Zhi-Xun Shen
Zhi-Xun Shen (* around 1963 ) is a Chinese - American experimental solid-state physicist and materials scientist.
Shen graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in 1983 and Rutgers University with a master's degree in 1985, and received her PhD in applied physics from Stanford University in 1989 . In 1992 he became Assistant Professor , 1996 Associate Professor and 2000 Professor at Stanford University. He has been Paul Piggott Professor since 2006 . He has been chief scientist at SLAC (at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source, SSRL) since 2010 and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) in 2006. He is also director of the Geballe Laboratory.
He developed various precision instruments, for example for synchrotron radiation sources, helium lamps for UV and angle-resolved photon emission spectroscopy (ARPES), with which he carried out studies on high-temperature superconductors (HTS). Among other things, his group received convincing evidence (partly in collaboration with scientists from Berkeley in 2010 and using various experimental techniques) that the pseudogap phase in HTS , discovered in the mid-1990s, is an independent phase (independent of the metallic and superconducting phase) , which extends into the superconducting phase. In addition to ARPES techniques in the UV range, he also uses X-ray diffraction methods.
He developed near-field microwave microscopy (Scanning Microwave Impedance Microscopy) based on atomic force microscopes for studies on the mesoscopic length scale, for example of nanostructured materials. He is pursuing applications such as new technologies for solar concentrators (Photo Enhanced Thermionic Emission, PETE).
From 1993 to 1995 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2003 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , whose Centennial Lecture he gave in 1999. In 2000 he received the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize , in 2009 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize and in 2011 the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize . In 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2017 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
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| SURNAME | Shen, Zhi-Xun |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1963 |