Zhi Lin

About

Zhi Lin is a professor in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington, specializing in painting and drawing. He holds an MFA from the University of Delaware (1992) and from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (1989), as well as postgraduate studies at the China Academy of Art (1987) and a BFA from the same institution (1982). Lin has exhibited his work extensively in museums across the United States, United Kingdom, and China, including the Princeton University Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and the China Academy of Art Museum. His work is part of the collections of several prominent institutions, such as the Princeton University Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, and the Oxford University Ashmolean Museum. Lin's artistic focus includes themes related to Chinese history and migration, exemplified by works like 'Constellations over the Sierra Nevada' and 'Five Capital Punishments in China.' He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including recognition from the Humanities Council at Princeton University, the University of Washington, Creative Capital Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to his teaching and artistic practice, Lin is an affiliated faculty member at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington since 2001, engaging in research that explores Chinese migration and history through his art.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Physics
• Condensed matter physics
• Optoelectronics
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Metallurgy
• Quantum mechanics
• Crystallography
• Engineering physics

Selected publications

• Superconductivity in metallic twisted bilayer graphene stabilized by WSe2

  Nature · 307 citations

  Abstract Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG), with rotational misalignment close to 1.1 degrees, features isolated flat electronic bands that host a rich phase diagram of correlated insulating, superconducting, ferromagnetic and topological phases1–6. Correlated insulators and superconductivity have been previously observed only for angles within 0.1 degree of the magic angle and occur in adjacent or overlapping electron-density ranges; nevertheless, the origins of these states and the re…

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• Graphene and Beyond: Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials Synthesis, Properties, and Devices

  ACS Nanoscience Au · 2022 · 226 citations

  methods; and properties and applications that are related to moiré engineering, strain engineering, and artificial intelligence. Finally, we also provide our perspective on the challenges and opportunities in this fascinating field.

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• Intertwined Topological and Magnetic Orders in Atomically Thin Chern Insulator MnBi₂Te₄

  Nano Letters · 2021 · 157 citations

  devices. As the magnetic state is tuned through the canted magnetic phase, we observe a band crossing, i.e., the closing and reopening of the bulk band gap, corresponding to the concurrent topological phase transition in both even- and odd-layer-number devices. Our findings shed new light on the interplay between band topology and magnetic order in this newly discovered topological magnet.

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• Electric control of a canted-antiferromagnetic Chern insulator

  Nature Communications · 2022-03-29 · 66 citations

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  Abstract The interplay between band topology and magnetism can give rise to exotic states of matter. For example, magnetically doped topological insulators can realize a Chern insulator that exhibits quantized Hall resistance at zero magnetic field. While prior works have focused on ferromagnetic systems, little is known about band topology and its manipulation in antiferromagnets. Here, we report that MnBi 2 Te 4 is a rare platform for realizing a canted-antiferromagnetic (cAFM) Chern insulator…

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• Magnetism and Its Structural Coupling Effects in 2D Ising Ferromagnetic Insulator VI₃

  Nano Letters · 2021-11-01 · 48 citations

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  van der Waals (vdW) magnets have emerged as a tunable platform for exploring a variety of layer-dependent magnetic phenomena. Here we probe the thickness-dependent magnetism of vanadium triiodide (VI3), a material known as a layered ferromagnetic Mott insulator in its bulk form, using magnetic circular dichroism microscopy. Robust ferromagnetism is observed in all thin layers, down to the monolayer limit with large coercive fields. In contrast to known vdW magnets, the Curie temperature shows an…

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Frequent coauthors

• Mauricio Terrones

  Ōtani University

  87 shared

• Néstor Perea‐López

  Pennsylvania State University

  34 shared

• Ana Laura Elías

  27 shared

• Victor Carôzo

  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

  25 shared

• Jiun‐Haw Chu

  University of Washington

  22 shared

• Zaiyao Fei

  University of Washington

  19 shared

• Saikat Talapatra

  Southern Illinois University Carbondale

  19 shared

• Luke Alexander Henley

  University of Basrah

  18 shared

Awards & honors

• Fellow in the Humanities Council and the Tang Center for Eas…
• University of Washington Royalty Research Scholar and Resear…
• Creative Capital Foundation Grant in Painting
• Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny France Grant
• Art Matters Foundation Fellowship

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