Publications
65. Feng Pan, Xin Li, Amalya C Johnson, Scott Dhuey, Ashley Saunders, Meng-Xia Hu, Jefferson P Dixon, Sahil Dagli, Sze-Cheung Lau, Tingting Weng, Chih-Yi Chen, Jun-Hao Zeng, Rajas Apte, Tony F Heinz, Fang Liu, Zi-Lan Deng, Jennifer A Dionne, Room-temperature valley-selective emission in Si-MoSe2 heterostructures enabled by high-quality-factor chiroptical cavities. Nat Commun 17, 20 (2026).
64. Shultz, A., Alzahrani, S., Goul, R., Zaborski, G. J., Johnson, C., Liu, F., Sadeghi, S., Berrie, C. L., and Wu, J. Z. Mimicry of biological neurons in an array of mos2 field effect transistors with ionic liquid gates. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 8 (8), 3611-3622 (2026)
63. Shaikh, K., Yoo, T., Zhu, Z., Li, Q., Johnson, A. C., Deng, H., Liu, F., and Kobayashi, Y. Enhanced second-harmonic generation from WS2/ReSe2 heterostructure. J. Chem. Phys. 164(10), 104704 (2026).
62. Shen, Y., Chen, C., Ma, H., Saunders, A. P., Heide, C., Liu, F., Rotskoff, G. M., Shi, J., and Lindenberg, A. M. Non-equilibrium entropy production and information dissipation in a non-markovian quantum dot. Nat. Phys. 22(3), 374–381 (2026).
61. Hoang, L., Bennett, R. K. A., Hoang, A. T., Pe˜na, T., Zhang, Z., Hocking, M., Saunders, A. P., Jaikissoon, M., Liu, F., Pop, E., and Mannix, A. J. Low resistance p-type contacts to monolayer WSe2 through chlorinated solvent doping. Nat. Commun. 17(1), 718 (2026).
60. Montanaro, A., Valiera, F., Giusti, F., Fassioli, F., Trovatello, C., Jarc, G., Rigoni, E. M., Liu, F., Zhu, X., Conte, S. D., Cerullo, G., Eckstein, M., and Fausti, D. Tracking the photoinduced dynamics of a dark excitonic state in single-layer WS2 via resonant Autler-Townes splitting. Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 016902 (2026).
59. J. L.Cleron, C.-YiChen, F.Pan, S.Saha, F. P.Marlton, R. M.Stolz, J.Li, J. A.Dionne, F.Liu, M. R.Filip, H. I.Karunadasa,Twisted Tin-Chloride Perovskite Single-Crystal Heterostructures. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 65, e20140 (2026)
58 Zeyuan Zhu, Taejun Yoo, Kanchan Shaikh, Amalya C. Johnson, Qiuyang Li, Fang Liu, Hui Deng, Yuki Kobayashi. Determining the complex second-order optical susceptibility in macroscale van der Waals heterobilayers. J. Chem. Phys. 163 (17): 174707 (2025)
57 Cameron J.R. Duncan, Amalya C. Johnson, Indrajit Maity, Angel Rubio, Matthew Gordon, Adam C. Bartnik, Michael Kaemingk, William H. Li, Matthew B. Andorf, Chad A. Pennington, Ivan V. Bazarov, Mark W. Tate, David A. Muller, Julia Thom-Levy, Sol .M. Gruner, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Jared M. Maxson, Fang Liu. Photoinduced Twist and Untwist of Moiré Superlattices. Nature 647, 619–624 (2025).
56 Gregory Zaborski, Jr., Paulina E. Majchrzak, Samuel Lai, Amalya C. Johnson, Qile Li, Ashley P. Saunders, Ziyan Zhu, Yujun Deng, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Zhi-Xun Shen, Fang Liu. Macroscopic uniform 2D moiré superlattices with controllable angles. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 147 (42), 38033-38042 (2025)
55 Ludovica Guarneri, Thomas Bauer, Qitong Li, Jung-Hwan Song, Skyler Selvin, Ashley P. Saunders, Fang Liu, Mark L. Brongersma, Jorik van de Groep, Dynamic Excitonic Beam Switching with Atomically-Thin Binary Blazed Gratings. Adv. Optical Mater. 13, 2403257 (2025).
