Xi Zheng, a Specially Appointed Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), was selected for the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project (Overseas) in March 2022. He received his Ph.D. in Optics from USTC in 2014, and worked as a Postdoc at the Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, from 2015 to 2021. Since 2021, he has been working at the Department of Optics and Optical Engineering, USTC. His research primarily focuses on optical measurement, light-matter interaction, and nano-optics. He has published over 10 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Applied, Optics Letters, and Optics Express. He has led and participated in multiple national and EU research projects.
Research Directions
Micro and Nano Optics and Vector Optical Fields
Recent Representative Works
1. Zheng Xi*, Sander Konijnenberg, and H. P. Urbach Information efficient metagrating for transverse position metrology Physical Review Applied 14, 014026 (2020)
2. Zheng Xi*, H. P. Urbach, Retrieving the size of deep-subwavelength objects via tunable optical spin-orbit coupling Physical Review Letters 120 (25), 253901 (2018)
3. Zheng Xi*, H. P. Urbach, Magnetic dipole scattering from metallic nanowire for ultrasensitive deflection sensing Physical Review Letters 119, 053902 (2017)
4. Zheng Xi*, Lei Wei, Aurele Adam, Paul Urbach, Luping Du, Accurate Feeding of Nanoantenna by Singular Optics for Nanoscale Translational and Rotational Displacement Sensing Physical Review Letters 117 (11), 113903 (2016)
5. Zhongsheng Man#, Zheng Xi#, Xiaocong Yuan*, R.E. Burge, and H. Paul Urbach* Dual Coaxial Longitudinal Polarization Vortex Structures Physical Review Letter 124, 103901 (2020)
6. Tianyang Zang, Haofeng Zang, Zheng Xi, Jing Du, Han Wang, Yonghua Lu*, and Pei Wang* Asymmetric excitation of surface plasmon polariton via paired slot antennas for Angstrom displacement sensing Physical Review Letter 124, 243901 (2020)
7. Lei Wei*, Zheng Xi, N Bhattacharya, HP Urbach Excitation of the radiationless anapole mode Optica 3 (8), 799-802 (2016)