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Journal Articles
Recent Highlights (2019-2020):
( * = corresponding author)
Near-field signal calculator! (Project in progress, contact Dr. Liu for more detail or need further help with the modeling & calculation)
Yanxing Li, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu* [link]
Moiré Engineering of Electronic Phenomena in Correlated Oxides
Xinzhong Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Lin Li*, Nan Zhang, Zhijing Niu, Tengfei Guo, Suheng Xu, Han Xu, Dongli Wang, Huayang Zhang, A. S. McLeod, Zhenlin Luo, Qingyou Lu, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov*, Mengkun Liu*, Changgan Zeng* (2019) arXiv:1907.11566 accepted in Nature Physics.
THz near-field imaging of extreme subwavelength metal structures
Xinzhong Chen±, Xiao Liu±, Xiangdong Guo, Shu Chen, Hai Hu, Elizaveta Nikulina, Ziheng Yao, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. L. Carr, Qing Dai*, Songlin Zhuang, Qing Hu, Yiming Zhu*, Rainer Hillenbrand, Mengkun Liu*, Guanjun You* (2019), accepted by ACS Photonics Link.
Chiral terahertz wave emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs
Y. Gao, Y. Qin, Sahal Kaushik, Evan J. Philip, Y. P. Liu, Y. L. Su, X. Chen, Z. Li, H. Weng, Dmitri E. Kharzeev*, M. K. Liu*, J. Qi*
arXiv:1901.00986v3 Nature Communications 11, 720 (2020). Link
Photo-induced Terahertz Near-field Dynamics of Graphene/InAs Heterostructures
Ziheng Yao, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Jiawei Zhang, Scott Mills, Xiaoguang Zhao, Xinzhong Chen, Hai Hu, Ryan Mescall, Thomas Ciavatti, Stephen March, Seth R. Bank, Hu Tao6, Xin Zhang, Vasili Perebeinos, Qing Dai, Xu Du, Mengkun Liu*, Optics Express 27, 13611 (2019) Link [pdf]
Nano-resolved current-induced insulator-metal transition in the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
Jiawei Zhang, Alexander. S. McLeod, Qiang Han, Xinzhong Chen, Hans A. Bechtel, Ziheng Yao, S. N. Gilbert Corder, Thomas Ciavatti, Hu (Tiger) Tao, Meigan Aronson, G. L. Carr, Michael C. Martin, Chanchal Sow, Shingo Yonezawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ichiro Terasaki, D. N. Basov, Andrew J. Millis*, Yoshiteru Maeno*, Mengkun Liu*, Physical Review X 9, 011032 (2019) Link [pdf]
Yanxing Li, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu* [link]
Moiré Engineering of Electronic Phenomena in Correlated Oxides
Xinzhong Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Lin Li*, Nan Zhang, Zhijing Niu, Tengfei Guo, Suheng Xu, Han Xu, Dongli Wang, Huayang Zhang, A. S. McLeod, Zhenlin Luo, Qingyou Lu, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov*, Mengkun Liu*, Changgan Zeng* (2019) arXiv:1907.11566 accepted in Nature Physics.
THz near-field imaging of extreme subwavelength metal structures
Xinzhong Chen±, Xiao Liu±, Xiangdong Guo, Shu Chen, Hai Hu, Elizaveta Nikulina, Ziheng Yao, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. L. Carr, Qing Dai*, Songlin Zhuang, Qing Hu, Yiming Zhu*, Rainer Hillenbrand, Mengkun Liu*, Guanjun You* (2019), accepted by ACS Photonics Link.
