Yang Shengyuan

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Material Science,Electronics Engineering,Quantum Physics, Optics, Photonics

Pillar / Cluster: Engineering Product Development

 

 

Key Publications

  • Ying Liu, S. A. Yang, and Fan Zhang, “Circular dichroism and radial Hall effects in topological materials,” Phys. Rev. B 97, 035153 (2018).
  • Si Li, Ying Liu, Shan-Shan Wang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Shan Guan, Xian-Lei Sheng, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Nonsymmorphic-symmetry-protected hourglass Dirac loop, nodal line, and Dirac point in bulk and monolayer X3SiTe6 (X=Ta, Nb),” Phys. Rev. B 97, 045131 (2018).
  • Weikang Wu, Bo Tai, Shan Guan, S. A. Yang, and Gang Zhang, “Hybrid Structures and Strain-Tunable Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanothreads,” J. Phys. Chem. C, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11549.
  • Pei Yang, Lijie Shi, Jian-Min Zhang, Gui-Bin Liu, S. A. Yang, Wei Guo, and Yugui Yao, “Tuning to the Band Gap by Complex Defects Engineering: Insights from Hybrid Functionals Calculations in CuInS2,” Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 51, 025105 (2018).
  • Weikang Wu, Ying Liu, Si Li, Chengyong Zhong, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Yu Xin Zhao, and S. A. Yang, “Nodal surface semimetals: Theory and material realization,” arXiv:1712.09773.
  • Shan Guan, Chang Liu, Yunhao Lu, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Tunable ferroelectricity and anisotropic electric transport in monolayer β-GeSe,” arXiv:1712.04265.
  • Shan-Shan Wang, Ying Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, and S. A. Yang, “Hourglass Dirac Chain Metal in Rhenium Dioxide,” Nature Communications 8, 1844 (2017).
  • Peng Li, Yan Wen, Xin He, Qiang Zhang, Chuan Xia, Zhi-Ming Yu, S. A. Yang, Zhiyong Zhu, Husam N. Alshareef, and Xi-Xiang Zhang, “Evidence for topological type-II Weyl semimetal WTe2,” Nature Communications 8, 2150 (2017).
  • Yunwei Zhang, Weikang Wu, Yanchao Wang, S. A. Yang, and Yanming Ma, “Pressure-Stabilized Semiconducting Electrides in Alkaline-Earth Metal Subnitrides,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139, 13798 (2017).
  • Yee Sin Ang, S. A. Yang, Chao Zhang, Zhongshui Ma, and Lay Kee Ang, “Valleytronics in merging Dirac cones: All-electric-controlled valley filter, valve and universal reversible logic gate,” Phys. Rev. B 96, 245410 (2017).
  • Zhi-Ming Yu, Ying Liu, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Unconventional pairing induced anomalous transverse shift in Andreev reflection,” arXiv:1708.06915.
  • Shan Guan, Ying Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, Shan-Shan Wang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Two-dimensional spin-orbit Dirac point in monolayer HfGeTe,” Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 054003 (2017).
  • Chengcheng Xiao, Fang Wang, S. A. Yang, and Yunhao Lu, “Ferroelectricity and Antiferroelectricity in Elemental Group-V Monolayer Materials,” arXiv:1706.05629.
  • Cong Chen, Shan-Shan Wang, Lei Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Ziyu Chen, and S. A. Yang, “Ternary wurtzite CaAgBi materials family: A playground for essential and accidental, type-I and type-II Dirac fermions,” Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 044201 (2017).
  • Ying Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, and S. A. Yang, “Transverse Shift in Andreev Reflection,” Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. 96, 121101 (2017).
  • Pei Yang, Bo Tai, Weikang Wu, Jian-Min Zhang, Feng Wang, Shan Guan, Wei Guo, Yunhao Lu, and S. A. Yang, “Tailoring lanthanide doping in perovskite CaTiO3 for luminescence applications,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 16189 (2017).
