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Publications (61)

astro-ph.GA2024

Ly imaging around the hyperluminous dust-obscured quasar W22460526 at

Yibin Luo, Lulu Fan, Yongming Liang +10

Hot dust-obscured galaxies (Hot DOGs) are a population of hyperluminous, heavily obscured quasars discovered by the \emph{Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer} (\emph{WISE}) all-sky…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Ultrasensitive and broadband MoS2 photodetector driven by ferroelectrics

Xudong Wang, Peng Wang, Jianlu Wang +15

Photodetectors based on two dimensional materials have attracted growing interest. However, the sensitivity is still unsatisfactory even under high gate voltage. Here we demonstrat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Analytical impact excitation of Er/O/B co-doped Si light emitting diodes

Xiaoming Wang, Jiajing He, Ao Wang +6

Er doped Si light emitting diodes may find important applications in the generation and storage of quantum information. These diodes exhibit an emission efficiency two orders of ma…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extended Enriched Gas in a Multi-Galaxy Merger at Redshift 6.7

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Lu Shen +5

Recent JWST observations have uncovered high-redshift galaxies characterized by multiple star-forming clumps, many of which appear to be undergoing mergers. Such mergers, especiall…

astro-ph.GA2024

CLASSY XI: Tracing Neutral Gas Properties using UV Absorption Lines and 21-cm Observations

Kaelee S. Parker, Danielle A. Berg, Simon Gazagnes +15

Rest-frame far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations from JWST are revolutionizing our understanding of the high-z galaxies that drove reionization and the mechanisms by which they accomp…

astro-ph.GA2025

NGDEEP: The Star Formation and Ionization Properties of Galaxies at

Lu Shen, Casey Papovich, Jasleen Matharu +23

We use JWST/NIRISS slitless spectroscopy from the Next Generation Deep Extragalactic Exploratory Public (NGDEEP) Survey to investigate the physical condition of star-forming galaxi…

astro-ph.GA2022

LAGER Ly Luminosity Function at , Implications for Reionization

Isak G. B. Wold, Sangeeta Malhotra, James Rhoads +17

We present a new measurement of the Ly luminosity function at redshift , finding moderate evolution from that is consistent with a fully or largely ionized $z\si…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

ReS2-based field-effect transistors and photodetectors

Enze Zhang, Yibo Jin, Xiang Yuan +7

Atomically-thin two-dimensional (2D) layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been extensively studied in recent years because of their appealing electrical and optical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

High responsivity phototransistors based on few-layer ReS2 for weak signal detection

Erfu Liu, Mingsheng Long, Junwen Zeng +18

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides are emerging with tremendous potential in many optoelectronic applications due to their strong light-matter interactions. To fully…

astro-ph.GA2025

Optical Strong Line Ratios Cannot Distinguish Between Stellar Populations and Accreting Black Holes at High Ionization Parameters and Low Metallicities

Nikko J. Cleri, Grace M. Olivier, Bren E. Backhaus +24

High-redshift observations from JWST indicate that optical strong line ratios do not carry the same constraining power as they do at low redshifts. Critically, this prevents a sepa…

astro-ph.GA2023

The Hubble Deep Hydrogen Alpha (HDH) Project: I. Catalog of Emission-line Galaxies

Shuairu Zhu, Zhen-Ya Zheng, James Rhoads +14

We present the first results of the Hubble Deep Hydrogen Alpha (HDH) project, which analyzes the space-borne deep H narrowband imaging data in the GOODS-S region. The HDH$Î…

astro-ph.GA2024

Physical Origins of Outflowing Cold Clouds in Local Star-forming Dwarf Galaxies

Zixuan Peng, Crystal L. Martin, Zirui Chen +10

We study the physical origins of outflowing cold clouds in a sample of 14 low-redshift dwarf ( ) galaxies from the COS Legacy Archive Spectros…

astro-ph.GA2025

Very bright, very blue, and very red: JWST CAPERS analysis of highly luminous galaxies with extreme UV slopes at

