. Zhang, A. Li, Y. Chen, X. Han, S. Jiang, Z. Zhu, H. Wu, X. Wang, D. Xue, H. Yang*, and F. Pan*. Observation of the antiferromagnetic spin Hall effect. Nat. Mater. 20, 800 (2021). (ESI highly cited paper)

25. Cheng Song*, Ruiqi Zhang, Liyang Liao, Yongjian Zhou, Xiaofeng Zhou, Ruyi Chen, Yunfeng You, Feng Pan. Spin-orbit torques: materials, mechanisms, performances, and potential application. Prog. Mater. Sci. 118, 100761 (2021).

26. Yunfeng You, Hua Bai, Xiaoyu Feng, Xiaolong Fan, Lei Han, Xiaofeng Zhou, Yongjian Zhou, Ruiqi Zhang, Tongjin Chen, Feng Pan & Cheng Song*, Cluster magnetic octupole induced out-of-plane spin polarization in antiperovskite antiferromagnet. Nat. Commun. 12: 6524 (2021).

27. Ruyi Chen, Qirui Cui, Liyang Liao, Yingmei Zhu, Ruiqi Zhang, Hua Bai, Yongjian Zhou, Guozhong Xing, Feng Pan, Hongxin Yang*, Cheng Song*. Reducing Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and field-free spin-orbit torque switching in synthetic antiferromagnets. Nat. Commun. 12, 3113 (2021)

28. Leilei Qiao, Cheng Song*, Yiming Sun, Muhammad Umer Fayaz, Tianqi Lu, Siqi Yin, Chong Chen, Huiping Xu, Tian-Ling Ren, Feng Pan*. Observation of Negative Capacitance in Antiferroelectric PbZrO₃ Films. Nat. Commun. 12, 4215 (2021).

29. Ying Lu, Qian Wang, Ruilin He, Foxin Zhou, Xia Yang, Dong Wang, Hui Cao, Wanli He, Feng Pan, Zhou Yang, and Cheng Song*. Highly-Efficient Spin-Filtering Transport in Chiral Hybrid Copper Halide. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 23578–23583.

30. Ying Lu, Qian Wang, Ruyi Chen, Leilei Qiao, Foxin Zhou, Xia Yang, Dong Wang, Hui Cao, Wanli He, Feng Pan, Zhou Yang*, Cheng Song*. Spin-Dependent Charge Transport in 1D Chiral Hybrid Lead-Bromide Perovskite with High Stability. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2104605

31. Qian Wang, Youdi Gu, Wenxuan Zhu, Lei Han, Feng Pan, and Cheng Song*. Noble-Metal-Assisted Fast Interfacial Oxygen Migration with Topotactic Phase Transition in Perovskite Oxides. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 31, 2106765.

32. R. Y. Chen^#, Y. Gao^#, X. C. Zhang, R. Q. Zhang, S. Q. Yin, X. Z. Chen, X. F. Zhou,Y. J. Zhou, J. Xia, Y. Zhou, S. G. Wang, F. Pan, Y. Zhang,* and C. Song*. Realization of Isolated and High-Density Skyrmions at Room Temperature in Uncompensated Synthetic Antiferromagnets. Nano Lett. 20, 3299-3305 (2020).

33. Y. Y. Wang*, M. M. Decker, T.N.G. Meier, X. Z. Chen, C. Song, T. Grünbaum, W. S. Zhao, J. Y. Zhang, L. Chen*, and C. H. Back, Spin pumping during the antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic phase transition of iron–rhodium, Nat. Commun. 11, 275 (2020)

34. X. Z. Chen^#, X. F. Zhou^#, R. Cheng^#, C. Song*, J. Zhang, Y. C. Wu, Y. Ba, H. B. Li, Y. M. Sun, Y. F. You, Y. G. Zhao and F. Pan*, Electric field control of Néel spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet. Nat. Mater. 18, 931−935 (2019).

35. Y. M. Sun, X. L. Zhao, C. Song*, K. Xu, Y. Xi, J. Yin, Z. Y. Wang, X. F. Zhou, X. Z. Chen, G. Y. Shi, H. B. Lv, Q. Liu, F. Zeng, X. Y. Zhong, H. Q. Wu, M. Liu, and F. Pan*, Performance Enhancing Selector via Symmetrical Multilayer Design, Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1808376 (2019).