54 Bengisu Sari, Medha Dandu, Nathan Wood, Jacob Hochhalter, Amalya C Johnson, Marca Doeff, Fang Liu, Archana Raja, Mary Scott, Rohan Dhall, Roseanne Warren. Facile Tensile Testing Platform for In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials. Adv. Mater. Inter. 12, 7, 1 (2025)
53 Gang Qiang, Ashley P. Saunders, Cong T. Trinh, Na Liu, Andrew C. Jones, Fang Liu, and Han Htoon. Localized exciton emission from monolayer WS2 nanoribbon at cryogenic temperature. Nanophotonics. 14(11), 1721-1728 (2025).
52 Ashley P. Saunders, Victoria Chen, Jierong Wang, Qitong Li, Amalya C. Johnson, Amy S. McKeown-Green, Helen J. Zeng, T. Kien Mac, M. Tuan Trinh, Tony F. Heinz, Eric Pop, and Fang Liu. Direct exfoliation of nanoribbons from bulk van der Waals crystals. Small 20 (47), 2403504 (2024).
51 Jiaojian Shi, Yuejun Shen, Feng Pan, Weiwei Sun, Anudeep Mangu, Cindy Shi, Amy McKeown-Green, Parivash Moradifar, Moungi G. Bawendi, W. E. Moerner, Jennifer A. Dionne, Fang Liu, and Aaron M. Lindenberg. Solution-phase sample-averaged single-particle spectroscopy of quantum emitters with femtosecond resolution. Nat. Mater. 23(8), 1063–1069 (2024).
50 Ludovica Guarneri, Qitong Li, Thomas Bauer, Jung-Hwan Song, Ashley P. Saunders, Fang Liu, Mark L. Brongersma, and Jorik van de Groep. Temperature-dependent excitonic light manipulation with atomically thin optical elements. Nano Lett. 24(21), 6240–6246 (2024). PMID: 38578061.
49 Amy S. McKeown-Green, Helen J. Zeng, Ashley P. Saunders, Jiayi Li, Jiaojian Shi, Yuejun Shen, Feng Pan, Jenny Hu, Jennifer A. Dionne, Tony F. Heinz, Stephen M. Wu, Fan Zheng, and Fang Liu. Millimeter-scale exfoliation of hBN with tunable flake thickness for scalable encapsulation. ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 7(6), 6574–6582 (2024).
48 Amalya C. Johnson, Johnathan D. Georgaras, Xiaozhe Shen, Helen Yao, Ashley P. Saunders, Helen J. Zeng, Hyungjin Kim, Aditya Sood, Tony F. Heinz, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Duan Luo, Felipe H. da Jornada, and Fang Liu. Hidden phonon highways promote photoinduced interlayer energy transfer in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures. Science Adv. 10(4), eadj8819 (2024).
47 Jiaojian Shi, Haowei Xu, Christian Heide, Changan HuangFu, Chenyi Xia, Felipe de Quesada, Hongzhi Shen, Tianyi Zhang, Leo Yu, Amalya Johnson, Fang Liu, Enzheng Shi, Liying Jiao, Tony Heinz, Shambhu Ghimire, Ju Li, Jing Kong, Yunfan Guo, and Aaron M. Lindenberg. Giant room-temperature nonlinearities in a monolayer Janus topological semiconductor. Nat. Comm. 14(1), 4953 (2023).
46 Niclas S. Mueller, Rakesh Arul, Gyeongwon Kang, Ashley P. Saunders, Amalya C. Johnson, Ana Sánchez-Iglesias, Shu Hu, Lukas A. Jakob, Jonathan Bar-David, Bart de Nijs, Luis M. Liz-Marzán, Fang Liu, and Jeremy J. Baumberg. Photoluminescence upconversion in monolayer WSe₂ activated by plasmonic cavities through resonant excitation of dark excitons. Nat. Comm. 14(1), 5726 (2023).
45 Qitong Li, Jung-Hwan Song, Fenghao Xu, Jorik van de Groep, Jiho Hong, Alwin Daus, Yan Joe Lee, Amalya C. Johnson, Eric Pop, Fang Liu, and Mark L. Brongersma. A Purcell-enabled monolayer semiconductor free-space optical modulator. Nat. Photonics 17(10), 897–903 (2023).
44 Yin Liu, Sze Cheung Lau, Wen-Hui Cheng, Amalya Johnson, Qitong Li, Emma Simmerman, Ouri Karni, Jack Hu, Fang Liu, Mark L. Brongersma, Tony F. Heinz, and Jennifer A. Dionne. Controlling valley-specific light emission from monolayer MoS₂ with achiral dielectric metasurfaces. Nano Lett. 23(13), 6124–6131 (2023). PMID: 37347949.