Callum T. Donnan, Mark Dickinson, Anthony J. Taylor +37

We present JWST/NIRSpec PRISM observations of three luminous () galaxies at observed with the CAPERS Cycle 3 program. These galaxies exhibit extreme UV sl…

physics.app-ph2024

Room temperature Si:S barrier infrared detector with broadband response up to 4.4μm

He Zhu, Yunlong Xiao, Zhongyang Yu +11

Mid-infrared spectrum is a critical tool for chemical analysis, industrial inspection, environment, and other fields due to its rich chemical bond information. However, the complic…

astro-ph.GA2017

First Results from the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) Survey: Cosmological Reionization at z ~ 7

Zhen-Ya Zheng, Junxian Wang, James Rhoads +12

We present the first results from the ongoing LAGER project (Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization), which is the largest narrowband survey for 7 galaxies to d…

physics.optics2025

Photonic logic tensor computing beyond TOPS per core

Wenkai Zhang, Bo Wu, Wentao Gu +13

The soaring demand for computing resources has spurred great interest in photonic computing with higher speed and larger computing capacity. Photonic logic gates are of crucial imp…

astro-ph.GA2026

The HST-Hyperion Survey: Environmental Imprints on the Stellar-Mass Function at z~2.5

Derek Sikorski, Ben Forrest, Brian C. Lemaux +19

Not all galaxies at Cosmic Noon evolve in the same way. It remains unclear how the local environment -- especially the extreme overdensities of protoclusters -- affects stellar mas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Observation of ballistic avalanche phenomena in nanoscale vertical InSe/BP heterostructures

Anyuan Gao, Jiawei Lai, Yaojia Wang +13

Initiating impact ionization of avalanche breakdown essentially requires applying a high electric field in a long active region, hampering carrier-multiplication with high gain, lo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Room-temperature high detectivity mid-infrared photodetectors based on black arsenic phosphorus

Mingsheng Long, Anyuan Gao, Peng Wang +12

The mid-infrared (MIR) spectral range, pertaining to important applications such as molecular 'fingerprint' imaging, remote sensing, free space telecommunication and optical radar,…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Analytical photoresponses of Schottky contact MoS2 phototransistors

Jianyong Wei, Yumeng Liu, Yizhuo Wang +10

High-gain photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular those in photoconductive mode, have been extensively investigated in the past decade. However,…

astro-ph.GA2023

Using KCWI to Explore the Chemical Inhomogeneities and Evolution of J1044+0353

Zixuan Peng, Crystal L. Martin, Pierre Thibodeaux +3

J1044+0353 is considered a local analog of the young galaxies that ionized the intergalactic medium at high-redshift due to its low mass, low metallicity, high specific star format…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Negative Photoconductance in van der Waals Heterostructures-Based Floating Gate Phototransistor

Yu Wang, Erfu Liu, Anyuan Gao +9

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures made of two-dimensional materials have been demonstrated to be versatile architectures for optoelectronic applications due to strong light-matt…

astro-ph.GA2025

Galaxy Protoclusters as Drivers of Cosmic Reionization: I. Bubble Overlap at Redshift z ~ 7 in LAGER-z7OD1

Crystal L. Martin, Weida Hu, Isak G. B. Wold +17

Since the launch of JWST, the sample size of reionization-era Lyman-alpha-emitters (LAEs) has been steadily growing; yet inferences about the neutral hydrogen fraction in the inter…

astro-ph.GA2024

NGDEEP Epoch 1: Spatially Resolved H Observations of Disk and Bulge Growth in Star-Forming Galaxies at 0.6-2.2 from JWST NIRISS Slitless Spectroscopy

Lu Shen, Casey Papovich, Jasleen Matharu +21

We study the H equivalent width, EW(H), maps of 19 galaxies at in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) derived from NIRISS slitless spectroscopy as part of th…

physics.app-ph2019

Edge-Epitaxial Growth of InSe Nanowires toward High-Performance Photodetectors

Song Hao, Shengnan Yan, Yang Wang +17

Semiconducting nanowires offer many opportunities for electronic and optoelectronic device applications due to their special geometries and unique physical properties. However, it…

astro-ph.GA2019

The Ly Luminosity Function and Cosmic Reionization at 7.0: a Tale of Two LAGER Fields

