Ke DENG Assistant Researcher
email: dengk@sustech.edu.cn
Office：504, Bld. I Innovation Park
Research Field：Electronic structure of low-dimensional materials and topological quantum materials, Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE)



Essential Information
Name：Ke Deng
Position：Assistant Researcher
Highest Degree：PhD in Physics
Telephone（office）：
Office：Room 610-2,Innovation park building #10，
Email：dengk@sustech.edu.cn
Research Field：Electronic structure of low-dimensional materials and topological quantum materials, Electrides, Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) and X-ray Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Educational Background
2013.09-2019.07, Ph.D. in Physics, Tsinghua University, China
2016.01-2017.10, Guest Researcher, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
2009.09-2013.07, B.S. in Applied Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Working Experience
2019.07- presentAssistant Researcher, Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
2016.01-2017.10, Research Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Honors and Awards
2019 Yu-Hsun Woo Nominee Prize (清華大學-吳有訓提名獎)
2019 Chih-Kung Jen Prize (任之恭獎)
2018 Tsinghua 1st class Excellence Scholarship
2016 ALS Doctoral Fellowship (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA)
2015 ALS Doctoral Fellowship (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA)
2013 Outstanding Graduate of Xi’an Jiaotong University
Papers and Patents
[17] X.-M. Ma*, Y. Zhao*, K. Zhang*, S. Kumar*, R. Lu, J. Li, Q. Yao, J. Shao, F. Hou, X. Wu, M. Zeng, Y.-J. Hao, Z. Hao, Y. Wang, X.-R. Liu, H. Shen, H. Sun, J. Mei, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, M. Arita, E. F. Schwier, K. Shimada, K. Deng, C. Liu, J. Lin, Y. Zhao, C. Chen, Q. Liu, Ch. Liu, Realization of a tunable surface Dirac gap in Sb-doped MnBi₂Te₄, Physical Review B103, L121112 (2021)
[16] X. Li*,K. Deng*, B. Fu*, Y. Li*, D.-S. Ma, JF. Han, J. Zhou, SY. Zhou, Y. Yao, Type-III Weyl semimetals: (TaSe₄)₂I,Physical Review B103, L081402 (2021) (Letter, Editor's Suggestion)
[15] R. Lu*, H. Sun*, S. Kumar*, Y. Wang*, M. Gu, M. Zeng, Y.-J. Hao, J. Li, J. Shao, X.-M. Ma, Z. Hao, K. Zhang, W. Mansuer, J. Mei, Y. Zhao, C. Liu,K. Deng, W. Huang, B. Shen, K. Shimada, E.F. Schwier, Ch. Liu, Q. Liu, C. Chen, Half-Magnetic Topological Insulator with Magnetization-Induced Dirac Gap at a Selected Surface, Physical Review X11, 011039 (2021)
[14] K. Zhang*, M. Wang*, X. Zhou, Y. Wang, S. Shen, K. Deng, H. Peng, J. Li, X. Lai, L. Zhang, Y. Wu, W. Duan, P. Yu, S. Zhou, Growth of large scale PtTe, PtTe₂and PtSe₂films on a wide range of substrates, Nano Research(2020) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2942-2.
[13] Y. Zhang*, K. Deng*, X. Zhang, M. Wang, Y. Wang, C. Liu, J.-W. Mei, S. Kumar, E.F. Schwier, K. Shimada, C. Chen, B. Shen, In-plane antiferromagnetic moments and magnetic polaron in the axion topological insulator candidate EuIn₂As₂, Physical Review B101, 205126 (2020).
