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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
53
Citations
11907
World Ranking
2384
National Ranking
923

Materials Science

D-Index
56
Citations
12733
World Ranking
8199
National Ranking
2023

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2018 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Mo Li is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States, working primarily in the field of Engineering with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers a broad range of topics including Photonic and Optical Devices, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, 2D Materials and Applications, Perovskite Materials and Applications, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Phase-change materials and chalcogenides, and Risk and Safety Analysis.

Mo Li has contributed to numerous publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • Nonvolatile Electrically Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Switch Enabled by a Silicon PIN Diode Heater (2020, Advanced Materials)
  • Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computing (2022, Nature Communications)
  • Myths and truths about optical phase change materials: A perspective (2021, Applied Physics Letters)
  • Frequency-angular resolving LiDAR using chip-scale acousto-optic beam steering (2023, Nature)
  • Synthesis of 5-HMF from an ultrasound-ionic liquid pretreated sugarcane bagasse by using a microwave-solid acid/ionic liquid system (2020, Industrial Crops and Products)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Nature Communications, arXiv (Cornell University), Research Square, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Mo Li has collaborated extensively with coauthors including Changming Wu, Ruoming Peng, Arka Majumdar, Seokhyeong Lee, and Bingzhao Li.

In recognition of their contributions, Mo Li was named an ACM Senior Member in 2018 and an ACM Distinguished Member in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Ultra-sensitive NEMS-based cantilevers for sensing, scanned probe and very high-frequency applications.

    Mo Li;H. X. Tang;H. X. Tang;M. L. Roukes

  • Waveguide-integrated black phosphorus photodetector with high responsivity and low dark current

    Nathan Youngblood;Che Chen;Steven J. Koester;Mo Li

  • Harnessing optical forces in integrated photonic circuits

    Mo Li;W. H. P. Pernice;C. Xiong;T. Baehr-Jones

  • Programmable phase-change metasurfaces on waveguides for multimode photonic convolutional neural network.

    Changming Wu;Heshan Yu;Seokhyeong Lee;Ruoming Peng

  • High-speed and high-efficiency travelling wave single-photon detectors embedded in nanophotonic circuits

    W.H.P. Pernice;C. Schuck;O. Minaeva;M. Li

  • Room-temperature high spin-orbit torque due to quantum confinement in sputtered BixSe(1-x) films.

    Mahendra Dc;Roberto Grassi;Jun-Yang Chen;Mahdi Jamali

  • A statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis.

    Yiming Hu;Mo Li;Qiongshi Lu;Haoyi Weng

  • Multifunctional Graphene Optical Modulator and Photodetector Integrated on Silicon Waveguides

    Nathan Youngblood;Yoska Anugrah;Rui Ma;Steven J. Koester

  • Collagen intrafibrillar mineralization as a result of the balance between osmotic equilibrium and electroneutrality

    Li Na Niu;Sang Eun Jee;Kai Jiao;Lige Tonggu

  • Room-temperature perpendicular magnetization switching through giant spin-orbit torque from sputtered BixSe(1-x) topological insulator material

    Mahendra Dc;Mahdi Jamali;Jun-Yang Chen;Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey

  • Dynamic manipulation of nanomechanical resonators in the high-amplitude regime and non-volatile mechanical memory operation

    Mahmood Bagheri;Menno Poot;Mo Li;Mo Li;Wolfram P. H. Pernice

  • On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning.

    A. Gilad Kusne;A. Gilad Kusne;Heshan Yu;Changming Wu;Huairuo Zhang

  • Tunable bipolar optical interactions between guided lightwaves

    Mo Li;W. H. P. Pernice;H. X. Tang

  • Writing magnetic memory with ultrashort light pulses

    Alexey V. Kimel;Mo Li

  • Optical absorption in graphene integrated on silicon waveguides

    Huan Li;Yoska Anugrah;Steven J. Koester;Mo Li

  • Nonvolatile Electrically Reconfigurable Integrated Photonic Switch Enabled by a Silicon PIN Diode Heater.

    Jiajiu Zheng;Zhuoran Fang;Changming Wu;Shifeng Zhu

  • Reactive cavity optical force on microdisk-coupled nanomechanical beam waveguides.

    Mo Li;Wolfram H. P. Pernice;Hong X. Tang

  • High-speed waveguide-coupled graphene-on-graphene optical modulators

    Steven J. Koester;Mo Li

  • Programmable black phosphorus image sensor for broadband optoelectronic edge computing

    Seokhyeong Lee;Ruoming Peng;Changming Wu;Mo Li

  • Heterogeneously Integrated Silicon Photonics for the Mid-Infrared and Spectroscopic Sensing

    Yu Chen;Hongtao Lin;Juejun Hu;Mo Li

  • Sub-optical wavelength acoustic wave modulation of integrated photonic resonators at microwave frequencies

    Semere Ayalew Tadesse;Mo Li

  • Nanoelectromechanical resonator arrays for ultrafast, gas-phase chromatographic chemical analysis

    Mo Li;E. B. Myers;H. X. Tang;S. J. Aldridge

  • Influence of Atomic-Level Morphology on Catalysis: The Case of Sphere and Rod-Like Gold Nanoclusters for CO2 Electroreduction

    Shuo Zhao;Natalie Austin;Mo Li;Yongbo Song

  • Low-Loss Integrated Photonic Switch Using Subwavelength Patterned Phase Change Material

    Changming Wu;Heshan Yu;Huan Li;Xiaohang Zhang

  • Layer-Tunable Third-Harmonic Generation in Multilayer Black Phosphorus

    Nathan Youngblood;Ruoming Peng;Andrei Nemilentsau;Tony Low

Frequent Co-Authors

Hong X. Tang
Hong X. Tang Yale University
Wolfram H. P. Pernice
Wolfram H. P. Pernice University of Münster
Jian-Ping Wang
Jian-Ping Wang University of Minnesota
Steven J. Koester
Steven J. Koester University of Minnesota
Ichiro Takeuchi
Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland, College Park
Michael L. Roukes
Michael L. Roukes California Institute of Technology
Sang Hyun Oh
Sang Hyun Oh University of Minnesota
Tony Low
Tony Low University of Minnesota
Arka Majumdar
Arka Majumdar University of Washington

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