Chiral terahertz wave emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs
Y. Gao, Y. Qin, Sahal Kaushik, Evan J. Philip, Y. P. Liu, Y. L. Su, X. Chen, Z. Li, H. Weng, Dmitri E. Kharzeev*, M. K. Liu*, J. Qi*
arXiv:1901.00986v3 Nature Communications 11, 720 (2020). Link
Photo-induced Terahertz Near-field Dynamics of Graphene/InAs Heterostructures
Ziheng Yao, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Jiawei Zhang, Scott Mills, Xiaoguang Zhao, Xinzhong Chen, Hai Hu, Ryan Mescall, Thomas Ciavatti, Stephen March, Seth R. Bank, Hu Tao6, Xin Zhang, Vasili Perebeinos, Qing Dai, Xu Du, Mengkun Liu*, Optics Express 27, 13611 (2019) Link [pdf]
Nano-resolved current-induced insulator-metal transition in the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
Jiawei Zhang, Alexander. S. McLeod, Qiang Han, Xinzhong Chen, Hans A. Bechtel, Ziheng Yao, S. N. Gilbert Corder, Thomas Ciavatti, Hu (Tiger) Tao, Meigan Aronson, G. L. Carr, Michael C. Martin, Chanchal Sow, Shingo Yonezawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ichiro Terasaki, D. N. Basov, Andrew J. Millis*, Yoshiteru Maeno*, Mengkun Liu*, Physical Review X 9, 011032 (2019) Link [pdf]
Full Publication List
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2020
68. Moiré Engineering of Electronic Phenomena in Correlated Oxides
Xinzhong Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Lin Li*, Nan Zhang, Zhijing Niu, Tengfei Guo, Suheng Xu, Han Xu, Dongli Wang, Huayang Zhang, A. S. McLeod, Zhenlin Luo, Qingyou Lu, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov*, Mengkun Liu*, Changgan Zeng* arXiv:1907.11566, Nature Physics, accepted.
67. A Rewritable Optical Storage Medium of Silk Proteins Using Near-field Nano-optics
Woonsoo Lee, † Zhitao Zhou,†* Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu,* Tiger H. Tao, Wei Li*, under review in Nature Nanotechnology.
66. THz near-field imaging of extreme subwavelength metal structures
Xinzhong Chen±, Xiao Liu±, Xiangdong Guo, Shu Chen, Hai Hu, Elizaveta Nikulina, Ziheng Yao, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. L. Carr, Qing Dai*, Songlin Zhuang, Qing Hu, Yiming Zhu*, Rainer Hillenbrand, Mengkun Liu*, Guanjun You* accepted by ACS Photonics. Link
65. Chiral terahertz wave emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs
Y. Gao, Y. Qin, Sahal Kaushik, Evan J. Philip, Y. P. Liu, Y. L. Su, X. Chen, Z. Li, H. Weng, Dmitri E. Kharzeev*, M. K. Liu*, J. Qi*
arXiv:1901.00986v3 Nature Communications 11, 720 (2020). Link
Xinzhong Chen, Xiaodong Fan, Lin Li*, Nan Zhang, Zhijing Niu, Tengfei Guo, Suheng Xu, Han Xu, Dongli Wang, Huayang Zhang, A. S. McLeod, Zhenlin Luo, Qingyou Lu, Andrew J. Millis, D. N. Basov*, Mengkun Liu*, Changgan Zeng* arXiv:1907.11566, Nature Physics, accepted.
67. A Rewritable Optical Storage Medium of Silk Proteins Using Near-field Nano-optics
Woonsoo Lee, † Zhitao Zhou,†* Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu,* Tiger H. Tao, Wei Li*, under review in Nature Nanotechnology.