Weida Hu, Junxian Wang, Zhen-Ya Zheng +20

We present the largest-ever sample of 79 Ly emitters (LAEs) at 7.0 selected in the COSMOS and CDFS fields of the LAGER project (the Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of…

astro-ph.GA2021

Correlations between H Equivalent Width and Galaxy Properties at : Physical or Selection-driven?

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads +13

The H equivalent width (EW) is an observational proxy for specific star formation rate (sSFR) and a tracer of episodic star-formation activity. Previous assessments show that E…

astro-ph.GA2026

Using Ly Transmitted Spectrum to Probe IGM Transmission and Identify Ionized Structures in Cosmic Reionization

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Lu Shen +16

We present a study of intergalactic medium (IGM) transmission at using high-signal-to-noise JWST/NIRSpec prism spectroscopy of 143 galaxies at from the CAPE…

astro-ph.GA2026

Deep Spectroscopic Follow-Up of Maisie's Galaxy -- A Typical Galaxy in the Early Universe

Rebecca L. Larson, Taylor A. Hutchison, Steven L. Finkelstein +26

The first several years of JWST observations have yielded surprisingly large numbers of bright galaxies, with follow-up spectroscopy of many of these sources implying extrem…

physics.app-ph2019

A Dual-gate MoS2 Photodetector Based on Interface Coupling Effect

Fuyou Liao, Jianan Deng, Xinyu Chen +13

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) based photodetectors have shown great potential for the next generation optoelectronics. However, most of the reported…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Gate-Tunable Semiconductor Heterojunctions from 2D/3D van der Waals Interfaces

Jinshui Miao, Xiwen Liu, Kiyoung Jo +8

Van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors are attractive for highly scaled devices and heterogeneous integration since they can be isolated into self-passivated, two-dimensional (2D) laye…

astro-ph.GA2019

Lyman Alpha Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization (LAGER): Spectroscopic Confirmation of Two Redshift ~ 7.0 Galaxies

Huan Yang, Leopoldo Infante, James E. Rhoads +7

We spectroscopically confirmed two narrow-band selected redshift 7.0 Ly galaxies and studied their restframe UV spectra. The Ly and other UV nebular lines are very useful t…

astro-ph.GA2026

Galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization Are All Bark and No Bite -- Plenty of Ionizing Photons, Low Escape Fractions

Casey Papovich, Justin W. Cole, Weida Hu +27

Early results from JWST suggest that epoch-of-reionization (EoR) galaxies produce copious ionizing photons, which, if they escape efficiently, could cause reionization to occur too…

astro-ph.GA2026

The quasi-star model for Little Red Dots: potential and challenges

Fabrizio Gentile, Mauro Giavalisco, Emanuele Daddi +25

(Abridged) Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a class of sources discovered by JWST observationally defined by a "V-shaped" rest-frame UV-Optical SED, a compact or unresolved morphology, a…

astro-ph.GA2023

CLASSY VII Lyα Profiles: The Structure and Kinematics of Neutral Gas and Implications for LyC Escape in Reionization-Era Analogs

Weida Hu, Crystal L. Martin, Max Gronke +22

Lyman-alpha line profiles are a powerful probe of ISM structure, outflow speed, and Lyman continuum escape fraction. In this paper, we present the Ly line profiles of the COS L…

astro-ph.GA2026

Extreme Emission Line Galaxies in CEERS Are Powered by Star Formation, not AGN

Kelcey Davis, Madisyn Brooks, Jonathan R. Trump +28

We present a spectroscopic study of photometrically identified extreme emission-line galaxies (EELGs) with observed-frame equivalent widths (EWs) >5000 A of either H alpha or H bet…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Water induced bandgap engineering in nanoribbons of hexagonal boron nitride

