PUBLICATIONS

David P Lafayette, Li Cheng, Wenxu Duan, Jiangxu Li, Yangchen He, Yulu Mao, Ying Wang, Daniel A Rhodes, Daniel D Kohler, Yang Zhang, Jun Xiao, John C Wright, “Optical signatures of ultrafast lattice distortion in the ternary type-II Weyl semimetal TaIrTe4”, Physical Review B, 113(20), 205402 (2026).

Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser, Kayode Oluwaseyi Adebunmi, Haolin You, Chen Shao, Yulu Mao, Ying Wang, Akhilesh Jaiswal, “Multi-functional polymorphic memory based on 2D ferroelectric tunnel junctions”, npj 2D Materials and Applications, 9, 85 (2025).

Brenna C. Bierman, Gillian Nolan, Hongrui Ma, Ying Wang, Pinshane Huang, Daniel A. Rhodes, “Superconducting Sn-Intercalated TaSe2: Structural Diversity Obscured by Routine Characterization Techniques”, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147(43), 39093-39102 (2025).

Haotian Jiang, Tairan Xi, Jiangxu Li, Yangchen He, Hongrui Ma, Yulu Mao, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Daniel A. Rhodes, Yang Zhang, Jun Xiao, Ying Wang, “Probing interplay of topological properties and electron correlation in TaIrTe4 via nonlinear Hall effect”, Nature Communications, 16, 6351 (2025).

[News] New probing technique maps properties in quantum materials (UW–Madison College of Engineering)

Tairan Xi, Haotian Jiang, Jiangxu Li, Yangchen He, Yuchen Gu, Carter Fox, Louis Primeau, Yulu Mao, Jack Rollins, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Daniel van der Weide, Daniel Rhodes, Yang Zhang, Ying Wang*, Jun Xiao*, “Terahertz sensing based on the nonlinear electrodynamics of the two-dimensional correlated topological semimetal TaIrTe4”, Nature Electronics, 8(7), 578-586 (2025).

[News] New wave: UW-Madison researchers are creating a path to high-performance terahertz technologies (UW–Madison College of Engineering)

Yangchen He, Alex Strasser, Nicholas Hagopian, Brenna Bierman, Hongrui Ma, Carter Fox, Zizhong Li, Nicholas Pederson, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jun Xiao, Ying Wang, Paul M. Voyles, Xiaofeng Qian, Daniel A. Rhodes, “Evidence for Topological States and a Lifshitz Transition in Metastable 2M-WSe2”, Advanced Functional Materials, 35(31), 2420356 (2025).

Yulu Mao, Fan Fei, Dajun Zhang, Haolin You, Haotian Jiang, Carter Fox, Yangchen He, Daniel Rhodes, Chu Ma, Jun Xiao, Ying Wang, “Revealing stacking order transition via nanomechanical resonator”, npj 2D Materials and Applications, 8, 75 (2024).

[News] (2025) Nanomechanical Resonator for Strain Sensing in Membranes (Wisconsin MRSEC)

Fan Fei, Yulu Mao, Wuzhang Fang, Wenhao Liu, Jack P Rollins, Aswin LN Kondusamy, Bing Lv, Yuan Ping, Ying Wang, Jun Xiao, “Spin-mechanical coupling in 2D antiferromagnet CrSBr”, Nano Letters, 24(34), 10467–10474 (2024).

[News] Collaborative MRSEC Research Results in Nano Letters Cover Article Last Month (Wisconsin MRSEC)
[Highlight] Featured as the Nano Letters Journal Cover Article

Carter Fox, Yulu Mao, Xiang Zhang, Ying Wang, Jun Xiao, “Stacking Order Engineering of Two-Dimensional Materials and Device Applications”, Chemical Reviews, 124(4), 1862–1898 (2024).

[Highlight] Featured as the Chemical Reviews Journal Cover Article

Ying Wang, Jun Xiao, Ting-Fung Chung, Zhaoyu Nie, Sui Yang, Xiang Zhang, “Direct electrical modulation of second-order susceptibility via phase transitions”, Nature Electronics, 4, 725–730 (2021).

