Commentary

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Electrically tunable layer-hybridized trions in doped WSe2 bilayers

    Raul Perea-Causin*, Samuel Brem, Fabian Buchner, Yao Lu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, John M. Lupton, Kai-Qiang Lin*, Ermin Malic*

    Nature Commun. 15, 6713 (2024)

  2. Ultralow-frequency tip-enhanced Raman scattering discovers nanoscale radial breathing mode on strained 2D semiconductors

    Mao-Feng Cao, Xiao-Hui Peng, Xiao-Jiao Zhao, Yi-Fan Bao, Yuan-Hui Xiao, Si-Si Wu, Jun Wang, Yao Lu, Miao Wang, Xiang Wang*, Kai-Qiang Lin*, Bin Ren*

    Adv. Mater. 2405433 (2024)

  3. Ultraviolet interlayer excitons in bilayer WSe2

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Ruven Hübner, Jonas D. Ziegler, Jonas M. Bauer, Fabian Buchner, Matthias Florian, Felix Hofmann, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jaroslav Fabian, Alexander Steinhoff, Alexey Chernikov, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton

    Nature Nanotechnol. 19, 196 (2024)

    This work has been featured in a News and Views article by Nihit Saigal & Ursula Wurstbauer:

    Excitons stabilize above the band gap in bilayer WSe2

    4. Before joining XMU

  4. Crossover from nonthermal to thermal photoluminescence from metals excited by ultrashort light pulses

    Yonatan Sivan*, Ieng Wai Un, Imon Kalyan, Kai-Qiang Lin, John M. Lupton, Sebastian Bange

    ACS Nano 17, 12, 11439 (2023)

  5. Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors

    Jonas Bauer, Lijue Chen, Philipp Wilhelm, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sebastian Bange, John Lupton, Kai-Qiang Lin*

    Nature Photon., 16, 777-783 (2022)

  6. High-lying valley-polarized trions in 2D semiconductors

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Jonas D. Ziegler, Marina A. Semina, Javid V. Mamedov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sebastian Bange, Alexey Chernikov, Mikhail M. Glazov*, John M. Lupton

    Nature Commun., 13, 6980 (2022)

  7. Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe nanowires

    Lorenz Bauriedl, Christian Bäuml, Lorenz Fuchs, Christian Baumgartner, Nicolas Paulik, Jonas M Bauer, Kai-Qiang Lin, John M Lupton, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Christoph Strunk, Nicola Paradiso*

    Nature Commun. 13, 4266 (2022)

  8. Excitons at the phase transition of 2D hybrid perovskites

    Jonas D Ziegler, Kai-Qiang Lin, Barbara Meisinger, Xiangzhou Zhu, Manuel Kober-Czerny, Pabitra K Nayak, Cecilia Vona, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Claudia Draxl, Henry J Snaith, John M Lupton, David A Egger, Alexey Chernikov*

    ACS Photonics, 9(11), 3609-3616 (2022)

  9. Quantitatively deciphering electronic properties of defects at atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides

    Si-Si Wu, Teng-Xiang Huang, Xiaolan Xu, Yi-Fan Bao, Xin-Di Pei, Xu Yao, Mao-Feng Cao, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang*, Dongdong Wang*, and Bin Ren*

    ACS Nano, 16, 3, 4786 (2022) .

  10. Narrow-band high-lying excitons with negative-mass electrons in monolayer WSe2

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Chin Shen Ong, Sebastian Bange, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Bo Peng, Jonas D. Ziegler, Jonas Zipfel, Christian Bäuml, Nicola Paradiso, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christoph Strunk, Bartomeu Monserrat, Jaroslav Fabian, Alexey Chernikov, Diana Y. Qiu, Steven G. Louie, John M. Lupton*

    Nature Commun., 12, 5500 (2021) .

  11. Momentum-resolved observation of exciton formation dynamics in monolayer WS2

    Robert Wallauer*, Raul Perea-Causin, Lasse Münster, Sarah Zajusch, Samuel Brem, Jens Güdde, Katsumi Tanimura, Kai-Qiang Lin, Rupert Huber, Ermin Malic*, Ulrich Höfer

    Nano Lett. 21, 5867 (2021).

  12. Moiré phonons in twisted MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers and their correlation with interlayer excitons

    P. Parzefall, J. Holler, M. Scheuck, A. Beer, K.-Q. Lin, B. Peng, B. Monserrat, P. Nagler, M. Kempf, T. Korn, C. Schüller*

    2D Mater. 8, 035030 (2021).

  13. Large-scale mapping of moiré superlattices by hyperspectral Raman imaging

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Johannes Holler, Jonas M. Bauer, Philipp Parzefall, Marten Scheuck, Bo Peng, Tobias Korn, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton, Christian Schüller*

    Adv. Mater. 33, 2008333 (2021).

  14. Twist-angle engineering of excitonic quantum interference and optical nonlinearities in stacked 2D semiconductors

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Jonas M. Bauer, Bo Peng, Bartomeu Monserrat, Martin Gmitra, Jaroslav Fabian, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton*

    Nature Commun. 12, 1553 (2021).

  15. Observing atomic layer electrodeposition on single nanocrystals surface by dark field microscopy

    Shu Hu, Jun Yi, Yue-Jiao Zhang, Kai-Qiang Lin, Bi-Ju Liu, Liang Chen, Chao Zhan, Zhi-Chao Lei, Juan-Juan Sun, Cheng Zong, Jian-Feng Li, Bin Ren*

    Nature Commun. 11, 2518 (2020).

