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    Bryn Mawr College
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    Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2899
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Xuemei May Cheng

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Assistant Professor of Physics

Xuemei May Cheng received her bachelors degree in physics from Nanjing University in 1997, and her masters degree in solid state electronics, also from Nanjing University in 2000.  She continued her studies at John Hopkins University where she earned masters and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 2004 and 2006.  After a postdoctoral fellowship in the X-ray Science Division at Argonne National Lab, she joined the faculty at Bryn Mawr college in 2009. 

May's research focuses on magnetic materials:

  • Time resolved magnetic imaging via photoemission electron microscopy
  • Magnetic thin films with perpedicular anisotropy
  • Ferromagnetic semiconductors and spintronic materials.

E-mail:xcheng@brynmawr.edu
Office: Park Science Center, rm. 343
Telephone: (610) 526 - 5357
Fax: (610) 526 - 7469



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