Cedarville University

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Cedarville University

XIDONG CHEN, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Science and Mathematics
Cedarville University
251 N Main Street
Cedarville, Ohio 45314


Office: ENS 237
Phone
: (937) 766-3236


Education:

Ph.D., Solid State Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997.


Teaching Activities:

  • Courses taught: PHYS 2110, PHYS 2120, PHYS 2130, PHYS 3310, PHYS 3350, PHYS 4110, PHYS4210, PHYS 4800, PHYS 4880

Research Activities:

Medium-range order in amorphous materials, such as amorphous tetrahedral diamond-like carbon films, aluminum oxides, high-k and low-k dielectric oxides.
Electron holography and applications.
Fluctuation microscopy and beyond, statistical theory of correlations of stochastic variables
Roughness and roughening.

Fractional calculus and applications in dynamical growth.



Personal Homepage:

Details of my research activities, teaching materials, spiritual journey and more.


Related links:

I also hold a special term appointment at Argonne National Lab, where I conduct most of my experiments. Here is the link to the Electron Microscopy Center where I work.

This page is under construction.