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Yong P. Chen is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States and works primarily within the fields of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering. Their research encompasses several specialized subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's work centers broadly on advanced materials and their applications, with specific focus areas such as graphene research and applications, 2D materials and their uses, topological materials and phenomena, diamond and carbon-based materials research, quantum and electron transport phenomena, cold atom physics and Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as the physics of superconductivity and magnetism.

Yong P. Chen has published research in several well-established venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • Physical Review B
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Collaborations are a significant part of their work, with frequent co-authors including Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Pramey Upadhyaya, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Yaping Qi.

Recent published papers by or associated with Yong P. Chen cover diverse topics connected to 2D materials, quantum sensing, and photocurrent enhancement, among others. Notable examples include:

  • "Recent Progress in Strain Engineering on Van der Waals 2D Materials: Tunable Electrical, Electrochemical, Magnetic, and Optical Properties," 2022, Advanced Materials
  • "Recent Progresses in Machine Learning Assisted Raman Spectroscopy," 2023, Advanced Optical Materials
  • "High-Contrast Plasmonic-Enhanced Shallow Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Quantum Sensing," 2021, Nano Letters
  • "Nuclear spin polarization and control in hexagonal boron nitride," 2022, Nature Materials
  • "Enhancing the graphene photocurrent using surface plasmons and a p-n junction," 2020, Light Science & Applications

The scientist's research contributions span fundamental and applied topics related to the electronic, optical, and magnetic properties of novel materials. The integration of machine learning techniques with materials characterization methods reflects their engagement with interdisciplinary approaches in materials science.

Best Publications

  • Control and characterization of individual grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition

    Qingkai Yu;Qingkai Yu;Luis A. Jauregui;Wei Wu;Robert Colby

  • Control and Characterization of Individual Grains and Grain Boundaries in Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition

    Qingkai Yu;Luis A. Jauregui;Wei Wu;Robert Colby

  • Graphene segregated on Ni surfaces and transferred to insulators

    Qingkai Yu;Jie Lian;Sujitra Siriponglert;Hao Li

  • Thermal conductivity and thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons: a molecular dynamics study.

    Jiuning Hu;Xiulin Ruan;Yong P. Chen

  • Polycrystalline graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

    Oleg V. Yazyev;Yong P. Chen

  • Observation of topological surface state quantum Hall effect in an intrinsic three-dimensional topological insulator

    Yang Xu;Ireneusz Miotkowski;Chang Liu;Jifa Tian

  • Electrically Tunable Damping of Plasmonic Resonances with Graphene

    Naresh K. Emani;Ting Fung Chung;Xingjie Ni;Alexander V. Kildishev

  • Rational synthesis of ultrathin n-type Bi2Te3 nanowires with enhanced thermoelectric properties.

    Genqiang Zhang;Benjamin Kirk;Luis A. Jauregui;Haoran Yang

  • Wafer-scale synthesis of graphene by chemical vapor deposition and its application in hydrogen sensing

    Wei Wu;Wei Wu;Zhihong Liu;Luis A. Jauregui;Qingkai Yu;Qingkai Yu

  • Effect of oxygen plasma etching on graphene studied using Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport measurements

    Isaac Childres;Luis A Jauregui;Jifa Tian;Yong P Chen

  • Ultrafast Surface Carrier Dynamics in the Topological Insulator Bi2Te3

    M. Hajlaoui;E. Papalazarou;J. Mauchain;G. Lantz

  • Atomic force microscope local oxidation nanolithography of graphene

    Lishan Weng;Liyuan Zhang;Yong P Chen;Leonid P Rokhinson

  • Phonon Lateral Confinement Enables Thermal Rectification in Asymmetric Single-Material Nanostructures

    Yan Wang;Ajit Vallabhaneni;Jiuning Hu;Bo Qiu

  • Electrical modulation of fano resonance in plasmonic nanostructures using graphene.

    Naresh K. Emani;Ting-Fung Chung;Alexander V. Kildishev;Vladimir M. Shalaev

  • Electronic transport in chemical vapor deposited graphene synthesized on Cu: Quantum Hall effect and weak localization

    Helin Cao;Qingkai Yu;Luis A Jauregui;J Tian

  • Nontoxic and Abundant Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide Nanocrystals for Potential High-Temperature Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting

    Haoran Yang;Luis A. Jauregui;Genqiang Zhang;Yong P. Chen

  • Effect of electron-beam irradiation on graphene field effect devices

    Isaac Childres;Luis A. Jauregui;Michael Foxe;Michael Foxe;Jifa Tian

  • AFM local oxidation nanolithography of graphene

    Lishan Weng;Liyuan Zhang;Yong P. Chen;Leonid P. Rokhinson

  • Quantized Hall effect and Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in highly doped Bi2Se3: evidence for layered transport of bulk carriers.

    Helin Cao;Jifa Tian;Ireneusz Miotkowski;Tian Shen;Tian Shen

  • Photocarrier generation from interlayer charge-transfer transitions in WS2-graphene heterostructures

    Long Yuan;Ting Fung Chung;Agnieszka Kuc;Agnieszka Kuc;Yan Wan

  • Effect of oxygen plasma etching on graphene studied with Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport

    Isaac Childres;Luis A. Jauregui;Jifa Tian;Yong P. Chen

  • Growth of single crystal graphene arrays by locally controlling nucleation on polycrystalline Cu using chemical vapor deposition.

    Wei Wu;Luis A. Jauregui;Zhihua Su;Zhihong Liu

  • Thermal conductivity and thermal rectification in graphene nanoribbons: a molecular dynamics study

    Jiuning Hu;Xiulin Ruan;Zhigang Jiang;Yong Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiulin Ruan
Xiulin Ruan Purdue University West Lafayette
Jiming Bao
Jiming Bao University of Houston
Alexandra Boltasseva
Alexandra Boltasseva Purdue University West Lafayette
Ken W. West
Ken W. West Princeton University
Peide D. Ye
Peide D. Ye Purdue University West Lafayette
Zuzanna Liliental-Weber
Zuzanna Liliental-Weber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Vladimir M. Shalaev
Vladimir M. Shalaev Purdue University West Lafayette
Alexander V. Kildishev
Alexander V. Kildishev Purdue University West Lafayette
M. Zahid Hasan
M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University
Li Shi
Li Shi The University of Texas at Austin

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