University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, major in Solid State Electronics, April, 2005
Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Science
M.S., major in Geochemistry, July, 1999
University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Earth and Space Science
B.S., major in Geochemistry, July, 1997

Southern University of Science and Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Professor, January, 2013 – present
Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Professor, September, 2012 – December, 201
Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, January, 2006 – August, 2012
Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, February, 2005 – December, 2005

Micro nano structures are the cornerstone of microelectronics and nanotechnology. Our research group is committed to developing graphic technology with ultra-high precision, low cost, and high throughput for manufacturing ordered micro nano structures. Especially in semiconductor lithography and nanoimprint technology, the research team will adopt new concepts to develop new processes and equipment.

In the field of devices, the research content of the research group includes the manufacturing and measurement of new micro nano electronic and optical devices, as well as micro nano solid-state sensors and drivers. In addition to traditional silicon and compound semiconductors, we are interested in exploring new materials such as organic semiconductors and chalcogenides for their applications in microelectronic devices and micro nano electromechanical systems. Currently, many devices based on these new materials have poor performance. For example, the low cutoff frequency and poor device repeatability of organic transistors greatly limit their practical applications in circuits. To address these issues, we will adopt unconventional device structures to avoid factors that lead to low device performance.

Microelectronics and micro nano electromechanical devices are very useful because they can achieve large-scale integration and form complex systems. Integrated macroelectronics is a large-scale, densely arranged two-dimensional array of microelectronic devices and micro nano electromechanical sensors on hard or flexible substrates, forming a large-area microelectronic and micro nano sensor integrated system. Each device in the array is driven or read by passive matrix or active matrix circuits. Typical applications of integrated macro electronic systems include flat panel displays, flat panel X-ray imaging, and infrared imaging technologies. At the same time, using microelectromechanical sensors with different functions in each array unit can achieve new applications, including cutting-edge technologies such as digital bio chip reaction platforms and flexible intelligent skin. The research team will break through conventional innovation, obtain original intellectual property rights, and ultimately launch innovative products with excellent performance, which will be widely used in fields such as flat panel display, detection, micro nano processing, biotechnology, and intelligent skin.

2011, the NSF CAREER Award

2011, the DARPA Young Faculty Award by the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency

2013, Class B under the Peacock Plan in Shenzhen.