43 C.J.R. Duncan, M. Kaemingk, W.H. Li, M.B. Andorf, A.C. Bartnik, A. Galdi, M. Gordon, C.A. Pennington, I.V. Bazarov, H.J. Zeng, Fang Liu, D. Luo, A. Sood, A.M. Lindenberg, M.W. Tate, D.A. Muller, J. Thom-Levy, S.M. Gruner, and J.M. Maxson. Multi-scale time-resolved electron diffraction: A case study in moiré materials. Ultramicroscopy 253, 113771 (2023).
42 Yuki Kobayashi, Christian Heide, Amalya C. Johnson, Vishal Tiwari, Fang Liu, David A. Reis, Tony F. Heinz, and Shambhu Ghimire. Floquet engineering of strongly driven excitons in monolayer tungsten disulfide. Nat. Phys. 19(2), 171–176 (2023).
41 Christian Heide, Yuki Kobayashi, Amalya C. Johnson, Tony F. Heinz, David A. Reis, Fang Liu, and Shambhu Ghimire. High-harmonic generation from artificially stacked 2D crystals. Nanophotonics 12(2), 255–261 (2023).
40 Fang Liu. Time- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-ARPES) of TMDC monolayers and bilayers. Chem. Sci. 14, 736–750 (2023). Selected and included in the 2023 most popular analytical chemistry articles collection.
39 B. Ardini, A. Bassi, A. Candeo, A. Genco, C. Trovatello, Fang Liu, X. Zhu, G. Valentini, G. Cerullo, R. Vanna, and C. Manzoni. High-throughput multimodal wide-field Fourier-transform Raman microscope. Optica 10(6), 663–670 (2023).
38 Eric Y. Ma, Jenny Hu, Lutz Waldecker, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Fang Liu, and Tony F. Heinz. The Reststrahlen effect in the optically thin limit: A framework for resonant response in thin media. Nano Lett. 22(20), 8389–8393 (2022).
37 Christian Heide, Yuki Kobayashi, Amalya C. Johnson, Fang Liu, Tony F. Heinz, David A. Reis, and Shambhu Ghimire. Probing electron-hole coherence in strongly driven 2D materials using high-harmonic generation. Optica 9(5), 512–516 (2022).
36 Varun Mapara, Arup Barua, Volodymyr Turkowski, M. Tuan Trinh, Christopher Stevens, Hengzhou Liu, Florence A. Nugera, Nalaka Kapuruge, Humberto Rodriguez Gutierrez, Fang Liu, Xiaoyang Zhu, Dmitry Semenov, Stephen A. McGill, Nihar Pradhan, David J. Hilton, and Denis Karaiskaj. Bright and dark exciton coherent coupling and hybridization enabled by external magnetic fields. Nano Lett. 22(4), 1680–1687 (2022).
35 Yuki Kobayashi, Christian Heide, Hamed K. Kelardeh, Amalya Johnson, Fang Liu, Tony F. Heinz, David A. Reis, and Shambhu Ghimire. Polarization flipping of even-order harmonics in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides. Ultrafast Sci. 2021, 9820716 (2021).
34 Fang Liu. Mechanical Exfoliation of Large Area 2D Materials from vdW Crystals. Prog. Surf. Sci. 100626 (2021).
33 Veronica R. Policht, Mattia Russo, Fang Liu, Chiara Trovatello, Margherita Maiuri, Yusong Bai, Xiaoyang Zhu, Stefano Dal Conte, and Giulio Cerullo. Dissecting interlayer hole and electron transfer in transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures via two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Nano Lett. 21(11), 4738–4743 (2021). PMID: 34037406.
32 Kaiyuan Yao, Nathan R. Finney, Jin Zhang, Samuel L. Moore, Lede Xian, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Fang Liu, Jenny Ardelean, Xinyi Xu, Dorri Halbertal, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Hector Ochoa, Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Xiaoyang Zhu, D. N. Basov, Angel Rubio, Cory R. Dean, James Hone, and P. James Schuck. Enhanced tunable second harmonic generation from twistable interfaces and vertical superlattices in boron nitride homostructures. Sci. Adv. 7(10) (2021).
31 Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, P. S. Chandrasekhar, Natalia Cano-Sampaio, Zoe C. Simon, Alain R. Puente-Santiago, Fang Liu, Edison Castro, and Luis Echegoyen. The role of fullerene derivatives in perovskite solar cells: Electron transporting or electron extraction layers? J. Mater. Chem. C (2021). DOI: 10.1039/D0TC05903.
