- Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-9843
- FAX: 979-862-6835
- Email: feng@tamu.edu
- Office: RDMC 224
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2008
- B.S., Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - 2001
Research Interests
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- Materials Theory, Discovery, and Design for Energy Applications and Device Design Aided by High-Throughput Computing
- Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Coupled Multi-Physical Properties and Novel Device Concepts
- Electronic, Thermal, and Ionic Transport in Energy Materials and Electronic and Optical Devices
- First-Principles Methodology Development towards Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Ground-state and Excited-state Properties of Materials
- Multiscale Materials Modeling of Complex Physical and Chemical Processes
Awards & Honors
- 2006 Manson Benedict Fellowship, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
- 2005 Letter of Commendation for Outstanding Academic Performance, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT
- 1999 Hosogoe Scholarship, Tsinghua University, China
Selected Publications
- A. Kushima, X. Qian, P. Zhao, S. Zhang, and J. Li. Ripplocations in van der Waals layers, Nano Lett., accepted (2015).
- X. Qian, J. Liu, L. Fu, and J. Li. Quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, Science 346, 1344-1347 (2014)
- M. Wu, X. Qian, and J. Li. Tunable exciton funnel using Moiré superlattice in twisted van der Waals bilayer, Nano Lett. 14, 5350-5357 (2014)
- J. Feng, X. Qian, C.-W. Huang, and J. Li. Strain-engineered artificial atom as a broad-spectrum solar energy funnel, Nature Photonics 6, 865-871 (2012)
- J. Qi, X. Qian, L. Qi, J. Feng, D. Shi, and J. Li. Strain-engineering of band gaps in piezoelectric boron nitride nanoribbons, Nano Lett. 12, 1224-1228 (2012)
- X. Qian, P. Umari, and N. Marzari. Photoelectron properties of DNA and RNA bases from many-body perturbation theory, Phys. Rev. B 84, 075103 (2011)
- P. Umari, X. Qian, N. Marzari, G. Stenuit, L. Giacomazzi, and S. Baroni. Accelerating GW calculations with optimal polarizability basis, Phys. Status Solidi B 248, 527-536 (2011)
- X. Qian, J. Li, and S. Yip. Calculating phase-coherent quantum transport in nanoelectronics with ab initio quasiatomic orbital basis set, Phys. Rev. B 82, 195442 (2010)
- X. Qian, J. Li, L. Qi, C.-Z. Wang, T.-L. Chan, Y.-X. Yao, K.-M. Ho, and S. Yip. Quasiatomic orbitals for ab initio tight-binding analysis, Phys. Rev. B 78, 245112 (2008)
- X. Qian, J. Li, X. Lin, and S. Yip. Time-dependent density functional theory with ultrasoft pseudopotentials: Real-time electron propagation across a molecular junction, Phys. Rev. B 73, 035408 (2006)