Jun Xiao*, Ying Wang*, Hua Wang, CD Pemmaraju, Siqi Wang, Philipp Muscher, Edbert J Sie, Clara M Nyby, Thomas P Devereaux, Xiaofeng Qian, Xiang Zhang, Aaron M Lindenberg, “Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions”, Nature Physics, 16, 1028–1034 (2020).

[News] Next-Generation Nonvolatile Memory | Explore Technologies (Stanford Tech Finder / Stanford News)

Huijuan Zhao, Yingbo Zhao, Yinxuan Song, Ming Zhou, Wei Lv, Liu Tao, Yuzhang Feng, Biying Song, Yue Ma, Junqing Zhang, Jun Xiao, Ying Wang, Der-Hsien Lien, Matin Amani, Kim Hyungjin, Xiaoqing Chen, Zhangting Wu, Zhenhua Ni, Peng Wang, Yi Shi, Haibo Ma, Xiang Zhang, Jian-Bin Xu, Alessandro Troisi, Ali Javey, Xinran Wang, “Strong optical response and light emission from a monolayer molecular crystal”, Nature Communications, 10, 5589 (2019).

Wei Bao, Xiaoze Liu, Fei Xue, Fan Zheng, Renjie Tao, Siqi Wang, Yang Xia, Mervin Zhao, Jeongmin Kim, Sui Yang, Quanwei Li, Ying Wang, Yuan Wang, Lin-Wang Wang, Allan H MacDonald, Xiang Zhang, “Observation of Rydberg exciton polaritons and their condensate in a perovskite cavity”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(41), 20274-20279 (2019).

Ying Wang, Jun Xiao, Yang Sui, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, “Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy on two-dimensional materials”, Optical Materials Express, 9, 1136 (2019).

Jun Xiao*, Hanyu Zhu*, Ying Wang*, Wei Feng, Yunxia Hu, Arvind Dasgupta, Yimo Han, Yuan Wang, David A Muller, Lane W Martin, PingAn Hu, Xiang Zhang, “Intrinsic Two-Dimensional Ferroelectricity with Dipole Locking”, Physical Review Letters, 120(22), 227601 (2018).

[News] Stable and switchable electric polarization in two dimensions (Nature News & Views)
[Highlight] Selected as Physical Review Letters Editors’ Suggestion

David B Litt, Matthew R Jones, Mario Hentschel, Ying Wang, Sui Yang, Hyun Dong Ha, Xiang Zhang, A Paul Alivisatos, “Hybrid Lithographic and DNA-Directed Assembly of a Configurable Plasmonic Metamaterial That Exhibits Electromagnetically Induced Transparency”, Nano Letters, 18(2), 859-864 (2018).

Ying Wang*, Jun Xiao*, Hanyu Zhu, Yao Li, Yousif Alsaid, King Yan Fong, Yao Zhou, Siqi Wang, Wu Shi, Yuan Wang, Alex Zettl, Evan J Reed, Xiang Zhang, “Structural phase transition in monolayer MoTe2 driven by electrostatic doping”, Nature, 550, 487–491 (2017).

[News] Injecting electrons jolts 2-D structure into new atomic pattern (EurekAlert! / NSF / DOE release) & Electron Injection Transforms a Thin Film (DOE Office of Science Highlight)

Kedar Hippalgaonkar*, Ying Wang*, Yu Ye*, Diana Y Qiu, Hanyu Zhu, Yuan Wang, Joel Moore, Steven G Louie, Xiang Zhang, “High thermoelectric power factor in two-dimensional crystals of MoS2”, Physical Review B, 95(11), 115407 (2017).

Jun Xiao, Ziliang Ye, Ying Wang, Hanyu Zhu, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, “Nonlinear optical selection rule based on valley-exciton locking in monolayer WS2”, Light: Science & Applications, 4, e366 (2015).

Jun Xiao*, Ying Wang*, Z. Hua, X. Wang, C. Zhang, M. Xiao, “Carrier multiplication in semiconductor nanocrystals detected by energy transfer to organic dye molecules”, Nature Communications, 3, 1170 (2012).