66. THz near-field imaging of extreme subwavelength metal structures
Xinzhong Chen±, Xiao Liu±, Xiangdong Guo, Shu Chen, Hai Hu, Elizaveta Nikulina, Ziheng Yao, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. L. Carr, Qing Dai*, Songlin Zhuang, Qing Hu, Yiming Zhu*, Rainer Hillenbrand, Mengkun Liu*, Guanjun You* accepted by ACS Photonics. Link
65. Chiral terahertz wave emission from the Weyl semimetal TaAs
Y. Gao, Y. Qin, Sahal Kaushik, Evan J. Philip, Y. P. Liu, Y. L. Su, X. Chen, Z. Li, H. Weng, Dmitri E. Kharzeev*, M. K. Liu*, J. Qi*
arXiv:1901.00986v3 Nature Communications 11, 720 (2020). Link
2019
64. Ultrabroadband infrared near-field spectroscopy and imaging of local resonators in percolative gold films
Xinzhong Chen, Jiawei Zhang, Ziheng Yao, Hans Bechtel, Michael Martin, Larry Carr, and Mengkun Liu*, JOSA B 36 (12), 3315-3321 (2019). Link [pdf]
63. A Multibeam Interference Model for Analyzing Complex Near-Field Images of Polaritons in 2D van der Waals Microstructures
Baoxin Liao, Xiangdong Guo, Debo Hu, Feng Zhai, Hai Hu, Ke Chen, Chen Luo, Mengkun Liu, Xiaoxia Yang,* and Qing Dai*, Advanced Functional Materials, 1904662 (2019). Link [pdf]
62. Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy of Polaritons with Time Resolved s-SNOM
Ziheng Yao, Suheng Xu, Debo Hu, Xinzhong Chen, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Advanced Optical Materials 1901042 (2019). Link [pdf]
61. Simultaneous scanning near-field optical and X-ray diffraction microscopy for correlative nanoscale structure–property characterization
Qian Li, Samuel D. Marks, Sunil Bean, Michael Fisher, Donald A. Walko, Anthony D. DiChiara, Xinzhong Chen, Keiichiro Imura, Noriaki K. Sato,
Mengkun Liu, Paul G. Evans and Haidan Wen, J. Synchrotron Rad. 26 (2019). Link [pdf]
60. Structural, transport, and ultrafast dynamic properties of V1-xNbxO2 thin films
Yuhan Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Yue Ni, Xinzhong Chen, Ryan Mescall, Tamara Isaacs-Smith, Ryan B. Comes, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Stuart A. Wolf, Jiwei Lu*, and Mengkun Liu*, Phys. Rev. B 99, 245129 (2019). Link [pdf]
59. Tunable Modal Birefringence in Low-loss van der Waals Waveguide
Debo Hu, Ke Chen, Xinzhong Chen, Xiangdong Guo, Mengkun Liu*, and Qing Dai*, Advanced Materials 1807788 (2019). Link [pdf]
58. Nano-resolved current-induced insulator-metal transition in the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
Jiawei Zhang†, Alexander. S. McLeod†, Qiang Han†, Xinzhong Chen, Hans A. Bechtel, Ziheng Yao, S. N. Gilbert Corder, Thomas Ciavatti, Hu (Tiger) Tao, Meigan Aronson, G. L. Carr, Michael C. Martin, Chanchal Sow, Shingo Yonezawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ichiro Terasaki, D. N. Basov, Andrew J. Millis*, Yoshiteru Maeno*, Mengkun Liu*, Physical Review X, 9, 011032 (2019) Link [pdf]
57. Photo-induced Terahertz Near-field Dynamics of Graphene/InAs Heterostructures
Ziheng Yao, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Jiawei Zhang, Scott Mills, Xiaoguang Zhao, Xinzhong Chen, Hai Hu, Ryan Mescall, Thomas Ciavatti, Stephen March, Seth R. Bank, Hu Tao, Xin Zhang, Vasili Perebeinos, Qing Dai, Xu Du*, Mengkun Liu*, Optics Express 27, 13611 (2019). Link [pdf]
56. Photo-induced charge density distribution in metal surfaces and its extraction with apertureless near-field optics
Chui, S; Chen, Xinzhong; Hu, Debo; Dai, Qing; Hu, Hai; Liu, Mengkun, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 31 24LT01 (2019). Link [pdf]
55. Modern Scattering-Type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope for Advanced Material Research
Xinzhong Chen, Debo Hu, Ryan Mescall, Guanjun You, D. N. Basov*, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Advanced Materials, 1804774 (2019). Link [pdf]
54. Phase change hyperbolic heterostructures for nano-polaritonics: a case study of hBN/VO2
Siyuan Dai*†, Jiawei Zhang†, Qiong Ma, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Alex McLeod, Xinzhong Chen, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiwei Lu, Qing Dai, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mengkun Liu*, D.N. Basov*, Advanced Materials 499, 1900251 (2019). Link [pdf]
