Yuanxi Wang

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Conference Proceeding

• 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

• 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.

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), "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).