research overview
- https://www.cuilab.org/
- Contact Info
Cui, Longji
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
- Artificial Intelligence/Cybernetics
- Earth/Terrestrial Remote Sensing
- Electro-optics
- Molecular Probes
- Nano-Materials
- Nanotechnology
- Photovoltaics
- Quantum Electronics
- Quantum Structures
- Remote Sensing
- Remote Sensing Technology
- Renewable Energy Sources
- Sensing Devices and Transducers
- Thermal Effects
- Thermoelectric Generators
Research
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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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
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journal article
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Inductance meets memory in a quantum magnet.
Communications Physics.
2026
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Achieving Simultaneously High Efficiency and Power Density in Zero-Vacuum-Gap Thermophotovoltaic Devices.
ACS Photonics.
5623-5629.
2025
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On-chip single-crystal plasmonic optoelectronics for efficient hot carrier collection and photovoltage detection.
Light: Science & Applications.
2025
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Phonon interference in single-molecule junctions.
Nature Materials.
2025
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Lithography-free, low-cost, picowatt-resolution calorimeter for micro and nanoscale thermal characterization.
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical.
2025
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Near-Field Thermal Radiation as a Probe of Nanoscale Hot Electron and Phonon Transport.
ACS Nano.
6033-6043.
2025
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Enhanced power density in zero-vacuum-gap thermophotovoltaic devices.
Energy and Environmental Science.
1514-1523.
2025
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Energy conversion and transport in molecular-scale junctions.
Applied Physics Reviews.
2024
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Molecular scale nanophotonics: hot carriers, strong coupling, and electrically driven plasmonic processes.
Nanophotonics.
2281-2322.
2024
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Molecular perspective and engineering of thermal transport and thermoelectricity in polymers.
Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
10614-10658.
2024
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Modelling and performance analysis of a novel thermophotovoltaic system with enhanced radiative heat transfer for combined heat and power generation.
Applied Energy.
2023
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Tuning Light Emission Crossovers in Atomic-Scale Aluminum Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions.
Nano Letters.
8068-8075.
2022
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Near-field radiative heat transfer modulated by nontrivial topological surface states.
Materials Today Physics.
2022
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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
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Thousand-fold Increase in Plasmonic Light Emission via Combined Electronic and Optical Excitations.
Nano Letters.
2658-2665.
2021
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Hot-carrier enhanced light emission: The origin of above-threshold photons from electrically driven plasmonic tunnel junctions.
Journal of Applied Physics.
2020
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Electrically Driven Hot-Carrier Generation and Above-Threshold Light Emission in Plasmonic Tunnel Junctions.
Nano Letters.
6067-6075.
2020
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MicroRNA-582-5p Reduces Propofol-induced Apoptosis in Developing Neurons by Targeting ROCK1.
Current Neurovascular Research.
140-146.
2020
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Thermal conductance of single-molecule junctions.
Nature.
628-+.
2019
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Active Magneto-Optical Control of Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer between Graphene Sheets.
Physical Review Applied.
2019
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Influence of Quantum Interference on the Thermoelectric Properties of Molecular Junctions.
Nano Letters.
5666-5672.
2018
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Study of radiative heat transfer in Angstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps (vol 8, 14479, 2017).
Nature Communications.
2018
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Peltier cooling in molecular junctions.
Nature Nanotechnology.
122-+.
2018
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Quantized thermal transport in single-atom junctions.
Science.
1192-1195.
2017
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Perspective: Thermal and thermoelectric transport in molecular junctions.
Journal of Chemical Physics.
2017
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Study of radiative heat transfer in Ångstrom- and nanometre-sized gaps.
Nature Communications.
2017
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Harmony with superatoms.
Nature Materials.
10-+.
2017
- Study of radiative heat tansfer at Angstron and nanometer scale gaps. Nature Communications. 2017
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Radiative heat transfer in the extreme near field.
Nature.
387-391.
2015
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Ultrafast modulation of near-field heat transfer with tunable metamaterials.
Applied Physics Letters.
2013
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Near-field radiative heat transfer between chiral metamaterials.
Journal of Applied Physics.
2012
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Inductance meets memory in a quantum magnet.
Communications Physics.
2026
Background
education and training
- M.E., Beihang University (China) 2013
- B.A., Peking Univ (China) 2011
- B.E., Beihang University (China) 2010