MY EXPERIENCE
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Sep. 13, 2017 - present
At KAUST, I work with Prof. Udo Schwingenschlogl.
RESEARCH ASISTANT
Aug. 2012 - May. 2017
At Colorado School of Mines (CSM), besides doing researches with Prof. Mark T. Lusk, who is my advisor, I also worked with other theoretical physicists, Prof. Simone Montangero and Prof. Lincoln D. Carr and experimental chemist, Prof. Alan Sellinger.
TEACHING ASISTANT
Aug. 2012 - May. 2017
I have worked as teaching assistant for graduate courses such as Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetic Theory, Mathematical Statics and Materials Thermodynamics, and undergraduate courses such as Quantum Mechanics and Electromagnetics.
EDUCATION
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES @ USA
Aug. 2012 - May 2017
Ph.D. Applied physics
Advisor: Mark T. Lusk
SHANDONG UNIVERSITY @ CHINA
Jun. 2008 - Jul. 2012
B.S. Theoretical physics
Advisor: Mingwen Zhao
PUBLICATIONS
1. X. Zang and M. T. Lusk, Designing Small Silicon Quantum Dots with Low Reorganization, Physical Review B 92 035426 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.035426 (2015)
2. R. T. Anderson, X. Zang, R. Fernando, M. J. Dzara, C. Ngo, M. Sharps, R. Pinals, S. Pylypenko, M. T. Lusk, and A. Sellinger, Direct Conversion of Hydride- to Siloxane-Terminated Silicon Quantum Dots, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120 25822-25831 10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07930 (2016)
3. X. Zang, S. Montangero, L. D. Carr, and M. T. Lusk, Engineering and Manipulating Exciton Wave Packets, Physical Review B 95 195423 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.195423 (2017)
4. X. Zang and M. T. Lusk, Twisted Molecular Excitons as Mediators for Changing the Angular Momentum of Light, Physical Review A 96 013819 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.013819 (2017)
5. X. Zang and M. T. Lusk, Angular Momentum Transport with Twisted Exciton Wave Packets, Physical Review B 96 155104 10.1103/PhysRevB.96.155104 (2017)
6. X. Zang, N. Singh, and U. Schwingenschlögl, Topological Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30 335301 stacks.iop.org/0953-8984/30/i=33/a=335301 (2018)
7. X. Zang, N. Singh, and U. Schwingenschlögl, Valley-Dependent Current Generation in Nanotubes by Twisted Light, Physical Review B 98 085401 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.085401 (2018)