  16. Hybridized intervalley moiré excitons and flat bands in twisted WSe2 bilayers

    Samuel Brem*, Kai-Qiang Lin*, Roland Gillen, Jonas M Bauer, Janina Maultzsch, John M. Lupton, Ermin Malic

    Nanoscale 12, 11088-11094 (2020).

  17. Twist-tailoring Coulomb correlations in van der Waals homobilayers

    Philipp Merkl, Fabian Mooshammer, Samuel Brem, Anna Girnghuber, Kai-Qiang Lin, Leonard Weigl, Marlene Liebich, Chaw-Keong Yong, Roland Gillen, Janina Maultzsch, John M. Lupton, Ermin Malic* & Rupert Huber*

    Nature Commun. 11, 2167 (2020).

  18. Electronic and vibrational surface-enhanced Raman scattering: from atomically defined Au (111) and (100) to roughened Au

    Motoharu Inagaki, Taichi Isogai, Kenta Motobayashi, Kai-Qiang Lin, Bin Ren, Katsuyoshi Ikeda*

    Chem. Sci. 11, 9807 (2020)

  19. Polymer coatings tune electromagnetically induced transparency in two-dimensional semiconductors

    Kai-Qiang Lin, Robert Martin, Sebastian Bange, and John M. Lupton

    ACS Photonics 6, 3115 (2019).

  20. Probing the edge-related properties of atomically thin MoS2 at nanoscale

    Teng-xiang Huang, Xin Cong, Si-Si Wu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xu Yao, Yu-han He, Jiang-Bin Wu, Yi-Fan Bao, Sheng-Chao Huang, Xiang Wang, Ping-Heng Tan, and Bin Ren

    Nature Commun. 10, 5544 (2019).

  21. Photo-induced exfoliation of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

    Si-Si Wu+, Teng-Xiang Huang+, Kai-Qiang Lin+, Xu Yao, Jing-Ting Hu, Ding-Liang Tang, Yi-Fan Bao, and Bin Ren*

    2D Mater. 6, 045052 (2019).

  22. Quantum interference in second-harmonic generation from monolayer WSe2

    Kai-Qiang Lin*, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton*

    Nature Phys. 15, 242-246 (2019).

  23. Ultrafast transition between exciton phases in van der Waals heterostructures

    P. Merkl, F. Mooshammer, P. Steinleitner, A. Girnghuber, K.-Q. Lin, P. Nagler, J. Holler, C. Schüller, J. M. Lupton, T. Korn, S. Ovesen, S. Brem, E. Malic* & R. Huber*

    Nature Mater. 18, 691-696 (2019).

  24. Quantifying surface temperature of thermoplasmonic nanostructures

    Shu Hu, Bi-Ju Liu, Jia-Min Feng, Cheng Zong, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang, De-Yin Wu, Bin Ren*

    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 13680-13686 (2018).

  25. Rational fabrication of silver-coated AFM TERS tips with a high enhancement and long lifetime

    Teng-Xiang Huang, Cha-Wei Li, Li-Kun Yang, Jin-Feng Zhu, Xu Yao, Chuan Liu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Zhi-Cong Zeng, Si-Si Wu, Xiang Wang, Fang-Zu Yang, Bin Ren*

    Nanoscale 10, 4398-4405 (2018).

  26. Plasmonic photoluminescence for recovering native chemical information from surface enhanced Raman scattering

    Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Jin-Hui Zhong, Shu Hu, Biju Liu, Jun-Yang Liu, Cheng Zong, Zhichao Lei, Xiang Wang, Javier Aizpurua, Ruben Esteban, Bin Ren*

    Nature Commun. 8, 14891 (2017).

  27. Intraband hot-electron photoluminescence from single silver nanorods

    Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Shu Hu, Juanjuan Sun, Jueting Zheng, Xiang Wang, and Bin Ren*

    ACS Photonics. 3, 1248 (2016).

  28. Size effect on SERS of gold nanorods demonstrated via single nanoparticle spectroscopy

    Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Shu Hu, Bi-Ju Liu, Jun-Yang Liu, Xiang Wang, and Bin Ren*

    J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 20806 (2016).

  29. Extraction of absorption and scattering contribution of metallic nanoparticles toward rational synthesis and application

    Bi-Ju Liu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Shu Hu, Xiang Wang, Zhi-Chao Lei, Hai-Xin Lin, and Bin Ren*

    Anal. Chem. 82, 1058 (2015).

  30. Electrostatic self-assembling formation of Pd superlattice nanowires from surfactant-free Ultrathin Pd nanosheets

    Chengyi Hu, Kaiqiang Lin, Xingli Wang, Shengjie Liu, Jun Yi, Yu Tian, Binghui Wu, Guangxu Chen, Huayan Yang, Yan Dai, Huan Li, and Nanfeng Zheng*

    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 12856 (2014).

  31. Probing the location of hot spots by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: toward uniform substrates

    Xiang Wang, Mao-Hua Li, Ling-Yan Meng, Kai-Qiang Lin, Jia-Min Feng, Teng-Xiang Huang, Zhi-Lin Yang* and Bin Ren*

    ACS Nano 8, 528 (2014).

  32. Carbon monoxide-assisted synthesis of single-crystalline Pd tetrapod nanocrystals through hydride formation

    Yan Dai, Xiaoliang Mu, Yueming Tan, Kaiqiang Lin, Zhilin Yang*, and Nanfeng Zheng*

    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 7073 (2012).