Hongjun Xiang received his B.S. (in 2001) and Ph. D. (in 2006) in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China, where he studied computational material science under Prof. Jinlong Yang. Together they developed some new linear scaling methods in the framework of density functional theory. He worked with Prof. Mike Whangbo at North Carolina State University as a postdoc. He joined the Theoretical Material Science Group of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a postdoc in 2007 working with Dr. Su-Huai Wei. He has made original and significant contributions to the development of linear scaling methods on electric fields in insulating solids and doped semiconductors; one-dimensional half-metallic ferromagnetism in transition-metal benzene polymers; charge-ordering induced ferroelectricity in LuFe2O4; multiferriocity in spin spiral cuprates; F doping in BN nanotubes. He has published 25 peer-reviewed papers (including 1-Science, 5-Phys. Rev. Lett., 1-J. Am. Chem. Soc. and 1-Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communications) with over 150+ citations.

His current research interests are:

1. Defect physics in semiconductors and doping in nanostructures.
2. Designing nanostructures for photovoltaic applications.
3. Linear scaling methods development.

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