Yixin Xiao (Ph.D. '25, University of Michigan; B.A. '19, Amherst College) specializes in semiconductor materials research and development.

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Research Projects

2021 — 2025
University of Michigan

Nitride micro-LEDs

Demonstrated the first integration of nitride micro-LEDs on silicon. Improved the efficiency of red-emitting InGaN micro-LEDs from 3% to over 10%.

2019 — 2021
University of Michigan

Nitrides for artificial photosynthesis

Studied and clarified crucial mechanisms by which III-nitride nanowires split water efficiently.

2017 — 2019
Amherst College

Bose-Einstein condensates

Experimentally realized, for the first time, the entire family of spin-2 magnetic phases in bulk condensate as well as in vortex cores.

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Nano Letters (2024)

Spectrally Pure, High Operational Dynamic Range, Deep Red Micro-LEDs

Yixin Xiao, Y. Wu, Maddaka R. et al.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023)

Achieving atomically ordered GaN/AlN quantum heterostructures: The role of surface polarity

Y. Wu, P. Zhou, Yixin Xiao et al.

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Applied Physics Letters (2023)

A red-emitting micrometer scale LED with external quantum efficiency >8%

A. Pandey, Yixin Xiao, Maddaka R. et al.

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Nature Communications (2023)

Oxynitrides enabled photoelectrochemical water splitting with over 3,000 hrs stable operation in practical two-electrode configuration

Yixin Xiao, X. Kong, S. Vanka, W.J. Dong et al.

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Nature Communications (2023)

Pt nanoclusters on GaN nanowires for solar-assisted seawater hydrogen evolution

W.J. Dong, Yixin Xiao, K.R. Yang et al.

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Light: Science & Applications (2022)

InGaN micro-light-emitting diodes monolithically grown on Si: achieving ultra-stable operation through polarization and strain engineering

Y. Wu, Yixin Xiao, I. Navid et al.

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Nature Communications (2022)

Topological superfluid defects with discrete point group symmetries

Yixin Xiao, M.O. Borgh, A. Blinova et al.

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Nano Letters (2022)

Crystallographic Effects of GaN Nanostructures in Photoelectrochemical Reaction

Yixin Xiao, S. Vanka, T.A. Pham et al.

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Communications Physics (2022)

Controlled creation and decay of singly-quantized vortices in a polar magnetic phase

Yixin Xiao, M.O. Borgh, L.S. Weiss et al.

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Awards

2021 — 2026
University of Michigan

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2023
University of Michigan

American Vacuum Society Dorothy M. and Earl S. Hoffman Scholarship

2023
University of Michigan

SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

2023
University of Michigan

Society of Vacuum Coaters Foundation Scholarship

2019
University of Michigan

Rackham Merit Fellowship

2019
Amherst College

George A. Plimpton Fellowship

2018
Amherst College

Gregory Call Summer Research Fellowship

2017
Amherst College

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

2016
Amherst College

Bassett Physics Second Prize

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