Name: Yufeng Zhang
Title: Associate Professor
Academic interests:
Electron and x-ray spectroscopies
Surface/interface analysis of energy-conversion materials and devices
Research experience:
2017 – present, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
Leading and participating in several research projects:
PI: Spectroscopic studies of the electronic and chemical structure of amorphous silicon carbide, Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China
PI: Study of electronic structures of transparent conducting oxides, the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China
PI: Study of amorphous silicon carbide by x-ray spectroscopies, the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China
Co-PI: SOFTCO – Studying, optimizing, and functionalizing of TCOs in thin-film photovoltaic device structures, the Robert-Bosch Stiftung Sustainable Partners project
Co-PI: Local structures and spin-orbital orders of strained perovskite cobalt oxide films studied by grazing incidence fluorescence XAFS, National Natural Science Foundation of China
Co-PI: Transport and diffusion in low-dimensional systems, the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China
Co-PI: Multi-scale life prediction method based on crack initiation from inclusions, National Natural Science Foundation of China
2010 – 2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
2007 - 2010, Post-doc, Chemistry Department, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2002 - 2007, Ph. D., Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
1998 -2001, Master, Physics Department, Peking University, Beijing, China
1994 – 1998, Bachelor, Physics Department, Peking University, Beijing, China