Xinzhong Chen, Jiawei Zhang, Ziheng Yao, Hans Bechtel, Michael Martin, Larry Carr, and Mengkun Liu*, JOSA B 36 (12), 3315-3321 (2019). Link [pdf]
63. A Multibeam Interference Model for Analyzing Complex Near-Field Images of Polaritons in 2D van der Waals Microstructures
Baoxin Liao, Xiangdong Guo, Debo Hu, Feng Zhai, Hai Hu, Ke Chen, Chen Luo, Mengkun Liu, Xiaoxia Yang,* and Qing Dai*, Advanced Functional Materials, 1904662 (2019). Link [pdf]
62. Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy of Polaritons with Time Resolved s-SNOM
Ziheng Yao, Suheng Xu, Debo Hu, Xinzhong Chen, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Advanced Optical Materials 1901042 (2019). Link [pdf]
61. Simultaneous scanning near-field optical and X-ray diffraction microscopy for correlative nanoscale structure–property characterization
Qian Li, Samuel D. Marks, Sunil Bean, Michael Fisher, Donald A. Walko, Anthony D. DiChiara, Xinzhong Chen, Keiichiro Imura, Noriaki K. Sato,
Mengkun Liu, Paul G. Evans and Haidan Wen, J. Synchrotron Rad. 26 (2019). Link [pdf]
60. Structural, transport, and ultrafast dynamic properties of V1-xNbxO2 thin films
Yuhan Wang, Jiawei Zhang, Yue Ni, Xinzhong Chen, Ryan Mescall, Tamara Isaacs-Smith, Ryan B. Comes, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Stuart A. Wolf, Jiwei Lu*, and Mengkun Liu*, Phys. Rev. B 99, 245129 (2019). Link [pdf]
59. Tunable Modal Birefringence in Low-loss van der Waals Waveguide
Debo Hu, Ke Chen, Xinzhong Chen, Xiangdong Guo, Mengkun Liu*, and Qing Dai*, Advanced Materials 1807788 (2019). Link [pdf]
58. Nano-resolved current-induced insulator-metal transition in the Mott insulator Ca2RuO4
Jiawei Zhang†, Alexander. S. McLeod†, Qiang Han†, Xinzhong Chen, Hans A. Bechtel, Ziheng Yao, S. N. Gilbert Corder, Thomas Ciavatti, Hu (Tiger) Tao, Meigan Aronson, G. L. Carr, Michael C. Martin, Chanchal Sow, Shingo Yonezawa, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ichiro Terasaki, D. N. Basov, Andrew J. Millis*, Yoshiteru Maeno*, Mengkun Liu*, Physical Review X, 9, 011032 (2019) Link [pdf]
57. Photo-induced Terahertz Near-field Dynamics of Graphene/InAs Heterostructures
Ziheng Yao, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Jiawei Zhang, Scott Mills, Xiaoguang Zhao, Xinzhong Chen, Hai Hu, Ryan Mescall, Thomas Ciavatti, Stephen March, Seth R. Bank, Hu Tao, Xin Zhang, Vasili Perebeinos, Qing Dai, Xu Du*, Mengkun Liu*, Optics Express 27, 13611 (2019). Link [pdf]
56. Photo-induced charge density distribution in metal surfaces and its extraction with apertureless near-field optics
Chui, S; Chen, Xinzhong; Hu, Debo; Dai, Qing; Hu, Hai; Liu, Mengkun, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 31 24LT01 (2019). Link [pdf]
55. Modern Scattering-Type Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope for Advanced Material Research
Xinzhong Chen, Debo Hu, Ryan Mescall, Guanjun You, D. N. Basov*, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Advanced Materials, 1804774 (2019). Link [pdf]
54. Phase change hyperbolic heterostructures for nano-polaritonics: a case study of hBN/VO2
Siyuan Dai*†, Jiawei Zhang†, Qiong Ma, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Alex McLeod, Xinzhong Chen, Stephanie Gilbert Corder, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jiwei Lu, Qing Dai, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Mengkun Liu*, D.N. Basov*, Advanced Materials 499, 1900251 (2019). Link [pdf]
2018
53. Terahertz Nano-imaging of graphene
Jiawei Zhang; Xinzhong Chen (co-first author); Scott Mills, Thomas Ciavatti, Ziheng Yao, Ryan Mescall, Hai Hu, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Zhe Fei, Hua, Li, Vasili Perebeinos, Hu Tao, Qing Dai, Xu, Du, Mengkun Liu*, ACS Photonics 5, 7, 2645-2651 (2018) Link [pdf]
52. Ultrafast THz Field Control of Electronic and Structural Interactions in Vanadium Dioxide
A. X. Gray, M. C. Hoffmann, J. Jeong, N. P. Aetukuri, D. Zhu, H. Y. Hwang, N. C. Brandt, H. Wen, A. J. Sternbach, S. Bonetti, A. H. Reid, R. Kukreja, C. Graves, T.