[12] K. Deng*, M. Yan*, C. Yu, J. Li, X. Zhou, K. Zhang, Y. Zhao, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, W. Duan, Y. Wu, X. Zhong, S. Zhou, Crossover from 2D metal to 3D Dirac semimetal in metallic PtTe₂films with local Rashba effect, Science Bulletin64 (15): 1044-1048 (2019)(cover article)
[11] J. Ma*, K. Deng*, L. Zheng*, S. Wu, Z. Liu, S. Zhou, D. Sun, Experimental Progress on Layered Topological Semimetals, 2D Materials 6(3): 032001 (2019)
[10] K. Zhang, X. Liu, H. Zhang, K. Deng, M. Yan, W. Yao, M. Zheng, E.F. Schwier, K. Shimada, J. Denlinger, Y. Wu, W. Duan, S. Zhou, Evidence for a Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave in CuTe by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy,Physical Review Letters 121. 206402 (2018)
[9] K. Zhang, K. Deng, J. Li, H. Zhang, W. Yao, J. Denlinger, Y. Wu, W. Duan, S. Zhou, Widely tunable band gap in a multivalley semiconductor SnSe by potassium doping. Physical Review Materials2(5): 054603(2018)
[8] H. Yu, M. Liao, W. Zhao, G. Liu, X. Zhou, Z. Wei, X. Xu, K. Liu, Z. Hu, K. Deng, S. Zhou, J. Shi, L. Gu, C. Shen, T. Zhang, L. Du, L. Xie, J. Zhu, W. Chen, R. Yang, D. Shi, G. Zhang, Wafer-scale growth and transfer of highly-oriented monolayer MoS₂continuous films, ACS Nano11(12): 12001-12007 (2017)
[7] W. Yao, E. Wang, H. Huang, K. Deng, M. Yan, K. Zhang, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, L. Li, Y. Wang, H. Gao, C. Liu, W. Duan, S. Zhou, Direct observation of spin-layer locking by local Rashba effect in monolayer semiconducting PtSe₂film. Nature Communications8: 14216(2017)
[6] M. Yan*, H. Huang*, K. Zhang*, E. Wang, W. Yao, K. Deng, G. Wan, H. Zhang, M. Arita, H. Yang, Z. Sun, H. Yao, Y. Wu, S. Fan, W. Duan, S. Zhou, Lorentz-violating type-II Dirac fermions in transition metal dichalcogenide PtTe₂, Nature Communications 8:257(2017)
[5] P. Deng, Z. Xu,K. Deng, K. Zhang, Y. Wu, H. Zhang, S. Zhou, X. Chen, Revealing Fermi arcs and Weyl nodes in MoTe2 by quasiparticle interference mapping, Physical Review B95, 245110 (2017)
[4] K. Zhang, C. Bao, Q. Gu, X. Ren, H. Zhang, K. Deng, Y. Wu, Y. Li, J. Feng, S. Zhou, Raman signatures of inversion symmetry breaking and structural phase transition in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe₂, Nature Communications7: 13552(2017)
[3] K. Deng*, G. Wan*, P. Deng*, K. Zhang, S. Ding, E. Wang, M. Yan, H. Huang, H. Zhang, Z. Xu, J. Denlinger, A. Fedorov, H. Yang, W. Duan, H. Yao, Y. Wu, S. Fan, H. Zhang, X. Chen, S. Zhou, Experimental observation of topological Fermi arcs in type-II Weyl semimetal MoTe₂, Nature Physics 12(12)：1105-1110 (2016)
[2] E. Wang, X. Lu, S. Ding, W. Yao, M. Yan, G. Wan, K. Deng, S. Wang, G. Chen, L. Ma, J. Jung, A. V. Fedorov, Y. Zhang, G. Zhang, S. Zhou, Gaps induced by inversion symmetry breaking and second-generation Dirac cones in graphene/hexagonal boron nitride, Nature Physics 12:1111-1116 (2016)
[1] W. Yao, E. Wang,K. Deng, S. Yang, W. Wu, A. Fedorov, S-K Mo, E. Schwier, M. Zheng, Y. Kojima, H. Iwasawa, K. Shimada, K. Jiang, P. Yu, J. Li, S. Zhou, Monolayer charge-neutral graphene on platinum with extremely weak electron-phonon coupling, Physical Review B92, 115421(2015)