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  • 2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering contributions to the discovery and understanding of emergent physics in two dimensional materials, including 2D magnets, spinvalleypseudospin effects in 2D semiconductors and heterostructures, and monolayer quantum spin Hall insulator

Overview

Xiaodong Xu is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within engineering, materials science, and physics and astronomy, focusing extensively on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and materials chemistry. The scientist's work also includes contributions in ceramics and composites as well as biomedical engineering.

The principal research topics addressed by Xiaodong Xu include solid state laser technologies, luminescence properties of advanced materials, advanced fiber laser technologies, and glass properties and applications. Their investigations further extend to laser-matter interactions and applications, photorefractive and nonlinear optics, and photonic crystal and fiber optics.

Among the scientist's recent publications are the following papers:

  • "SESAM mode-locked Tm:LuYO3 ceramic laser generating 54-fs pulses at 2048 nm," 2020, Applied Optics
  • "Polarized spectroscopy and SESAM mode-locking of Tm,Ho:CALGO," 2022, Optics Express
  • "Evaluating energy retrofits of historic buildings in a university campus using an urban building energy model that considers uncertainties," 2023, Sustainable Cities and Society
  • "Structured laser beams: toward 2-μm femtosecond laser vortices," 2021, Photonics Research
  • "High transparency Pr:Y2O3 ceramics: A promising gain medium for red emission solid-state lasers," 2022, Journal of Advanced Ceramics

Xiaodong Xu has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, including Jun Xu, Yanyan Xue, Qingsong Song, Yongguang Zhao, and Kheirreddine Lebbou.

Publication venues that have featured Xiaodong Xu's work with multiple papers include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Luminescence
  • Optical Materials
  • Optics Express
  • Optics Letters

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, Xiaodong Xu was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2020. The cited work involves pioneering contributions to the discovery and understanding of emergent physics in two-dimensional materials. This includes investigations into 2D magnets, spin-valley-pseudospin effects in 2D semiconductors and heterostructures, and monolayer quantum spin Hall insulators.

Best Publications

  • Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Efrén Navarro-Moratalla;Dahlia R. Klein

  • Coupled spin and valley physics in monolayers of MoS2 and other group-VI dichalcogenides.

    Di Xiao;Gui-Bin Liu;Wanxiang Feng;Wanxiang Feng;Wanxiang Feng;Xiaodong Xu

  • Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides

    Xiaodong Xu;Wang Yao;Di Xiao;Tony F. Heinz

  • Valleytronics in 2D materials

    John R. Schaibley;Hongyi Yu;Genevieve Clark;Pasqual Rivera

  • Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe2 p-n junctions.

    Jason S. Ross;Philip Klement;Aaron M. Jones;Nirmal J. Ghimire

  • Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor

    Jason S. Ross;Sanfeng Wu;Hongyi Yu;Nirmal J. Ghimire;Nirmal J. Ghimire

  • Observation of Long-Lived Interlayer Excitons in Monolayer MoSe2-WSe2 Heterostructures

    Pasqual Rivera;John R. Schaibley;Aaron M. Jones;Jason S. Ross

  • Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe2

    Aaron M. Jones;Hongyi Yu;Nirmal J. Ghimire;Nirmal J. Ghimire;Sanfeng Wu

  • Highly anisotropic and robust excitons in monolayer black phosphorus.

    Xiaomu Wang;Aaron M. Jones;Kyle L. Seyler;Vy Tran

  • Two-dimensional itinerant ferromagnetism in atomically thin Fe3GeTe2.

    Zaiyao Fei;Bevin Huang;Paul Malinowski;Wenbo Wang

  • Electrical control of 2D magnetism in bilayer CrI 3 .

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Dahlia R. Klein;David MacNeill

  • Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures.

    Tiancheng Song;Xinghan Cai;Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu;Xiaoou Zhang

  • Signatures of moiré-trapped valley excitons in MoSe 2 /WSe 2 heterobilayers

    Kyle L. Seyler;Pasqual Rivera;Hongyi Yu;Nathan P. Wilson

  • Room-temperature ferroelectricity in CuInP2S6 ultrathin flakes.

    Fucai Liu;Lu You;Kyle L. Seyler;Xiaobao Li

  • Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors

    Yu-Ming He;Genevieve Clark;John R. Schaibley;Yu He

  • Lateral heterojunctions within monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 semiconductors

    Chunming Huang;Sanfeng Wu;Ana M. Sanchez;Jonathan J. P. Peters

  • Magnetic control of valley pseudospin in monolayer WSe2

    G. Aivazian;Zhirui Gong;Aaron M. Jones;Rui Lin Chu

  • Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds

    Sanfeng Wu;Sonia Buckley;John R. Schaibley;Liefeng Feng

  • Electrical Control of 2D Magnetism in Bilayer CrI3

    Bevin Huang;Genevieve Clark;Dahlia R. Klein;David MacNeill

  • Two-Dimensional Itinerant Ising Ferromagnetism in Atomically thin Fe3GeTe2

    Zaiyao Fei;Bevin Huang;Paul Malinowski;Wenbo Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Wang Yao
Wang Yao University of Hong Kong
David Cobden
David Cobden University of Washington
Xiaofeng Tao
Xiaofeng Tao Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jiaqiang Yan
Jiaqiang Yan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Di Xiao
Di Xiao Carnegie Mellon University
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Ping Zhang
Ping Zhang Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Jun Xu
Jun Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Mandrus
David Mandrus University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Michael R Wisnom
Michael R Wisnom University of Bristol

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