Chen Chen, Yang Hang, Hui Shan Wang +13

Different from hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sheets, the bandgap of hBN nanoribbons (BNNRs) can be changed by spatial/electrostatic confinement. It has been predicted that a transv…

astro-ph.HE2024

AT2023lli: A Tidal Disruption Event with Prominent Optical Early Bump and Delayed Episodic X-ray Emission

Shifeng Huang, Ning Jiang, Jiazheng Zhu +42

High-cadence, multiwavelength observations have continuously revealed the diversity of tidal disruption events (TDEs), thus greatly advancing our knowledge and understanding of TDE…

astro-ph.IM2019

Design for the First Narrowband Filter for the Dark Energy Camera: Optimizing the LAGER Survey for z ~ 7 Galaxies

Zhen-Ya Zheng, James E. Rhoads, Junxian Wang +22

We present the design for the first narrowband filter NB964 for the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is operated on the 4m Blanco Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obse…

physics.ins-det2016

High-performance graphene photodetector by interfacial gating

Xitao Guo, Wenhui Wang, Haiyan Nan +10

Graphene based photo-detecting has received great attentions and the performance of such detector is stretching to both ends of high sensitivity and ultra-fast response. However, l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Arrayed van der Waals Vertical Heterostructures based on 2D GaSe Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Xiang Yuan, Lei Tang, Shanshan Liu +12

Vertically stacking two dimensional (2D) materials can enable the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices and realize complex functionality. However, the fabrication…

astro-ph.GA2021

A Lyman-α protocluster at redshift 6.9

Weida Hu, Junxian Wang, Leopoldo Infante +21

Protoclusters, the progenitors of the most massive structures in the Universe, have been identified at redshifts of up to 6.6. Besides exploring early structure formation, searchin…

astro-ph.GA2026

Implications of Broad [O III] 4364 and UV Line Emission in Two Little Red Dots at z ~ 7 - 8

Casey Papovich, Kaila Ronayne, Weida Hu +17

We present deep, NIRSpec G140M and G395M spectroscopy of Little Red Dots (LRDs) at z = 6.68 and z = 8.35. Both LRDs show broad Balmer and [O III] 4364 emission. The broad [O III…

astro-ph.GA2024

Characterizing the Average Interstellar Medium Conditions of Galaxies at 5.6-9 with UV and Optical Nebular Lines

Weida Hu, Casey Papovich, Mark Dickinson +30

Ultraviolet (UV; rest-frame A) spectra provide a wealth of diagnostics to characterize fundamental galaxy properties, such as their chemical enrichment, the nature…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020

Reversible Engineering of Topological Insulator Surface State Conductivity through Optical Excitation

Faji Xie, Zhen Lian, Shuai Zhang +13

Despite the broadband response, limited optical absorption at a particular wavelength hinders the development of optoelectronics based on Dirac fermions. Heterostructures of graphe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Chargeable photoconductivity in Van der Waals heterojunctions

Yucheng Jiang, Anpeng He, Yu Chen +9

Van der Waals (vdW) heterojunctions, based on two-dimensional (2D) materials, show great potential for the development of eco-friendly and high-efficiency nano-devices. Considerabl…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science Survey (CEERS)

Steven L. Finkelstein, Micaela B. Bagley, Pablo Arrabal Haro +96

We present the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey, a 77.2 hour Director's Discretionary Early Release Science Program. CEERS demonstrates, tests, and validates e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Intrinsic p-type W-based transition metal dichalcogenide by substitutional Ta-doping

Yajun Fu, Mingsheng Long, Anyuan Gao +10

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as promising candidates for future electronics and optoelectronics. While most of TMDs are intrin…

astro-ph.GA2021

New spectroscopic confirmations of Lyman- emitters at z 7 from the LAGER survey

Santosh Harish, Isak G. B. Wold, Sangeeta Malhotra +14

We report spectroscopic confirmations of 15 Lyman-alpha galaxies at , implying a spectroscopic confirmation rate of 80% on candidates selected from LAGER (Lyman-Alpha…

physics.app-ph2019

NbSiTe: A Stable Narrow-Gap Two-Dimensional Material with Ambipolar Transport and Mid-Infrared Response