30 Chiara Trovatello, Andrea Marini, Xinyi Xu, Changhwan Lee, Fang Liu, Nicola Curreli, Cristian Manzoni, Stefano Dal Conte, Kaiyuan Yao, Alessandro Ciattoni, James Hone, Xiaoyang Zhu, P. James Shuck, and Giulio Cerullo. Optical parametric amplification by monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides. Nat. Photonics 15, 6–10 (2021).
29 Yusong Bai, Lin Zhou, Jue Wang, Wenjing Wu, Leo McGilly, Dorri Halbertal, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Fang Liu, Jenny Ardelean, Pasqual Rivera, Nathan Finney, Xu-Chen Yang, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu, James Hone, Abhay Pasupathy, and X.-Y. Zhu. Excitons in strain-induced one-dimensional moiré potentials at transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunctions. Nature Mater. 19, 1124 (2020).
28 Fang Liu, Qiuyang Li, and X.-Y. Zhu. Direct determination of momentum-resolved electron transfer in the photoexcited van der Waals heterobilayer WS₂/MoS₂. Phys. Rev. B 101, 201405 (2020).
27 Qiuyang Li, Fang Liu, Jake C. Russell, Xavier Roy, and Xiaoyang Zhu. Strong polaronic effect in a superatomic two-dimensional semiconductor. J. Chem. Phys. 152(17), 171101 (2020).
26 Fang Liu, Wenjing Wu, Yusong Bai, Sanghoon Chae, Qiuyang Li, Jue Wang, James Hone, and X.-Y. Zhu. Disassembling 2D van der Waals crystals into macroscopic monolayers and reassembling into artificial lattices. Science 367, 903–906 (2020).
25 Feifan Wang, Jue Wang, Sebastian F. Maehrlein, Yingzi Ma, Fang Liu, and X.-Y. Zhu. Broad band near-infrared doublet emission in a tetrathiafulvalene-based metal organic framework. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 11, 762 (2020).
24 Edison Castro, Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Albert Artigas, Gerardo Zavala, Fang Liu, Antonio Moreno-Vicente, Antonio Rodriguez-Fortea, Jose D. Velasquez, Josep M. Poblet, and Luis Echegoyen. α-DTC70 fullerene performs significantly better than β-DTC70 as electron transporting material in perovskite solar cells. J. Mater. Chem. C 8, 6813–6819 (2020).
23 Fang Liu, Mark E. Ziffer, Kameron R. Hansen, Jue Wang, and X.-Y. Zhu. Direct determination of band-gap renormalization in the photoexcited monolayer MoS₂. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246803 (2019).
22 Fang Liu∗, Feifan Wang∗, Kameron R. Hansen, and X.-Y. Zhu. Bimodal bandgaps in mixed cesium methylammonium lead bromide perovskite single crystals. J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 14865 (2019). (∗Equal contribution)
21 Andrew P. Schlaus, Michael S. Spencer, Kiyoshi Miyata, Fang Liu, Xiaoxia Wang, Ipshita Datta, Michal Lipson, Anlian Pan, and X.-Y. Zhu. How lasing happens in CsPbBr₃ perovskite nanowires. Nature Commun. 10, 265 (2019).
20 Olivia Fernandez-Delgado, Edison Castro, Carolina Ganivet, Kaylin Fosnacht, Fang Liu, Thomas E. Mates, Ying Liu, Xiaojun Wu, and Luis Echegoyen. Variation of interfacial interactions in PC₆₁BM-like electron transporting compounds for perovskite solar cells. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2019).
19 Xinjue Zhong, Kihong Lee, Bonnie Choi, Daniele Meggiolaro, Fang Liu, Colin Nuckolls, Abhay Pasupathy, Filippo De Angelis, Patrick Batail, Xavier Roy, and X.-Y. Zhu. Superatomic two-dimensional semiconductor. Nano Lett. 18, 1483–1488 (2018).
18 Samuel R. Peurifoy, Edison Castro, Fang Liu, X.-Y. Zhu, Fay Ng, Steffen Jockusch, Michael L. Steigerwald, Luis Echegoyen, Colin Nuckolls, and Thomas J. Sisto. Three-dimensional graphene nanostructures. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 9341–9345 (2018).
