Xing Cheng
Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mail Stop 3128, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3128

Office: JEB 724
Tel: 979 845-5130
Email: chengx@ece.tamu.edu
Web: http://chengx.tamu.edu

Research Interests

• Systematic study of nanoimprint process and development of new nanoimprint techniques
• Functional soft materials and advanced polymer structures for electronic, photonic and bio-applications
• Integrated micro- and nano-fluidic systems for bio-engineering
• Other micro- and nanofabrication techniques

Education

• University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, major in Solid State Electronics, December, 2004
Thesis title: Development of Nanoimprint Lithography and Its Applications in Device Fabrication.
Advisor: Prof. L. Jay Guo

• Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Science
M.S., major in Geochemistry, July, 1999
Thesis title: Solid State NMR Study of Oxygen Site Exchange in Analcime
Advisor: Prof. Jonathan Stebbins

• University of Science and Technology of China, Department of Earth and Space Science
B.S., major in Geochemistry, July, 1997

Research and Teaching Experience

• Texas A&M University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Assistant Professor, January, 2006 – present

• Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Post Doctoral Research Associate, February, 2005 – December, 2005

• University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Graduate Student Research Assistant, September, 1999 – December, 2004

• Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Science
Research Assistant, September, 1997 – July, 1999

Journal Articles

Cheng, X., Li, D. and Guo, L. J., A Hybrid Mask-Mould Lithography Scheme and its Applications in Nanoscale Organic Thin Film Transistors, Nanotechnology, 17, 927-932, (2006) Cheng, X., Guo, L. J. and Fu, P. -F., Room Temperature and Low Pressure Nanoimprinting Based on Cationic Photopolymerization of Novel Epoxysilicone Monomers, Advanced Materials, 17, 1419-1424, (2005). Guo, L. J., Cheng, X. and Chou, C.-F. Fabrication of Size-Controllable Nanofluidic Channels by Nanoimprinting and Its Application for DNA Stretching. Nano Lett. 4, 69-73 (2003). Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J. One-Step Lithography for Various Size Patterns with a Hybrid Mask-Mold. Microelectron. Eng. 71, 288-293 (2003). Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J. A Combined-Nanoimprint-and-Photolithography Patterning Technique. Microelectron. Eng. 71, 277-282 (2003). Cheng, X., Hong, Y., Kanicki, J. and Guo, L. J. High-resolution organic polymer light-emitting pixels fabricated by imprinting technique. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 20, 2877-80 (2002). Huang, X. D., Bao, L.-R., Cheng, X., Guo, L. J., Pang, S. W. and Yee, A. F. Reversal imprinting by transferring polymer from mold to substrate. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 20, 2872-2876 (2002). Bao, L.-R., Cheng, X., Huang, X. D., Guo, L. J., Pang, S. W. and Yee, A. F. Nanoimprinting over topography and multilayer three-dimensional printing. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 20, 2881-2886 (2002). Guo, L. J., Cheng, X. and Chao, C. Y. Fabrication of photonic nanostructures in nonlinear optical polymers. Journal of Modern Optics 49, 663-73 (2002). Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J. Electrostatic self assembly of nanocomposite polymers in grating structures. J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 19, 2736-40 (2001). Cheng, X., Zhao, P. and Stebbins, J. F. Solid state NMR study of oxygen site exchange and Al-O-Al site concentration in analcime. American Mineralogist 85, 1030-1037 (2000). Stebbins, J. F., Zhao, P., Lee, S. K. & Cheng, X. Reactive Al-O-Al sites in a natural zeolite: triple-quantum oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance. American Mineralogist 84, 1680-1684 (1999).

Conference Proceedings

Park, H., Li, H. and Cheng, X., Optimizing nanoimprint and transfer-bonding techniques for 3D polymer structures, accepted by 51th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2007 (EIPBN, Denver, CO, USA, 2007) Cheng, X., Park, H. and Li, H., Effect of nanoimprint on crystallization in polymer thin film, accepted by 51th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2007 (EIPBN, Denver, CO, USA, 2007) Solmaz, M., Cheng, X. and Madsen C.K., Patterning chalcogenide glass with thermal nanoimprint, accepted by 51th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2007 (EIPBN, Denver, CO, USA, 2007) Cheng, X., Chang, M.-H. and Guo, L. J., Combined Nanoimprint-and-Photolithography Technique with a Hybrid Mold, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5374: Emerging Lithographic Technologies VII, 337-347, 2004 (SPIE, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2004) Cheng, X., Guo, L. J. and Chou, C. -F., Stretching of DNAs in Nanofluidic Channels Fabricated by Nanoimprinting, Proceedings of The 7th International Conference on Micro Total Analysis Systems, 709-712, 2003 (Transducers Research Foundation, Squaw Valley, CA, USA, 2003) Hong, Y., Cheng, X., Kanicki, J. and Guo, L. J., Printed Micron-Scale Organic Polymer Light-Emitting Devices for AM-OPLED, 22nd International Display Research Conference, 605-608, 2002 (Society for Information Display, Nice, France, 2002). Guo, L. J., Chao, C. -Y., Cheng, X., Hong, Y. and Kanicki, J., Applications of Nanoimprinting Techniques in Photonic Devices, 2nd IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology Proceedings, 9-12, 2002 (IEEE, Washington, DC, USA, 2002). Chao, C. -Y., Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J., Nonlinear microring resonators for optical switching applications, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4598: Photonics Technology in the 21st Century, 25-35, 2001 (Singapore, 2001). O'Brien, G., Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J., Sub-micron high-aspect ratio Si beam/trench arrays, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 427-31, 2001 (ASME, New York, NY, USA, 2001).

Other Conference Presentations

Cheng, X. and Guo, L. J., Nanoimprinted Semi-Transparent Gold Structure for OLED Application, 49th International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, 2005 (EIPBN, Orlando, FL, USA, 2005) Guo, L. J., Pina-Hernandez, C., Choi, P., Cheng, X. and Fu, P. F., Development of new polymer resists for nanoimprint lithography, Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 231:313, March, 2006. Moon, H., Jahng, W. S., Cheng, X., Guo, L. J. and Curtis, M. D., Conjugated polymer wires for nano-scale field effect transistors, 2004 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April, 2004.

Patents

Cheng, X. and Entesari, K., Omni-Purpose, Scalable and Reusable Digital Microfluidic Platform with Active-Matrix Driving Circuitry, in application Guo, L. J., Cheng, X. and Fu, P. -F., A spin-on UV-curable silicone resist for micro- and nanolithography, in application. Guo, L. J. and Cheng, X., Combined nanoimprinting and photolithography for micro and nano devices fabrication, in application (Pub no: 20060237881). Guo, L. J. and Cheng, X., Method of forming nanofluidic channels, US Patent 7169251. Huang, X., Bao, L.-R., Cheng, X., Guo, L. J., Pang, S. W. and Yee, A. F., Reversal imprint technique. World Patent No. 03096123.