  • Chengyong Zhong, Yuanping Chen, Zhi-Ming Yu, Yuee Xie, Han Wang, S. A. Yang, and Shengbai Zhang, “Three-dimensional Pentagon Carbon with a genesis of emergent fermions,” Nature Communications 8, 15641 (2017).
  • Linfeng Sun, Xiaoming Zhang, Fucai Liu, Youde Shen, Xiaofeng Fan, Shoujun Zheng, John T. L. Thong, Zheng Liu, S. A. Yang, and Hui Ying Yang, “Vacuum level dependent photoluminescence in chemical vapor deposition-grown monolayer MoS2,” Scientific Reports 7, 16714 (2017).
  • Xiaoming Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, Hui Ying Yang, and S. A. Yang, “Coexistence of four-band nodal rings and triply-degenerate nodal points in centrosymmetric metal diborides,” Phys. Rev. B 95, 235116 (2017).
  • Shan Guan, Zhi-Ming Yu, Ying Liu, Gui-Bin Liu, Liang Dong, Yunhao Lu, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Artificial gravity field, astrophysical analogues, and topological phase transitions in strained topological semimetals,” npj Quantum Materials 2, 23 (2017).
  • Si Li, Zhi-Ming Yu, Ying Liu, Shan Guan, Shan-Shan Wang, Xiaoming Zhang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Type-II nodal loops: Theory and material realization,” Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. 96, 081106 (2017).
  • Can Yesilyurt, Zhuo Bin Siu, Seng Ghee Tan, Gengchiau Liang, S. A. Yang, and Mansoor B. A. Jalil, “Anomalous tunneling characteristic of Weyl semimetals with tilted energy dispersion,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 063101 (2017).
  • Tay-Rong Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Daniel S. Sanchez, Wei-Feng Tsai, Shin-Ming Huang, Guoqing Chang, Chuang-Han Hsu, Guang Bian, Ilya Belopolski, Zhi-Ming Yu, S. A. Yang, Titus Neupert, Horng-Tay Jeng, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan, “Type-II Symmetry-Protected Topological Dirac Semimetals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 026404 (2017).
  • Yang Gao, S. A. Yang, and Qian Niu, “Intrinsic relative magnetoconductivity of nonmagnetic metals,” Phys. Rev. B 95, 165135 (2017).
  • Shengli Zhang, Wenhan Zhou, Yandong Ma, Jianping Ji, Bo Cai, S. A. Yang, Zhen Zhu, Zhongfang Chen, and Haibo Zeng, “Antimonene Oxides: Emerging Tunable Direct Bandgap Semiconductor and Novel Topological Insulator,” Nano Lett. 17, 3434 (2017).
  • Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Shin-Ming Huang, Daniel S. Sanchez, Chuang-Han Hsu, Guang Bian, Zhi-Ming Yu, Ilya Belopolski, Nasser Alidoust, Hao Zheng, Tay-Rong Chang, Horng-Tay Jeng, S. A. Yang, Titus Neupert, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan, “Nexus fermions in topological symmorphic crystalline metals,” Scientific Reports 7, 1688 (2017).
  • Shan Guan, Shao Ying Huang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Tunable hyperbolic dispersion and negative refraction in natural electride materials,” Phys. Rev. B 95, 165436 (2017).
  • Xian-Lei Sheng, Zhi-Ming Yu, Rui Yu, Hongming Weng, and S. A. Yang, “d-Orbital Topological Insulator and Semimetal in Antifluorite Cu2S Family: Contrasting Spin Helicities, Nodal Box, and Hybrid Surface States,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 3506 (2017).
  • Chengcheng Xiao, Fang Wang, Yao Wang, S. A. Yang, Jianzhong Jiang, Ming Yang, Yunhao Lu, Shijie Wang, and Yuanping Feng, “Layer-dependent semiconductor-metal transition of SnO/Si(001) heterostructure and device application,” Scientific Reports 7, 2570 (2017).
  • Sai Gong, Wenhui Wan, Shan Guan, Bo Tai, Chang Liu, Botao Fu, S. A. Yang, and Yugui Yao, “Tunable Half-metallic Magnetism in Atom-thin Holey Two-dimensional C2N Monolayer,” J. Mater. Chem. C 5, 8424 (2017).
