Our current research solves critical challenges across the field of science and engineering, leading to publication in high impact journals such as Science, Nature, Nature journal series and many others.
Full list of publications and proceedings can be found at Google Scholar
After ASU
S. Jambulkar, D. ravichandran, Y. Zhu, V. Thippanna, A. Ramanathan, D. Patil, N. Fonseca, S.V. Thummalapalli, B. Sundaravadivelan, A. Sun, W. Xu, S. Yang, A. M. Kannan, Y. Golan, J. Lancaster, L. Chen, E. B. Joyce, K. Song, Nanoparticle Assembly: From Self-Organization to Controlled Micropatterning for Enhanced Functionalities. Small, 20, 2306394. (2024).
A. Ramanathan, V. Thippanna, A. S. Kumar, B. Sundaravadivelan, Y. Zhu, D. Ravichandran, S. Yang, K. Song, Highly Loaded Carbon Fiber Filaments for 3D-printed Composites. J. Polym. Sci. 1–13 (2023).
S. Feng, B. Povilus, S. Yang, Color tuning halide perovskites: Optical amplification and lasing. Materials Today Advances, 20, 100431 (2023).
S. Y. Liu, S. Alfarhan, W. B. Wang, S. Feng, Y. X. Zhu, L. Y. Liu, K. N. Song, S. Yang, K. L. Jin, X. F. Chen, Robust Optical Data Encryption by Projection-Photoaligned Polymer-Stabilized-Liquid-Crystals. Adv. Optical Mater., 2301364 (2023).
R. Nile, S. Feng, M. Cabello, D. Y. Wang, S. Yang, K. L. Jin, Crystallization Behavior of Semicrystalline Polymers Characterized by an In Situ Fluorescence Technique and its Sensing Mechanism. Macromol. Chem. Phys., 2300230 (2023).
T. A. Ndukaife and S. Yang, Slot driven dielectric electromagnetically induced transparency metasurface. Optics Express, 31, 27324-27331 (2023).
P. Cilibrizzi, X. Z. Liu, P. Y. Zhang, C. Z. Wang, Q. W. Li, S. Yang, and X. Zhang, Self-Induced Valley Bosonic Stimulation of Exciton Polaritons in a Monolayer Semiconductor. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 036902 (2023).
P. Zhang, T-F. Chung, Q. Li, S. Wang, Q. Wang, W. L. B. Huey, S. Yang, J. E. Goldberger, J. Yao, X. Zhang, All-optical switching of magnetization in atomically thin CrI3. Nature Materials, 21, 1373-1378 (2022).
Y. U. Lee, Z.Y. Nie, S. Li, C-H. Lambert, J. Zhao, F. Yang, G. B. M. Wisna, S. Yang, X. Zhang, and Z. Liu, Ultrathin Layered Hyperbolic Metamaterial-Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. Nano Letters, 22, 5916-5961 (2022).
S. Yang, W. Bao, X. Z. Liu, J. Kim, R. K. Zhao, R. M. Ma, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Subwavelength-scale lasing perovskite with ultrahigh Purcell enhancement. Matter, 10. 024 (2021).
Y. U. Lee, C. Posner, Z. Nie, J. Zhao, S. Li, S. E. Bopp, G. B. M. Wisna, J. Ha, C. Song, J. Zhang, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Z. Liu, Organic Hyperbolic Material Assisted Illumination Nanoscopy. Advanced Science, 2102230 (2021). (Cover Story)
Y. Xue, Y. Xia, S. Yang, Y. Alsaid, K. Y. Fong, Y. Wang, & X. Zhang, Atomic-scale ion transistor with ultrahigh diffusivity. Science 372, 501-503 (2021).
H. Li, D. Wines, B. Chen, K. Yumigeta, Y. M. Sayyad, J. Kopaszek, S. Yang, C. Ataca, E. H. Sargent, S. Tongay, Abnormal Phase Transition and Band Renormalization of Guanidinium-Based Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 13, 37, 44964–44971 (2021).
Q.W. Li, W. Bao, Z. Nie, Y. Xia, Y. Xue, Y. Wang, S. Yang, X. Zhang, A non-unitary metasurface enables continuous control of quantum photon–photon interactions from bosonic to fermionic. Nature Photonics, 15, 267–271 (2021).
N. Bachelard, C. Ropp, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Externally driven broadband transmission in strongly disordered materials. Applied Physics Letters, 118, 231103 (2021).
