Yuanxi Wang

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding

• Wang, Y. (2024). Defect-Related Properties and Growth Kinetics in 2D Layered Systems—Dopant-Dopant Interactions, Defect Electron-Phonon Coupling and Defect Spin Dynamics. Other. NM03.07.04. MRS.
• Lee, S.H., Gluscevich, N., Zhang, Q., Morgan, Z., Cao, H., Yi, H., He, J., Gopalan, V., Chang, C., Wang, Y., others. (2024). Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulator Candidate EuSc2Te4. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Acharya, G., Neupane, B., Hsu, C.H., Yang, X., Graf, D., Nabi, M.R., Chhetri, S.K., Basnet, R., Wang, J., Chang, G., Wang, Y., Hu, J. (2024). Isotropic Field Driven Insulator-to-Metal transition in GdPS.. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Wang, Y. (2024). Optimizing second harmonic generation in inorganic crystals: dimensionality effects and structural metrics. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Crespi, V., Wang, Y., Nayir, N., Nourhani, A., van Duin, A. (2024). Theory Insights into the Synthesis of 2D Materials—2D Metals, Single-Crystal TMD Monolayers, Frustrated Salts and Disclinated Graphene. Other. MT03.04.01. MRS.
• Islam, S., Steinebronn, E., Neupane, B., Yang, K., Ghosh, S., Chamorro, J., Wang, Y., Liu, C., McQueen, T., Samarth, N. (2024). Topological Hall effect in Dirac semimetal. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Yanez, W., Vera, A., Yang, K., Zheng, B., Dong, C., Wang, Y., Bowen, T., El-Sherif, H., Krishnan, G., Rajabpour, S., others. (2023). Charge to spin conversion in atomically thin lead and bismuth. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Habis, F., Wang, Y. (2023). Prediction and Control of Optical Properties of hBN Defects From First-Principles for Application as Single Photon Emitters. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Neupane, B., Wang, Y. (2023). Reducing the 3D-2D crossover thickness in Bi2Se3 by heterostructure engineering. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Neupane, B., Wang, Y. (2023). Speeding-up GW calculations for 2D materials. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Vera, A., Yanez, W., Zheng, B., Li, C., Turker, F., Dong, C., Wang, Y., El-Sherif, H., Krishnan, G., Galoustian, I., others. (2023). Synthesis of Air-Stable, Atomically Thin Heavy Metals through Confinement Heteroepitaxy. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Acharya, G., Pandey, K., Basnet, R., Nabi, M.R., Wang, J., Wang, Y. (2023). Unusual transport properties of GdPS.. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS.
• Lee, W., Wang, Y., Kim, H., Liu, M., Nunley, T., Fang, B., Maniyara, R., Dong, C., Robinson, J., Crespi, V., others. (2022). Confined monolayer Ag as a large gap 2D semiconductor and its quasiparticle interactions with high-density Dirac electrons. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2022 F60--005.
• Hemian Yi, Lunhui Hu, Run Xiao, , Yuanxi Wang,, Jiaqi Cai, Denielle R. Hickey, Chengye Dong, Yifan Zhao, , Lingjie Zhou, Ruoxi Zhang, Anthony R Richardella, Joshua, A Robinson, Moses H Chan, Xiaodong Xu, Nitin Samarth, , Chaoxing Liu, Cui-Zu Chang. (2022). Crossover of Ising- to Rashba-Type Superconductivity in Epitaxial Bi2Se3/Monolayer NbSe2 Heterostructures. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. APS March Meeting Abstracts. American Physical Society.
• Zhang, K., Maniyara, R.A., Wang, Y., Mai, T., Wetherington, M., Bowen, T., Rotkin, S., Hight Walker, A., Crespi, V., Robinson, J., others. (2022). Immense Fano Resonance Induced by Half van der Waals Metals. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2022 B55--001.
• Qian, Q., Peng, L., Wang, Y., Tan, A.M., Liang, L., Choudhury, T.H., Redwing, J.M., Puretzky, A.A., Geohegan, D.B., Hennig, R.G., others. (2022). Low-Energy Photoluminescence Induced by Substitutional Nitrogen in Single-Layer Tungsten Disulfide. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2022 A12--012.
• Wang, Y. (2022). Stability of type-II Weyl points in MnBi2-x Sb x Te 4 based on orbital interactions. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2022 D72--004.

