Congratulations to Chunhao Guo, Kejun Li and Prof. Yuan Ping for their work in collaboration with Dong Seob Kim, Di Huang, Dario Rocca, Frank Y. Gao, Jeongheon Choe, David Lujan, Edoardo Baldini, Li Yang, Shivani Sharma, Raju Kalivanan, Raman Shankar, Shang-Fan Lee and Xiaoqin Li on “Anisotropic Excitons Reveal Local Spin Chain Directions in a...Read More

Congratulations to Dr. Junqing Xu and Prof. Yuan Ping for their work on “Substrate Effects on Spin Relaxation in Two-Dimensional Dirac Materials with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling”, published in npj Computational Materials!  Link to the published article.  Abstract: Understanding substrate effects on spin dynamics and relaxation in two-dimensional (2D) materials is of key importance for spintronics...Read More

Congratulations to Hiroyuki Takenaka and Tyler J. Smart for their work with Xiangfeng Duan’s group at UCLA on “Photocarrier-induced persistent structural polarization in soft-lattice lead halide perovskites”, published in Nature Nanotechnology!  Link to the published article.  Abstract: The success of the lead halide perovskites in diverse optoelectronics has motivated considerable interest in their fundamental photocarrier...Read More

Congratulations to Mingpeng Chen, Andrew C. Grieder, Tyler J. Smart and Prof. Yuan Ping in collaboration with Kiley Mayford, Samuel McNair, Anica Pinongcos, Samuel Eisenberg, Prof. Frank Bridges and Prof. Yat Li for their work for their work on “The Impacts of Dopants on the Small Polaron Carrier Mobility and Conductivity in Hematite – The...Read More

Congratulations to Xingyu Gao, Sumukh Vaidya, Kejun Li, Peng Ju, Boyang Jiang, Zhujing Xu, Andres E. Llacsahuanga Allcca, Kunhong Shen, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sunil A. Bhave, Yong P. Chen, Yuan Ping, and Tongcang Li for their work for their work on “Nuclear spin polarization and control in a van der Waals material”, published in Nature Materials!  Link...Read More

Congratulations to Kejun Li, Dr. Tyler Smart and Prof. Yuan Ping for their work on “Carbon Trimeras a 2 eV Single-Photon Emitter Candidate in Hexagonal Boron Nitride – A First-Principles Study”, published in Physical Review Materials!  Link to the published article. This work was also selected as Editors’ Suggestion in APS PRM highlight. Abstract: The generation...Read More

Congratulations to Junqing Xu and Prof. Yuan Ping in collaboration with Adela Habib and Prof. Ravishankar Sundararaman for their work on “Ab initio ultrafast spin dynamics in solids”, published in Physical Review B!  Link to the published article. This work was also selected as Featured in Physics and Editors’ Suggestion in APS Physical Reviews, and...Read More

Congratulations to Junqing Xu, Hiroyuki Takenaka, and Prof. Yuan Ping in collaboration with Adela Habib and Prof. Ravishankar Sundararaman for their work on “Giant Spin Lifetime Anisotropy and Spin-Valley Locking in Silicene and Germanene from First-Principles Density-Matrix Dynamics”, published in Nano Letters!  Link to the published article. Abstract: Through first-principles real-time density-matrix (FPDM) dynamics simulations, we...Read More

Congratulations to Tyler J. Smart, Hiroyuki Takenaka and Prof. Yuan Ping in collaboration with Jin Zhang (UCSC), Liang Tan (LBNL), TuanAnh Pham and Tadashi Ogitsu (LLNL) for their work on “Enhancing Defect Tolerance with Ligands at the Surface of Lead Halide Perovskites”, published in J. Phys. Chem. Lett.! Link to the published article. Abstract: High...Read More

Congratulations to Tyler Smart, Valentin Urena Baltazar, Mingpeng Chen and Prof. Ping for their work on “Doping Bottleneck in Hematite: Multipole Clustering by Small Polarons”, published in Chemistry of Materials! Link to the published article. Abstract: Highly effective doping in transition metal oxides is critical to fundamentally overcome low carrier conductivity due to small polaron...Read More