thin-film transistors and circuits, organic/printed electronics, flexible display technologies, driving technologies for displays

2007/04: University of Surrey, U.K. - Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering;
2002/07: Jilin University, China – Bachelor in Electronics Engineering

2009/08 -: Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
2008/05 – 2009/05: Senior Engineer, Plastic Logic Ltd., Cambridge, UK
2007/01 – 2008/04: Research Fellow, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, UK
2002/08 – 2003/08: Research Engineer, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

More than 30 publications in journals and international conference proceedings (including Science, IEEE Transaction on Electron Device, IEEE Electron Device Letter, Applied Physics Letter, Thin-Solid Films, IEEE and SID conferences), and several invited talks to academic/industry research institutes and international conferences. Key member of various industry and government projects (China NSFC, AUO, IVO, Philips, Hitachi, EPSRC, and UK’s Technology Strategy Board).

• Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar) at Shanghai Institutions of Higher Learning
• Program for New Century Excellent Talents (NCET) in University
• UK Overseas Research Students Awards

Flat-panel display technologies (undergraduate);
Thin-Film transistor Technologies (Graduate)

[1]. R. Sporea, X. Guo, J. M. Shannon, and S. R. P. Silva, “Polysilicon source-gated transistors for mixed-signal systems-on-panel”, ECS Transactions, 33(5), pp. 419, 2010. (presented at 2010 218th ECS Meeting)
[2]. X. Guo, R. Sporea, J. M. Shannon, and S. R. P. Silva， “Down-scaling of thin-film transistors: opportunities and design challenges”, ECS Transactions, 22 (1), pp. 227, 2009. (presented at 2009 International Conference on ULSIC vs. TFT)
[3]. X. Guo and J. Shannon, “Current-mode logic in organic semiconductor based on source-gated transistors,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, 30, pp.365, April 2009.
[4]. X. Guo, S.R.P. Silva and T. Ishii, “Current percolation in ultrathin channel nanocrystalline silicon transistors”, Applied Physics Letters, 93, 042105, 2008.
[5]. X. Guo, T. Ishii, and S. R. P. Silva, “Improving switching performance of thin-film transistors in disordered silicon”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 29, pp.558, June 2008.
[6]. X. Guo and S.R.P. Silva, “High-performance transistors by design”, Science, 320, pp.618, 2008.
[7]. X. Guo, and S. R. P. Silva, “A simple and effective approach to improve the output linearity of switched-current AMOLED pixel circuitry”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 28, pp.887, Oct., 2007.
[8]. X. Guo, and S. R. P. Silva, “An efficient macromodeling approach for simulating carbon-nanotube field-emission triode devices in display applications”, IEEE Electron Device Letters, 28, pp.710, Aug. 2007.
[9]. X. Guo, S. R. P. Silva, “Investigation on the current non-uniformity in current-mode thin-film transistor active-matrix display pixel circuitry”, IEEE Tran. Electron Devices, 52, pp.2379, Nov. 2005.
[10]. S. R. P. Silva, J.D. Carey, X. Guo, W.M. Tsang and C. H. P. Poa, “Electron field emission from carbon-based materials”, Thin Solid Films, 482, pp. 79, June 2005.
[11]. X. Guo, S. R. P. Silva, “Circuit simulation of current-modulated field emission display pixel driver based on carbon nanotubes”, Electronics Letters, 40, pp.1113, Sept., 2004.