Guo-Xing Miao

Guo-Xing Miao is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and is cross-appointed to the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. Professor Miao's research interests lie in spintronics, which use precise electron spin manipulation for information processing. His work places a strong emphasis on nanodevices established on newly emerging spin platforms, such as synthetic diamonds and topological insulators, where information can be processed coherently on the quantum level, rather than digitally on the classical level.

• Topologically protected low-dimensional spin system
• Spin memory and logic devices
• Spintronics
• Nanotechnology

• ECE 202 - Information Session
  • Taught in 2021
• ECE 403 - Thermal Physics
  • Taught in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
• ECE 630 - Physics & Models Semicon Devs
  • Taught in 2016, 2017, 2020
• NANO 701 - Fundamentals of Nano
  • Taught in 2018, 2019
• NANO 702 - Nanotechnology Tools
  • Taught in 2018, 2019

• Hou, Shi-Yao and Feng, Guanru and Wu, Zipeng and Zou, Hongyang and Shi, Wei and Zeng, Jinfeng and Cao, Chenfeng and Yu, Sheng and Sheng, Zikai and Rao, Xin and others, SpinQ Gemini: a desktop quantum computing platform for education and research, EPJ Quantum Technology, 8(1), 2021, 1 - 23
• Li, Hongsen and Hu, Zhengqiang and Xia, Qingtao and Zhang, Hao and Li, Zhaohui and Wang, Huaizhi and Li, Xiangkun and Zuo, Fengkai and Zhang, Fengling and Wang, Xiaoxiong and others, Operando magnetometry probing the charge storage mechanism of CoO lithium-ion batteries, Advanced Materials, 33(12), 2021
• Li, Zhaohui and Zhang, Yongcheng and Li, Xiangkun and Gu, Fangchao and Zhang, Leqing and Liu, Hengjun and Xia, Qingtao and Li, Qinghao and Ye, Wanneng and Ge, Chen and others, Reacquainting the Electrochemical Conversion Mechanism of FeS2 Sodium-Ion Batteries by Operando Magnetometry, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021
• Sang, Tao and Zhang, Shouheng and Zhao, Guoxia and Geng, Cunzhen and Jin, Zhejun and Zong, Weihua and Cao, Derang and Xu, Jie and Wang, Xia and Miao, Guo-Xing and others, Magnetic moment configuration: One of decisive factors to enhance the optical mode resonance in interlayer exchange coupled trilayers, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 875, 2021
• Li, Shiying and Fu, Jing and Miao, Guoxing and Wang, Shengping and Zhao, Wanyu and Wu, Zichen and Zhang, Yijie and Yang, Xiaowei, Toward Planar and Dendrite-Free Zn Electrodepositions by Regulating Sn-Crystal Textured Surface, Advanced Materials, 33(21), 2021
• Li, Qiang and Li, Hongsen and Xia, Qingtao and Hu, Zhengqiang and Zhu, Yue and Yan, Shishen and Ge, Chen and Zhang, Qinghua and Wang, Xiaoxiong and Shang, Xiantao and others, Extra storage capacity in transition metal oxide lithium-ion batteries revealed by in situ magnetometry, Nature Materials, 20(1), 2021, 76 - 83
• Long, Guofei and Xue, Qian and Li, Qiang and Shi, Yu and Li, Lin and Cheng, Long and Li, Peng and Zhang, Junwei and Zhang, Xixiang and Guo, Haizhong and others, Interfacial Control via Reversible Ionic Motion in Battery-Like Magnetic Tunnel Junctions, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021
• Huang, Yicong and Zhang, Shouheng and Sang, Tao and Zhao, Guoxia and Jin, Zhejun and Zong, Weihua and Wang, Xia and Xu, Jie and Cao, Derang and Miao, Guo-Xing and others, Orientation control of optical mode ferromagnetic resonance: From uniaxial to omni-directional, Applied Physics Letters, 118(2), 2021
