Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Irvine, USA
Specialty Area
Ab initio density functional calculations for mechanical, electronic, optical, transport, magnetic and catalytic properties of materials and surfaces.
Editor introduction
Ruqian Wu is Professor of Physics & Astronomy in University
of California, Irvine. He authored and coauthored about 300 papers on
magnetism, optics and catalysis. His major accomplishments include: (1) revealed
the mechanism of magnetic anisotropy in thin films and nanostructures; (2) examined
and established the sum rules of magnetic circular dichroism; (3) studied the
mechanism of large magnetostriction of transition metal alloys; (4) proposed
material systems for the realization of quantum Hall effect and quantum
anomalous Hall effect.