Wang, P. Granitzka, Z. Chen, D. J. Higley, T. Chase, E. Jal, E. Abreu, M. K. Liu, T.-C. Weng, D. Sokaras, D. Nordlund, M. Chollet, R. Alonso-Mori, H. Lemke, J.
M. Glownia, M. Trigo, Y. Zhu, H. Ohldag, J. W. Freeland, M. G. Samant, J. Berakdar, R. D. Averitt, K. A. Nelson, S. S. P. Parkin, H. A. Dürr, Phys. Rev. B 98, 045104 (2018) Link
51. Broadband terahertz generation via the interface inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect
C. Zhou, Y. P. Liu, Z. Wang, S. J. Ma, M. W. Jia, R.Q. Wu, L. Zhou, W. Zhang, M. K. Liu, Y. Z. Wu, J. Qi, arXiv:1804.04765, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 086801 (2018) Link [pdf]
50. Anomalous Nanoscale Opto-Acoustic Phonon Mixing in Nematic Mesogens
Dima Bolmatov, Dmytro Soloviov, Dmitry Zav’yalov, Lewis Sharpnack, Deña, M. Agra-Kooijman, Satyendra Kumar, Jiawei Zhang, Mengkun Liu, and
John Katsaras, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9, 2546-2553 (2018). Link
49. Protein Bricks: 2D and 3D Bio‐Nanostructures with Shape and Function on Demand
Jianjuan Jiang, Shaoqing Zhang, Zhigang Qian, Nan Qin, Wenwen Song, Long Sun, Zhitao Zhou, Zhifeng Shi, Liang Chen, Xinxin Li, Ying Mao, David L. Kaplan, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Xiaoxia Xia, Tiger H. Tao, Advanced Materials, 1705919 (2018). Link [pdf]
48. Multi-color terahertz imaging with hyperspectral metamaterial focal plane arrays
Zhitao Zhou, Tao Zhou,Shaoqing Zhang, Zhifeng Shi, Ying Chen, Wenjian Wan, Xinxin Li, Xinzhong Chen, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Liang Chen, Ying Mao, Juncheng Cao, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Mengkun Liu, Hua Li, Tiger H. Tao, Advanced Science, 1700982 (2018). Link [pdf]
47. Scattering of electromagnetic waves from a cone with conformal mapping: Application to scanning near-field optical microscope
S. T. (Tat) Chui, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Zhifang Lin, Jian Zi, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication), 97, 081406 (R) (2018). Link [pdf]
46. 3D local manipulation of the metal-insulator transition behavior in VO2 thin film by defect-induced lattice engineering
Qi Jia, Jörg Grenzer, Huabing He, Wolfgang Anwand,Yanda Ji, Ye Yuan, Kai Huang, Tiangui You, Wenjie Yu, Wei Ren, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Stefan Facsko, Xi Wang and Xin Ou, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1701268 (2018). Link [pdf]
Jiawei Zhang; Xinzhong Chen (co-first author); Scott Mills, Thomas Ciavatti, Ziheng Yao, Ryan Mescall, Hai Hu, Vyacheslav Semenenko, Zhe Fei, Hua, Li, Vasili Perebeinos, Hu Tao, Qing Dai, Xu, Du, Mengkun Liu*, ACS Photonics 5, 7, 2645-2651 (2018) Link [pdf]
52. Ultrafast THz Field Control of Electronic and Structural Interactions in Vanadium Dioxide
A. X. Gray, M. C. Hoffmann, J. Jeong, N. P. Aetukuri, D. Zhu, H. Y. Hwang, N. C. Brandt, H. Wen, A. J. Sternbach, S. Bonetti, A. H. Reid, R. Kukreja, C. Graves, T.
Wang, P. Granitzka, Z. Chen, D. J. Higley, T. Chase, E. Jal, E. Abreu, M. K. Liu, T.-C. Weng, D. Sokaras, D. Nordlund, M. Chollet, R. Alonso-Mori, H. Lemke, J.