  • Yafei Ren, Ke Wang, Xinzhou Deng, S. A. Yang, Jeil Jung, and Zhenhua Qiao, “Gate tunable current partition in graphene based topological zero lines,” Phys. Rev. B 95, 245420 (2017).
  • Fang Wang, Zhaohui Ren, He Tian, S. A. Yang, Yanwu Xie, Yunhao Lu, Jianzhong Jiang, Gaorong Han, and Kesong Yang, “Interfacial Multiferroics of TiO2/PbTiO3Heterostructure Driven by Ferroelectric Polarization Discontinuity,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 9, 1899 (2017).
  • Liyan Zhu, Shan-Shan Wang, Shan Guan, Ying Liu, Tingting Zhang, Guibin Chen, and S. A. Yang, “Blue Phosphorene Oxide: Strain-tunable Quantum Phase Transitions and Novel 2D Emergent Fermions,” Nano Lett. 16, 6548 (2016).
  • Xiaoming Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Shan-Shan Wang, Shan Guan, Hui Ying Yang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Theoretical prediction of MoN2 monolayer as a high capacity electrode material for metal ion batteries,” J. Mater. Chem. A 4, 15224 (2016).
  • S. A. Yang, “Dirac and Weyl Materials: Fundamental Aspects and Some Spintronics Applications,” SPIN 06, 1640003 (2016) (Invited Review); arXiv:1609.06482.
  • Fuming Chen, Lu Guo, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhi Yi Leong, S. A. Yang, and Hui Ying Yang, “Nitrogen-doped graphene oxide for effectively removing boron ions from seawater,” Nanoscale 9, 326 (2017).
  • Fangfang Tu, Junping Hu, Jian Xie, Gaoshao Cao, Shichao Zhang, S. A. Yang, Xinbing Zhao, and Hui Ying Yang, “Au-Decorated Cracked Carbon Tube Arrays as Binder-Free Catalytic Cathode Enabling Guided Li2O2 Inner Growth for High-Performance Li-O2 Batteries,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 7725 (2016). 
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  • Xiaoming Zhang, Junping Hu, Yingchun Cheng, Hui Ying Yang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Borophene as an extremely high capacity electrode material for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries,” Nanoscale 8, 15340 (2016).
  • Zhi-Ming Yu, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Predicted Unusual Magnetoresponse in Type-II Weyl Semimetals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 077202 (2016).
  • Zhenhua Qiao, Yulei Han, Lei Zhang, Ke Wang, Xinzhou Deng, Hua Jiang, S. A. Yang, Jian Wang, and Qian Niu, “Anderson Localization from Berry-Curvature Interchange in Quantum Anomalous Hall Systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056802 (2016).
  • Yao Wang, Shan-Shan Wang, Yunhao Lu, Jianzhong Jiang, and S. A. Yang, “Strain-Induced Isostructural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Monolayer MoN2,” Nano Lett. 16, 4576 (2016).
  • Yunhao Lu, Di Zhou, Guoqing Chang, Shan Guan, Weiguang Chen, Yinzhu Jiang, Jianzhong Jiang, Xue-sen Wang, S. A. Yang, Yuan Ping Feng, and Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Hsin Lin, “Multiple Unpinned Dirac Fermion States in 2D Materials with Phosphorene Lattice Structure,” npj Computational Materials 2, 16011 (2016).
  • Junping Hu, Bo Xu, Chuying Ouyang, Ying Zhang, and S. A. Yang, “Investigations on Nb2C monolayer as promising anode material for Li or non-Li ion batteries from first-principles calculations,” RSC Advances 6, 27467 (2016).
  • Chengyong Zhong, Yuanping Chen, Yuee Xie, S. A. Yang, Marvin L. Cohen, and Shengbai Zhang, “Towards Three-Dimensional Weyl-Surface Semimetals in Graphene Networks,” Nanoscale 8, 7232 (2016).
