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most citedTunable Band Gap and Anisotropic Optical Response in Few-layer Black Phosphorus

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 13 cited

Taming Convergence in the Determinant Approach for X-Ray Excitation Spectra

Yufeng Liang, David Prendergast

A determinant formalism in combination with \emph{ab initio} calculations proposed recently has paved a new way for simulating and interpreting x-ray excitation spectra. The new me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 30 cited

Quantum Many-Body Effects in X-Ray Spectra Efficiently Computed using a Basic Graph Algorithm

Yufeng Liang, David Prendergast

The growing interest in using x-ray spectroscopy for refined materials characterization calls for accurate electronic-structure theory to interpret x-ray near-edge fine structure.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 101 cited

Optically discriminating carrier-induced quasiparticle band gap and exciton energy renormalization in monolayer MoS2

Kaiyuan Yao, Aiming Yan, Salman Kahn +7

Optoelectronic excitations in monolayer MoS2 manifest from a hierarchy of electrically tunable, Coulombic free-carrier and excitonic many-body phenomena. Investigating the fundamen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 85 cited

Accurate X-Ray Absorption Predictions for Transition Metal Oxides: An Advanced Self-Consistent-Field Approach Inspired by Many-Body Perturbation Theory

Yufeng Liang, John Vinson, Sri Pemmeraju +3

Constrained-occupancy self-consistent-field (SCF) methods and many-body perturbation theories (MBPT) are two strategies for obtaining electronic excitations from first-principle…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 66 cited

Strongly bound excitons dominate electronic relaxation in resonantly excited twisted bilayer graphene

Hiral Patel, Lola Brown, Yufeng Liang +3

When two sheets of graphene stack in a twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) configuration, the resulting constrained overlap between interplanar 2p orbitals produce angle-tunable electr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 159 cited

Carrier Plasmon Induced Nonlinear Band Gap Renormalization in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Yufeng Liang, Li Yang

In reduced-dimensional semiconductors, doping-induced carrier plasmons can strongly couple with quasiparticle excitations, leading to a significant band gap renormalization. We dev…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 2.4k cited

Tunable Band Gap and Anisotropic Optical Response in Few-layer Black Phosphorus

Vy Tran, Ryan Soklaski, Yufeng Liang +1

We report the quasiparticle band gap, excitons, and highly anisotropic optical responses of few-layer black phosphorous (phosphorene). It is shown that these new materials exhibit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 26 cited

New Mechanism for Strongly Bound Excitons in Gapless Two-Dimensional Structures

Yufeng Liang, Ryan Soklaski, Shouting Huang +4

Common wisdom asserts that bound excitons cannot form in high-dimensional (d>1) metallic structures because of their overwhelming screening and unavoidable resonance with nearby co…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 69 cited

Temperature Renormalization of Optical Spectra of Monolayer MoS2

Ryan Soklaski, Yufeng Liang, Changjian Zhang +3

Newly measured optical absorption and photoluminescence spectra reveal substantial frequency shifts of both exciton and trion peaks as monolayer MoS2 is cooled from 363 K to 4 K. F…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 146 cited

Van Hove Singularities and Excitonic Effects in the Optical Conductivity of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Robin W. Havener, Yufeng Liang, Lola Brown +2

We report a systematic study of the optical conductivity of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) across a large energy range (1.2 eV to 5.6 eV) for various twist angles, combined with f…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 151 cited

Quasiparticle band-edge energy and band offsets of monolayer of molybdenum and tungsten chalcogenide

Yufeng Liang, Shouting Huang, Ryan Soklaski +1

We report the quasiparticle energy of monolayer of molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenides, MX2 (M=Mo, W; X=S, Se, Te). Beyond calculating bandgaps, we have achieved converged abso…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 48 cited

Exciton Energy Spectra in Two-Dimensional Graphene Derivatives

Shouting Huang, Yufeng Liang, Li Yang

The energy spectra and wavefunctions of bound excitons in important two-dimensional (2D) graphene derivatives, i.e., graphyne and graphane, are found to be strongly modified by qua…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 126 cited

Topological kink states at a tilt boundary in gated multi-layer graphene

Abolhassan Vaezi, Yufeng Liang, Darryl H. Ngai +2

The search for new realization of topologically protected edge states is an active area of research. We show that a tilt boundary in gated multi-layer graphene supports topological…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012★ 10 cited

Enhanced Many-Electron Effects on Excited States of Gated Bilayer Graphene

Yufeng Liang, Li Yang

By employing the first-principles GW-Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) simulation, we obtain, for the first time, the accurate quasiparticle (QP) band gap, optical absorption spectra a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 15 cited

Many-Electron Effects on Optical Absorption Spectra of Strained Graphene

Yufeng Liang, Shouting Huang, Li Yang

We employ the first-principles GW+Bethe Salpeter equation approach to study the electronic structure and optical absorption spectra of uniaxial strained graphene with many-electron…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 20 cited

Electronic Structure and Optical Absorption of Fluorographene

Yufeng Liang, Li Yang

A first-principles study on the quasiparticles energy and optical absorption spectrum of fluorographene is presented by employing the GW + Bethe-Salpeter Equation (BSE) method with…