Zhi-Xun Shen (Chinese: 沈志勋; born July 1962) is a Chinese-American experimental and solid state physicist who is a professor at Stanford University.
[2] He developed several precision instruments, e.g. for synchrotron radiation sources, helium lamps for UV and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and he used these to study high-temperature superconductors.
Besides ARPES techniques in the UV regime, he also employs x-ray diffraction methods.
Using this, he addresses applications such as new techniques for solar collectors (Photo Enhanced Thermionic Emission, PETE).
In 1999 he gave the APS Centennial lecture and in 2003 was elected fellow of the American Physical Society (APS),[2] In 2000 he received the Kamerlingh Onnes Prize and in 2009 the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award,[3] and 2011 together with Peter Johnson the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.