Biography: Dr. Xiaodong Pi is a full professor in the State Key Laboratory of Silicon and Advanced Semiconductor Materials at at Zhejiang University. He also works in the Institute of Advanced Semiconductors at the Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center of Zhejiang University. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of Applied Physics Letters (2017 – 2025), a member of the advisory panel of Nanotechnology (2019-2021) and a member of the NSFC Panel for Semiconductor Science & Technology 2035. Dr. Pi’s research has been supported by National Natural Science Foundation for Excellent Young Researchers. He obtained his PhD degree in the department of physics at the University of Bath, UK with the Derek Chesterman medal for original research in 2004. He then carried out research in the department of engineering physics at McMaster University, Canada and in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, USA. Dr. Pi joined Zhejiang University as an associated professor near the end of 2008. He was promoted to be a full professor in 2012. Dr. Pi has published a series of papers in peer-reviewed journals and meetings (e. g., PRL, PRB, APL, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Materials Science and Engineering R, ACS Nano, Nano Letters, Nano Energy and IEDM). His research mainly concerns large-size silicon carbide single crystal and nanoscale silicon single crystal and their applications for various devices.