Journal Article

• Sawtarie, N., Schrecengost, J.R., Mekkanamkulam Ananthanarayanan, K., Manimaran, N.H., Awate, S.S., Dong, C., Xu, K., Wang, Y., Robinson, J.A., Giebink, N.C., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K. (2025). Permanent Dipole Moment in a Quantum-Confined Two-Dimensional Metal Revealed by Electric Double Layer Gating. Nano Letters. 25 (16) 6599-6605. American Chemical Society (ACS). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c00500
• Bachu, S., Habis, F., Huet, B., Woo, S.Y., Miao, L., Reifsnyder Hickey, D., Kim, G., Trainor, N., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Jariwala, D., Redwing, J.M., Wang, Y., Kociak, M., Tizei, L.H., Alem, N. (2025). Quantum Confined Luminescence in Two Dimensions. ACS Photonics. 12 (1) 364--374. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01739
• Kaul, A.B., Wang, Y., Li, A., Li, X., Ma, X. (2025). Single photon emitters in van der Waals solids for quantum photonics: materials, theory and molecular-scale characterization probes. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 58 (12) 123001. https://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ada452
• Acharya, G., Neupane, B., Hsu, C., Yang, X.P., Graf, D., Choi, E.S., Pandey, K., Nabi, M.R., Chhetri, S.K., Basnet, R., Rahman, S., Wang, J., Hu, Z., Da, B., Churchill, H.O., Chang, G., Hasan, M.Z., Wang, Y., Hu, J. (2024). Insulator-to-Metal Transition and Isotropic Gigantic Magnetoresistance in Layered Magnetic Semiconductors. Advanced Materials. 36 (48) 2410655. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.202410655
• Vera, A., Zheng, B., Yanez, W., Yang, K., Kim, S.Y., Wang, X., Kotsakidis, J.C., El-Sherif, H., Krishnan, G., Koch, R.J., Bowen, T.A., Dong, C., Wang, Y., Wetherington, M., Rotenberg, E., Bassim, N., Friedman, A.L., Wallace, R.M., Liu, C., Samarth, N., Crespi, V.H., Robinson, J.A. (2024). Large-Area Intercalated Two-Dimensional Pb/Graphene Heterostructure as a Platform for Generating Spin–Orbit Torque. ACS Nano. 18 (33) 21985--21997. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c04075
• Varghese, S., Hurley, N., Kamau, S., Jiang, Y., Rodriguez, R.G., Bhandari, B., Lyu, T., Yan, H., Wang, Y., Kaul, A.B., Cui, J., Lin, Y. (2024). Thermal-Strain-Enabled Enhanced Emission from UV Laser-Induced Defect Levels near the Surface of Multilayer MoS2. Other. 2 (8) 1721--1729. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.4c00276
• Munson, K.T., Torsi, R., Habis, F., Huberich, L., Lin, Y., Yuan, Y., Wang, K., Schuler, B., Wang, Y., Asbury, J.B., Robinson, J.A. (2024). Influence of Rhenium Concentration on Charge Doping and Defect Formation in MoS2. Other. 2400403. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aelm.202400403
• Lin, Y., Torsi, R., Younas, R., Hinkle, C.L., Rigosi, A.F., Hill, H.M., Zhang, K., Huang, S., Shuck, C.E., Chen, C., Wang, Y., 38 more authors. (2023). Recent Advances in 2D Material Theory, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications. ACS Nano. 17 (11) 9694. ACS Publications.
• Lin, Y., Hurley, N., Kamau, S., Hathaway, E., Jiang, Y., Rodriguez, R.G., Varghese, S., Krylyuk, S., Davydov, A.V., Wang, Y., Kaul, A.B. (2023). Strain-Activated Stimulated Emission from Multilayer MoSe2 in a Narrow Operation Window. Other. Wiley Online Library.
• Lee, W., Wang, Y., Qin, W., Kim, H., Liu, M., Nunley, T.N., Fang, B., Maniyara, R., Dong, C., Robinson, J.A., others. (2022). Confined Monolayer Ag As a Large Gap 2D Semiconductor and Its Momentum Resolved Excited States. Nano Letters. 22 (19) 7841--7847. American Chemical Society.
• Yi*, Hemian, Hu*, Lun-Hui, Wang*, Y., Xiao, R., Cai, J., Hickey, D.R., Dong, C., Zhao, Y., Zhou, L., Zhang, R., others. (2022). Crossover from Ising-to Rashba-type superconductivity in epitaxial Bi2Se3/monolayer NbSe2 heterostructures. Nature Materials. 1--7. Nature Publishing Group.
• Lin, Y., Hathaway, E., Habis, F., Wang, Y., Rodriguez, R.G., Alnasser, K., Hurley, N., Cui, J. (2022). Enhanced Emission from Defect Levels in Multilayer MoS2. Other. 2201059.
• Yang, K., Wang, Y., Liu, C. (2022). Momentum-Space Spin Antivortex and Spin Transport in Monolayer Pb. Physical Review Letters. 128 (16) 166601. American Physical Society.
• Wang, Y., Crespi, V.H., Cohen, M.L., Nourhani, A. (2022). Nonstoichiometric Salt Intercalation as a Means to Stabilize Alkali Doping of 2D Materials. Physical Review Letters. 129 (26) 266401. American Physical Society.
• Qian, Q., Wu, W., Peng, L., Wang, Y., Tan, A.M., Liang, L., Hus, S.M., Wang, K., Choudhury, T.H., Redwing, J.M., others. (2022). Photoluminescence Induced by Substitutional Nitrogen in Single-Layer Tungsten Disulfide. ACS Nano. 16 (5) 7428--7437. American Chemical Society.
• He, J., Lee, S.H., Naccarato, F., Brunin, G., Zu, R., Wang, Y., Miao, L., Wang, H., Alem, N., Hautier, G., others. (2022). SnP2S6: A Promising Infrared Nonlinear Optical Crystal with Strong Nonresonant Second Harmonic Generation and Phase-Matchability. Other. 9 (5) 1724--1732. American Chemical Society.