• Islam, Rabiul and Cui, Bo and Miao, Guo-Xing, Dry etching strategy of spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory: A review, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Materials, Processing, Measurement, and Phenomena, 38(5), 2020
• Li, Zhenhua and Liu, Hongwei and Wang, Jipeng and Yang, Shunyu and Dou, Tianqi and Qu, Wenxiu and Zhou, Fen and Huang, Yuqing and Sun, Zhongqi and Han, Yanxin and others, Reference-frame-independent measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with mismatched-basis statistics, Optics Letters, 45(22), 2020, 6334 - 6337
• Sun, Qinchao and Luo, Xin and Xia, Qingtao and Guo, Yunfeng and Su, Jie and Li, Qiang and Miao, Guoxing, Enhanced ferromagnetism and conductivity in epitaxial LaMnO3 thin films by oxygen-atmosphere annealing, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 499, 2020
• Zhou, Fen and Qu, Wenxiu and Wang, Jipeng and Dou, Tianqi and Li, Zhenhua and Yang, Shunyu and Sun, Zhongqi and Miao, Guoxing and Ma, Haiqiang, Twin-field quantum key distribution with heralded single photon source, The European Physical Journal D, 74(9), 2020, 1 - 6
• Li, Peng and Han, Ali and Zhang, Chenhui and He, Xin and Zhang, Junwei and Zheng, Dongxing and Cheng, Long and Li, Lain-Jong and Miao, Guo-Xing and Zhang, Xi-Xiang, Mobility-fluctuation-controlled linear positive magnetoresistance in 2D semiconductor Bi2O2Se nanoplates, ACS nano, 14(9), 2020, 11319 - 11326
• Du, Honglei and Xue, Qian and Li, Shandong and Miao, Guo-Xing and Chu, Xian-Ming and Dai, Youyong and Yu, Meijie and Zhao, Guoxia and Yan, Shishen, [(FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB)/ZnO] n superlattice multilayer: A real optical mode ferromagnetic resonance thick-film, Applied Physics Letters, 116(15), 2020
• Miao, Guo-Xing, Promising single-photon emitters with reconfined InGaN/GaN nanowire quantum dots, Quantum Engineering, 1(3), 2019
• Li, Peng and Zhang, Chenhui and Wen, Yan and Cheng, Long and Nichols, George and Cory, David G and Miao, Guo-Xing and Zhang, Xi-Xiang, Anisotropic planar Hall effect in the type-II topological Weyl semimetal WTe 2, Physical Review B, 100(20), 2019
• Kwon, Sangil and Tang, Yong-Chao and Mohebbi, Hamid R and Benningshof, Olaf WB and Cory, David G and Miao, Guo-Xing, Engineering nonlinear response of superconducting niobium microstrip resonators via aluminum cladding, Journal of Applied Physics, 126(17), 2019
• Zhang, Shouheng and Lin, Jianxin and Miao, Guo-Xing and Li, Shandong and Zhao, Guoxia and Wang, Xia and Li, Qiang and Cao, Derang and Xu, Jie and Yan, Shishen and others, Ultrahigh Frequency and Anti-Interference Optical-Mode Resonance with Biquadratic Coupled FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB Trilayers, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 11(51), 2019, 48230 - 48238
• Kim, Hyun Ho and Yang, Bowen and Li, Siwen and Jiang, Shengwei and Jin, Chenhao and Tao, Zui and Nichols, George and Sfigakis, Francois and Zhong, Shazhou and Li, Chenghe and others, Evolution of interlayer and intralayer magnetism in three atomically thin chromium trihalides, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(23), 2019, 11131 - 11136