M. Glownia, M. Trigo, Y. Zhu, H. Ohldag, J. W. Freeland, M. G. Samant, J. Berakdar, R. D. Averitt, K. A. Nelson, S. S. P. Parkin, H. A. Dürr, Phys. Rev. B 98, 045104 (2018) Link
51. Broadband terahertz generation via the interface inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect
C. Zhou, Y. P. Liu, Z. Wang, S. J. Ma, M. W. Jia, R.Q. Wu, L. Zhou, W. Zhang, M. K. Liu, Y. Z. Wu, J. Qi, arXiv:1804.04765, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 086801 (2018) Link [pdf]
50. Anomalous Nanoscale Opto-Acoustic Phonon Mixing in Nematic Mesogens
Dima Bolmatov, Dmytro Soloviov, Dmitry Zav’yalov, Lewis Sharpnack, Deña, M. Agra-Kooijman, Satyendra Kumar, Jiawei Zhang, Mengkun Liu, and
John Katsaras, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 9, 2546-2553 (2018). Link
49. Protein Bricks: 2D and 3D Bio‐Nanostructures with Shape and Function on Demand
Jianjuan Jiang, Shaoqing Zhang, Zhigang Qian, Nan Qin, Wenwen Song, Long Sun, Zhitao Zhou, Zhifeng Shi, Liang Chen, Xinxin Li, Ying Mao, David L. Kaplan, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Xiaoxia Xia, Tiger H. Tao, Advanced Materials, 1705919 (2018). Link [pdf]
48. Multi-color terahertz imaging with hyperspectral metamaterial focal plane arrays
Zhitao Zhou, Tao Zhou,Shaoqing Zhang, Zhifeng Shi, Ying Chen, Wenjian Wan, Xinxin Li, Xinzhong Chen, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Liang Chen, Ying Mao, Juncheng Cao, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Mengkun Liu, Hua Li, Tiger H. Tao, Advanced Science, 1700982 (2018). Link [pdf]
47. Scattering of electromagnetic waves from a cone with conformal mapping: Application to scanning near-field optical microscope
S. T. (Tat) Chui, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Zhifang Lin, Jian Zi, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication), 97, 081406 (R) (2018). Link [pdf]
46. 3D local manipulation of the metal-insulator transition behavior in VO2 thin film by defect-induced lattice engineering
Qi Jia, Jörg Grenzer, Huabing He, Wolfgang Anwand,Yanda Ji, Ye Yuan, Kai Huang, Tiangui You, Wenjie Yu, Wei Ren, Xinzhong Chen, Mengkun Liu, Stefan Facsko, Xi Wang and Xin Ou, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1701268 (2018). Link [pdf]
2017
45. Near-Field Spectroscopic Investigation of Dual-Band Heavy Fermion Metamaterials
Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Xinzhong Chen, Shaoqing Zhang, Fengrui Hu, Jiawei Zhang, Yilong Luan, Jack A. Logan, Thomas Ciavatti, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, Meigan Aronson, Hiroyuki S. Suzuki, Shin-ichi Kimura, Takuya Iizuka, Zhe Fei, Keiichiro Imura, Noriaki K. Sato, Tiger H. Tao, and Mengkun Liu*, Nature Communications 8, 2262 (2017). Link [pdf]
44. Rigorous numerical modeling of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy
Xinzhong Chen, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, William Zheng, Hai Hu, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Applied Physics Letters. 111, 223110 (2017). Link [pdf]
43. Nanoscale Electrodynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials
M. K. Liu*, A. J. Sternbach, D. N. Basov*, Reports on Progress in Physics 80, 014501 (2017) Link [pdf]
42. Controlling phase separation in vanadium dioxide thin films via substrate engineering
Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Jianjuan Jiang, Xinzhong Chen, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, I-Cheng Tung, Yi Zhu, Jiawei Zhang, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. Lawrence Carr, Jiwei Lu, Stuart A. Wolf, Haidan Wen*, Tiger Hu Tao*, Mengkun Liu*, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication), 96, 161110(R) (2017). Link [pdf]
41. Probing optical anisotropy of nanometer-thin van der Waals microcrystals by near-field imaging
