Fengyuan Yang

Fengyuan Yang serves as Professor and Director of ENCOMM at The Ohio State University, conducting research in the Physics Research Building. His work focuses on experimental condensed matter physics with emphasis on quantum material systems.

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University (2001)
• M.S. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University (1998)
• B.A. in Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (1992)

Yang's research explores spin, magnetic, topological, and quantum phenomena in complex materials including oxides, topological insulators, and intermetallic heterostructures. His group specializes in ultrahigh vacuum off-axis sputtering and molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) for epitaxial film growth, enabling studies of antiferromagnetic spintronics, magnetic skyrmions, electrical control of magnetism, terahertz dynamics, and quantum information materials. Current projects emphasize materials development for next-generation technologies.

Research Funding

• Department of Energy
• Center for Emergent Materials (NSF MRSEC)
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• DARPA
• National Science Foundation

Yang actively recruits graduate students through his research group and maintains laboratory facilities in the Physics Research Building (Room 2109). His team operates state-of-the-art thin-film growth instrumentation for advanced materials synthesis and characterization.