Xiao Zhang, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
Member: Spring 2014 to Fall 2019
Dissertation Title: Improvement of the dielectric screening model in the Bethe-Salpeter equation approach: From static screening approximation to dynamical screening model
Contact information: xzhng125@illinois.edu
Research Interest: I’m interested in material research related to solar energy, etc, the properties of TCOs (Transparent Conducting Oxides), the characteristic of semiconductor absorbers such as CIGS and CZTS, and thin film technology. I’m now doing computitional material research on TCOs like ZnO, to understand the fundemantal theory of how these kind of oxides works.
Journal Articles
2023
Effect of dynamical screening in the Bethe-Salpeter framework: Excitons in crystalline naphthalene Journal Article
In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 107, pp. 235205, 2023.
2021
Solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation on massively parallel architectures Journal Article
In: Comput. Phys. Commun., vol. 267, pp. 108081, 2021.
2020
New Family of Anisotropic Zinc-Based Semiconductors in a Shallow Energy Landscape Journal Article
In: Chem. Mater., vol. 32, pp. 326-332, 2020.
2019
Pushing the frontiers of modeling excited electronic states and dynamics to accelerate materials engineering and design Journal Article
In: Comput. Mater. Sci., vol. 160, pp. 207-216, 2019.
2018
Nonequilibrium BN-ZnO: Optical properties and excitonic effects from first principles Journal Article
In: Phys. Rev. B, vol. 97, pp. 125201, 2018.
2017
Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties of K2Sn3O7 with an Offset Hollandite Structure Journal Article
In: Inorg. Chem., vol. 56, pp. 2914–2918, 2017.
Excitons in scintillator materials: Optical properties and electron-energy loss spectra of NaI, LaBr3, BaI2, and SrI2 Journal Article
In: J. Mater. Res., vol. 32, pp. 56-63, 2017.
Conferences
2018
Computational Curriculum for MatSE Undergraduates and the Influence on Senior Classes Conference
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education 2018.