Xuemei Cheng

Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave
431/E002
Argonne, Il 60439

Phone: 252-7913

Fax: 252-7392

E-Mail: xmcheng@aps.anl.gov

Education/Experience:

• 2006 - present:   Post-Doc, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinios


• Ph.D., Physics, Johns Hopkins University, May 2006
• M.A., Physics, Johns Hopkins University, May 2004
• M.S., Solid State Electronics, Nanjing University, June 2000
• B.S., Physics, Nanjing University, July 1997

Research Interests:

• Time resolved magnetic imaging via photoemission electron microscopy
• Magnetic thin films with perpedicular anisotropy
• Ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronic materials.

Selected Publications:

1. V. Rose, X.M. Cheng, D.J. Keavney, J.W. Freeland, K.S. Buchanan, B. Ilic,, and V. Metlushko, "The breakdown of the fingerprinting of vortices by hysteresis loops in circular multilayer ring arrays", Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 132501 (2007).
2. X. M. Cheng, V.I. Nikitenko, A.J. Shapiro, R.D. Shull, and C. L. Chien, "Unusual magnetic reversal in [Co/Pt]4 multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy", J. of Appl. Phys. 99, 08c905 (2006).
3. X. M. Cheng, S. Urazhdin, O. Tchernyshyo, C. L. Chien, V.I. Nikitenko, A.J. Shapiro and R.D. Shull "Antisymmetric magnetoresistance in magnetic multilayers with perpendicular anisotropy", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 017203 (2005).
4. X. M. Cheng and C. L. Chien "Magnetic properties of Epitaxial Mn doped ZnO thin films", J. of Appl. Phys. 93, 7876 (2003).