Prof. Xihong Peng's Computational Group
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A. Classroom Teaching

Year Term Course Title Credit Hours Enrollment
2019 Fall
2019 Fall		 PHY121 University Physics I: Mechanics
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
 3
3
 71
38
2019 Spring
2019 Spring
2019 Spring
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY252 Physics III
PHY499 Individualized Instruction
3
4
2
 23
7
1
2018 Fall
2018 Fall
2018 Fall
 PHY121 University Physics I: Mechanics
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
6
 56
14
1
2018 Summer PHY792 Graduate Research 6 1
2018 Spring
2018 Spring
2018 Spring
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY252 Physics III
PHY500 Graduate Research Rotation
 3
4
3
 31
3
1
2017 Fall
2017 Fall
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY111 General Physics I
 3
3
 37
16
2017 Spring
2017 Spring
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY112 General Physics II
 3
3
 22
16
2016 Fall
2016 Fall
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY112 General Physics II
 3
3
 36
52
2016 Spring
2016 Springl
 PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY131 University Physics II
 3
3
 20
35
2015 Fall
 Sabbatical leave

2015 Spring
2015 Spring
2015 Spring
 PHY131 University Physics II
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
9
 24
60
1
2014 Fall
2014 Fall
2014 Fall
 PHY111 General Physics I
PHY112 General Physics II
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
9
 70
40
1
2014 Spring
2014 Spring
2014 Spring
 PHY111 General Physics I
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
9
 90
38
1
2013 Fall
2013 Fall
2013 Fall
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
9
 68
60
1
2013 Spring
2013 Spring
 PHY111 General Physics I
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
6
 92
2
2012 Fall
2012 Fall
2012 Fall
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
6
 66
51
2
2012 Summer PHY792 Graduate Research 6 2
2012 Spring
2012 Spring
2012 Spring		 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY792 Graduate Research
PHY500 Graduate Research Rotation
 3
6
3		 94
2
1
2011 Fall
2011 Fall
2011 Fall
2011 Fall		 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
ABS498 Undergraduate Research
PHY792 Graduate Research
 3
3
3
6		 68
30
1
1
2011 Summer PHY792 Graduate Research 3 2
2011 Spring
2011 Spring
2011 Spring
2011 Spring
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY112 General Physics II (Lab)
PHY111 General Physics I (Recitation)
ABS489 Undergraduate Research		 3
2
1
3		 52
20
24
1
2010 Fall
2010 Fall
2010 Fall
2010 Fall
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY321 Vector Mechanics and Vibration
EGR401 CTI Capstone Projects I
PHY500 Graduate Research Rotation
 3
3
4
3
 58
24
7
1
2010 Summer
2010 Summer
 PHY792 Graduate Research
ABS489 Undergraduate Research
 3
1
 1
1
2010 Spring
2010 Spring
2010 Spring
2010 Spring
2010 Spring
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY112 General Physics II
PHY792 Graduate Research
ABS489 Undergraduate Research
ABS499 Individualized Instruction		 3
3
9
2
1
 56
29
1
1
1
2009 Fall
2009 Fall
2009 Fall
2009 Fall
 PHY111 General Physics I
PHY112 General Physics II
PHY792 Graduate Research
ABS499 Individualized Instruction		 3
3
5
3
 68
62
1
1
2009 Summer ABS499 Individualized Instruction 3 1
2009 Spring
2009 Spring
2009 Spring
2009 Spring
 PHY112 General Physics II
PHY112 General Physics II
PHY792 Graduate Research
ABS489 Undergraduate Research
 3
3
6
1
 62
25
1
2
2008 Fall
2008 Fall
2008 Fall
 PHY111 General Physics I
PHY112 General Physics II
PHY112 General Physics II (Recitation)
 3
3
1
 48
45
25

B. Graduate Students Mentoring

Committee chair

  1. Ph.D. student Andrew Copple (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the dissertation of “Tuning the Electronic Properties of Nanoscale Semiconductors” and received the Ph.D. in Physics in Aug. 2016.
  2. Master student Andrew Copple (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the projects of “Strain effects on the edge passivated graphene nanoribbons” and received the Master Degree of Science (MS) degree in Physics in May 2012.
  3. Master student Nathaniel Ralston (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the projects of “III-V nanowires” and received the MS in Physics in May 2012.
  4. Master student Sean Caudle (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the project of “Earth abundant photovoltaic materials”, and received the MS degree in Nanoscience in Dec. 2013.
  5. Ph.D. student Paul Logan (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the project of “Group IV semiconductor nanowires”. 2009-2010.

