University of Texas at Austin

Selected Publications

[Link] Tuning commensurability in twisted van der Waals bilayers

Y Li, F Zhang, VA Ha ..., CK Shih
Nature 2023

[Link] Plasmonic nanolaser using epitaxially grown silver film

YJ Lu, J Kim, HY Chen, C Wu, N Dabidian, CE Sanders, CY Wang, MY Lu, ...
science 337 (6093), 450-453

[Link] Strain distributions and their influence on electronic structures of WSe2–MoS2 laterally strained heterojunctions

Chendong Zhang, Ming-Yang Li, Jerry Tersoff, Yimo Han, Yushan Su, Lain-Jong Li, David A Muller, Chih-Kang Shih
Nature Nanotechnology 13 (2), 152-158

[Link] Probing Critical Point Energies of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: Surprising Indirect Gap of Single Layer WSe2

Chendong Zhang, Yuxuan Chen, Amber Johnson, Ming-Yang Li, Lain-Jong Li, Patrick C Mende, Randall M Feenstra, Chih-Kang Shih
Nano Letters 14 (5), 2443-2447

[Link] “Electronic growth” of metallic overlayers on semiconductor substrates

Z Zhang, Q Niu, CK Shih
Physical review letters 80 (24), 5381

[Link] Interlayer couplings, Moiré patterns, and 2D electronic superlattices in MoS2/WSe2 hetero-bilayers

Chendong Zhang, Chih-Piao Chuu, Xibiao Ren, Ming-Yang Li, Lain-Jong Li, Chuanhong Jin, Mei-Yin Chou, Chih-Kang Shih
Science Advances 3 (1), e1601459

[Link] Visualization of geometric influences on proximity effects in heterogeneous superconductor thin films

Jungdae Kim, Victor Chua, Gregory A Fiete, Hyoungdo Nam, Allan H MacDonald, Chih-Kang Shih
Nature Physics 8 (6), 464-469

[Link] Resonantly driven coherent oscillations in a solid-state quantum emitter

EB Flagg, A Muller, JW Robertson, S Founta, DG Deppe, M Xiao, W Ma, ...
Nature Physics 5 (3), 203-207

[Link] Determination of band alignment in the single-layer MoS 2/WSe 2 heterojunction

MH Chiu, C Zhang, HW Shiu, CP Chuu, CH Chen, CYS Chang, CH Chen, ...
Nature communications 6 (1), 1-6

[Link] Formation of atomically flat silver films on GaAs with a" silver mean" quasi periodicity

Arthur R Smith, Kuo-Jen Chao, Qian Niu, Chih-Kang Shih
Science 273 (5272), 226-228

[Link] Superconductivity at the two-dimensional limit

Shengyong Qin, Jungdae Kim, Qian Niu, Chih-Kang Shih
Science 324 (5932), 1314-1317

Recent Publications

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2024 Direct observation of layer skyrmions in twisted WSe2 bilayers

Fan Zhang, Nicolás Morales-Durán, Yanxing Li, Wang Yao, Jung-Jung Su, Yu-Chuan Lin, Chengye Dong, Xiaohui Liu, Fu-Xiang Chen, Hyunsue Kim, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaoqin Li, Joshua Robinson, Allan MacDonald & Chih-Kang Shih
Preprint 2024

2024 Nanoscale Control of Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4 Using Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Implications for Defect Control

Hyunsue Kim, Mengke Liu, Lisa Frammolino, Yanxing Li, Fan Zhang, Woojoo Lee, Chengye Dong, Yi-Fan Zhao, Guan-Yu Chen, Pin-Jui Hsu, Cui-Zu Chang, Joshua Robinson, Jiaqiang Yan, Xiaoqin Li, Allan H. MacDonald & Chih-Kang Shih
ACS Applied Nano Materials 2024

2023 Tuning commensurability in twisted van der Waals bilayers

Yanxing Li, Fan Zhang, Viet-Anh Ha, Yu-Chuan Lin, Chengye Dong, Qiang Gao,Zhida Liu, Xiaohui Liu, Sae Hee Ryu, Hyunsue Kim, Chris Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Bishoy Kousa, Xiaoqin Li, Eli Rotenberg, Eslam Khalaf, Joshua A. Robinson, Feliciano Giustino & Chih-Kang Shih
Nature 2023

2023 Creating a Nanoscale Lateral Junction in a Semiconductor Monolayer with a Large Built-in Potential

Madisen Holbrook, Yuxuan Chen, Hyunsue Kim, Lisa Frammolino, Mengke Liu, Chi-Ruei Pan, Mei-Yin Chou, Chengdong Zhang, Chih-Kang Shih
ACS Nano 2023, 17, 7, 6966–6972

