Faculty
Yu-Miin Sheu
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, USA
Office
Science Building III, SC 459
Tel.
(03) 5712121#56121
Lab.
fs-Laser Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials
Science Building III, SC 653 Ext. 56133
Biography
Experience
Expertise
Interest
Publications
Awards
2010
Ph.D. Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
2003
M.S. Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2001
B.S. Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2021/02 -
Associate Professor, Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2020/08 - 2021/01
Associate professor, Department of Electrophysics, NCTU, Taiwan.
2015/08 - 2020/07
Assistant professor, Department of Electrophysics, NCTU, Taiwan.
2014 - 2015
Postdoctoral researcher, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan.
2010 - 2014
Postdoctoral-research associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.
2010 - 2010
Visiting research investigator, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
2005 -
User of synchrotron radiation at National Argonne Laboratory, Illinois, USA.
2005 - 2009
Research assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
2003 - 2004
Full-time lab instructor, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2001 - 2003
Research assistant, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  1. Ultrafast studies of condensed matter
  2. Coherent spin control of novel materials
  3. Light-induced novel phenomena
  4. Ultrafast energy transfer and relaxation dynamics
  1. Ultrafast studies of condensed matter
  2. Coherent spin control of novel materials
  3. Light-induced novel phenomena
  4. Ultrafast energy transfer and relaxation dynamics
  1. Y. M. Sheu*, Y. M. Chang, C. P. Chang, Y. H. Li, K. R. Babu, G.Y. Guo, T. Kurumaji, and Y. Tokura, “Picosecond creation of switchable optomagnets from a polar antiferromagnet with giant photoinduced Kerr rotations”, Physical Review X 9, 031038 (2019).
  2. Y. M. Sheu*, N. Ogawa, Y. Tokunaga, H. C. Chan, and Y. Tokura, “Selective probe of coherent polar phonon and quasiferromagnetic resonance modesin multiferroic GdFeO3” Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 98, 100301(R) (2018).
  3. Yuqiao Zhang, Bin Feng, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Cheng-Ping Chang, Yu-Miin Sheu, Isao Tanaka, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta, “Double thermoelectric power factor of a 2D electron system” Nature Communications 9, 2224 (2018).
  4. Y. M. Sheu*, N. Ogawa, Y. Kaneko, and Y. Tokura, ” Photocreating supercooled spiral-spin states in a multiferroic manganite “, Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 94, 081107(R) (2016).
  5. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, “Using ultrashort optical pulses to couple ferroelectric and ferromagnetic order in an oxide heterostructure”, Nature Communications 5:5832 (2014).
  6. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, J. Qi, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Polaronic transport induced by competing interfacial magnetic order in a La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/BiFeO3 heterostructure”, Physical Review X 4, 021001 (2014).
  7. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, C.-P. Chuu, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Photo-induced stabilization and enhancement of the ferroelectric polarization in Ba0.1Sr0.9TiO3 /La0.7Ca(Sr)0.3MnO3 thin film heterostructures”, Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 88, 020101(R) (2013).
  8. Y. M. Sheu*, Y. J. Chien, C. Uher, S. Fahy, and D. A. Reis, ”Free-carrier relaxation and lattice heating in photoexcited bismuth”, Physical Review B 87, 075429 (2013).
  9. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, Y.-S. Park, S. Lee, H. T. Yi, S.-W. Cheong, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Ultrafast carrier dynamics and radiative recombination in multiferroic BiFeO3”, Applied Physics Letters 100, 242904 (2012).
  10. M. Trigo*, Y. M. Sheu, D. A. Arms, J. Chen, S. Ghimire, R. S. Goldman, E. Landahl, R. Merlin, E. Peterson, M. Reason, and D. A. Reis, ”Probing unfolded acoustic phonons with x rays”, Physical Review Letters 101, 025505, (2008). (Selected for a focus in physics)
  11. Y. M. Sheu*, S. H. Lee, J. K. Wahlstrand, D. A. Walko, E. C. Landahl, D. A. Arms, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and D. A. Reis, ”Thermal transport in a semiconductor heterostructure measured by time-resolved x-ray diffraction”, Physical Review B 78, 045317, (2008).
2020
Outstanding teaching award, College of Science, National Chiao Tung University.
2019
Junior Investigator Research Awards, College of Science, National Chiao Tung University.
2019
Outstanding Mentor Award of National Chiao Tung University.
2018
Outstanding Mentor Award of National Chiao Tung University.
2017
Distinguished Outstanding-Mentor Award of National Chiao Tung University.
2015 - 2018
Talents Recruit Award of Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.
2015
Distinguished Postdoctoral Publication Award of Los Alamos National Lab.