education experience:

• 2006-7. 2009 Ph.D: Nanjing University, China. Supervisor: Professor Jun-Ming Liu.

• 2003-7. 2006 M.S.: Wuhan University, China. Supervisor: Professor Bo Wang.

• 1999-7. 2003 B.S.: Hubei University, Wuhan, China.

job experience:

• 2012-present, Associate Professor, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

• 2015- 6. 2015, Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle(Saale), Germany, Supervisor: Prof. Stuart Parkin & Prof. Detrich Hesse.

• 2013-2. 2015, Humboldt Fellow, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle(Saale), Germany, Supervisor: Prof. Marin Alexe & Prof. Detrich Hesse.

• 2010-11. 2012, Lecturer, School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

• 2009-7. 2010, Postdoc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Supervisors: Assistant Professor Tom Wu & Associate Professor Junling Wang.

research interests:

• Type-II multiferroics

• 5d iridates

research porjects:

• Fabrication and physical properties of type-II multiferroic thin films and heterostructures (NSFC 11374112), 2014-2017，PI

• A-site doping effects on the multiferroicity in rare-earth manganites (NSFC 11104090), 2012-2014, PI

professinal activities:

• 2016, The 8^th APCTP Workshop on Multiferroics, Shanghai. Poster.

• 2015, The 4^th Workshop on Frontier Science in the Pulsed High Magnetic Field, Wuhan. Talk.

• 2015, Chinese Physical Society (CPS) Fall Meeting, Changchun. Invited talk.

• 2015, Workshop on Functional Thin Films and Interfaces, Krippen (Germany), Talk

• 2015, DPG (German Physical Society) spring meeting 2015, Berlin (Germany), Oral presentation

• 2014, DPG (German Physical Society) spring meeting 2014, Dresden (Germany), Oral presentation

• 2011, The 7^th Singapore-China Symposium in Physics, Wuhan. Talk

• 2011, Chinese Physical Society (CPS) Fall Meeting, Zhejiang. Invited talk

• 2011, Scientific Secretary of the 3^rd Workshop on Novel Electronic Materials, Wuhan.

• 2011, Chinese Materials Research Society (C-MRS) Meeting, Beijing. Oral presentation

• 2008, Chinese Physical Society (CPS) Fall Meeting, Shandong. Poster

• 2007, Chinese Physical Society (CPS) Fall Meeting, Nanjing. Oral presentation

Publications:

1. C. L. Lu and J. –M. Liu, DyMnO₃: A model system of type-II multiferroics. J. Materiomics 2, 213 (2016).

2. C. L. Lu, H. Deniz, X. Li, J.-M. Liu, and S-W Cheong, Continuous magnetoelectric control in multiferroic DyMnO₃ films with twin-like domains. Sci. Rep. 6, 20175 (2016).

3. N. Hu, C. L. Lu*, Z. C. Xia, R. Xiong, P. F. Fang, J. Shi, and J. –M. Liu, Multiferroicity and magnetoelectric coupling in TbMnO₃thin films. ACS Appl. Mater. & Interfaces 7, 26603 (2015).

4. C. L. Lu, W. J. Hu, Y. F. Tian, and T. Wu, Multiferroic oxide thin films and heterostructures. Appl. Phys. Rev. 2, 021304 (2015).

5. C. L. Lu, S. Dong, A. Quindeau, D. Preziosi, N. Hu, and M. Alexe, Dual gate control of bulk transport and magnetism in the spin-orbit insulator Sr₂IrO₄. Phys. Rev. B 91, 104401 (2015).

6. X. Li, C. L. Lu*, J. Y. Dai, S. Dong, Y. Chen, N. Hu, G. H. Wu, M. F. Liu, Z. B. Yan, and J. –M. Liu, Novel multiferroicity in GdMnO₃ thin films with self-assembled nano-twined domains. Sci. Rep. 4, 7019 (2014).

7. C. L. Lu, A. Quindeau, H. Deniz, D. Preziosi, D. Hesse, and M. Alexe, Crossover of conduction mechanism in Sr₂IrO₄ epitaxial thin films. Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 082407 (2014).

8. C. L. Lu, N. Hu, M. Yang, S. C. Xia, H. W. Wang, J. F. Wang, Z. C. Xia, and J. –M. Liu, High magnetic field phase diagram in electron-doped manganites La_0.4Ca_0.6Mn_1-yCr_yO₃. Sci. Rep. 4, 4902 (2014).

9. C. L. Lu, S. Dong, Z. C. Xia, H. Luo, Z. B. Yan, H. W. Wang, Z. M. Tian, S. L. Yuan, T. Wu, and J. –M. Liu, Polarization enhancement and ferroelectric switching enabled by interacting magnetic structures in DyMnO₃ thin films. Sci. Rep. 3, 3374 (2013).

10. C. L. Lu, Y. Y. Wu, Z. C. Xia, S. L. Yuan, L. Chen, Z. M. Tian, J. –M. Liu, and T. Wu, Giant in-plane anisotropy in manganite thin films driven by strain-engineered double exchange interaction and electronic phase separation. Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 122510 (2011).

11. C. L. Lu, Y. Wang, L. You, X. Zhou, H. Y. Peng, G. Z. Xing, E. E. M. Chia, C. Panagopoulos, L. Cheng, J. –M. Liu, J. L. Wang, and T. Wu, Superconducting gap induced barrier enhancement in a BiFeO₃-based heterostructure. Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 252905 (2010).

12. C. L. Lu, X. Chen, S. Dong, K. F. Wang, H. L. Cai, D. Li, Z. D. Zhang, and J. –M. Liu, Ru-doping induced ferromagnetism in charge-ordered La_0.4Ca_0.6MnO₃. Phys. Rev. B 79, 245105 (2009).

13. C. L. Lu, S. Dong, K. F. Wang, F. Gao, P. L. Li, L. Y. Lv, and J.-M. Liu, Charge-order breaking and ferromagnetism in La_0.4Ca_0.6MnO₃ nanoparticles. Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 032502 (2007).

course teaching:

• University Physics (大学物理), for undergraduates