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70
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26416
World Ranking
4344
National Ranking
1164

Overview

Li Yang is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on engineering and materials science. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics related to 2D materials and applications, perovskite materials, graphene research, advanced condensed matter physics, electronic and structural properties of oxides, topological materials and phenomena, and multiferroics and related materials.

The scientist's publication record includes numerous papers in prominent journals and venues. These frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Nano Letters
  • ACS Nano

Li Yang has collaborated with various co-authors on multiple occasions. The most frequent co-authors are:

  • Linghan Zhu
  • Ruixiang Fei
  • Xilong Xu
  • Takashi Taniguchi
  • Xiaobo Lu

Their research work has produced several papers that have gained a notable number of citations. Some recent papers include:

  • Artificial Multiferroics and Enhanced Magnetoelectric Effect in van der Waals Heterostructures, published in 2020 in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • Meron-like topological spin defects in monolayer CrCl3, published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • Widely tunable mid-infrared light emission in thin-film black phosphorus, published in 2020 in Science Advances
  • Interlayer Exciton Transport in MoSe2/WSe2 Heterostructures, published in 2021 in ACS Nano
  • Flat-Band-Enabled Triplet Excitonic Insulator in a Diatomic Kagome Lattice, published in 2021 in Physical Review Letters

Li Yang's work is often categorized within several subfields including materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, as well as mechanical engineering.

Best Publications

  • Layer-controlled band gap and anisotropic excitons in few-layer black phosphorus

    Vy Tran;Ryan Soklaski;Yufeng Liang;Li Yang

  • Highly anisotropic and robust excitons in monolayer black phosphorus.

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

  • Quasiparticle energies and band gaps in graphene nanoribbons.

    Li Yang;Li Yang;Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Graphene at the edge: stability and dynamics.

    Çağlar Ö. Girit;Çağlar Ö. Girit;Çağlar Ö. Girit;Jannik C. Meyer;Jannik C. Meyer;Jannik C. Meyer;Rolf Erni;Rolf Erni;Rolf Erni;Marta D. Rossell;Marta D. Rossell;Marta D. Rossell

  • Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures

    Kha Tran;Galan Moody;Fengcheng Wu;Xiaobo Lu

  • Strain-Engineering the Anisotropic Electrical Conductance of Few-Layer Black Phosphorus

    Ruixiang Fei;Li Yang

  • Anisotropic behaviours of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potentials

    Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Li Yang;Li Yang;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Enhanced Thermoelectric Efficiency via Orthogonal Electrical and Thermal Conductances in Phosphorene

    Ruixiang Fei;Alireza Faghaninia;Ryan Soklaski;Jia-An Yan

  • Excitonic Effects on the Optical Response of Graphene and Bilayer Graphene

    Li Yang;Jack Deslippe;Cheol-Hwan Park;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Giant piezoelectricity of monolayer group IV monochalcogenides: SnSe, SnS, GeSe, and GeS

    Ruixiang Fei;Wenbin Li;Ju Li;Li Yang

  • Moir'e Excitons in Van der Waals Heterostructures

    Kha Tran;Galan Moody;Fengcheng Wu;Xiaobo Lu

  • Quantum confinement and electronic properties of silicon nanowires.

    Xinyuan Zhao;C. M. Wei;C. M. Wei;L. Yang;M. Y. Chou

  • Ferroelectricity and Phase Transitions in Monolayer Group-IV Monochalcogenides.

    Ruixiang Fei;Wei Kang;Li Yang

  • Giant Piezoelectricity in Monolayer Group IV Monochalcogenides: SnSe, SnS, GeSe and GeS

    Ruixiang Fei;Wenbin Li;Ju Li;Li Yang

  • New generation of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under external periodic potentials.

    Cheol-Hwan Park;Cheol-Hwan Park;Li Yang;Li Yang;Young-Woo Son;Young-Woo Son;Marvin L. Cohen;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Widely tunable black phosphorus mid-infrared photodetector

    Xiaolong Chen;Xiaobo Lu;Bingchen Deng;Ofer Sinai

  • Ligand-field helical luminescence in a 2D ferromagnetic insulator

    Kyle L. Seyler;Ding Zhong;Dahlia R. Klein;Shiyuan Gao

  • Quantum oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas in black phosphorus thin films.

    Likai Li;Guo Jun Ye;Vy Tran;Ruixiang Fei

  • Electron beam supercollimation in graphene superlattices.

    Cheol-Hwan Park;Young-Woo Son;Li Yang;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Efficient electrical control of thin-film black phosphorus bandgap.

    Bingchen Deng;Vy Tran;Yujun Xie;Hao Jiang

  • Excitonic Effects in the Optical Spectra of Graphene Nanoribbons

    Li Yang;Marvin Cohen;Steven Louie

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven G. Louie
Steven G. Louie University of California, Berkeley
Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen University of California, Berkeley
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Fengnian Xia
Fengnian Xia Yale University
Han Wang
Han Wang University of Southern California
Mei-Yin Chou
Mei-Yin Chou Academia Sinica
Young-Woo Son
Young-Woo Son Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Jing Lu
Jing Lu Peking University
Xiaomu Wang
Xiaomu Wang Nanjing University

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