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Jun Yuan is a researcher affiliated with the University of York in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple scientific disciplines with a focus on materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy. Yuan's research includes significant contributions to subfields such as atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and organic chemistry.

The scientist's recent publication record highlights a range of topics and venues. Recent papers include:

  • Shape control of size-selected naked platinum nanocrystals, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • High operating temperature pBn barrier mid-wavelength infrared photodetectors and focal plane array based on InAs/InAsSb strained layer superlattices, 2020, published in Optics Express
  • Blurring the boundary between homogenous and heterogeneous catalysis using palladium nanoclusters with dynamic surfaces, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Chirality and helicity of linearly-polarised Laguerre-Gaussian beams of small beam waists, 2021, published in Optics Communications
  • Chirality-enabled optical dipole potential energy for two-level atoms, 2021, published in Physical Review A

Frequent co-authors in Yuan's work include:

  • V. E. Lembessis
  • M. Babiker
  • Koray Köksal
  • Tao Wen
  • Xiang Liu

Yuan has regularly published in several scientific journals and venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

  • Optics Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nature Communications
  • Optics Express
  • Physical Review A

Their research encompasses a variety of main topics, including:

  • Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
  • Block Copolymer Self-Assembly
  • Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies

Best Publications

  • Single-Junction Organic Solar Cell with over 15% Efficiency Using Fused-Ring Acceptor with Electron-Deficient Core

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Guichuan Zhang

  • Exploring atomic defects in molybdenum disulphide monolayers

    Jinhua Hong;Zhixin Hu;Matt Probert;Kun Li

  • High-efficiency organic solar cells with low non-radiative recombination loss and low energetic disorder

    Sha Liu;Jun Yuan;Wanyuan Deng;Mei Luo

  • Alkyl Chain Tuning of Small Molecule Acceptors for Efficient Organic Solar Cells

    Kui Jiang;Kui Jiang;Qingya Wei;Joshua Yuk Lin Lai;Zhengxing Peng

  • Delocalization of exciton and electron wavefunction in non-fullerene acceptor molecules enables efficient organic solar cells

    Guichuan Zhang;Xian Kai Chen;Xian Kai Chen;Jingyang Xiao;Philip C.Y. Chow

  • Density, sp 3 fraction, and cross-sectional structure of amorphous carbon films determined by x-ray reflectivity and electron energy-loss spectroscopy

    A. C. Ferrari;A. Libassi;B. K. Tanner;V. Stolojan

  • Ultrafast fluorescence imaging in vivo with conjugated polymer fluorophores in the second near-infrared window

    Guosong Hong;Yingping Zou;Alexander L. Antaris;Shuo Diao

  • Structural, optical, and electrical properties of (Zn,Al)O films over a wide range of compositions

    J. G. Lu;Z. Z. Ye;Y. J. Zeng;L. P. Zhu

  • Three-dimensional atomic-scale structure of size-selected gold nanoclusters

    Z. Y. Li;N. P. Young;M. Di Vece;S. Palomba

  • Enabling low voltage losses and high photocurrent in fullerene-free organic photovoltaics

    Jun Yuan;Tianyi Huang;Pei Cheng;Yingping Zou

  • The role of charge recombination to triplet excitons in organic solar cells.

    Alexander J. Gillett;Alberto Privitera;Rishat Dilmurat;Akchheta Karki

  • A unified description of non-radiative voltage losses in organic solar cells

    Xian-Kai Chen;Deping Qian;Yuming Wang;Thomas Kirchartz;Thomas Kirchartz

  • Tuning the electron-deficient core of a non-fullerene acceptor to achieve over 17% efficiency in a single-junction organic solar cell

    Can Zhu;Jun Yuan;Fangfang Cai;Lei Meng

  • Fine-Tuning Energy Levels via Asymmetric End Groups Enables Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiencies over 17%

    Zhenghui Luo;Ruijie Ma;Tao Liu;Jianwei Yu

  • Golden single-atomic-site platinum electrocatalysts

    Paul N. Duchesne;Z. Y. Li;Christopher P. Deming;Victor Fung

  • Fused Benzothiadiazole: A Building Block for n-Type Organic Acceptor to Achieve High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

    Jun Yuan;Yunqiang Zhang;Liuyang Zhou;Liuyang Zhou;Chujun Zhang

  • Barrierless Free Charge Generation in the High-Performance PM6:Y6 Bulk Heterojunction Non-Fullerene Solar Cell

    Lorena Perdigon-Toro;Huotian Zhang;Anastaa si Markina;Jun Yuan

  • A-DA′D-A non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

    Qingya Wei;Wei Liu;Mario Leclerc;Jun Yuan

  • Low-Temperature in Situ Large Strain Plasticity of Ceramic SiC Nanowires and Its Atomic-Scale Mechanism

    X. D. Han;Y. F. Zhang;K. Zheng;X. N. Zhang

  • Nitrogen doping of highly tetrahedral amorphous carbon

    V. S. Veerasamy;J. Yuan;G. A. J. Amaratunga;W. I. Milne

Frequent Co-Authors

Yingping Zou
Yingping Zou Central South University
Yongfang Li
Yongfang Li Soochow University
Ze Zhang
Ze Zhang Zhejiang University
Chuanhong Jin
Chuanhong Jin Zhejiang University
Jing Zhu
Jing Zhu Tsinghua University
Sailing He
Sailing He Zhejiang University
Feng Gao
Feng Gao Linköping University
Richard E. Palmer
Richard E. Palmer Swansea University
Roy L. Johnston
Roy L. Johnston University of Birmingham
William I. Milne
William I. Milne University of Cambridge

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