• Nayir, N., Shin, Y.K., Wang, Y., Sengul, M.Y., Hickey, D.R., Chubarov, M., Choudhury, T.H., Alem, N., Redwing, J., Crespi, V.H., others. (2021). A ReaxFF Force Field for 2D-WS2 and Its Interaction with Sapphire. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125 (32) 17950--17961. American Chemical Society.
• Lee, S.H., Graf, D., Min, L., Zhu, Y., Yi, H., Ciocys, S., Wang, Y., Choi, E.S., Basnet, R., Fereidouni, A., others. (2021). Evidence for a Magnetic-Field-Induced Ideal Type-II Weyl State in Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator Mn (Bi 1- x Sb x) 2 Te 4. Physical Review X. 11 (3) 031032. APS.
• Reifsnyder Hickey, D., Nayir, N., Chubarov, M., Choudhury, T.H., Bachu, S., Miao, L., Wang, Y., Qian, C., Crespi, V.H., Redwing, J.M., others. (2021). Illuminating invisible grain boundaries in coalesced single-orientation WS2 monolayer films. Nano Letters. 21 (15) 6487--6495. ACS Publications.
• Briggs*, Natalie, Bersch*, Brian, Wang*, Yuanxi, Jiang, J., Koch, R.J., Nayir, N., Wang, K., Kolmer, M., Ko, W., Duran, Ana De La Fuente, others. (2020). Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy. Nature Materials. 19 (6) 637--643. Nature Publishing Group.
• Sun, Y., Wang, Y., Chen, J.Y., Fujisawa, K., Holder, C.F., Miller, J.T., Crespi, V.H., Terrones, M., Schaak, R.E. (2020). Interface-mediated noble metal deposition on transition metal dichalcogenide nanostructures. Other. 12 (3) 284--293. Nature Publishing Group.
• Nayir, N., Wang, Y., Shabnam, S., Hickey, D.R., Miao, L., Zhang, X., Bachu, S., Alem, N., Redwing, J., Crespi, V.H., others. (2020). Modeling for structural engineering and synthesis of two-dimensional WSe2 using a newly developed Reaxff reactive force field. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124 (51) 28285--28297. American Chemical Society.
• Zhang, F., Zheng, B., Sebastian, A., Olson, D.H., Liu, M., Fujisawa, K., Pham, Y.T., Jimenez, V.O., Kalappattil, V., Miao, L., others. (2020). Monolayer vanadium-doped tungsten disulfide: a room-temperature dilute magnetic semiconductor. Other. 7 (24) 2001174.
• Momeni, K., Ji, Y., Wang, Y., Paul, S., Neshani, S., Yilmaz, D.E., Shin, Y.K., Zhang, D., Jiang, J., Park, H.S., others. (2020). Multiscale computational understanding and growth of 2D materials: a review. npj Computational Materials. 6 (1) 1--18. Nature Publishing Group.
• Subramanian, S., Xu, K., Wang, Y., Moser, S., Simonson, N.A., Deng, D., Crespi, V.H., Fullerton-Shirey, S.K., Robinson, J.A. (2020). Tuning transport across MoS 2/graphene interfaces via as-grown lateral heterostructures. Other. 4 (1) 1--5. Nature Publishing Group.
• Zhang, K., Deng, D.D., Zheng, B., Wang, Y., Perkins, F.K., Briggs, N.C., Crespi, V.H., Robinson, J.A. (2020). Tuning Transport and Chemical Sensitivity via Niobium Doping of Synthetic MoS2. Other. 7 (18) 2000856.
• Steves, M.A., Wang, Y., Briggs, N., Zhao, T., El-Sherif, H., Bersch, B.M., Subramanian, S., Dong, C., Bowen, T., Fuente Duran, Ana De La, others. (2020). Unexpected Near-Infrared to Visible Nonlinear Optical Properties from 2-D Polar Metals. Nano Letters. 20 (11) 8312--8318. American Chemical Society.
• Bersch, B., Briggs, N., Wang, Y., Jiang, J., Wang, K., Dong, C., Subramanian, S., Fu, M., Zou, Q., Chuang, Y., others. (2019). An Air-Stable and Atomically Thin Graphene/Gallium Superconducting Heterostructure. Other.
• Rao, R., Carozo, V., Wang, Y., Islam, A.E., Perea-Lopez, N., Fujisawa, K., Crespi, V.H., Terrones, M., Maruyama, B. (2019). Dynamics of cleaning, passivating and doping monolayer MoS2 by controlled laser irradiation. 2D Materials. 6 (4) 045031. IOP Publishing.
• Zhao, P., Wang, Y., Katz, B., Mockensturm, E., Crespi, V., Zhang, S. (2019). Geometry and chiral symmetry breaking of ripple junctions in 2D materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 131 337--343. Pergamon.
• Xuan, Y., Jain, A., Zafar, S., Lotfi, R., Nayir, N., Wang, Y., Choudhury, T.H., Wright, S., Feraca, J., Rosenbaum, L., others. (2019). Multi-scale modeling of gas-phase reactions in metal-organic chemical vapor deposition growth of WSe2. Journal of Crystal Growth. 527 125247. North-Holland.
• Carvalho, B.R., Wang, Y., Fujisawa, K., Zhang, T., Kahn, E., Bilgin, I., Ajayan, P.M., De Paula, A.M., Pimenta, M.A., Kar, S., others. (2019). Nonlinear dark-field imaging of one-dimensional defects in monolayer dichalcogenides. Nano Letters. 20 (1) 284--291. American Chemical Society.
• Zhang, K., Wang, Y., Joshi, J., Zhang, F., Subramanian, S., Terrones, M., Vora, P., Crespi, V., Robinson, J.A. (2019). Probing the origin of lateral heterogeneities in synthetic monolayer molybdenum disulfide. 2D Materials. 6 (2) 025008. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/aafd9a

