Xie Xide

Xie Xide (Chinese: 謝希德; Pinyin: Xiè Xīdé; also known as Hsi-teh Hsieh, 1921–2000) was a Chinese physicist. She was President of Fudan University from 1983 to 1988, and remained as Advisor to the University from 1988 until her death. She helped to set up the University's Centre for American Studies ^[1] and founded its Modern Physics Institute in 1977.

Xie also served as a member in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1982 to 1992.^[2]

Xie Xide is a Smith College alumna from the Class of 1949. ^[3]

Published works

Some of Xie's published work include:

• "Resonant Cavity Study of Semiconductors," Journal of Applied Physics 23: 303 (1954), with J.M. Goldey and S.C. Brown.
• "Electronic Properties of Metals Chemisorbed on Semiconductor Surface and Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces," Progress in Surface Science 28: 71 (1988).
• "Overview of Metal/Semiconductor Interfaces," The Structure of Surfaces. Springer Series in Surface Sciences 24. Berlin: Springer, 1991, p. 576.
• "Recent Developments in Some Metal/Semiconductor and Superlattice Interfaces," Materials Chemistry and Physics 38: 1 (1994).
• "Vibrational Properties of Si/Ge Superlattices," Progress in Surface Sciences 54:69-113 (1997), with Zhang Kaiming and Zi Jian.
• "Ab initio calculation of the structure of the random alloys SnxGe1-x" Phys. Rev. B 56: 12084 (1997), with Jianhua Shen, Jian Zi, and Ping Jiang.

Xie also published the following books:

• Semiconductor Physics. Science Publisher, 1958, with K. Huang.
• Group Theory and Its Applications. China: Science Publisher, 1986.^[2]

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