Xia Hong

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Xia Hong

Professor Physics & Astronomy University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
JH 310J
Lincoln, NE 68588-0299
Phone
402-472-2779 On-campus 2-2779
Email
xia.hong@unl.edu
Website
Social Media

Hong's research focuses on epitaxial growth and fabrication of novel nanostructures and low-dimensional systems using advanced physical vapor deposition and semiconductor device fabrication techniques; creating and imaging their local phase structures using scanning probe approaches; and studying how their transport, electronic, and magnetic properties evolve with system dimensions. The materials systems of interest include epitaxial ferroelectric and correlated oxide thin films and heterostructures, as well as low-dimensional electron systems such as graphene and layered transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 2006

Research Interests

  1. Epitaxial growth and fabrication of complex oxide nanostructures and heterostructures
  2. Interfacing ferroelectrics with 2D electron systems: graphene and layered 2D semiconductors
  3. Nanoscale scanning probe studies of ferroic materials

Recent Publications

  • Ilja Fescenko,  Raman Kumar,  Thitinun Gas-Osoth,  Yifei Wang,  Suvechhya Lamichhane,  Tianlin Li,  Adam Erickson,  Nina Raghavan,  Tom Delord,  Cory D. Cress,  Nicholas Proscia,  Samuel W. LaGasse,  Sy-Hwang Liou,  Xia Hong,  Jose J. Fonseca,  Toshu An,  Carlos A. Meriles,  Abdelghani Laraoui. “Nitrogen-Vacancy Magnetometry of Edge Magnetism in WS2 Flakes.” Adv. Funct. Mater. 35, no. 38 (2025): e12391. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202512391 (Inside front cover)
  • Yibo Wang, Md Sazzad Hossain, Tianlin Li, Yanwei Xiong, Cuong Le, Jesse Kuebler, Nina Raghavan, Lucia Fernandez-Ballester, Xia Hong, Alexander Sinitskii & Martin Centurion. "Ultrafast dynamics of ferroelectric polarization of NbOI2 captured with femtosecond electron diffraction." Nat Commun 16, 8132 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63533-9 
  • Yifei Hao, Tianlin Li, and Xia Hong. "Interface phenomena and emerging functionalities in ferroelectric oxide-based heterostructures."  Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 4924-4950. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC05836D 
  • Li, Tianlin and Chen, Hanying and Wang, Kun and Hao, Yifei and Zhang, Le and Watanabe, Kenji and Taniguchi, Takashi and Hong, Xia. "Transport Anisotropy in One-Dimensional Graphene Superlattice in the High Kronig-Penney Potential Limit." Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 5, 056204. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.056204 
  • Jia Wang, Junzhe Kang, Stasiu Chyczewski, Ye Lin, Hanwool Lee, Wenjuan Zhu and Xia Hong. "Progress and challenges in the synthesis of two-dimensional van der Waals ferroic materials and heterostructures." 2025 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 58 063001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad865f