Debo Hu, Xiaoxia Yang, Chi Li, Ruina Liu, Ziheng Yao, Hai Hu, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Jianing Chen, Zhipei Sun, Mengkun Liu*, Qing Dai*, Nature Communications 8, 1471 (2017). Link [pdf]
40. Ultrafast Electron-Lattice Coupling Dynamics in VO2 and V2O3 Thin Films
Elsa Abreu, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder (co-first author), Sun Jin Yun, Siming Wang, Juan Gabriel Ramirez, Kevin West, Jingdi Zhang, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, Ivan K. Schuller, Jiwei Lu, Stuart A. Wolf, Hyun-Tak Kim, Mengkun Liu*, and Richard D. Averitt*, Phys. Rev. B 96, 094309 (2017). Link [pdf]
39. Artifact free time resolved near-field spectroscopy
A. J. Sternbach, J. Hinton, T. Slusar, A. S. Mcleod, M. K. Liu, A. Frenzel, M. Wagner, R. Iraheta, F. Keilmann, A. Leitenstorfer, M. Fogler, H.-T. Kim, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov, Optics Express 25, 28589 (2017) . Link [pdf]
38. Nanotextured phase coexistence in the correlated insulator V2O3
A. S. McLeod, E. van Heumen, J. G. Ramirez, S. Wang, T. Saerbeck, S. Guenon, M. Goldflam, L. Anderegg, P. Kelly, A. Mueller, M. K. Liu, Ivan K. Schuller, D. N. Basov, Nature Physics, 13, 80–86 (2017) Link
37. The Use of Functionalized Silk Fibroin Films as a Platform for Optical Diffraction-Based Sensing Applications
Z. Zhou, Z. Shi, X. Cai, S. Zhang, S. G. Corder, X. Li, Y. Zhang, G. Zhang, L. Chen, M. K. Liu, D. Kaplan, F. Omenetto, Y. Mao, Z. Tao, T. H. Tao, Advanced Materials, 1605471 (2017) DOI: 10.1002/adma.201605471 Link
36. Efficiency of launching highly confined polaritons by infrared light incident on a hyperbolic material
S. Dai, Q. Ma, Y. Yang, J. Rosenfeld, M. D. Goldflam, A. McLeod, Z. Sun, T. I Andersen, Z. Fei, M. K. Liu, Y, Shao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov. Nano Letters 17, 9, 5285-5290 (2017) Link
35. Precise Protein Photolithography (P3): High Performance Biopatterning Using Silk Fibroin Light Chain as the Resist
Wanpeng Liu, Zhitao Zhou, Shaoqing Zhang, Zhifeng Shi, Justin Tabarini, Woonsoo Lee, Yeshun Zhang, S. N. Gilbert Corder, Xinxin Li, Fei Dong, Liang Cheng, Mengkun Liu, David L. Kaplan, Fiorenzo G. Omenetto, Guozheng Zhang, Ying Mao, Tiger H. Tao, Advanced Science 1700191 (2017) Link
Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Xinzhong Chen, Shaoqing Zhang, Fengrui Hu, Jiawei Zhang, Yilong Luan, Jack A. Logan, Thomas Ciavatti, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, Meigan Aronson, Hiroyuki S. Suzuki, Shin-ichi Kimura, Takuya Iizuka, Zhe Fei, Keiichiro Imura, Noriaki K. Sato, Tiger H. Tao, and Mengkun Liu*, Nature Communications 8, 2262 (2017). Link [pdf]
44. Rigorous numerical modeling of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy and spectroscopy
Xinzhong Chen, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, William Zheng, Hai Hu, Qing Dai*, Mengkun Liu*, Applied Physics Letters. 111, 223110 (2017). Link [pdf]
43. Nanoscale Electrodynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Materials
M. K. Liu*, A. J. Sternbach, D. N. Basov*, Reports on Progress in Physics 80, 014501 (2017) Link [pdf]
42. Controlling phase separation in vanadium dioxide thin films via substrate engineering
Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Jianjuan Jiang, Xinzhong Chen, Salinporn Kittiwatanakul, I-Cheng Tung, Yi Zhu, Jiawei Zhang, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, G. Lawrence Carr, Jiwei Lu, Stuart A. Wolf, Haidan Wen*, Tiger Hu Tao*, Mengkun Liu*, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication), 96, 161110(R) (2017). Link [pdf]
41. Probing optical anisotropy of nanometer-thin van der Waals microcrystals by near-field imaging
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