Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014
Feng Xiong
University of Pittsburgh
Profile
Feng Xiong received his Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore and both his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was then a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University before joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He received several awards including the Stanford Nano and Quantum Science and Engineering Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Materials Research Society Graduate Student Gold Award, the Beckman Institute Graduate Fellowship, and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Outstanding Student Research Gold Award.
Research
In today’s big-data era, trillions of sensors will connect every aspect of our lives to the Internet, constantly producing and processing an overwhelming amount of data. Xiong is looking for novel materials for energy-efficient transistor and memory solutions with on-chip thermal management and 3D integration.
Specifically, Xiong is working on:
building wafer-scale energy-efficient 2D transistors, tackling challenges in synthesis, assembly and optimization;
characterizing nanoscale thermal transport in 2D materials, maximizing thermoelectric efficiency through heterogeneous stacking and intercalations for energy harvesting and developing on-chip thermal solutions;
achieving 3D integration of novel low-power memory (resistive and phase change memory) with logic, building energy-efficient flexible memory devices and exploring alternative memory structure with intercalation in layered 2D materials.
Most Cited Publications
"Selective deposition and stable encapsulation of lithium through heterogeneous seeded growth." Kai Yan, Zhenda Lu, Hyun-Wook Lee, Feng Xiong, Po-Chun Hsu, Yuzhang Li, Jie Zhao, Steven Chu, Yi Cui. Nature Energy.
"Low-power switching of phase-change materials with carbon nanotube electrodes." Feng Xiong, Albert D Liao, David Estrada, Eric Pop. Science.
"Phase change materials and phase change memory." Simone Raoux, Feng Xiong, Matthias Wuttig, Eric Pop. MRS bulletin.
"Ballistic to diffusive crossover of heat flow in graphene ribbons." Myung-Ho Bae, Zuanyi Li, Zlatan Aksamija, Pierre N Martin, Feng Xiong, Zhun-Yong Ong, Irena Knezevic, Eric Pop. Nature communications.
"Entrapment of Polysulfides by a Black‐Phosphorus‐Modified Separator for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries." Jie Sun, Yongming Sun, Mauro Pasta, Guangmin Zhou, Yuzhang Li, Wei Liu, Feng Xiong, Yi Cui. Advanced materials.
Recent Publications
"(Bi0.2Sb0.8)2Te3 based dynamic synapses with programmable spatio-temporal dynamics." Qingzhou Wan, Peng Zhang, Qiming Shao, Mohammad T Sharbati, John R Erickson, Kang L Wang, Feng Xiong. APL Materials.
"An electrochemical thermal transistor (vol 9, 4510, 2018)." Aditya Sood, Feng Xiong, Shunda Chen, Haotian Wang, Daniele Selli, Jinsong Zhang, Connor J McClellan, Jie Sun, Davide Donadio, Yi Cui, Eric Pop, Kenneth E Goodson. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS.
"Publisher Correction: An electrochemical thermal transistor." Aditya Sood, Feng Xiong, Shunda Chen, Haotian Wang, Daniele Selli, Jinsong Zhang, Connor J McClellan, Jie Sun, Davide Donadio, Yi Cui, Eric Pop, Kenneth E Goodson. Nature communications.
"Temperature-Dependent Contact Resistance to Nonvolatile Memory Materials." Sanchit Deshmukh, Eilam Yalon, Feifei Lian, Kirstin E Schauble, Feng Xiong, Ilya V Karpov, Eric Pop. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
"Emerging Artificial Synaptic Devices for Neuromorphic Computing." Qingzhou Wan, Mohammad T Sharbati, John R Erickson, Yanhao Du, Feng Xiong. Advanced Materials Technologies.