06/12/2025

Yuwaraj Adhikari defended his dissertation on "Spin-Selective Transport in Chiral Molecular Junctions on Semiconductors". Congratulations, Dr. Adhikari!

May 2024

First-year graduate student Jiaxing Guo joined Xiong group. Welcome!

04/18/2024

Yuwaraj Adhikari received the Yung Li Wang Award. Haoyang Liu received the J. W. Nelson Endowment. Congratulations!

05/30/2023

Zhenqi Hua received the Dean’s Award for Doctoral Excellence (DADE). Congratulations!

04/27/2023

Zhenqi Hua received the Yung Li Wang Award. Congratulations!

Apr 2023

Graduate student Kaitai Xiao joined Xiong group. Welcome!

Jan 2023

Post-doc Gang Shi joined Xiong group. Welcome!

04/21/2022

Yuwaraj Adhikari received the J. W. Nelson Endowment. Congratulations!

07/06/2021

Jacob Hudis defended his dissertation on "Persistent Current Dynamics in Asymmetric Superconducting Nanorings". Congratulations, Dr. Hudis!

May 2021

First-year graduate students Zhenqi Hua and Haoyang Liu joined Xiong group. Welcome!

02/23/2021

Tianhan Liu defended her dissertation on "Spin Transport in Hybrid Organic-Semiconductor Nanostructures via Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity". Congratulations, Dr. Liu!

We were also excited to hold the virtual homecoming with previous Xiong group members.

Novermber 2020

Prof. Stephan von Molnár passed away on 11/17/2020.

We mourn a loss and will carry on with his legacy!

Remembering Stephan von Molnár (FSU Physics)

A pioneer in magnetic semiconductors (Journal of Semiconductors) (pdf)

Stephan von Molnár (Physics Today)

March 2020

APS March Meeting talks from our group:

1. Chirality-induced Spin Selectivity in a Two-terminal Semiconductor Device

2. In-plane Critical Field far beyond the Paramagnetic Limit for Thin Al Films on Topological Insulator Surface

3. Theory of Giant In-Plane Critical Field Enhancement in Superconducting Films on a Topological Insulator Surface

4. Scanning Photocurrent Measurements of Degenerately Doped Si

March 2019

APS March Meeting talks from our group:

1. Electrical Spin Injection into Silicon Nanowires with Axial Doping Gradient

2. Spin Filtering through Chiral Molecules on Semiconductors

3. Critical current and persistent supercurrent in asymmetric superconducting rings

02/02/2019

Our group took the responsibility for the CMMP tour at the Physics Open House.

01/29/2019

Danielle Simmons defended her dissertation on "Magnetic Ordering and Magnetotransport at Molecular and Nano Scales". Congratulations to Dr. Simmons!

11/27/2018

Congratulations to Tianhan Liu as a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition!

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05/23/2018

Konstantinos Kountouriotis defended his dissertation on "Spin Transport in Si Nanowires with an Axial Doping Gradient".

Congratulations to Dr. Kountouriotis!

04/17/2018

Longqian Hu defended his dissertation on "Transport and Tunneling Investigation of Strongly Correlated Superconducting and Magnetic Thin Films".

Congratulations to Dr. Hu!

03/29/2018

Tianhan Liu won the People's Choice Award at the 2018 Art in STEM Exhibition.

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04/11/2017

Jorge Barreda defended his dissertation on "Fabrication and Characterization of Heterogeneous Nanowires".

Congratulations to Dr. Barreda!

03/22/2017

Timothy Keiper defended his dissertation on "Surface Modification for Improved Design and Functionality of Nanostructured Materials and Devices".

Congratulations to Dr. Keiper!