Xu, Jian

Associate Professor of Engineering Science & Mechanics and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering

Office phone: (814) 863-0721
Office address: 205B Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
E-mail: jianxu@psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/wiki/research:jxx10:start

May 2009 – Present Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
Aug 2003 – May 2009 Assistant Professor of Engineering Science

Mar 2003 – Aug 2003 Postdoc, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sept 1999 – Feb 2003 Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Sept 1998 – May 1999 Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sept 1995 – May 1998 Research Assistant, Electrical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Chunfeng Zhang, Fan Zhang, Suzanne Mohney, Ron Henderson, and Jian Xu (Dec 2008) “Two-Photon Pumped Lasing from Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots,” Optics Letters, 33, pp. 2437.
Zhanao Tan, Fan Zhang, Ting Zhu, Suzanne Mohney, and Jian Xu (2007) “Bright and Color-Saturated Emission from Blue Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Solution-Processed Colloidal Nanocrystal Quantum Dots,” Nano Lett., 7(3803), pp. 4.
Fan Zhang, Jian Xu, and Akhlesh Lakhtakia (2007) “Circularly polarized emission from colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots confined in microcavities formed by chiral mirrors,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, pp. 023102.
Zhuang Wu, Ting Zhu, Jian Xu, and Pallab Bhattacharya (2007) “Enhanced spontaneous emission at 1.55 µm from colloidal PbSe quantum dots in a Si photonic crystal microcavit,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, pp. 171105.
Jian Xu, Ting Zhu, Dehu Cui, and S. Ashok (2006) “Harvest of near infrared light in PbSe nanocrystal-polymer hybrid photovoltaic cells,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, pp. 183111.

The International Society For Optical Engineering, Member (2005 – Present)
The Optical Society of America, Member (2004 – Present)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member (2000 – Present)
U.S. Patent 61154601 (Provisional), Jian Xu, S. Ashok. Germanium Based Light Emitting Apparatus (1 Apr 2009)
U.S. Patent 60/909, 160, Jian Xu and Jerzy Ruzullo. Mist Fabrication of Nanocrystal based Light Emitting Devices and Their Arrays with Shadow Masks (26 Sept 2007)

Symposium Chair, Fall Meeting of the Electrochemical Society 2009, Symposium on Semiconductor Nanocrystal and Metal Nanostructure Enhanced Photonic Devices (Oct 2009 – Present)
Member, Executive Comittee, SPIE Photonics West (Jan 2008 – Present)
Member, Steering Committee, The OSA Topical Conference on Nanophotonics (Jan 2006 – Present)
Member, ESM graduate admission committee (Jan 2005 – Present)
Chair, ESM Candidacy Exam Bio/nanotechnology Committee (Jan 2007 – Dec 2007)