Committee co-chair

  1. Ph.D. student Andrew Dopilka (ASU, Tempe, Material Science) on the project of “Si/Ge/Sn clathrates as battery anode materials”, Fall 2017- present.
  2. Ph.D. student Xuan Shi (ASU, Polytechnic, Systems Engineering Program) on the project of PEM fuel cells, received the Ph.D. in Engineering in Aug. 2019.
  3. Master student Abshir Ahmed (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the applied project titled “Mesh sensitivity analysis for proton exchange membrane fuel cells” and received the MS degree in Technology in December 2011.
  4. Ph.D. student Adam Arvay (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “Nature-inspired flow field design in PEM fuel cells”. 2011-2014
  5. Master student Jui-Chieh Wang (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “PEM fuel cell flow field design”. 2011

Committee member

  1. Ph.D. student Grigoria Athanasaki (ASU, Poly, Systems Engineering) on the thesis titled “GDL on fuel cells”, Ph.D. in Engineering, fall 2019 - present.
  2. Master student Jie Liu (Beijing Normal University (BNU), Physics Department) on the project of “First principles study of low dimensional structures of Ag2Te”, MS degree in Physics in Jun. 2019.
  3. Master student Lin Xu (BNU, Physics Department) on the project of “Metal-insulator phase transition and boundary magnetic properties of electron-correlation systems”, MS degree in Physics in Jun. 2019.
  4. Master student Juan Zhang (BNU, Physics Department) on the project of “Study the scalability and periodicity of Anderson model on honeycomb lattice”, MS degree in Physics in Jun. 2019.
  5. Master student Mathan Moorthy (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “fuel cells”, MS degree in Technology in May 2015.
  6. Ph.D. student Jialing Yang (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the thesis titled “Interface electronic state characterization of remote plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition high-k/low-k dielectric on GaN”, and received the Ph.D. in Physics in May 2014.
  7. Master student Sri Harsha Kolli (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “Potential materials for fuel cells”, and received the MS degree in Technology in Dec. 2014.
  8. Master student Ben Folsom, (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the project of “Carbon pillars and metallic nanoframes: a density functional theory study”, and received the MS degree in Nanoscience in May 2014.
  9. Master student Prashanth Ganeshram (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “Impedance measurement of batteries”, and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2014.
  10. Ph.D. student Tianyin Sun (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the thesis titled “Combined photo- and thermionic electron emission from low work function diamond films”, and received the Ph.D. in Physics in December 2013.
  11. Master student Maxx Patterson (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the thesis titled “A study of PV, batteries and fuel cells system based hybrid micro-grid model for intermittent community services” and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2013.
  12. Ph.D. student Xinyang Wang (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the thesis titled “Relativistic matter under extreme conditions”, and received the Ph.D. in Physics in summer 2013.
  13. Master student Ximo Chu (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the project of “Characterization of batteries”, and received the MS degree in Technology in December 2013.
  14. Master student Jason French (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the applied project titled “Modeling and simulation of bio-inspired flow field designs for proton-exchange membrane fuel cells” and received the MS degree in Technology in December 2012.
  15. Master student Yen Huang (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the applied project titled “Synthesis of single walled carbon nanotubes” and received the MS degree in Technology in December 2012.
  16. Master student Anthony Adame (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the thesis titled “Development of platinum-copper core-shell nanocatalyst on multi-walled carbon nanotubes for proton exchange membrane fuel cells” and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2012.
  17. Master student Rashida Villacorta (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the thesis titled “Graphene based gas diffusion layers for use in fuel cells and hydrogen storage” and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2012.
  18. Master student Aditi Jhalani (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the applied project titled “Porphyrin group as cathode catalyst for alkaline fuel cells” and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2012.
  19. Ph.D. student Sourabh Sinha (ASU, Tempe, Physics Department) on the thesis titled “Models for amorphous calcium carbonate” and received the Ph.D. in Physics in December 2011.
  20. Master student Kartik Kinhal (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the thesis titled “Effects of sputtered platinum counter electrode and integrated TiO2 electrode with SWCNT on DSSC performance” and received the MS degree in Technology in December 2011.
  21. Master student Adam Arvay (ASU, Polytechnic, Engineering Department) on the thesis titled “Proton exchange membrane fuel cell modeling and simulation using Ansys Fluent” and received the MS degree in Technology in May 2011.

As a Research Rotation Project Adviser for Physics Graduate Students

  1. Evan Garrison (spring 2018, “size effect of green phospherene nanorribons”)
  2. Andrew Copple (fall 2010, “edge effects of graphene nanorribons”)
  3. Nathaniel Ralston (fall 2011, “quantum confinement effect of group III-V nanowires”)
  4. Sean Caudle (fall 2012, “electronic properties of photovoltaic materials”)

C. Undergraduate Students Mentoring

Barret Honor's thesis

  1. Matthew Jones. Served as a Co-advisor of Matthew’s honor’s thesis. Thesis title “The Mathematical Successes and Failures of Students in an Introductory Physics Course”, defended 11/24/2016.
  2. Tom Nagy. Served as committee member of the honor’s thesis titled “Hands-on laser lab for undergraduate students: developing and assessment”, defended 11/30/2012.