2014, received special allowance from the Shenzhen Municipal Government

Cheng, Xing, "Stabilization of thin-film coatings by nanoimprinted surface micro- and nanostructures on polymers", Abstracts Of Papers Of The American Chemical Society, 2018, 256, 291.
Deng, ZL; Deng, JH; Zhuang, X; Wang, S; Shi, T; Wang, GP*; Wang, Y; Xu, J; Cao, YY; Wang, XL; Cheng, X*; Li, GX*; Li, XP* , "Facile metagrating holograms with broadband and extreme angle tolerance", Light-Science & Applications, 2018, 7, 78.
Cao, T*; Zhang, XY; Dong, WL; Lu, L; Zhou, XL; Zhuang, X; Deng, JH; Cheng, X; Li, GX*; Simpson, RE , "Tuneable Thermal Emission Using Chalcogenide Metasurface", Advanced Optical Materials, 2018, 6, 1800169.
Shi, SB; Wang, H; Chen, P; Uddin, MA; Wang, YX; Tang, YM; Guo, H*; Cheng, X; Zhang, SM; Woo, HY; Guo, XG* , "Cyano-substituted benzochalcogenadiazole-based polymer semiconductors for balanced ambipolar organic thin-film transistors", Polymer Chemistry, 2018, 9, 3873-3884.
Chen, P.; Shi, S.; Wang, H.; Qiu, F.; Wang, Y.; Tang, Y.; Feng, J.-R.; Guo, H.; Cheng, X.; Guo, X.*, "Aggregation Strength Tuning in Difluorobenzoxadiazole-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for High-Performance Thick-Film Polymer Solar Cells", Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018, 10, 21481-21491.
Shanshan Wu, Zengju Fan, Weichuan Wang, Hongting Fan, Zhipeng Mei, Dazhi Sun, Xing Cheng, Xingzhong Zhao, Yanqing Tian*, "Microfabricable Ratiometric Gaseous Oxygen Sensors Based on Inorganic Perovskite Nanocrystals and PtTFPP", Sensors And Actuators B, 2018, 271, 104–109.
Deng, ZL; Deng, JH; Zhuang, X; Wang, S; Li, KF; Wang, Y; Chi, YH; Ye, X; Xu, J; Wang, GP; Zhao, RK; Wang, XL; Cao, YY; Cheng, X; Li, GX*; Li, XP* , "Diatomic Metasurface for Vectorial Holography", Nano Letters, 2018, 18, 2885-2892.
Jiang, YW#; Yu, ZM#; Huang, XL; Chen, RF; Chen, WY; Zeng, YF; Xu, CQ; Min, HD; Zheng, N; Cheng, X , "A multilayer lateral-flow microfluidic device for particle separation", Microfluidics And Nanofluidics, 2018, 22, 40.
Nan Zheng, Haodi Min, Youwei Jiang, and Xing Cheng, “Polycarbonate as a negative-tone resist for electron-beam lithography”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 36, 021603 , 2018.
Jun Miao, Yulong Chen, Yiwen Li, Jiaji Cheng, Qingyin Wu, Kar Wei Ng, Xing Cheng, Rui Chen, Chun Cheng, Zikang Tang*, “Proton Conducting Polyoxometalate/Polypyrrole Films and Their Humidity Sensing Performance”, ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1, 564, 2018.
Shengbin Shi, Yuxi Wang, Mohammad Afsar Uddin, Xin Zhou, Han Guo, Qiaogan Liao, Xucheng Zhu, Xing Cheng, Han Young Woo, and Xugang Guo*, “Difluorobenzoxadiazole-Based Polymer Semiconductors for High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Tunable Charge Carrier Polarity”, Advanced Electronic Materials, 3, 1700100, 2017.
 “A multilayer lateral-flow microfluidic device for cancer cell filtration”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, submitted, 2017.
Yangchun Lan, Wuyang Zhuge, Dehu Cui* and Xing Cheng, “Fabrication of nickel stamp using e-beam evaporation and electroforming for electroreduction of carbon dioxide”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 35, 06G802, 2017.
Chunhui Wu*, Rifei Chen, Yu Liu, Zhenming Yu, Youwei Jiang, and Xing Cheng*, “A planar dielectrophoresis-based chip for high throughput cell pairing”, Lab on Chip, 17, 4008-4014, 2017.
Jun Huang, Yumin Tang, Ke Gao, Feng Liu, Han Guo, Tingbin Yang, Yongye Liang, Xing Cheng, and Xugang Guo*, “Head-to-Head Linkage Containing Dialkoxy Bithiophene-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for Polymer Solar Cells with Large Open-Circuit Voltages”, Macromolecules, 50, 137-150, 2017
Bingqing Luo, Zengju Fan, Ziping Li, Yulong Chen, Yanqing Tian, and Xing Cheng*, “Volume-expansion polymerization for UV-curable nanoimprinting”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 35, 011604, 2017.
Zhengyuan Jin, Qitao Zhang, Liang Hu, Teruhisa Ohno, Yujia Zeng, Xing Cheng, and Shuangchen Ruan, “Constructing hydrogen bond based melam/WO3 heterojunction with enhanced visible-light photocatalytic activity”, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 205, 569-575, 2017.
Shengbin Shi, Qiaogan Liao, Yumin Tang, Han Guo, Xin Zhou, Yulun Wang, Tingbin Yang, Yongye Liang, Xing Cheng, Feng Liu, Xugang Guo, “Head-to-Head Linkage Containing Bithiophene-Based Polymeric Semiconductors for Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells”, Advanced Materials, 28, 9969-9977, 2016.
Xiaojie Guo, Qiaogan Liao, Eric F. Manley, Zishan Wu, Yulun Wang, Weida Wang, Tingbin Yang, Young-Eun Shin, Xing Cheng, Yongye Liang, Lin X. Chen, Kang-Jun Baeg, Tobin J. Marks, and Xugang Guo, “Materials Design via Optimized Intramolecular Noncovalent Interactions for High-Performance Organic Semiconductors”, Chemistry of Materials, 28, 2449-2460, 2016.
Yunbum Jung and Xing Cheng, “Self-aligned metallization on organic semiconductor through 3D dual-layer thermal nanoimprint”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 24, 095009, 2014.