selected publications chapter Experimental approaches for probing heat transfer and energy conversion at the atomic and molecular scales 2020 conference proceeding Plasmons and hot electrons: Open-circuit photovoltages and bias-driven light emission. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 2019 Radiative Heat Transfer across Nanometer-size Gaps. 1563-1563. 2016 journal article Inductance meets memory in a quantum magnet. Communications Physics. 2026 Achieving Simultaneously High Efficiency and Power Density in Zero-Vacuum-Gap Thermophotovoltaic Devices. ACS Photonics. 5623-5629. 2025 On-chip single-crystal plasmonic optoelectronics for efficient hot carrier collection and photovoltage detection. Light: Science & Applications. 2025 Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions. Nature Materials. 2025 Lithography-free, low-cost, picowatt-resolution calorimeter for micro and nanoscale thermal characterization. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 2025 Near-Field Thermal Radiation as a Probe of Nanoscale Hot Electron and Phonon Transport. ACS Nano. 6033-6043. 2025 Enhanced power density in zero-vacuum-gap thermophotovoltaic devices. Energy and Environmental Science. 1514-1523. 2025 Energy conversion and transport in molecular-scale junctions. Applied Physics Reviews. 2024 Molecular scale nanophotonics: hot carriers, strong coupling, and electrically driven plasmonic processes. Nanophotonics. 2281-2322. 2024 Molecular perspective and engineering of thermal transport and thermoelectricity in polymers. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 10614-10658. 2024 Modelling and performance analysis of a novel thermophotovoltaic system with enhanced radiative heat transfer for combined heat and power generation. Applied Energy. 2023 Tuning Light Emission Crossovers in Atomic-Scale Aluminum Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions. Nano Letters. 8068-8075. 2022 Near-field radiative heat transfer modulated by nontrivial topological surface states. Materials Today Physics. 2022 Probing energy dissipation in molecular-scale junctions via surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: vibrational pumping and hot carrier enhanced light emission. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 2021 Thousand-fold Increase in Plasmonic Light Emission via Combined Electronic and Optical Excitations. Nano Letters. 2658-2665. 2021 Hot-carrier enhanced light emission: The origin of above-threshold photons from electrically driven plasmonic tunnel junctions. Journal of Applied Physics. 2020 Electrically Driven Hot-Carrier Generation and Above-Threshold Light Emission in Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions. Nano Letters. 6067-6075. 2020 MicroRNA-582-5p Reduces Propofol-induced Apoptosis in Developing Neurons by Targeting ROCK1. Current Neurovascular Research. 140-146. 2020 Thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions. Nature. 628-+. 2019 Active Magneto-Optical Control of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Graphene Sheets. Physical Review Applied. 2019 Influence of Quantum Interference on the Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Junctions. Nano Letters. 5666-5672. 2018 Study of radiative heat transfer in Angstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps (vol 8, 14479, 2017). Nature Communications. 2018 Peltier cooling in molecular junctions. Nature Nanotechnology. 122-+. 2018 Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions. Science. 1192-1195. 2017 Perspective: Thermal and thermoelectric transport in molecular junctions. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2017 Study of radiative heat transfer in Ã…ngstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps. Nature Communications. 2017 Harmony with superatoms. Nature Materials. 10-+. 2017 Study of radiative heat tansfer at Angstron and nanometer scale gaps. Nature Communications. 2017 Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field. Nature. 387-391. 2015 Ultrafast modulation of near-field heat transfer with tunable metamaterials. Applied Physics Letters. 2013 Near-field radiative heat transfer between chiral metamaterials. Journal of Applied Physics. 2012
education and training M.E., Beihang University (China) 2013 B.A., Peking Univ (China) 2011 B.E., Beihang University (China) 2010
awards and honors Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), conferred by National Science Foundation, 2023 Graduate Student Award-Gold, conferred by Materials Research Society, 2017
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