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Overview

Fengnian Xia is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields within engineering and materials science, focusing on areas such as materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomedical engineering.

Their published work includes research in main topics such as:

  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies

Fengnian Xia has contributed to publications in several venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Photonics
  • Optics Express
  • Nature Materials
  • Nano Letters

Among their recent papers are:

  • "A wavelength-scale black phosphorus spectrometer," 2021, Nature Photonics
  • "Intelligent infrared sensing enabled by tunable moiré quantum geometry," 2022, Nature
  • "Strong mid-infrared photoresponse in small-twist-angle bilayer graphene," 2020, Nature Photonics
  • "Widely tunable mid-infrared light emission in thin-film black phosphorus," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Geometric deep optical sensing," 2023, Science

The scientist collaborates frequently with a set of coauthors, including:

  • Kenji Watanabe
  • Takashi Taniguchi
  • Qiushi Guo
  • Shaofan Yuan
  • Matthieu Fortin-Deschênes

Best Publications

  • Rediscovering black phosphorus as an anisotropic layered material for optoelectronics and electronics

    Fengnian Xia;Han Wang;Yichen Jia

  • Ultrafast graphene photodetector

    Fengnian Xia;Thomas Mueller;Yu-ming Lin;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • Two-dimensional material nanophotonics

    Fengnian Xia;Han Wang;Di Xiao;Madan Dubey

  • Graphene photodetectors for high-speed optical communications

    Thomas Mueller;Fengnian Xia;Phaedon Avouris

  • Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene

    Ganesh R. Bhimanapati;Zhenqiu Lin;Vincent Meunier;Vincent Meunier;Yeonwoong Jung

  • Graphene field-effect transistors with high on/off current ratio and large transport band gap at room temperature.

    Fengnian Xia;Damon B. Farmer;Yu-ming Lin;Phaedon Avouris

  • The renaissance of black phosphorus

    Xi Ling;Han Wang;Shengxi Huang;Fengnian Xia

  • Highly anisotropic and robust excitons in monolayer black phosphorus.

    Xiaomu Wang;Aaron M. Jones;Kyle L. Seyler;Vy Tran

  • Ultracompact optical buffers on a silicon chip

    Fengnian Xia;Lidija Sekaric;Yurii Vlasov

  • Tunable infrared plasmonic devices using graphene/insulator stacks

    Hugen Yan;Xuesong Li;Bhupesh Chandra;George Tulevski

  • Strong light-matter coupling in two-dimensional atomic crystals

    Xiaoze Liu;Xiaoze Liu;Tal Galfsky;Tal Galfsky;Zheng Sun;Zheng Sun;Fengnian Xia

  • High-frequency, scaled graphene transistors on diamond-like carbon

    Yanqing Wu;Yu-ming Lin;Ageeth A. Bol;Keith A. Jenkins

  • Damping pathways of mid-infrared plasmons in graphene nanostructures

    Hugen Yan;Tony Low;Wenjuan Zhu;Yanqing Wu

  • The origins and limits of metal–graphene junction resistance

    Fengnian Xia;Vasili Perebeinos;Yu-ming Lin;Yanqing Wu

  • Black Phosphorus Mid-Infrared Photodetectors with High Gain

    Qiushi Guo;Andreas Pospischil;Maruf Bhuiyan;Hao Jiang

  • Tunable optical properties of multilayer black phosphorus thin films

    Tony Low;Tony Low;Tony Low;A. S. Rodin;A. Carvalho;Yongjin Jiang

  • Photocurrent imaging and efficient photon detection in a graphene transistor

    Fengnian Xia;Thomas Mueller;Roksana Golizadeh-Mojarad;Marcus Freitag

  • Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects

    Solomon Assefa;Fengnian Xia;Yurii A. Vlasov

  • Plasmons and Screening in Monolayer and Multilayer Black Phosphorus

    Tony Low;Rafael Roldán;Han Wang;Fengnian Xia

  • Photoconductivity of biased graphene

    Marcus Freitag;Tony Low;Fengnian Xia;Phaedon Avouris

  • High-throughput silicon nanophotonic wavelength-insensitive switch for on-chip optical networks

    Yurii Vlasov;William M. J. Green;Fengnian Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Phaedon Avouris
Phaedon Avouris IBM (United States)
Yurii A. Vlasov
Yurii A. Vlasov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Solomon Assefa
Solomon Assefa IBM (United States)
Han Wang
Han Wang University of Southern California
William M. J. Green
William M. J. Green IBM (United States)
Stephen R. Forrest
Stephen R. Forrest University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Yu-Ming Lin
Yu-Ming Lin Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Tony Low
Tony Low University of Minnesota

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