University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Materials Research Laboratory

Honghui Zhou

Honghui Zhou
Honghui Zhou
Senior Research Scientist
(217) 300-3934
404 Seitz Materials Research Lab

Education

  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Surface Science and Corrosion Engineering M.S.
  • University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Surface Science and Corrosion Engineering B.S.

Academic Positions

  • 2020 - Present Senior Research Scientist, Central Research Facilities, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  • 2012 - 2020 Research Scientist, Central Research Facilities, Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
  • 2009 - 2012 Guest Scientist, Electron Microscopy Group (the STEM Group), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
  • 2005 –2009 Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Superconductivity Technology Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NW

Selected Articles in Journals

  • H. Zhou, B. Maiorov, S. Baily, H. Wang, J.L. MacManus-Driscoll, T.G. Holesinger, L. Civale, Q.X. Jia and S. R. Foltyn “Improved microstructure and enhanced low-field Jc in (Eu0.33Y0.67)Ba2Cu3O7-δ”, Superconductor Science and Technology, 21, 025001 (2008)
  • B. Maiorov, S.A. Baily, H. Zhou, O. Ugurlu, J.A. Kenisson, T. G. Holesinger, S.R. Foltyn, and L. Civale, “Synergetic combination of different types of defects to maximize pinning landscape using BaZrO3-doped YBa2Cu3O7”, Nature Materials, 8, 398 (2009)
  • H. Zhou, B. Maiorov, S. Baily, P.C Dowden, J.A. Kennison, L. Stan, T.G. Holesinger, Q.X. Jia, S.R. Foltyn and L. Civale, “The thickness dependence of self-field critical current density in YBa2Cu3O7 with BaZrO3 addition”, Superconductor Science and Technology, 22, 085012 (2009)
  • T.H. Yang, S. Nori, H Zhou, J. Narayan, “Defect-mediated room temperature ferromagnetism in vanadium dioxide thin films”, Applied Physics Letters, 95,102506 (2009)
  • R. Aggarwal, H. Zhou, C. Jin, J. Narayan, and R. J. Narayan, “Semipolar r-plane ZnO films on Si (100) substrates: Thin film epitaxy and optical properties”, Journal of Applied Physics, 107, 113530 (2010)
  • H. Zhou, M. F. Chisholm, P. Pant, J. Gazquez, S. J. Pennycook, and J. Narayan, “Atomic structure of misfit dislocations in non-polar ZnO/Al2O3 heterostructures”, Applied Physics Letters, 97, 121914 (2010)
  • H. Zhou, M. F. Chisholm, Tsung-Han Yang, S. J. Pennycook, and J. Narayan, “Role of interfacial transition layers in VO2/Al2O3 heterostructures”, Journal of Applied Physics, 110, 073515 (2011)
  • S.J. Pennycook, H. Zhou, M.F. Chisholm, A.Y. Borisevich, M. Varela, J. Gazquez, T.J. Pennycook, J. Narayan, “Misfit accommodation in oxide thin film heterostructures”, Acta Materialia, 61, 2725 (2013)
  • Aiping Chen , Honghui Zhou , Zhenxing Bi , Yuanyuan Zhu , Zhiping Luo, Adrian Bayraktaroglu , Jamie Phillips , Eun-Mi Choi , Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll, Stephen J. Pennycook , Jagdish Narayan , Quanxi Jia , Xinghang Zhang , and Haiyan Wang, “A New Class of Room-Temperature Multiferroic Thin Films with Bismuth-Based Supercell Structure”, Adv. Mater., 25, 1028 (2013)
  • H. Zhou, M. F. Chisholm, Alok Gupta, S. J. Pennycook, and J. Narayan, “Two-dimensional metamaterials for epitaxial heterostructures”, Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, 18, 46 (2014)