36. X. Z. Chen, R. Zarzuela, J. Zhang, C. Song*, X. F. Zhou, G. Y. Shi, F. Li, H. A. Zhou, W. J. Jiang, F. Pan, and Y. Tserkovnyak, Antidamping-Torque-Induced Switching in Biaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulators. Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207204 (2018).

37. C. Song*, B. Cui, F. Li, X. J. Zhou, F. Pan, Recent progress in voltage control of magnetism: Materials, mechanisms, and performance. Prog. Mater. Sci. 87, 33–82 (2017).

38. X. Z. Chen, J. F. Feng, Z. C. Wang, J. Zhang, X. Y. Zhong, C. Song*, L. Jin, B. Zhang, F. Li, M. Jiang, Y. Z. Tan, X. J. Zhou, G. Y. Shi, X. F. Zhou, X. D. Han, S. C. Mao, Y. H. Chen, X. F. Han, F. Pan*. Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance driven by magnetic phase transition. Nat. Commun. 8, 449 (2017)

39. F. Li, C. Song*, B. Cui, J. J. Peng, Y. D. Gu, G. Y. Wang, and F. Pan*. Photon-gated spin transistor, Adv. Mater. 29, 1604052 (2017).

40. B. Cui, C. Song*, H. J. Mao, Y. N. Yan, F. Li, S. Gao, J. J. Peng, F. Zeng, and F. Pan*. Manipulation of electric field effect by orbital switch. Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 753–759 (2016).

41. W. Liu, H. Zhang, J. Shi, Z. Wang, C. Song, X. Wang, S. Lu, X. Zhou, L. Gu, D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, M. Chen, K. Yao and Na Chen*. A room-temperature magnetic semiconductor from a ferromagnetic metallic glass. Nat. Commun. 7, 13497 (2016).

42. Y. Y. Wang, X. Zhou, C. Song*, Y. N. Yan, S. M. Zhou G. Y. Wang, C. Chen, F. Zeng, F. Pan*, Electrical control of exchange spring in antiferromagnetic metals. Adv. Mater. 27, 3196–3201 (2015).

43. B. Cui, C. Song*, H. Mao, H. Wu, F. Li, J. Peng, G. Wang, F. Zeng, and F. Pan*, Magnetoelectric coupling induced by interfacial orbital reconstruction. Adv. Mater. 27, 6651–6656 (2015).

44. B. Cui, C. Song*, G. A. Gehring, F. Li, G. Wang, C. Chen, J. Peng, H. Mao, F. Zeng, and Feng Pan*. Electrical manipulation of orbital occupancy and magnetic anisotropy in manganites. Adv. Funct. Mater. 25, 864–870 (2015).

45. Y. Y. Wang, C. Song*, G. Y. Wang, J. H. Miao, F. Zeng, and F. Pan*. Antiferromagnet controlled tunneling magnetoresistance. Adv. Funct. Mater. 24, 6806–6810 (2014)

46. B. Cui, C. Song*, G. Y. Wang, Y. N. Yan, J. J. Peng, J. H. Miao, H. J. Mao, F. Li, C. Chen, F. Zeng, and F. Pan*. Reversible ferromagnetic phase transition in electrode-gated manganites. Adv. Funct. Mater. 24, 7233–7240 (2014).

47. J. H. Han, C. Song*, S. Gao, Y. Y. Wang, C. Chen, and F. Pan. Realization of the Meminductor. ACS Nano, 8, 10043–10047 (2014).

48. G. Chen, C. Song*, C. Chen, S. Gao, F. Zeng, F. Pan*. Resistive switching and magnetic modulation in cobalt-doped ZnO. Adv. Mater., 24, 3515 (2012).

49. Y. Y. Wang, C. Song*, B. Cui, G. Y. Wang, F. Zeng, F. Pan*. Room-temperature perpendicular exchange coupling and tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance in antiferromagnet-based tunnel junction. Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 137201 (2012).

50. C. Song, M. Sperl, M. Utz, M. Ciorga, G. Woltersdorf, D. Bougeard, A. Einwanger, C. H. Back, D. Weiss*. Proximity induced enhancement of the Curie temperature in hybrid spin injection devices. Phys. Rev. Lett., 107, 056601 (2011).