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Publications

*The list contains only the publications affiliating HKU (Physics) or publications by members of our departments (sorted by publication year and the name of the Journal).

Electrical Control of Second-Harmonic Generation in a WSe2 Monolayer Transistor

K.L. Seyler, J.R. Schaibley, P. Gong, P. Rivera, A.M. Jones, S.F. Wu, J.Q. Yan, D.G. Mandrus, W. Yao, X.D. Xu

Nature Nanotechnology, Vol.10(5), 407-411, 2015

Single Quantum Emitters in Monolayer Semiconductors

Y.M. He, G. Clark, J.R. Schaibley, Y. He, M.C. Chen, Y.J. Wei, X. Ding, Q. Zhang, W. Yao, X.D. Xu, C.Y. Lu, J.W. Pan

Nature Nanotechnology, Vol.10(6), 497-502, 2015

Magnetic Control of Valley Pseudospin in Monolayer WSe2

G. Aivazian, Z.R. Gong, A.M. Jones, R.L. Chu, J. Yan, D.G. Mandrus, C.W. Zhang, D.H. Cobden, W. Yao, X.D. Xu

Nature Physics, Vol.11( 2), 148-152, 2015

Excitons: Molecules in Flatland

W. Yao

Nature Physics, Vol.11( 6), 448-449, 2015

Gate-Tunable Topological Valley Transport in Bilayer Graphene

M.Q. Sui, G.R. Chen, L.G. Ma, W.Y. Shan, D. Tian, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X.F. Jin, W. Yao, D. Xiao, Y.B. Zhang

Nature Physics, Vol.11(12), 1027-1032, 2015

Monolayer Semiconductor Nanocavity Lasers with Ultralow Thresholds

Publications in Nature

S.F. Wu, S. Buckley, J.R. Schaibley, L.F. Feng, J.Q. Yan, D.G. Mandrus, F. Hatami, W. Yao, J. Vučković, A. Majumdar, X.D. Xu

Nature, Vol.520, 69-72, 2015