Publications

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2022

Y. Wang, P. Lammert, V. H. Crespi, M. L. Cohen, A. Nourhani, “Non-stoichiometric salt intercalation of bilayer graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 266401 (2022)
H. Yi*, L.-H. Hu*, Y. Wang*, R. Xiao, J. Cai, D. R. Hickey, C. Dong, Y.-F. Zhao, L.-J. Zhou, R. Zhang, A. R. Richardella, N. Alem, J. A. Robinson, M. H. W. Chan, X. Xu, N. Samarth, C.-X. Liu, and C.-Z. Chang, “Crossover of Ising- to Rashba- Type Superconductivity in Epitaxial Bi2Se3/Monolayer NbSe2 Heterostructures”, Nat. Mater. 21, 1366 (2022)
K. Yang, Y. Wang, C.X. Liu, “Momentum-space Spin Anti-vortex and Spin Trans- port in Monolayer Pb”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 166601 (2022)
W. Lee, Y. Wang, H. Kim, M. Liu, T. N. Nunley, B. Fang, R. Maniyara, C. Dong, J. A. Robinson, V. Crespi, X. Li, A. H. MacDonald, and C.-K. Shih, “Confined monolayer Ag as a large gap 2D semiconductor and its many-body interactions with high-density Dirac electrons”, Nano Lett. 22, 7841 (2022)
J. He, S. H. Lee, F. Naccarato, G. Brunin, R. Zu, Y. Wang, L. Miao, H. Wang, N. Alem, G. Hautier, G.-M. Rignanese, Z. Mao, and V. Gopalan, “SnP2S6: A Promis- ing Infrared Nonlinear Optical Crystal with Strong Nonresonant Second Harmonic Generation and Phase-Matchability”, ACS Photonics, 9, 1724 (2022)
Q. Qian, W. Wu, L. Peng, Y. Wang, A. M. Z. Tan, L. Liang, S. M. Hus, K. Wang, T. H. Choudhury, J. M. Redwing, A. A. Puretzky, D. B. Geohegan, R. G. Hennig, X. Ma, and S. Huang, “Photoluminescence Induced by Substitutional Nitrogen in Single-Layer Tungsten Disulfide”, ACS Nano 16, 7428 (2022)
Y. Lin†, E. Hathaway, F. Habis, Y. Wang†, R. G. Rodriguez, K. Alnasser, N. Hurley, J. Cui, “Enhanced Emission from Defect Levels in Multilayer MoS2”, Adv. Optical Mater. 10, 2201059 (2022)

2021

Y. Wang, “Chemical requirements for stabilizing type-II Weyl points in MnBi2−xSbxTe4”, arXiv:2103.12730
K. Yang, Y. Wang, C.-X. Liu, “Momentum-space Spin Anti-vortex and Spin Transport in Monolayer Pb”, arXiv:2110.08968
S. H. Lee, D. Graf, L. Min, Y. Zhu, H. Yi, S. Ciocys, Y. Wang, E. S. Choi, R. Basnet, A. Fereidouni, A Wegner, Y. Zhao, K. Verlinde, J. He, R. Redwing, V. Gopalan, H. O. H. Churchill, A. Lanzara, N. Samarth, C.-Z. Chang, J. Hu and Z.Q. Mao “Evidence for a magnetic-field induced ideal type-II Weyl state in antiferromagnetic topological insulator Mn(Bi1−xSbx)2Te4”, Phys. Rev. X 11, 031032 (2020)
Y. Wang, V. H. Crespi, “Atlas of 2D metals epitaxial to SiC: filling-controlled gapping conditions and alloying rules”, arxiv:2011.01914
D. R. Hickey, N. Nayir, M. Chubarov, T. H. Choudhury, S. Bachu, L. Miao, Y. Wang, C. Qian, V. H. Crespi, J. M. Redwing, A. C. T. van Duin, N. Alem, “Illuminating Invisible Grain Boundaries in Coalesced Single-Orientation WS2 Monolayer Films”, Nano Lett. 21, 6487 (2021)