17 Tyler J.S. Evans, Kiyoshi Miyata, Prakriti P. Joshi, Sebastian Maehrlein, Fang Liu, and X.-Y. Zhu. Competition between hot-electron cooling and large polaron screening in CsPbBr₃ perovskite single crystals. J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 13724–13730 (2018).
16 Edison Castro, Thomas J. Sisto, Elkin L. Romero, Fang Liu, Samuel R. Peurifoy, Jue Wang, X.-Y. Zhu, Colin Nuckolls, and Luis Echegoyen. Cove-edge nanoribbon materials for efficient inverted halide perovskite solar cells. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 14648–14652 (2017).
15 Craig A. Taatjes, Fang Liu, Brandon Rotavera, Manoj Kumar, Rebecca Caravan, David L. Osborn, Ward H. Thompson, and Marsha I. Lester. Hydroxyacetone production from C₃ Criegee intermediates. J. Phys. Chem. A. 121, 16–23 (2016).
14 Yi Fang, Fang Liu, Victoria P. Barber, Stephen J. Klippenstein, Anne B. McCoy, and Marsha I. Lester. Deep tunneling in the unimolecular decay of CH₃CHOO Criegee intermediates to OH radical products. J. Chem. Phys. 145, 234308 (2016).
13 Yi Fang, Fang Liu, Stephen J. Klippenstein, and Marsha I. Lester. Direct observation of unimolecular decay of CH₃CH₂CHOO Criegee intermediates to OH products. J. Chem. Phys. 145, 044312 (2016).
12 Amy M. Green, Fang Liu, and Marsha I. Lester. UV + VUV double-resonance studies of autoionizing Rydberg states of the hydroxyl radical. J. Chem. Phys. 144, 184311 (2016).
11 Yi Fang, Fang Liu, Victoria P. Barber, Stephen J. Klippenstein, Anne B. McCoy, and Marsha I. Lester. Real-time observation of unimolecular decay of Criegee intermediates to OH radical products. J. Chem. Phys. 144, 061102 (2016).
10 Fang Liu, Yi Fang, Manoj Kumar, Ward H. Thompson, and Marsha I. Lester. Direct observation of vinyl hydroperoxide. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 20490–20494 (2015).
9 Fang Liu, Joseph M. Beames, and Marsha I. Lester. Direct production of OH radicals upon CH overtone activation of (CH₃)₂COO Criegee intermediates. J. Chem. Phys. 141, 234312 (2014).
8 Fang Liu, Joseph M. Beames, Andrew S. Petit, Anne B. McCoy, and Marsha I. Lester. Infrared-driven unimolecular reaction of CH₃CHOO Criegee intermediates to OH radical products. Science 345, 1596–1598 (2014).
7 Fang Liu, Joseph M. Beames, Amy M. Green, and Marsha I. Lester. UV spectroscopic characterization of dimethyl- and ethyl-substituted carbonyl oxides. J. Phys. Chem. A 118, 2298–2306 (2014).
6 Joseph M. Beames, Fang Liu, and Marsha I. Lester. 1+1′ resonant multiphoton ionization of OH radicals via the A²Σ⁺ state: Insights from direct comparison with A-X laser-induced fluorescence detection. Mol. Phys. 112, 897–903 (2014).
5 Joseph M. Beames, Fang Liu, Lu Lu, and Marsha I. Lester. UV spectroscopic characterization of an alkyl-substituted Criegee intermediate CH₃CHOO. J. Chem. Phys. 138, 244307 (2013).
4 Joseph M. Beames, Fang Liu, Lu Lu, and Marsha I. Lester. Ultraviolet spectrum and photochemistry of the simplest Criegee intermediate CH₂OO. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 20045–20048 (2012). (Highlighted in RSC ChemistryWorld, April 12, 2013.)
3 Fan Xiaobing, Fang Liu, Yao Siyu, Deng Xianhe, Zhou Wenjuan, Kou Yuan, et al. Preparation of MoS₂ nanocatalyst and its application in hydrodesulfurization. Chinese J. Catal. 33, 1027–1031 (2012).
2 Joseph M. Beames, Fang Liu, Marsha I. Lester, and Craig Murray. A new spectroscopic window on hydroxyl radicals using UV + VUV resonant ionization. J. Chem. Phys. 134, 241102 (2011).
1 Xiao-Bing Fan, Zhi-Yuan Tao, Chao-Xian Xiao, Fang Liu, and Yuan Kou. Liquid-phase Fischer-Tropsch synthesis over Fe nanoparticles dispersed in polyethylene glycol (PEG). Green Chem. 12, 795–797 (2010).
