Topological Materials


SrMnSb(AFM, Dirac)	BaMnSb2(AFM, Dirac)	YbMnSb2(AFM, Dirac)

ZrSiS(Nodal-line semi-metal)	ZrSiSe(Nodal-line semi-metal)	ZrSiTe(Nodal-line semi-metal)

ZrGeS(Nodal-line semi-metal)	ZrGeSe(Nodal-line semi-metal)	ZrGeTe(Nodal-line semi-metal)

MnBi2Te4(AFM, TI)	MnSb2Te4(AFM, TI)	WTe2(type-2 Weyl)

MoTe2(type-2 Weyl)	YSn2(Weyl?)	LuSn2(Dirac)

GdMn6Sn6 (Chern insulator)	TbMn6Sn6 (Chern insulator)	DyMn6Sn6 (Chern insulator)

HoMn6Sn6 (Chern insulator)	YMn6Sn6


TbPdBi(Half-Heusler, field-induced Weyl)	DyPdBi(Half-Heusler, field-induced Weyl)	Co2MnAl(Heusler, FM, Weyl)

TbPtBi(field-induced Weyl)	DyPtBi(field-induced Weyl)	MnSi

08/21/2024, Lujin Min’s paper, “Colossal room-temperature non-reciprocal Hall effect” has been published in Nature Materials which is also highlighted by Penn State.
08/20/2024, Lujin Min’s paper, “High Entropy Protected Sharp Magnetic Transitions in Highly Disordered Spinel Ferrites”, has been published in JACS. Congratulations!
08/10/2024, Yingdong Guan received his PhD and subsequently joined the Penn State Materials Research Institute as a postdoctoral scholar. Congratulations!
04/26/2024, Antu Laha and Suguru Yoshida’s paper, “High-entropy engineering of the crystal and electronic structures in a Dirac material”, has been published in Nat. Commun. Congratulations!
01/01/2024 Dr. Lujin Min joined Prof. Yasuda’s group in Cornell University as an Post Doc. Congratulations!
01/23/2023, Lujin Min’s paper, “Strong room-temperature bulk nonlinear Hall effect in a spin-valley locked Dirac material”, has been published in Nat. Commun. Congratulations!
03/15/2023, Rowan Katzbaer’s paper, “Band Gap Narrowing in a High-Entropy Spinel Oxide Semiconductor for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Catalysis”, has been published in JACS. Congratulations!
01/16/2023, Yingdong Guan’s paper “Layered Semiconductor Cr0.32Ga0.68Te2.33 with Concurrent Broken Inversion Symmetry and Ferromagnetism: A Bulk Ferrovalley Material Candidate”, has been published in JACS. Congratulations!
03/26/2022 Dr. Suguru Yoshida joined Prof. Mao’s group as an Assistant Research Professor. Welcome!
03/18/2022 Lujin Min’s paper “A Topological Kagome Magnet in High Entropy Form” is published in Communications Physics. Congratulations!
08/10/2021 Seng Huat Lee’s paper “Evidence for a Magnetic-Field-Induced Ideal Type-II Weyl State in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator Mn(Bi_1−xSb_x)₂Te₄ ” is published in Phys. Rev. X. Congratulations!
07/01/2021 Jinyu Liu’s paper “Spin-valley locking and bulk quantum Hall effect in a noncentrosymmetric Dirac semimetal BaMnSb₂” is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
03/04/2021 Yanglin Zhu’s paper “Quasi-two-dimensional relativistic fermions probed by de Haas–van Alphen quantum oscillations in LuSn₂” is published in Phys. Rev. B. Congratulations!
08/23/2021 Robert Robinson’s paper “Large violation of the Wiedemann-Franz law in Heusler, ferromagnetic, Weyl semimetal Co₂MnAl” is published in Journal of Physics. D: Applied Physics. Congratulations!
12/16/2021 Rebecca Katz’s paper “Persistence and Evolution of Materials Features During Catalysis Using Topological and Trivial Polymorphs of MoTe₂” is published in ChemCatChem. Congratulations!
11/15/2021 Dr. Antu Laha joined Prof. Mao’s group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
12/20/2021 Dr. Chandan De joined Prof. Mao’s group as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome!
07/10/2020 Peigang Li’s paper “Giant room temperature anomalous Hall effect and tunable topology in a ferromagnetic topological semimetal Co₂MnAl” is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations!
04/08/2020 Yanglin Zhu’s paper “Exceptionally large anomalous Hall effect due to anticrossing of spin-split bands in the antiferromagnetic half-Heusler compound TbPtBi” is published in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications). Congratulations!
01/17/2020 Yanglin Zhu’s paper “Evidence from transport measurements for YRh₆Ge₄ being a triply degenerate nodal semimetal” is published in Phys. Rev. B. Congratulations!