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

• Wang, Y. (Principal), "CAREER: Orbital-based Descriptors for Dynamical Properties of Quantum Defects," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $545391 Funded. (2024 - 2029).
• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Trends in Hydrodesulfurization Activity: Towards Realistic Surfaces and Reaction Models," sponsored by American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, National, $110000 Funded. (2024 - 2026).
• Xiao, T. (Principal), Ding, J. (Co-Principal), Albert, M.V. (Supporting), Alam, Z.S. (Supporting), Hartmann, F. (Supporting), Wang, Y. (Supporting), Liang, L. (Supporting), Chen, H. (Supporting), Du, J. (Supporting), Azad, R.K. (Supporting), "NSF REU site: Beyond Language: Training to Create and Share Vector Embeddings across Application," sponsored by NSF, Federal, $403547 Funded. (2023 - 2025).
• Young, C. (Principal), Wang, Y. (Co-Principal), Dutta, S. (Co-Principal), "From Atoms to Devices: Impacts of Defects and Interfaces on Device performance and reliability," sponsored by CHIPS-Metroplex Seed Grant, Other, $25000 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Summer Travel Award," sponsored by UNT AMMPI Center of Functional Materials, University of North Texas, $3000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Nonlinear optical response of molecular crystals and polymers," sponsored by College of Science, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Accelerated prediction of defect properties enabled by transfer learning," sponsored by Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes Institute (AMMPI) Center for Functional Materials Seed Grant, University of North Texas, $6000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).

Sponsored Research

• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Nonlinear optical response in 2D layered materials," sponsored by Penn State 2D Crystal Consortium: Materials Innvation Platform, National, Funded. (2022 - 2024).
• Wang, Y. (Principal), "Transfer learning methods and advanced first-principles methods in modeling point defects," sponsored by Oak Ridge National Lab, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Federal, Funded. (2022 - 2023).