Mingxing Zhao, Wei Xia, Yang Wang +5

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with narrow band gaps (~0.3 eV) are of great importance for realizing ambipolar transistors and mid-infrared (MIR) detection. However, most of the 2D…

astro-ph.GA2026

The GlimmIr: Spectroscopic Variability in a z~7 LRD Indicates Rapid Changes in Both the Narrow and Broad Line Regions

Erini Lambrides, Taylor A. Hutchison, Rebecca L. Larson +39

The enigmatic population of ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) sit at the center of some of the largest debates in extragalactic astronomy today. The source(s) of ionizing emission and the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Wafer-scale arrayed p-n junctions based on few-layer epitaxial GaTe

Xiang Yuan, Lei Tang, Peng Wang +12

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted substantial attention in electronic and optoelectronic applications with superior advantages of being flexible, transparent and highly…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Broadband Photovoltaic Detectors based on an Atomically Thin Heterostructure

Mingsheng Long, Erfu Liu, Peng Wang +19

Van der Waals junctions of two-dimensional materials with an atomically sharp interface open up unprecedented opportunities to design and study functional heterostructures. Semicon…

astro-ph.IM2026

The 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope Real-time Data Processing Pipeline I: From raw data to alert distribution

Minxuan Cai, Zelin Xu, Lulu Fan +13

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Purple Mounta…

astro-ph.GA2022

On the Origin of the Strong Optical Variability of Emission-line Galaxies

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Weida Hu +9

Emission-line galaxies (ELGs) are crucial in understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies, while little is known about their variability. Here we report the study on the o…

astro-ph.GA2017

First Spectroscopic Confirmations of z ~ 7.0 Lya Emitting Galaxies in the LAGER Survey

Weida Hu, Junxian Wang, Zhenya Zheng +16

Narrowband imaging is a highly successful approach for finding large numbers of high redshift Lya emitting galaxies (LAEs) up to z~6.6. However, at z>~7 there are as yet only 3 nar…

astro-ph.GA2020

A large, deep 3 deg survey of H, [OIII], and [OII] emitters from LAGER: constraining luminosity functions

Ali Ahmad Khostovan, Sangeeta Malhotra, James E. Rhoads +14

We present our measurements of the H, [OIII], and [OII] luminosity functions as part of the Lyman Alpha Galaxies at Epoch of Reionization (LAGER) survey using our samples of 15…

astro-ph.GA2025

The HST-Hyperion Survey: Grism Observations of a Proto-Supercluster

Ben Forrest, Lu Shen, Brian C. Lemaux +19

We present first results and catalogs from the HST-Hyperion survey. This survey has collected 50 orbits of WFC3/F160W imaging and WFC3/G141 grism spectroscopy in the most overdense…

astro-ph.GA2023

Discovery of spectacular quasar-driven superbubbles in red quasars

Lu Shen, Guilin Liu, Zhicheng He +7

Quasar-driven outflows on galactic scales are a routinely invoked ingredient for galaxy formation models. We report the discovery of ionized gas nebulae as traced by [O III] 50…

physics.app-ph2019

Palladium Diselenide Long-Wavelength Infrared Photodetector with High Sensitivity and Stability

Mingsheng Long, Yang Wang, Peng Wang +11

A long-wavelength infrared (IR) photodetector based on two-dimensional materials working at room temperature would have wide applications in many aspects in remote sensing, thermal…

astro-ph.GA2025

CAPERS Observations of Two UV-Bright Galaxies at z>10. More Evidence for Bursting Star Formation in the Early Universe

Vasily Kokorev, Óscar A. Chávez Ortiz, Anthony J. Taylor +38

We present the first results from the CAPERS survey, utilizing PRISM observations with the JWST/NIRSpec MSA in the PRIMER-UDS field. With just 14 % of the total planned data volume…