  • Yunhao Lu, Di Zhou, Tao Wang, S. A. Yang, and Jianzhong Jiang, “Topological Properties of Atomic Lead Film with Honeycomb Structure,” Scientific Reports 6, 21723 (2016).
  • Qingyun Zhang, S. A. Yang, Wenbo Mi, Yingchun Cheng, and Udo Schwingenschlögl, “Large Spin-Valley Polarization in Monolayer MoTe2 on Top of EuO(111),” Advanced Materials 28, 959 (2016).
  • Xianbo Xiao, Ying Liu, Zhengfang Liu, Guoping Ai, S. A. Yang, and Guanghui Zhou, “All-electric spin modulator based on a two-dimensional topological insulator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 032403 (2016).
  • Shan Guan, Yingchun Cheng, Chang Liu, Junfeng Han, Yunhao Lu, S. A. Yang, and Yugui Yao, “Effects of strain on electronic and optic properties of holey two-dimensional C2N crystals,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 231904 (2015).
  • Gang Liu, Shi-Bing Liu, Bo Xu, Chuying Ouyang, H. Y. Song, Shan Guan, and S. A. Yang, “Multiple Dirac Points and Hydrogenation-Induced Magnetism of Germanene Layer on Al (111) Surface,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 4936 (2015).
  • Junping Hu, Bo Xu, S. A. Yang, Shan Guan, Chuying Ouyang, and Yugui Yao, “2D Electrides as Promising Anode Materials for Na-Ion Batteries from First-Principles Study,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 24016 (2015).
  • Liyan Zhu, Tingting Zhang, Ziming Sun, Jianhua Li, Guibin Chen, and S. A. Yang, “Thermal conductivity of biaxial-strained MoS2: sensitive strain dependence and size dependent reduction rate,” Nanotechnology 26, 465707 (2015).
  • Yuanping Chen, Yuee Xie, S. A. Yang, Hui Pan, Fan Zhang, Marvin L. Cohen, and Shengbai Zhang, “Nanostructured Carbon Allotropes with Weyl-like Loops and Points,” Nano Lett. 15, 6974 (2015).
  • S. A. Yang, Hui Pan, and Fan Zhang, “Chirality-dependent Hall Effect in Weyl Semimetals,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 156603 (2015).
  • Hui Pan, Meimei Wu, Ying Liu, and S. A. Yang, “Electric control of topological phase transitions in Dirac semimetal thin films,” Scientific Reports 5, 14639 (2015).
  • S. A. Yang, Hui Pan, and Fan Zhang, “Buckled honeycomb lattice and unconventional magnetic response,” RSC Advances 5, 83350 (2015).
  • Shan Guan, S. A. Yang, Liyan Zhu, Junping Hu, Yugui Yao, “Electronic, Dielectric, and Plasmonic Properties of Two-Dimensional Electride Materials X2N (X=Ca, Sr): A First-Principles Study,” Scientific Reports 5, 12285 (2015).
  • Hui Pan, Xin Li, Fan Zhang, and S. A. Yang, “Perfect valley filter in a topological domain wall,” Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. 92, 041404(R) (2015).
  • Dazhi Hou, Gang Su, Yuan Tian, Xiaofeng Jin, S. A. Yang, and Qian Niu, “Multivariable Scaling for the Anomalous Hall Effect,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 217203 (2015).
  • Yang Gao, S. A. Yang, and Qian Niu, “Geometrical effects in orbital magnetic susceptibility,” Phys. Rev. B 91, 214405 (2015).
  • Xianbo Xiao, S. A. Yang, Zhengfang Liu, Huili Li, and Guanghui Zhou, “Anisotropic Quantum Confinement Effect and Electric Control of Surface States in Dirac Semimetal Nanostructures,” Scientific Reports 5, 7898 (2015).
  • Hui Pan, Xin Li, Hua Jiang, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Valley-polarized quantum anomalous Hall phase and disorder-induced valley-filtered chiral edge channels,” Phys. Rev. B 91, 045404 (2015).
  • Hui Pan, Xin Li, Zhenhua Qiao, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Yugui Yao, and S. A. Yang, “Topological metallic phases in spin–orbit coupled bilayer systems,” New J. Phys. 16, 123015 (2014).
