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Xiaoxing XiLaura H. Carnell Professor of PhysicsPh.D., Peking University, 1987SERC, Room 560
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Biographical Sketch
Xiaoxing Xi is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Physics at Temple University. Prior to joining Temple in 2009, he was a Professor of Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD degree in physics from Peking University and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, in 1987. After several years of research at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center, Germany, Bell Communication Research/Rutgers University, and University of Maryland, he joined the Physics faculty at Penn State in 1995.
Research Interests
Xiaoxing Xi’s research focuses on the materials physics underlying the applications of oxide, boride, and transition metal dichalcogenide thin films, in particular epitaxial thin films and heterostructures at the nanoscale. Using various deposition techniques including Laser Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition, his group specializes in atomic layer-by-layer growth of artificial oxide heterostructures, magnesium diboride thin films for electronic and radio frequency cavity applications, iron pnictide superconductor thin films, and thin films of 2D layered materials transition metal dichalcogenides. He has published over 350 papers in refereed journals and holds three patents in the area of thin films of high-Tc superconductors and magnesium diboride. Since 2015, he has spoken out actively for open fundamental research and against racial profiling, and received the American Physical Society 2020 Andrei Sakharov Prize for his effort.
Honors and Awards
- 2021 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2020 American Physical Society Andrei Sakharov Prize
- 2007 Fellow, American Physical Society
- 2006 Chang Jiang Scholar Visiting Professor, Chinese Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation
- 1997 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
Key Publications
1. Xiaoxing Xi, The US should listen to scientists about how to counter influence from China, Nature Reviews Physics 3, 384 (2021).
2. Flavio Giorgianni, Tommaso Cea, Carlo Vicario, Christoph P. Hauri, Wenura K. Withanage, Xiaoxing Xi, and Lara Benfatto, Leggett mode controlled by light pulses, Nature Phys. 15, 341 (2019).
3. M. Golalikhani, Q. Lei, R. U. Chandrasena, L. Kasaei, H. Park, J. Bai, P. Orgiani, J. Ciston, G. E. Sterbinsky, D. A. Arena, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, B. A. Davidson, A. J. Millis, A. X. Gray, and X. X. Xi, Nature of the metal-insulator transition in few-unit-cell- thick LaNiO3 films, Nature Commun. 9, 2206 (2018).
4. E. Baldini, A. Mann, L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, A. Acocella, V. M. Silkin, S. V. Eremeev, A. B. Kuzmenko, S. Borroni, T. Tan, X. X. Xi, F. Zerbetto, R. Merlin, and F. Carbone, Real-Time Observation of Phonon-Mediated σ-π Interband Scattering in MgB2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097002 (2017).
5. Qingyu Lei, Maryam Golalikhani, Bruce A. Davidson, Guozhen Liu, Darrell G. Schlom, Qiao Qiao, Yimei Zhu, Ravini U. Chandrasena, Weibing Yang, Alexander X. Gray, Elke Arenholz, Andrew K. Farrar, Dmitri A. Tenne, Minhui Hu, Jiandong Guo, Rakesh K Singh, X. X. Xi, Constructing oxide interfaces and heterostructures by atomic layer-by-layer laser molecular beam epitaxy, npj Quant. Mater. 2, 10 (2017).
2. Flavio Giorgianni, Tommaso Cea, Carlo Vicario, Christoph P. Hauri, Wenura K. Withanage, Xiaoxing Xi, and Lara Benfatto, Leggett mode controlled by light pulses, Nature Phys. 15, 341 (2019).
3. M. Golalikhani, Q. Lei, R. U. Chandrasena, L. Kasaei, H. Park, J. Bai, P. Orgiani, J. Ciston, G. E. Sterbinsky, D. A. Arena, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, B. A. Davidson, A. J. Millis, A. X. Gray, and X. X. Xi, Nature of the metal-insulator transition in few-unit-cell- thick LaNiO3 films, Nature Commun. 9, 2206 (2018).
4. E. Baldini, A. Mann, L. Benfatto, E. Cappelluti, A. Acocella, V. M. Silkin, S. V. Eremeev, A. B. Kuzmenko, S. Borroni, T. Tan, X. X. Xi, F. Zerbetto, R. Merlin, and F. Carbone, Real-Time Observation of Phonon-Mediated σ-π Interband Scattering in MgB2, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 097002 (2017).
5. Qingyu Lei, Maryam Golalikhani, Bruce A. Davidson, Guozhen Liu, Darrell G. Schlom, Qiao Qiao, Yimei Zhu, Ravini U. Chandrasena, Weibing Yang, Alexander X. Gray, Elke Arenholz, Andrew K. Farrar, Dmitri A. Tenne, Minhui Hu, Jiandong Guo, Rakesh K Singh, X. X. Xi, Constructing oxide interfaces and heterostructures by atomic layer-by-layer laser molecular beam epitaxy, npj Quant. Mater. 2, 10 (2017).