Barret honors projects

  1. Nathan Paul Saylor, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY321 course in fall 2019. Project topic “trajectory motion of rockets”.
  2. Nathan Steven Fonseca, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2019. Project topic “fluid mechanics”.
  3. Jaesang Hwang, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2019. Project topic “fluid mechanics”.
  4. Bella Sebastian Recato, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2019. Project topic “fluid mechanics”.
  5. Isabelle Maureen Thalman, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2019. Project topic “fluid mechanics”.
  6. Alexander Gavrilov, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2018. Project topic “mechanical properties of Si/Ge clathrates”.
  7. Jacob Tanaka, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY121 course in fall 2018. Project topic “fluid mechanics”.
  8. Kaci Mcmillin, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY321 course in fall 2018. Project topic “3D motion of rigid body”.
  9. Dante Roush, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY321 course in fall 2018. Project topic “kinetics of rigid body in 3D”.
  10. Travis Giam, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY321 course in fall 2017. Project topic “Design a self-balanced mechanical device with foldable arms”. Successfully completed the project and demonstrated the designed device on Dec. 2017.
  11. Andrew Boateng, Barret Honors Project contracted with PHY321 course in fall 2017. Project topic “Analyze daily things using physics concept: Why does the bicycle tip over?” Successfully completed the project and submitted the report on Dec. 2017.

Obama Scholars

  1. Lawrence Gary, fall 2010-spring 2011
  2. Christian Acosta, fall 2010-spring 2011

Undergraduate Researcher

  1. Alexander Gavrilov, spring 2019, “Si clathrate for Li-ion battery application.
  2. Andre Brewer, summer 2014, “phospherene”, literature review.
  3. Kason Ashe, Spring-fall 2011, “graphene”, delivered 1 conference presentation.
  4. Phivu Nguyen, fall 2011, “InAs Nanowires”, co-authored 1 conference presentation.
  5. Waleed Alsadi, fall 2011, “fuel cells’, literature review.
  6. Sarah Salava, summer-fall 2010, “ZnO surface”, literature review.
  7. Joshua Hoyt, spring 2010, “crown esters”, literature review.
  8. Alan Bradford, spring 2009, “Molecule visualization”, literature review.
  9. Selina Velasquez, spring-fall 2009, spring 2010, “graphene nanoribbons”, published 1 peer-reviewed paper; co-authored 3 conference presentations (delivered 1) and 5 ASU exhitibs; Received Undergraduate Research Award from Applied Science of Math at ASU.
*(Selina Velasquez received the Undergraduate Research Award from Department of Applied Sciences and Mathematics in spring 2010 due to the work done in the group).

Engineering Capstone Projects

  1. Thomas Ward, fall 2010
  2. Patrick Eberts, fall 2010
  3. Jameson Smith, fall 2010
  4. Fadi Hafez, fall 2010
  5. Chris Chakkaw, fall 2010
  6. Jonathan Cabizo, fall 2010
  7. Michael Chacon, fall 2010

D. Other Mentoring

As a host faculty mentor for visiting scholars/students

  1. Ying Yang, visiting Professor from Xi’an University of Technology, Research topic “electronic properties of cubic silicon carbide”. Oct. 2019 – Oct. 2020.
  2. Guang Yang, visiting Scholar from Hebei University of Science and Technology, Research topic “magnetism by edge functionalization in phosphorene nanoribbons”.Aug. 2019 – Aug. 2020.
  3. Chi Ma, visiting Ph.D. student from Beijing Normal University, Research topic “zigzag green phosphorene nanoribbons”. Jul. 2019 – Nov. 2019.
  4. Guang Yang, visiting Ph.D. student from Beijing Normal University, Research topic “green phosphorene”. Jul. 2017 – Dec. 2017.
  5. Tianxing Ma, visiting professor from Beijing Normal University, Research topic “magnetism in graphene nanostructure”.Sept. 2012, Mar. 2016.
  6. Qun Wei, visiting professor from Xidian University, Research topic “two dimensional black phosphorene”.May 2013 - May 2014.

As a Faculty mentor for the Program of U.S. – Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E) for the following Pakistan graduate visiting scholars

  1. Afaf Ali from University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar, Pakistan. (fall 2018, PEM fuel cells)
  2. Shahbaz Ahmad from UET, Peshawar, Pakistan. (fall 2018, PEM fuel cells)
  3. Wajeha Taugir from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan. (fall 2018, Solar thermal space heating)
  4. Ihtesham Ahmad from NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan. (fall 2018, batteries)
  5. Muhammad Arif from NUST, Islamabad, Pakistan. (fall 2018, batteries)