• Kim, Hyun Ho and Yang, Bowen and Tian, Shangjie and Li, Chenghe and Miao, Guo-Xing and Lei, Hechang and Tsen, Adam W, Tailored tunnel magnetoresistance response in three ultrathin chromium trihalides, Nano letters, 19(8), 2019, 5739 - 5745
• Kwon, Sangil and Fadavi Roudsari, Anita and Benningshof, Olaf WB and Tang, Yong-Chao and Mohebbi, Hamid R and Taminiau, Ivar AJ and Langenberg, Deler and Lee, Shinyoung and Nichols, George and Cory, David G and others, Magnetic field dependent microwave losses in superconducting niobium microstrip resonators, Journal of Applied Physics, 124(3), 2018
• Li, Shandong and Miao, Guo-Xing and Cao, Derang and Li, Qiang and Xu, Jie and Wen, Zheng and Dai, Youyong and Yan, Shishen and Lu, Yueguang, Stress-enhanced interlayer exchange coupling and optical-mode FMR frequency in self-bias FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB trilayers, ACS applied materials & interfaces, 10(10), 2018, 8853 - 8859
• Wang, Cuiling and Zhang, Shouheng and Qiao, Shizhu and Du, Honglei and Liu, Xiaomin and Sun, Ruicong and Chu, Xian-Ming and Miao, Guo-Xing and Dai, Youyong and Kang, Shishou and others, Dual-mode ferromagnetic resonance in an FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB synthetic antiferromagnet with uniaxial anisotropy, Applied Physics Letters, 112(19), 2018
• Zhang, Hui and Ma, Xiaodong and Li, Lin and Langenberg, Deler and Zeng, Chang Gan and Miao, Guo Xing, Two-step growth of high-quality Nb/(Bi 0.5 Sb 0.5) 2 Te 3/Nb heterostructures for topological Josephson junctions, Journal of Materials Research, 33(16), 2018, 2423 - 2433
• Li, Lin and Zhang, Hui and Yang, Yi-Hang and Miao, Guo-Xing, High-Quality Epitaxial MgB2 Josephson Junctions Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Advanced Engineering Materials, 19(5), 2017
• Wu, Qing-Ping and Liu, Zheng-Fang and Chen, Ai-Xi and Xiao, Xian-Bo and Zhang, Heng and Miao, Guo-Xing, Valley precession and valley polarization in graphene with inter-valley coupling, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(39), 2017
• Liu, Zheng-Fang and Wu, Qing-Ping and Chen, Ai-Xi and Xiao, Xian-Bo and Liu, Nian-Hua and Miao, Guo-Xing, Helical edge states and edge-state transport in strained armchair graphene nanoribbons, Scientific reports, 7(1), 2017, 1 - 10
• Wu, Qing-Ping and Liu, Zheng-Fang and Chen, Ai-Xi and Xiao, Xian-Bo and Miao, Guo-Xing, Pure valley and spin polarization current in ferromagnetic graphene junction, Journal of Applied Physics, 121(5), 2017
• Zhao, Chuan and Norden, Tenzin and Zhang, Peiyao and Zhao, Puqin and Cheng, Yingchun and Sun, Fan and Parry, James P and Taheri, Payam and Wang, Jieqiong and Yang, Yihang and others, Enhanced valley splitting in monolayer WSe 2 due to magnetic exchange field, Nature nanotechnology, 12(8), 2017, 757 - 762
• Wu, Qing-Ping and Liu, Zheng-Fang and Chen, Ai-Xi and Xiao, Xian-Bo and Miao, Guo-Xing, Tunable Dirac points and high spin polarization in ferromagnetic-strain graphene superlattices, Scientific reports, 7(1), 2017, 1 - 10
• Tang, Yong-Chao and Kwon, Sangil and Mohebbi, Hamid R and Cory, David G and Miao, Guo-Xing, Phonon engineering in proximity enhanced superconductor heterostructures, Scientific reports, 7(1), 2017, 1 - 7
• Xue, Qian and Yang, Yihang and Gao, Zhiwei and Liu, Fen and Li, Qiang and Li, Shandong and Miao, Guo-Xing, Tunnel magnetoresistance in epitaxial (100)-oriented FeCo/LiF/FeCo magnetic tunnel junctions, Applied Physics Letters, 109(19), 2016
