Kaiyang Xia

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kaiyang Xia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaiyang Xia has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 16 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Kaiyang Xia's work include Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (20 papers), Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (15 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (7 papers). Kaiyang Xia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices (20 papers), Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties (15 papers) and Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films (7 papers). Kaiyang Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Kaiyang Xia's co-authors include Tiejun Zhu, Chenguang Fu, Xinbing Zhao, Junjie Yu, Xinbing Zhao, Chaoliang Hu, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Yintu Liu, Shashwat Anand and Umut Aydemir and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Energy & Environmental Science and Applied Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Kaiyang Xia

22 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Carrier grain boundary scattering in thermoelectric materials

2022 285 citations Chaoliang Hu, Kaiyang Xia et al. Energy & Environmental Science profile →

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Tyler J. Slade United States

Keshab Dahal United States

Kriti Tyagi India

Yaochun Liu China

Kyunghan Ahn South Korea

Ye Xiao China

Qichen Song United States

Ananya Banik India

Dan Feng China

Andrey Shkabko Switzerland

Tyler J. Slade United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

Han, Zhongkang, Yue Zhang, Chenguang Fu, et al.. (2025). Tunable Vacancy Order and Emergent Functionalities in Half‐Heusler Crystals. Advanced Materials. 37(34). e2418520–e2418520. 2 indexed citations

Xia, Kaiyang, et al.. (2025). Indirect Adaptive Robust Backstepping Control for Input Delay Systems With Unknown Periodic Disturbances: Theory and Experiments. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 30(4). 3081–3089.

Xia, Kaiyang, Pengfei Nan, Li Yin, et al.. (2023). Selective Scatterings of Phonons and Electrons in Defective Half‐Heusler Nb₁₋_δCoSb for the Figure of Merit zT > 1. Small. 19(39). e2302457–e2302457. 10 indexed citations

Hu, Chaoliang, Kaiyang Xia, Chenguang Fu, Xinbing Zhao, & Tiejun Zhu. (2022). Carrier grain boundary scattering in thermoelectric materials. Energy & Environmental Science. 15(4). 1406–1422. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

Xia, Kaiyang, Chaoliang Hu, Chenguang Fu, Xinbing Zhao, & Tiejun Zhu. (2021). Half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Applied Physics Letters. 118(14). 100 indexed citations

Hu, Huiping, Kaiyang Xia, Yuechu Wang, et al.. (2021). Fast synthesis and improved electrical stability in n-type Ag2Te thermoelectric materials. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 91. 241–250. 41 indexed citations

Nan, Pengfei, Yamei Liu, Kaiyang Xia, et al.. (2020). Direct visualization of spatially correlated displacive short-range ordering in Nb_0.8CoSb. Nanoscale. 12(42). 21624–21628. 8 indexed citations

Yu, Junjie, Yunfei Xing, Chaoliang Hu, et al.. (2020). Half‐Heusler Thermoelectric Module with High Conversion Efficiency and High Power Density. Advanced Energy Materials. 10(25). 134 indexed citations

Tan, Shi-Hua, Pengfei Nan, Kaiyang Xia, et al.. (2020). Sublattice Short-Range Order and Modified Electronic Structure in Defective Half-Heusler Nb_0.8CoSb. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125(1). 1125–1133. 14 indexed citations

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Zhai, Renshuang, Teng Fang, Kaiyang Xia, et al.. (2020). Low-cost p-type Bi2Te2.7Se0.3 zone-melted thermoelectric materials for solid-state refrigeration. Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 831. 154732–154732. 27 indexed citations

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Huang, Zhijie, Li Yin, Chaoliang Hu, et al.. (2019). Low contact resistivity and long-term thermal stability of Nb0.8Ti0.2FeSb/Ti thermoelectric junction. Journal of Material Science and Technology. 40. 113–118. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Beibei, Renshuang Zhai, Teng Fang, et al.. (2019). Mid-temperature thermoelectric performance of zone-melted Sb2(Te,Se)3 alloys near phase transition boundary. Journal of Materiomics. 5(4). 590–596. 10 indexed citations

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Xia, Kaiyang, Pengfei Nan, Shi-Hua Tan, et al.. (2019). Short-range order in defective half-Heusler thermoelectric crystals. Energy & Environmental Science. 12(5). 1568–1574. 97 indexed citations

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Liu, Yintu, Kaiyang Xia, Teng Fang, et al.. (2019). Grain Boundary Scattering of Charge Transport in n‐Type (Hf,Zr)CoSb Half‐Heusler Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Energy Materials. 9(11). 108 indexed citations

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Anand, Shashwat, Kaiyang Xia, Vinay I. Hegde, et al.. (2018). A valence balanced rule for discovery of 18-electron half-Heuslers with defects. Energy & Environmental Science. 11(6). 1480–1488. 126 indexed citations

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Yu, Junjie, Kaiyang Xia, Xinbing Zhao, & Tiejun Zhu. (2018). High performance p-type half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 51(11). 113001–113001. 76 indexed citations

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Xia, Kaiyang, Yintu Liu, Shashwat Anand, et al.. (2018). Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance in 18‐Electron Nb_0.8CoSb Half‐Heusler Compound with Intrinsic Nb Vacancies. Advanced Functional Materials. 28(9). 139 indexed citations

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Liu, Yintu, Chenguang Fu, Kaiyang Xia, et al.. (2018). Lanthanide Contraction as a Design Factor for High‐Performance Half‐Heusler Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Materials. 30(32). e1800881–e1800881. 131 indexed citations

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Yu, Junjie, Chenguang Fu, Yintu Liu, et al.. (2017). Unique Role of Refractory Ta Alloying in Enhancing the Figure of Merit of NbFeSb Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Energy Materials. 8(1). 222 indexed citations

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Li, Yi, Wenxing Wang, Kaiyang Xia, et al.. (2015). Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Pd-Based Nanorings as Catalysts for Hydrogenation with High Activity and Stability. Small. 11(36). 4745–4752. 67 indexed citations

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