  • Junping Hu, Bo Xu, Chuying Ouyang, S. A. Yang, and Yugui Yao, “Investigations on V2C and V2CX2 (X=F, OH) Monolayer as a Promising Anode Material for Li Ion Batteries from First-Principles Calculations,” J. Phys. Chem. C 118(42), 24274 (2014).
  • Cheng-Cheng Liu, Shan Guan, Zhigang Song, S. A. Yang, Jinbo Yang, and Yugui Yao, “Low-energy effective Hamiltonian for giant-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in honeycomb X-hydride/halide (X=N–Bi) monolayers,” Phys. Rev. B 90, 085431 (2014).
  • S. A. Yang, Hui Pan, and Fan Zhang, “Dirac and Weyl Superconductors in Three Dimensions,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 046401 (2014).
  • Yang Gao, S. A. Yang, and Qian Niu, “Field Induced Positional Shift of Bloch Electrons and Its Dynamical Implications,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 166601 (2014).
  • Jin-Jian Zhou, Wanxiang Feng, Ying Zhang, S. A. Yang, and Yugui Yao, “Engineering Topological Surface States and Giant Rashba Spin Splitting in BiTeI/Bi2Te3Heterostructures,” Scientific Reports 4, 3841 (2014).
  • Tianyi Cai, S. A. Yang, Xiao Li, Fan Zhang, Junren Shi, Wang Yao, and Qian Niu, “Magnetic control of the valley degree of freedom of massive Dirac fermions with application to transition metal dichalcogenides,” Phys. Rev. B 88, 115140 (2013).
  • Guobao Zhu, S. A. Yang, Cheng Fang, Wu Ming Liu, and Yugui Yao, “Theory of orbital magnetization in disordered systems,” Phys. Rev. B 86, 214415 (2012).
  • S. A. Yang, Zhenhua Qiao, Yugui Yao, Junren Shi, and Qian Niu, “Singular effects of spin-flip scattering on gapped Dirac fermions,” Europhys. Lett. 95, 67001 (2011).
  • S. A. Yang, Hui Pan, Yugui Yao, and Qian Niu, “Scattering universality classes of side jump in anomalous Hall effect,” Phys. Rev. B 83, 125122 (2011).
  • Zhenhua Qiao, S. A. Yang, Bin Wang, Yugui Yao, and Qian Niu, “Spin-polarized and valley-associated edge modes in graphene nanoribbons,” Phys. Rev. B 84, 035431 (2011).
  • S. A. Yang, Qian Niu, D. A. Pesin, and Allan H. MacDonald, “Theory of I-V characteristics of magnetic Josephson junctions,” Phys. Rev. B 82, 184402 (2010).
  • S. A. Yang, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Carl Knutson, Di Xiao, Zhenyu Zhang, Maxim Tsoi, Qian Niu, Allan H. MacDonald, and James L. Erskine, “Topological electromotive force from domain-wall dynamics in a ferromagnet,” Phys. Rev. B 82, 054410 (2010).
  • Zhenhua Qiao, S. A. Yang, Wanxiang Feng, Wong-Kong Tse, Jun Ding, Yugui Yao, Jian Wang, and Qian Niu, “Quantum anomalous Hall effect in graphene from Rashba and exchange effects,” Phys. Rev. B Rapid Comm. 82, 161414(R) (2010).
  • S. A. Yang, Xiaoqin Li, A. D. Bristow, and J. E. Sipe, “Second harmonic generation from tetragonal centrosymmetric crystals,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 165306 (2009).
  • Wang Yao, S. A. Yang, and Qian Niu, “Edge States in Graphene: From Gapped Flat-Band to Gapless Chiral Modes,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 096801 (2009).
  • S. A. Yang, Geoffrey S. D. Beach, Carl Knutson, Di Xiao, Qian Niu, Maxim Tsoi, and James L. Erskine, “Universal Electromotive Force Induced by Domain Wall Motion,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 067201 (2009).
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