Personal profile

Currently serving as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Physics and Optoelectronics. Received a PhD in Science from Tsinghua University in 2008, and was awarded the title of Outstanding Doctoral Graduate. His doctoral dissertation won the first prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation at Tsinghua University in 2008. From 2008 to 2013, he served as a lecturer and associate professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Beijing). From 2014 to 2018, he served as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. Since August 2018, he has been serving as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices, South China University of Technology. In 2009 and 2015, he conducted visiting research at the Department of Physics, University of Pisa, Italy, and the Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA, respectively. In 2012, he was selected for the New Century Excellent Talents in University Program funded by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, he received funding from the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and was awarded the first-ever Young Scientist Award by the China Rare Earth Society. He was also selected as the spokesperson for the element europium (Eu) for the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT 2019). He has led 8 ongoing and completed National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects, published over 200 papers, and applied for over 20 patents.

Our research group is always recruiting master's and doctoral students as well as postdoctoral fellows.

Research directions

Rare earth luminescent materials and their applications

Low-dimensional metal halide luminescent materials and their applications

LED lighting and display materials and devices

Near-infrared light source design and related materials and applications

Main academic part-time positions

I hold academic part-time positions in multiple domestic academic societies, and serve as an editor and editorial board member for several domestic and international journals, mainly including:

 (1) China Rare Earth Society, council member; Luminescence Specialty Committee of China Rare Earth Society, member;

 (2) Executive Director, Youth Work Committee, Chinese Society for Materials Research;

 (3) Associate Editor of Journal of Luminescence;

 (4) International Editorial Board Member of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters;

 (5) International Editorial Board Member of Dalton Transactions;

 (6) International Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Minerals, Metallurgy and Materials;

 (7) Editorial Board Member of Journal of The Chinese Ceramic Society;

 (8) Young Editorial Board Member of Science China Materials;

 (9) Young Editorial Board Member of both the Chinese and English editions of Chinese Journal of Rare Earths;

 (10) Young Editorial Board Member of Journal of Luminescence.

Representative paper results 

By March 2021, I had published over 200 papers as the first or corresponding author in physics, materials science, and chemistry journals indexed by SCI, including over 60 papers in high-impact factor (IF>8) journals such as Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Opt. Mater., Light: Sci. Appl., JACS, Angew. Chem., and Laser Photonics Rev. I have been invited to write review papers for various domestic and international journals, including Prog. Mater. Sci., Mater. Sci. Eng. R, Mater. Today, Chem. Soc. Rev., Acc. Chem. Res., Acc. Mater. Res., and the Chinese Journal of Rare Earths. Additionally, I have contributed chapters to monographs such as Nitride Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs), Second Edition: Materials, Technologies, and Applications and Phosphors, UpConversion Nano Particles, Quantum Dots and Their Applications. Some of my research papers have been cited by experts in the field of rare earth luminescence, academicians of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, Professor Andries Meijerink of Utrecht University, and other media outlets such as the American Chemical and Engineering News. My papers have been cited over 10,000 times by SCI, with an H-index of 62. As a co-chair of the conference, I organized the Fourth International Conference on Long-Lasting Phosphor and Photostimulable Phosphor (4PPP-2018, Beijing) and have given over 60 invited presentations at important academic conferences both domestically and internationally.

Representative Papers

(I) Published review papers

1.Mingze Li, Zhiguo Xia*, Recent progress of Zero-Dimensional Luminescent Metal Halides, Chemical Society Review, 2021, 50, 2626-2662.

2.Binbin Su,Guojun Zhou,Enhai Song, Angshuman Nag, Zhiguo Xia*, Mn2+-Doped Metal Halide Perovskites: Structure, Photoluminescence and Application,Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2021, 2000334.

3.Ying Liu, Angshuman Nag, Liberato Manna, Zhiguo Xia*, Lead-Free Double Perovskite Cs2AgInCl6, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021,DOI: 10.1002/anie.202011833.

4.Yuyu Jing#, Ying Liu#, Mingze Li, Zhiguo Xia*, Photoluminescence of Singlet /Triplet Self-Trapped Excitons in Sb3+-based Metal Halides, Advanced Optical Materials, 2021, DOI: 10.1002/adom.202002213.

5.Xinquan Zhou, Jianwei Qiao, Zhiguo Xia*, Learning from mineral structures toward new luminescence materials for light-emitting diodes applications, Chemistry of Materials, 2021, 33, 4, 1083–1098.

6.Ming Zhao, Qinyuan Zhang, Zhiguo Xia*, Structural Engineering of Eu2+ Doped Silicates Phosphors for LED Applications, Accounts of Materials Research, 2020, 1, 137-145.

7.Guojun Zhou#, Binbin Su#,Jinglong Huang, Qinyuan Zhang, Zhiguo Xia*, Broad-band Emission in Metal Halide Perovskites: Mechanism, Materials, and Applications, Materials Science & Engineering R, 2020, 141, 100548.

8.Ming Zhao, Qinyuan Zhang, Zhiguo Xia*,Narrow-band emitters in LED backlights for liquid-crystal displays, Materials Today, 2020,40, 246-265.

9.Wasim J. Mir*, Tariq Sheikh, Habibul Arfin, Zhiguo Xia*, and Angshuman Nag*, Lanthanide doping in metal halide perovskite nanocrystals: spectral shifting, quantum cutting and optoelectronic applications, NPG Asia Materials, 2020, 12, 9.

10. Zhao Ming, Liao Hongxu, Xia Zhiguo*, Research Progress and Application of Eu2+ Doped UCr4C4-Based Narrow-Band Silicate Phosphor, Chinese Journal of Rare Earths, 2020, 38(3), 257-277

11.Jianwei Qiao, Jing Zhao, Quanlin Liu, Zhiguo Xia*, Recent advances in the solid-state LED phosphors with thermally stable luminescence, Journal of Rare Earth, 2019,37(6): 565-572.

12.Jianwei Qiao, Jing Zhao, Zhiguo Xia*, A review on the Eu2+ doped β-Ca3(PO4)2-type phosphors and the sites occupancy for photoluminescence tuning, Optical Materials X, 2019, 1, 100019.

13.Jun Zhou, Quanlin Liu, Zhiguo Xia*, Structural construction and photoluminescence tuning via energy transfer in apatite-type solid-state phosphors, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2018, 6, 4371-4383.

14. Li Fei, Xia Zhiguo*, Rare Earth Phosphors and Inorganic Quantum Dots for Solid-State Lighting: Opportunities and Challenges, Applied Chemistry, 2018, 35(8): 859-870

15.Zhiguo Xia*, Andries Meijerink*, Ce3+-doped Garnet Phosphors: Composition Modification, Luminescence Properties and Applications, Chemical Society Review, 2017, 46, 275-299.

16.Zhiguo Xia*, Kenneth R. Poeppelmeier*, Chemistry-Inspired Adaptable Framework Structures, Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017, 50 (5), 1222–1230.

17.Zhiguo Xia*, Quanlin Liu, Progress in discovery and structural design of color conversion phosphors for LEDs, Progress in Materials Science, 2016, 84, 59-117.

18.Zhiguo Xia*, Zihan Xu, Mingyue Chen, Quanlin Liu, Recent developments in the new inorganic solid state LED phosphors, Dalton Transaction, 2016, 45, 11214-11232.

Contact Information

E-mail：xiazg@scut.edu.cn