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Xu Zhang

Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Summary

Dr. Xu Zhang will join the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as a tenure-track assistant professor in September 2019. He received his PhD and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a bachelor’s degree in physics from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Dr. Zhang is currently an Enrico Fermi Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory. He worked as a postdoctoral associate at Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT from 2017 to 2018.

Most Cited Publications

"Role of interfacial oxide in high-efficiency graphene–silicon Schottky barrier solar cells." Yi Song, Xinming Li, Charles Mackin, Xu Zhang, Wenjing Fang, Tomás Palacios, Hongwei Zhu, Jing Kong. Nano letters.
"Raman Enhancement Effect on Two-Dimensional Layered Materials: Graphene, h-BN and MoS2." Xi Ling, Wenjing Fang, Yi-Hsien Lee, Paulo T Araujo, Xu Zhang, Joaquin F Rodriguez-Nieva, Yuxuan Lin, Jin Zhang, Jing Kong, Mildred S Dresselhaus. Nano letters.
"Parallel stitching of 2D materials." Xi Ling, Yuxuan Lin, Qiong Ma, Ziqiang Wang, Yi Song, Lili Yu, Shengxi Huang, Wenjing Fang, Xu Zhang, Allen L Hsu, Yaqing Bie, Yi‐Hsien Lee, Yimei Zhu, Lijun Wu, Ju Li, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, Mildred Dresselhaus, Tomás Palacios, Jing Kong. Advanced Materials.
"High-Performance WSe2 Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Technology and Integrated Circuits." Lili Yu, Ahmad Zubair, Elton JG Santos, Xu Zhang, Yuxuan Lin, Yuhao Zhang, Tomás Palacios. Nano letters.
"Impact of chlorine functionalization on high-mobility chemical vapor deposition grown graphene." Xu Zhang, Allen Hsu, Han Wang, Yi Song, Jing Kong, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Tomás Palacios. ACS nano.

Recent Publications

"Asymmetric hot-carrier thermalization and broadband photoresponse in graphene-2D semiconductor lateral heterojunctions." Tomás Palacios/ Yuxuan Lin, Qiong Ma, Pin-Chun Shen, Batyr Ilyas, Yaqing Bie, Albert Liao, Emre Ergeçen, Bingnan Han, Nannan Mao, Xu Zhang, Xiang Ji, Yuhao Zhang, Jihao Yin, Shengxi Huang, Mildred Dresselhaus, Nuh Gedik, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Xi Ling, Jing Kong. Science Advances.
"Two-dimensional MoS2-enabled flexible rectenna for Wi-Fi-band wireless energy harvesting." Xu Zhang, Jesús Grajal, Jose Luis Vazquez-Roy, Ujwal Radhakrishna, Xiaoxue Wang, Winston Chern, Lin Zhou, Yuxuan Lin, Pin-Chun Shen, Xiang Ji, Xi Ling, Ahmad Zubair, Yuhao Zhang, Han Wang, Madan Dubey, Jing Kong, Mildred Dresselhaus, Tomas Palacios. Nature.
"High electrical conductivity and carrier mobility in oCVD PEDOT thin films by engineered crystallization and acid treatment." Xiao Wang, Xu Zhang, Lei Sun, Dongwook Lee, Sunghwan Lee, Minghui Wang, Junjie Zhao, Yang Shao-Horn, Mircea Dincă, Tomás Palacios, K. Karen Gleason. Science Advances.
"MoS2Phase-junction-based Schottky Diodes for RF Electronics." Xu Zhang, Jesús Grajal, Xiaoxue Wang, Ujwal Radhakrishna, Yuhao Zhang, Jing Kong, Mildred S Dresselhaus, Tomás Palacios. 2018 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium-IMS.
"Switching performance of quasi‐vertical GaN‐based p‐i‐n diodes on Si." Xu Zhang, Xinbo Zou, Chak Wah Tang, Kei May Lau. physica status solidi (a).