Research Interests

 
Properties of materials under high pressure; Synchrotron x-ray, neutron and electron scattering and diamond-cell techniques; Applications of high pressure research to condensed-matter physics, geophysics, and planetary sciences. 
 

Yang Ding, Rajeev Ahuja, Jinfu Shu, Paul Chow, Wei Luo, and Ho-kwang Mao, Structural Phase Transition of Vanadium at 69 GPa, Physical Review Letters  98, 085502,  2007.

Yang Ding, Yang Ren, Paul Chow, Jianzhong Zhang, Sven C. Vogel, Bjoern Winkler, Jian Xu, Yusheng Zhao, and Ho-kwang Mao, Pressure-induced long-range magnetic ordering in cobalt oxide, Physical Review B 74, 144101, 2006.

Yang Ding, Paul Chow, Yang Ren, Charles T. Prewitt, and  Ho-kwang Mao, Determining Thermal Diffuse Scattering of Vanadium with X-Ray Transmission Scattering, Applied Physics Letters  88, 061903, 2006.

Yang Ding, Haozhe Liu, Maddury Somayazulu, Yue Meng, Jian Xu, Charles T. Prewitt, Russell. J. Hemley and Ho-kwang Mao, Zone-axis x-ray diffraction of single-crystal Fe_1-xO under pressure, Physical Review B 72, 174109, 2005.

Yang Ding,  Haozhe Liu, Jian Xu, Charles T. Prewitt, Russell J. Hemley  and  Ho-kwang Mao, Zone-axis diffraction study of pressure induced inhomogeneity in single-crystal Fe_1-xO, Applied Physics Letters 87, 041912,  2005.

Yang Ding, Jian Xu, Charles T. Prewitt, Russell J. Hemley, Ho-kwang Mao, John. A. Cowan, Jianzhong Zhang, Jiang Qian, Sven C. Vogel, and Yusheng Zhao, Variable P-T neutron diffraction of wüstite (Fe_1-xO): Absence of long-range magnetic order to 20 GPa, Applied Physics Letters 86, 052505, 2005.

Yang Ding, Charles T. Prewitt, and David R. Veblen, Possible Fe/Cu ordering schemes in the 2a superstructure of bornite (Cu₅FeS₄), American Mineralogist 90, 1265, 2005.

Yang Ding, Charles T. Prewitt, and David R. Veblen, High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) study of 4a and 6a superstructure of bornite Cu₅FeS₄, American Mineralogist 90,1256,  2005.

Yang Ding and David R. Veblen, Impactite from Henbury, Australia, American Mineralogist 89, 961, 2004.

Co-author papers:  

C-M. Li , S.K. Sharma, A. J. Jayaraman, Y. Kobayashi , E. Suzuki, S. Endob, V. Prakapenka, and Y. Ding,  X-ray diffraction and Raman studies of the CuGeO3(III)–(IV) transformation under high pressures, Spectrochimica Acta, A 61, 2418–2422, 2005 

H. Liu, Y. Ding,  M., Somayazulu, J. Qian,  J. Shu, , D Häusermann, and H-k. Mao, Rietveld refinement study of the pressure dependence of the internal structural parameter u in the wurtzite phase of ZnO, Phys. Rev. B, 71, 2005.

J. Xu,  Y. Ding, S. D. Jacobsen,  H-k. Mao,  R. J. Hemley, J. Zhang,  J. Qian, C. Pantea, S. C. Vogel, D. J. Williams, and Y. Zhao, Powder neutron diffraction of wüstite (Fe_0.93O) to 12 GPa using large moissanite anvils, High Pressure Res. 24, 247-253, 2004.

H. Liu, H. K. Mao, M. Somayazulu, Y. Ding, Y. Meng, and D. Häusermann, B1-to-B2 phase transition of transition-metal monoxide CdO under strong compression, Phys. Rev. B 70, 094114, 2004.

L. Sun, Y. Ding, C.L. Chien, and P.C. Searson, Exchange coupling in nanostructured CoO/NiFe networks, Phys. Rev. B 64, 184430, 2001.