2020

M. A. Steves, Y. Wang, N. Briggs, T. Zhao, H. El-Sherif, B. Bersch, S. Subramanian, C. Dong, T. Bowen, A. De La F. Duran, K. Nisi, M. Lassauniere, U. Wurstbauer, N. Bassim, J. J. Fonseca, J. T. Robinson, V. H. Crespi, J. A. Robinson, K. L. Knap- penberger, Jr., “Unexpected Near-Infrared to Visible Non-linear Optical Properties from Two-Dimensional Polar Metals”, Nano Lett. 20, 8312 (2020)
Y. Sun, Y. Wang, J. Y. C. Chen, K. Fujisawa, J. T. Miller, V. H. Crespi, M. Terrones, R. E. Schaak, “Interface-mediated noble metal deposition on transition metal dichalcogenide nanostructures”, Nat. Chem. 12, 284 (2020)
N. Briggs*, B. Bersch*, Y. Wang*, J. Jiang, R. J. Koch, N. Nayir, K. Wang, M. Kolmer, W. Ko, A. D. L. F. Duran, S. Subramanian, C. Dong, J. Shallenberger, M. Fu, Q. Zou, Y.-W. Chuang, Z. Gai, A.-P. Li, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, C.-Z. Chang, E. Rotenberg, J. Zhu, A. C. T. van Duin, V. H. Crespi, and J. A. Robinson, “Atomically Thin, Half-van der Waals Materials enabled by Confinement Heteroepitaxy”, Nat. Mater. 19, 637 (2020)
B. R. Carvalho, Y. Wang, K. Fujisawa, T. Zhang, V. H. Crespi, M. A. Pimenta, M. Terrones, L. M. Malard, “Nonlinear dark-field imaging of 1D defects in monolayer dichalcogenides”, Nano Lett. 20, 284, (2020)
F. Zhang, B. Zheng, A. Sebastian, H. Olson, M. Liu, K. Fujisawa, Y. T. H. Pham, V. O. Jimenez, V. Kalappattil, L. Miao, Tianyi Zhang, Rahul Pendurthi, Y. Lei, A. L. Elias, Y. Wang, N. Alem, P. E. Hopkins, S. Das, V. H. Crespi, M.-H. Phan , M. Terrones, “Monolayer Vanadium-doped Tungsten Disulfide: A Room-Temperature Dilute Magnetic Semiconductor”, Adv. Sci. 7, 2001174 (2020)
N. Nayir, Y. Wang, S. Shabnam, D. Hickey, L. Miao, X. Zhang, S. Bachu, N. Alem, J. Redwing, V. Crespi, A. van Duin, “Modeling for Structural Engineering and Synthesis of Two Dimensional WSe2 Using a Newly Developed ReaxFF Reactive Force Field”, J. Phys. Chem. C 124, 51 (2020)

2019

F. Zhang*, Y. Wang*, C. Erb, K. Wang, P. Moradifar, V. H. Crespi, N. Alem, “Full orientation control of epitaxial MoS2 on hBN assisted by substrate defects”, Phys. Rev. B 99, 155430 (2019)
X. Zhang*, F. Zhang*, Y. Wang, D. S. Schulman, T. Zhang, A. Bansal, N. Alem, S. Das, V. H. Crespi, M. Terrones, J. M. Redwing, “Defect-controlled nucleation and orientation of WSe2 on hBN – a route to single crystal epitaxial monolayers”, ACS Nano 13, 3341 (2019)
K. Zhang, Y. Wang, J. Joshi, F. Zhang, S. Subramanian, M. Terrones, P. Vora, V. H. Crespi, J. A. Robinson, “Probing the lateral heterogeneities in synthetic monolayer molybdenum disulfide”, 2D Mater. 6, 025008 (2019)
P. Zhao, Y. Wang, B. Katz, E. Mockensturm, V. Crespi, S. Zhang, “Mechanically Driven Chiral Symmetry Breaking in 2D Materials”, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 131, 337 (2019)
R. Rao, V. Carozo, Y. Wang , A. E. Islam, N.P.-Lopez, K. Fujisawa, V. H. Crespi, M.Terrones, B. Maruyama, “Dynamics of cleaning, passivating and doping monolayer MoS2 by controlled laser irradiation”, 2D Mater. 6, 045031 (2019)
Y. Xuan, A. Jain, S. Zafar, R. Lotfi, N. Nayir, Y. Wang, T. H. Choudhury, S. Wright, J. Feraca, L. Rosenbaum, J. M. Redwing, V. H. Crespi, A. van Duin, “Multi-scale modeling of gas-phase reactions in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition growth of WSe2”, J. Cryst. Growth 527, 125247 (2019).

