Education and Employment

Born in Shanghai, in 1937. Native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.B.S. in Physics, Beijing University, 1962.

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania in 1984.

Now serving as professor at Tsinghua University, and director at the Institute of Applied Physics at Beijing University of Science and Technology, standing member of National Advanced Materials Committee of China, and senior associate of the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Italy.

He proposed the inverse problems on boson system, the fermion system and the lattice system; and developed systematic and sophisticated methods for these problems. Chen obtained a concise and unified solution for the inverse capacity problem which includes both Einstein's model and Debye's model as special cases. Chen also obtained a concise and general solution for the inverse lattice problem, which is important for establishing the interatomic potentials base. This provides an important foundation for performance prediction of complex materials and materials designing.

Dr. Chen was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997 .

Teaching

Interests

Awards and Membership

Selected Publications

1. Zhang S, Chen NX, Determination of the B1-B2 transition path in RbCl by M鯾ius pair potentials, PHILOS MAG 83 (12): 1451-1461 APR 21 20032. Chang H, Chen NX, Liang JK, et al., Theoretical study of phase forming of NaZn13-type rare-earth intermetallics, J PHYS-CONDENS MAT 15 (2): 109-120 JAN 22 2003

3. Zhang S, Chen NX, Lattice inversion for interionic pair potentials, J CHEM PHYS 118 (9): 3974-3982 MAR 1 2003

4. Zhang S, Chen NX, Energies and stabilities of sodium chloride clusters based on inversion pair potentials, PHYSICA B 325 (1-4): 172-183 JAN 2003

5. Hao SQ, Chen NX, Shen J, Phase stability and site preference of Nd2Fe17-xTx (T=V, Ti, Nb) and Nd2-xZrxFe17, J ALLOY COMPD 343 (1-2): 53-59 SEP 16 2002

6. Zhang S, Chen NX, Ab initio interionic potentials for NaCl by multiple lattice inversion, PHYS REV B 66 (6): art. no. 064106 AUG 1 2002

7. Ge XJ, Chen NX, Zhang WQ, et al., Selective field evaporation in field-ion microscopy for ordered alloys, J APPL PHYS 85 (7): 3488-3493 APR 1 1999

8. Cong WX, Chen NX, Gu BY, Recursive algorithm for phase retrieval in the fractional Fourier transform domain, APPL OPTICS 37 (29): 6906-6910 OCT 10 1998

9. Chen NX, Ge XJ, Zhang WQ, et al., Atomistic analysis of the field- ion microscopy image of Fe3Al (vol 57, pg 14203, 1998)PHYS REV B 58 (13): 8842- 8842 OCT 1 1998

10. Wei YC, Chen NX, Square wave analysis, J MATH PHYS 39 (8): 4226-4245 AUG 1998

11. Chen NX, Ge XJ, Zhang WQ, et al., Atomistic analysis of the field- ion microscopy image of Fe3Al, PHYS REV B 57 (22): 14203-14208 JUN 1 1998

12. Chen NX, Rong EQ, Unified solution of the inverse capacity problem (vol 57, pg 1302, 1998), PHYS REV E 57 (5): 6216-6217 Part B MAY 1998

13. Chen NX, Rong EQ, Unified solution of the inverse capacity problem, PHYS REV E 57 (2): 1302-1308 Part A FEB 1998

14. Zhang WQ, Xie Q, Ge XJ, et al. , Interatomic potentials between distinct atoms from first-principles calculation and lattice-inversion method, J APPL PHYS 82 (2): 578-582 JUL 15 1997

15. Chen NX, Zhang CF, Zhou M, et al., Closed-form solution for inverse problems of Fermi systems (vol 48, pg 1558, 1993), PHYS REV E 55 (4): 4830- 4830 APR 1997

16. Chen NX, Chen ZD, Wei YC, Multidimensional inverse lattice problem and a uniformly sampled arithmetic Fourier transform, PHYS REV E 55 (1): R5- R8 Part A JAN 1997

17. Chen NX, Chen ZD, Liu SJ, et al., Algebraic rings of integers and some 2D lattice problems in physics, J PHYS A-MATH GEN 29 (17): 5591-5603 SEP 7 1996

18. Xie Q, Chen NX, Matrix-inversion method: Applications to Mobius inversion and deconvolution, PHYS REV E 52 (6): 6055-6065 Part A DEC 1995

19. XIE Q, CHEN NX, UNIFIED INVERSION TECHNIQUE FOR FERMION AND BOSON INTEGRAL-EQUATIONS, PHYS REV E 52 (1): 351-355 Part A JUL 1995

20. LI M, CHEN NX, MOBIUS-INVERSION TRANSFORM FOR DIAMOND-TYPE MATERIALS AND PHONON DISPERSIONS, PHYS REV B 52 (2): 997-1003 JUL 1 1995

21. XIE Q, CHEN NX, RECOVERY OF AN N-BODY POTENTIAL FROM A UNIVERSAL COHESION EQUATION, PHYS REV B 51 (22): 15856-15860 JUN 15 1995

22. CHEN NX, ZHANG CF, ZHOU M, et al., CLOSED-FORM SOLUTION FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS OF FERMI SYSTEMS, PHYS REV E 48 (2): 1558-1561 AUG 1993

23. CHEN NX, REN GB, CARLSSON-GELATT-EHRENREICH TECHNIQUE AND THE MOBIUS- INVERSION THEOREM (PHYS REV, VOL 45, PG 8177, 1992), PHYS REV B 47 (1): 593- 593 JAN 1 1993

24. CHEN NX, UNIFIED EXPRESSION FOR FERMI AND BOSE DISTRIBUTIONS, PHYS REV A 46 (6): 3538-3539 SEP 15 1992

25. CHEN NX, REN GB, CARLSSON-GELATT-EHRENREICH TECHNIQUE AND THE MOBIUS- INVERSION THEOREM, PHYS REV B 45 (14): 8177-8180 APR 1 1992

26. CHEN NX, CHEN Y, LI GY, THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION ON INVERSION FOR THE PHONON DENSITY OF STATES, PHYS LETT A 149 (7-8): 357-364 OCT 8 1990

27. CHEN NX, LI GY, THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION ON THE INVERSE BLACK-BODY RADIATION PROBLEM, IEEE T ANTENN PROPAG 38 (8): 1287-1290 AUG 1990

28. CHEN NX, MODIFIED MOBIUS INVERSE FORMULA AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN PHYSICS, PHYS REV LETT 64 (11): 1193-1195 MAR 12 1990

29. CHEN NX, RABII S, ABINITIO CALCULATION OF THE OPTICAL-SPECTRA OF GRAPHITE, PHYS REV B 31 (12): 8242-8243 1985

30. CHEN NX, RABII S, THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE OPTICAL-SPECTRA OF LIC6, PHYS REV B 31 (8): 4784-4791 1985

31. CHEN NX, RABII S, ABINITIO CALCULATION OF THE OPTICAL-SPECTRA OF LIC6 AND THE ORIGINS OF ITS PLASMONS, PHYS REV LETT 52 (26): 2386-2389 1984