2022 Visualizing the interplay of Dirac mass gap and magnetism at nanoscale in intrinsic magnetic topological insulators

Mengke Liu, Chao Lei, Hyunsue Kim, Yanxing Li, Lisa Frammolino, Jiaqiang Yan, Allan H Macdonald, Chih-Kang Shih
PNAS 2022 119 (42) e2207681119

2022 Confined Monolayer Ag As a Large Gap 2D Semiconductor and Its Momentum Resolved Excited States

Woojoo Lee, Yuanxi Wang, Wei Qin, Hyunsue Kim, Mengke Liu, T Nathan Nunley, Bin Fang, Rinu Maniyara, Chengye Dong, Joshua A Robinson, Vincent H Crespi, Xiaoqin Li, Allan H MacDonald, Chih-Kang Shih
Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 19, 7841–7847

2021 Monolayer 1T-NbSe2 as a 2D-correlated magnetic insulator

Mengke Liu, Joshua Leveillee, Shuangzan Lu, Jia Yu, Hyunsue Kim, Chen Tian, Youguo Shi, Keji Lai, Chendong Zhang, Feliciano Giustino, Chih-Kang Shih
Science advances, 7(47), p.eabi6339

2021 Influence of Nanosize Hole Defects and their Geometric Arrangements on the Superfluid Density in Atomically Thin Single Crystals of Indium Superconductor

Mengke Liu, Hyoungdo Nam, Jungdae Kim, Gregory A. Fiete, and Chih-Kang Shih
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127003

2021 Time-resolved ARPES Determination of a Quasi-Particle Band Gap and Hot Electron Dynamics in Monolayer MoS2

Woojoo Lee, Yi Lin, Li-Syuan Lu, Wei-Chen Chueh, Mengke Liu, Xiaoqin Li, Wen-Hao Chang, Robert A. Kaindl, and Chih-Kang Shih
Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 17, 7363–7370

2021 Momentum-Resolved Electronic Structures of a Monolayer-MoS2/Multilayer-MoSe2 Heterostructure

Woojoo Lee, Li-Syuan Lu, Wen-Hao Chang*, and Chih-Kang Shih
J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 30, 16591–16597

2021 Epitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional Insulator Monolayer Honeycomb BeO

Hui Zhang, Madisen Holbrook, Fei Cheng, Hyoungdo Nam, Mengke Liu, Chi-Ruei Pan, Damien West, Shengbai Zhang, Mei-Yin Chou, and Chih-Kang Shih
ACS Nano 2021, 15, 2, 2497–2505

2019 Engineering Point-Defect States in Monolayer WSe2

Chendong Zhang, Cong Wang, Feng Yang, Jing-Kai Huang, Lain-Jong Li, Wang Yao, Wei Ji, Chih-Kang Shih
ACS Nano 2019, 13, 2, 1595-1602

2019 Epitaxial Growth of Optically Thick, Single Crystalline Silver Films for Plasmonics

Fei Cheng, Chien-Ju Lee, Junho Choi, Chun-Yuan Wang, Qiang Zhang, Hui Zhang, Shangjr Gwo, Wen-Hao Chang, Xiaoqin Li, Chih-Kang Shih
Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 3, 3189-3195

2019 Tailoring excitonic states of van der Waals bilayers through stacking configuration, band alignment, and valley spin

Wei-Ting Hsu, Bo-Han Lin, Li-Syuan Lu, Ming-Hao Lee, Ming-Wen Chu, Lain-Jong Li ... Chih-Kang, Shih
Science Advances 5 (12), eaax7407

2019 Dielectric impact on exciton binding energy and quasiparticle bandgap in monolayer WS2 and WSe2

WT Hsu, J Quan, CY Wang, LS Lu, M Campbell, WH Chang, LJ Li, X Li, ...
2D Materials 6 (2), 025028

2019 Behavior of superconductivity in a Pb/Ag heterostructure

H Nam, C Zhang, W Lee, S Zhu, HJ Gao, Q Niu, GA Fiete, CK Shih
Physical Review B 100 (9), 094512

2018 Geometric quenching of orbital pair breaking in a single crystalline superconducting nanomesh network

H Nam, H Chen, PW Adams, SY Guan, TM Chuang, CS Chang, ...
Nature communications 9 (1), 1-6

2018 Quantum upside-down cake (news & views)

CK Shih, AH MacDonald
Nature 555 (7694), 36-37

2018 Strain distributions and their influence on electronic structures of WSe 2–MoS 2 laterally strained heterojunctions

C Zhang, MY Li, J Tersoff, Y Han, Y Su, LJ Li, DA Muller, CK Shih
Nature nanotechnology 13 (2), 152-158

2018 Epitaxial aluminum-on-sapphire films as a plasmonic material platform for ultraviolet and full visible spectral regions

CW Cheng, YJ Liao, CY Liu, BH Wu, SS Raja, CY Wang, X Li, CK Shih, ...
ACS Photonics 5 (7), 2624-2630