2018

Y. Wang, B. Carvalho, V. H. Crespi, “Strong exciton regulation of Raman scattering in monolayer dichalcogenides”, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Commn.) 98, 161405 (2018)
Z. Zhang*, Y. Wang*, X. Leng, V. H. Crespi, F. Kang, R. Lv, “Controllable Edge Exposure of MoS2 for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution with High Current Density”, ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 1, 1268 (2018)
Z. Lin, Y. Lei, S. Subramanian, N. Briggs, Y. Wang, C.-L. Lo, E. Yalon, D. Lloyd, S. Wu, K. Koski, R. Clark, S. Das, R. M. Wallace, T. Kuech, J. S. Bunch, X. Li, Z. Chen, E. Pop, V. H. Crespi, J. A. Robinson, M. Terrones, “Research Update: Recent progress on 2D materials beyond graphene: From ripples, defects, intercalation, and valley dynamics to straintronics and power dissipation”, APL Materials 6, 080701 (2018)

2017

Y. Wang, V. H. Crespi, “Theory of Finite-length Grain Boundaries of Controlled Misfit Angle in Two-dimensional Materials”, Nano Lett. 17, 5297 (2017)
Y. Wang, V. H. Crespi, “Nanovelcro: theory of guided folding in atomically thin sheets with regions of complementary doping”, Nano Lett. 17, 6708 (2017)
A. McCreary, J. R. Simpson, Y. Wang, D. Rhodes,K. Fujisawa, L. Balicas, M. Dubey, V. H. Crespi, M. Terrones, A. R. H. Walker, “Intricate Resonant Raman Response in Anisotropic ReS2“, Nano Lett. 17, 5897 (2017)
A. Azizi, Y. Wang, G. Stone, A. L. Elias, Z. Lin, M. Terrones, V. H. Crespi, and N. Alem, “Defect Coupling and Sub-Angstrom Structural Distortions in W1–xMoxS2 Monolayers“, Nano Lett. 17, 2802 (2017).
V. Carozo, Y. Wang, K. Fujisawa, B. R. Carvalho, A. McCreary, S. Feng, Z. Lin, C. Zhou, N. Perea-López, A. L. Elías, B. Kabius, V. H. Crespi, and M. Terrones, “Optical identification of sulfur vacancies: Bound excitons at the edges of monolayer tungsten disulfide“,Sci. Adv. 3, (2017).
A. Ostadhossein, A. Rahnamoun, Y. Wang, P. Zhao, S. Zhang, V. H. Crespi, and A. C. T. van Duin, “ReaxFF Reactive Force-Field Study of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2)” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 631 (2017).
B. R. Carvalho*, Y. Wang*, S. Mignuzzi, D. Roy, M. Terrones, C. Fantini, V. H. Crespi, L. M. Malard, and M. A. Pimenta, “Intervalley scattering by acoustic phonons in two-dimensional MoS2 revealed by double-resonance Raman spectroscopy“, Nat. Commun. 8, 14670 (2017).

Pre 2016

Y. Sun, Y. Wang, D. Sun, B. R. Carvalho, C. G. Read, C. Lee, Z. Lin, K. Fujisawa, J. A. Robinson, V. H. Crespi, M. Terrones, and R. E. Schaak, Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. 55, 2830 (2016).
A. Azizi, Y. Wang, Z. Lin, K. Wang, A. L. Elias, M. Terrones, V. H. Crespi, and N. Alem, “Spontaneous Formation of Atomically Thin Stripes in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers“, Nano Lett. 16, 6982 (2016).
N. I. Kovtyukhova, Y. Wang, A. Berkdemir, R. Cruz-Silva, M. Terrones, V. H. Crespi, and T. E. Mallouk, “Non-oxidative intercalation and exfoliation of graphite by Brønsted acids“, Nat. Chem. 6, 957 (2014).
C. Janisch, Y. Wang, D. Ma, N. Mehta, A. L. Elías, N. Perea-López, M. Terrones, V. Crespi, and Z. Liu, “Extraordinary Second Harmonic Generation in Tungsten Disulfide Monolayers” Sci. Rep. 4, 1169 (2014).
N. I. Kovtyukhova, Y. Wang, R. Lv, M. Terrones, V. H. Crespi, and T. E. Mallouk, “Reversible Intercalation of Hexagonal Boron Nitride with Brønsted Acids” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 8372 (2013).