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Kesong Yang is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with particular attention to materials chemistry and electronic and magnetic materials.

The scientist has contributed to multiple fields of study, including:

  • Materials Science
  • Engineering

Key subfields in which they have published include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Among the main topics Kesong Yang explores in their research are:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Magnetic properties of thin films
  • Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
  • MXene and MAX Phase Materials

Kesong Yang has published numerous papers in well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature
  • Progress in Materials Science
  • Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Nano Letters
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Kesong Yang are:

  • Strain engineering and epitaxial stabilization of halide perovskites, 2020, Nature
  • A fabrication process for flexible single-crystal perovskite devices, 2020, Nature
  • Heusler alloys: Past, properties, new alloys, and prospects, 2022, Progress in Materials Science
  • Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics, 2022, Nature
  • Review of high-throughput computational design of Heusler alloys, 2021, Journal of Alloys and Compounds

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Yuheng Li
  • Sicong Jiang
  • Yimu Chen
  • Yusheng Lei
  • Yue Gu

Best Publications

  • AFLOW: An automatic framework for high-throughput materials discovery

    Stefano Curtarolo;Wahyu Setyawan;Gus L Hart;Michal Jahnatek

  • AFLOWLIB.ORG: A distributed materials properties repository from high-throughput ab initio calculations

    Stefano Curtarolo;Stefano Curtarolo;Wahyu Setyawan;Shidong Wang;Junkai Xue

  • Strain engineering and epitaxial stabilization of halide perovskites.

    Yimu Chen;Yusheng Lei;Yuheng Li;Yugang Yu

  • Engineering Coexposed {001} and {101} Facets in Oxygen-Deficient TiO2 Nanocrystals for Enhanced CO2 Photoreduction under Visible Light

    Lianjun Liu;Yuqiu Jiang;Huilei Zhao;Jiatang Chen

  • Ferromagnetism in dilute magnetic semiconductors through defect engineering: Li-doped ZnO.

    J B Yi;C C Lim;G Z Xing;H M Fan

  • A fabrication process for flexible single-crystal perovskite devices

    Yusheng Lei;Yimu Chen;Ruiqi Zhang;Yuheng Li

  • A search model for topological insulators with high-throughput robustness descriptors

    Kesong Yang;Wahyu Setyawan;Shidong Wang;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli;Marco Buongiorno Nardelli

  • Understanding Photocatalytic Activity of S- and P-Doped TiO2 under Visible Light from First-Principles

    Kesong Yang;and Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang

  • Study of the Nitrogen Concentration Influence on N-Doped TiO2 Anatase from First-Principles Calculations

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang

  • Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism of Cu-Doped ZnO Films Probed by Soft X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

    Tun Seng Herng;Dongchen Qi;Tom Berlijn;Tom Berlijn;Jiabao Yi

  • Facile Template‐Free Synthesis of Bi2O2CO3 Hierarchical Microflowers and Their Associated Photocatalytic Activity

    Hefeng Cheng;Baibiao Huang;Kesong Yang;Zeyan Wang

  • Preparation, electronic structure, and photocatalytic properties of Bi2O2CO3 nanosheet

    Yuanyuan Liu;Zeyan Wang;Baibiao Huang;Kesong Yang

  • Density Functional Characterization of the Visible-Light Absorption in Substitutional C-Anion- and C-Cation-Doped TiO2

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang;Myung-Hwan Whangbo

  • Density Functional Characterization of the Band Edges, the Band Gap States, and the Preferred Doping Sites of Halogen-Doped TiO2

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang;Myung-Hwan Whangbo

  • A RESTful API for exchanging materials data in the AFLOWLIB.org consortium

    Richard H. Taylor;Richard H. Taylor;Frisco Rose;Cormac Toher;Ohad Levy

  • On the possibility of ferromagnetism in carbon-doped anatase TiO2

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang;Myung-Hwan Whangbo

  • Perovskite superlattices with efficient carrier dynamics

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  • Theoretical study of N-doped TiO2 rutile crystals.

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang;Shenghao Han

  • Density-functional characterization of antiferromagnetism in oxygen-deficient anatase and rutile TiO 2

    Kesong Yang;Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang;Yuan Ping Feng

  • First-Principles Hybrid Functional Study of the Organic–Inorganic Perovskites CH3NH3SnBr3 and CH3NH3SnI3

    Camille Bernal;Kesong Yang

  • Origin of the photoactivity in boron-doped anatase and rutile Ti O 2 calculated from first principles

    Kesong Yang;Ying Dai;Baibiao Huang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ying Dai
Ying Dai Shandong University
Baibiao Huang
Baibiao Huang Shandong University
Stefano Curtarolo
Stefano Curtarolo Duke University
Yuan Ping Feng
Yuan Ping Feng National University of Singapore
Jian Luo
Jian Luo University of California, San Diego
Andrew T. S. Wee
Andrew T. S. Wee National University of Singapore
Jun Ding
Jun Ding National University of Singapore
Jiabao Yi
Jiabao Yi University of Newcastle Australia
Joseph K. Wong
Joseph K. Wong University of California, San Francisco
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli
Marco Buongiorno Nardelli University of North Texas

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