Prior to ASU
Y. Wang, J. Xiao, T.-F. Chung, Z. Nie, S. Yang, X. Zhang, Direct electrical modulation of second-order optical susceptibility via phase transitions. Nature Electronics, 4, 725-730 (2021).
X. Liu, J. Yi, S. Yang, E. C. Lin, Y. J. Zhang, P. Zhang, J. F. Li, Y. Wang, Y. H. Lee, Z. Q. Tian, & X. Zhang, Nonlinear valley phonon scattering under the strong coupling regime. Nature Materials, 20, 1210–1215, (2021).
Y.U. Lee, S. Li, S.E. Bopp, J. Zhao, Z. Nie, C. Posner, S. Yang, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, Z. Liu, Unprecedented Fluorophore Photostability Enabled by Low‐Loss Organic Hyperbolic Materials. Advanced Materials, 2006496 (2021).
C. Shi, X. Jiang, Z. Li, S. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Yang, S. G. Louie, & X. Zhang, Phononic crystals as a platform for experimental physics: The direct observation of Klein tunneling. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149, A79 (2021).
S. Lan, X. Liu, S. Wang, H. Zhu, Y. Liu, C. Gong, S. Yang, J. Shi, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Observation of strong excitonic magneto-chiral anisotropy in twisted bilayer van der Waals crystals. Nature Communications 12, 2088 (2021).
J. S. T. Smalley, X. Ren, J. Y. Lee, W. Ko, W.-J. Joo, H. Park, S. Yang, Y. Wang, C. S. Lee, H. Choo, S. Hwang, & X. Zhang, Subwavelength pixelated CMOS color sensors based on anti-Hermitian metasurface. Nature Communications, 11, 3916 (2020).
X. Jiang, C. Shi, Z. Li, S. Wang, Y. Wang, S. Yang, S. G. Louie, & X. Zhang, Direct observation of Klein tunneling in phononic crystals. Science, 370, 1447-1450 (2020).
X. Liu, J. Yi, Q. Li, S. Yang, W. Bao, C. Ropp, S. Lan, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Nonlinear Optics at Excited States of Exciton Polaritons in Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals. Nano Letters, 20, 1676-1685 (2020).
S. Wang, M. Zhao, C. Zhang, S. Yang, Y. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, X. Zhang, Electron-hole Hybridization in Bilayer Graphene. National Science Review, 7, 248-253, (2020).
K. Y. Fong, H.-K. Li, R. Zhao, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Phonon heat transfer across a vacuum through quantum fluctuations. Nature, 576, pages 243–247 (2019).
W. Bao, X. Liu, F. Xue, F. Zheng, R. Tao, S. Wang, Y. Xia, M. Zhao, J. Kim, S. Yang, Q. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Wang, L.-W. Wang, A. H. MacDonald & X. Zhang, Observation of Rydberg exciton polaritons and their condensate in a perovskite cavity. PNAS, 116, 20274-20279 (2019).
R. Zhao*, L. Li*, S. Yang*, W. Bao, Y. Xia, P. Ashby, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Stable Casimir equilibria and quantum trapping. Science, 364, 984-987 (2019). (Top 10 Breakthrough of 2019 in physics world)
S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Curvature sculptured growth of plasmonic nanostructures by supramolecular recognition. Physical Review Materials, 3, 116002 (2019).
H.-K. Li, K. Y. Fong, H. Zhu, Q. Li, S. Wang, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Valley optomechanics in a monolayer semiconductor. Nature Photonics, 13, 397–401 (2019).
C. Shi, R. Zhao, Y. Long, S. Yang, Y. Wang, H. Chen, J. Ren & X. Zhang, Observation of acoustic spin. National Science Review, 59, 707–712 (2019).
Y. Xia, Q. Li, J. Kim, W. Bao, C. Gong, S. Yang, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Room-Temperature Giant Stark Effect of Single Photon Emitter in van der Waals Material. Nano Letters, 19, 7100–7105 (2019).
Y. Wang, J. Xiao, S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Zhang, Second harmonic generation spectroscopy on two-dimensional materials. Optical Materials Express, 9, 1136-1149 (2019).
D.B. Litt, M.R. Jones, M. Hentschel, Y. Wang, S. Yang, H.D. Ha, X. Zhang, A.P. Alivisatos Hybrid lithographic and DNA-directed assembly of a configurable plasmonic metamaterial that exhibits electromagnetically induced transparency. Nano letters, 18, 859-864 (2018).