• Tang, Yong-Chao and Zhang, Hui and Kwon, Sangil and Mohebbi, Hamid R and Cory, David G and Peng, Li-Cong and Gu, Lin and Guo, Hai-Zhong and Jin, Kui-Juan and Miao, Guo-Xing, Superconducting resonators based on TiN/tapering/NbN/tapering/TiN heterostructures, Advanced Engineering Materials, 18(10), 2016, 1816 - 1822
• Li, Shandong and Li, Qiang and Xu, Jie and Yan, Shishen and Miao, Guo-Xing and Kang, Shishou and Dai, Youyong and Jiao, Jiqing and Lü, Yueguang, Tunable optical mode ferromagnetic resonance in FeCoB/Ru/FeCoB synthetic antiferromagnetic trilayers under uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, Advanced Functional Materials, 26(21), 2016, 3738 - 3744
• Nejad, Saman Nazari and Mansour, Raafat and Miao, Guo-Xing, Post-processed thin-film GMI magnetic sensors, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 52(7), 2016, 1 - 4
• Liu, Zheng-Fang and Wu, Qing-Ping and Chen, Ai-Xi and Xiao, Xian-Bo and Liu, Nian-Hua and Miao, Guo-Xing, Edge states and quantum phase transition in graphene under in-plane effective exchange fields, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 29(4), 2016
• Li, Shandong and Wang, Cuiling and Chu, Xian-Ming and Miao, Guo-Xing and Xue, Qian and Zou, Wenqin and Liu, Meimei and Xu, Jie and Li, Qiang and Dai, Youyong and others, Engineering optical mode ferromagnetic resonance in FeCoB films with ultrathin Ru insertion, Scientific reports, 6(1), 2016, 1 - 10
• Liu, Fen and Yang, Yihang and Xue, Qian and Gao, Zhiwei and Chen, Aixi and Miao, Guo-Xing, Resonant TMR inversion in LiF/EuS based spin-filter tunnel junctions, AIP Advances, 6(8), 2016
• Gao, Xiaoyang and Li, Qiang and Li, Shandong and Xu, Jie and Qin, Youzhi and Shi, Xingjun and Yan, Shishen and Miao, Guoxing, Inverse tunnel magnetoresistance in epitaxial FeCo/MgO/Fe tunnel junctions patterned by in situ shadow-masks, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 662, 2016, 79 - 83
• Gao, Zhiwei and Yang, Yihang and Liu, Fen and Xue, Qian and Miao, Guo-Xing, Spin-and symmetry-filtering combined tunnel magnetoresistance through epitaxial MgO/EuS tunnel barriers, Materials Research Express, 3(7), 2016
• Yang, Yi-Hang and Li, Lin and Liu, Fen and Gao, Zhi-Wei and Miao, Guo-Xing, Enhancing spin injection efficiency through half-metallic miniband conduction in a spin-filter superlattice, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 28(5), 2016
• Yang, Yi-Hang and Li, Lin and Liu, Ying and Miao, Guo-Xing, Towards the reality of spin field effect transistor utilizing a graphene channel with spin-splitting, Materials Research Express, 3(10), 2016
• Tournet, Julie and Gosselink, Denise and Miao, Guo-Xing and Jaikissoon, Marc and Langenberg, Deler and McConkey, Thomas G and Mariantoni, Matteo and Wasilewski, Zbigniew R, Growth and characterization of epitaxial aluminum layers on gallium-arsenide substrates for superconducting quantum bits, Superconductor Science and Technology, 29(6), 2016
• Tang, Yong-Chao and Miao, Guo-Xing, Robust surface code topology against sparse fabrication defects in a superconducting-qubit array, Physical Review A, 93(3), 2016
• Li, Lin and Ma, Xiao-Dong and Dai, Yutong and Zhang, Hui and Nichols, George and Cheng, Long and Langenberg, Deler and Miao, Guo-Xing, Conductance spectroscopy of vertical topological Josephson junction Nb/(Bi0. 5Sb0. 5) 2Te3/Nb, Spintronics XI, 1 2018

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