X. Zhang and S. Yang (contributed one chapter), “Roadmap on plasmonics: Plasmon lasers: coherent light source at the single molecular scale”, Journal of Optics, 20, 043001 (2018).
Z. Yang, Y. Deng, X-W. Zhang, S. Wang, H. Chen, S. Yang, J. Khurgin, N.X. Fang, X. Zhang, R. Ma, “High‐performance single‐crystalline perovskite thin‐film photodetector”, Advanced Materials, 30, 1704333 (2018).
P. Bai, S. Yang, W. Bao, J. Kao, K. Thorkelsson, B. Salmeron, X. Zhang, T. Xu, Diversifying nanoparticle assemblies in supramolecule nanocomposites via cylindrical confinement, Nano Letters, 17, 6847-6854 (2017).
P. Li*, S. Yang*, T. Zhang, R. Shrestha, K. Hippalgaonkar, T. Luo, X. Zhang, S. Shen, Tunable thermal transport in polysilsesquioxane (PSQ) hybrid crystals, Scientific Reports, 6, 1-9 (2016).
Z. Chen, Z., X. Wang, Y. Qi, S. Yang, J. A. Soares, B. A. Apgar, R. Gao, R. Xu, Y. Lee, X. Zhang, J. Yao, & L. Martin, Self-assembled, nanostructured, tunable metamaterials via spinodal decomposition, ACS Nano, 10, 10237-10244 (2016).
S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Ni, & X. Zhang, Optical modulation of aqueous metamaterial properties at large scale, Optics Express, 23, 28736-28741 (2015).
S. Yang, X. Ni, X. Yin, B. Kante, P. Zhang, J. Zhu, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, “Feedback-driven self-assembly of symmetry-breaking optical metamaterials in solution”, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 1002-1006 (2014). (Highlighted in Science Newsline, etc)
P. Zhang, T. Li, J. Zhu, X. Zhu, S. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Yin & X. Zhang, Generation of acoustic self-bending and bottle beams by phase engineering, Nature Communications, 5, 1-9 (2014).
L. Feng, X. Zhu, S. Yang, H. Zhu, P. Zhang, X. Yin, Y. Wang & X. Zhang, Demonstration of a large-scale optical exceptional point structure, Optics Express, 22, 1760-1767 (2014).
R-M. Ma, S. Ota, Y. Li, S. Yang & X. Zhang, Explosives detection in a lasing plasmon nanocavity, Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 600-604 (2014).
Z. Li, J. L. Nyalosaso, A. A. Hwang, D.P. Ferris, S. Yang, G. Derrien, C. Charnay, J. O. Durand, and J. I. Zink, Measurement of uptake and release capacities of mesoporous silica nanoparticles enabled by nanovalve gates. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 115,19496-19506 (2011).
H. Meng*, S. Yang*, Z. Li, T. Xia, J. Chen, Z. Ji, H. Zhang, X. Wang, S. J. Lin, C. Huang, Z.H. Zhou, J. I. Zink, A. E. Nel, Aspect ratio determines the quantity of mesoporous silica nanoparticle uptake by a small GTPase-dependent macropinocytosis mechanism, ACS Nano, 5, 4434-4447 (2011).
P. Yuan, S. Yang, H. Wang, M. Yu, X. Zhou, G. Lu, J. Zou and C. Yu, “Structure transition from hexagonal mesostructured rodlike silica to multilamellar vesicles”, Langmuir, 24, 5038-5043 (2008).
S. Yang, X. Zhou, P. Yuan, M. Yu, S. Xie, J. Zou, G. Q. Lu and C. Yu, “Siliceous nanopods from a compromised dual-templating approach”, Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, 46, 8579-8582 (2007).
X. Zhou, S. Yang, C. Yu, Z. Li, X. Yan, Y. Cao and D. Zhao, “Hexylene- and octylene-bridged polysilsesquioxane hybrid crystals self-assembled by dimeric building blocks with ring structures”. Chemistry-a European Journal, 12, 8484-8490 (2006).
S. Yang, L. Zhao, C. Yu, X. Zhou, J. Tang, P. Yuan, D. Chen and D. Zhao, “On the origin of helical mesostructures”. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 10460-10466 (2006).
