Publication

Preprint
  • Yanhao Tang, Mersedeh Saniepay, Chenjia Mi, Rémi Beaulac, John A. McGuire, “Optical Stark metrology of CdSe quantum dots: Reconciling the size-dependent oscillator strength with theory”, arXiv:1703.00530 (2017).
2025:
  • Chenran Xu†, Chen Xu†, Jichen Zhou, Zhexu Shan, Wenjian Su, Wenbing Li, Xingqi Xu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shiyao Zhu, Da-Wei Wang and Yanhao Tang⁎, “Gate-tunable hot electron extraction in a two-dimensional semiconductor heterojunction”, Nano Letters (accepted), arXiv:2504.05859 (2025).
    We demonstrated the exciton-electron interaction as a novel strategy of harvesting excess energy of hot carriers in TMD heterostructure.
2023:
  • Yanhao Tang, “Exotic states in moiré superlattices of twisted semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides”, Acta Phys. Sin., 2023, 72(2): 027802.
    A review about the electronic correlated states in TMDs moire materials.
2022:
  • Yanhao Tang, Kaixiang Su , Lizhong Li, Yang Xu, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Chao-Ming Jian, Cenke Xu, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, “Evidence of frustrated magnetic interactions in a Wigner-Mott insulator”, Nature Nanotechnology (accepted), arXiv:2204.08148 (2022).
    We observed strongly suppressed antiferromagnetic interaction at 2/3 filling of moire superlattices.
  • Yanhao Tang†, ⁎, Jie Gu†, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C Hone, Kin Fai Mak⁎, Jie Shan⁎, “Dielectric catastrophe at the Wigner-Mott transition in a moiré superlattice”, Nature Communications, 13, 4271 (2022).
    We achieved continuous U/t driven Wigner transitions in moire superlattices via external electric field.
  • Saien Xie⁎, Brendan D. Faeth, Yanhao Tang, Lizhong Li, Eli Gerber, Christopher T. Parzyck, Debanjan Chowdhury, Ya-Hui Zhang, Christopher Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Eun-Ah, Kim, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak, Kyle M. Shen⁎, “Direct observation of distinct minibands in moiré superlattices”, Science Advances 8, eabk1911 (2022).
2021:
  • Tingxin Li, Jiacheng Zhu, Yanhao Tang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Veit Elser, Jie Shan⁎, Kin Fai Mak⁎, “Charge-order-enhanced capacitance in semiconductor moiré superlattices”, Nature Nanotechnology 16, 1068–1072 (2021).
  • Chenhao Jin⁎, Zui Tao, Tingxin Li, Yang Xu, Yanhao Tang, Jiacheng Zhu, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Liang Fu, Jie Shan⁎, Kin Fai Mak⁎, “Stripe phases in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices”, Nature Materials 20, 940–944 (2021).
Before ZJU
2017-2021:
  • Yanhao Tang, Jie Gu, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Kin Fai Mak⁎, Jie Shan⁎, “Tuning layer-hybridized moiré excitons by the quantum-confined Stark effect,” Nature Nanotechnology 16, 52–57 (2021).
  • Yang Xu, Connor Horn, Jiacheng Zhu, Yanhao Tang, Liguo Ma, Lizhong Li, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Jie Shan⁎, Kin Fai Mak⁎, “Creation of moiré bands in a monolayer semiconductor by spatially periodic dielectric screening”, Nature Materials 20, 645–649 (2021).
  • Yanhao Tang, Lizhong Li, Tingxin Li, Yang Xu, Song Liu, Katayun Barmak, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Allan H MacDonald, Jie Shan⁎, Kin Fai Mak⁎, “Simulation of Hubbard model physics in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices,” Nature, 579, 353–358 (2020).
  • Poulami Dutta†, Yanhao Tang†, Chenjia Mi†, Mersedeh Saniepay†, John A. McGuire⁎, and Rémi Beaulac⁎, “Ultrafast hole extraction from photoexcited colloidal CdSe quantum dots coupled to nitroxide free radicals,” J. Chem. Phys., 151, 174706 (2019).
  • Yanhao Tang⁎, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, “Long valley lifetime of dark excitons in single-layer WSe2,” Nature Communications, 10, 4047 (2019).
  • Yanhao Tang⁎, Kin Fai Mak⁎, “2D materials for silicon photonics,” (news and views) Nature Nanotechnology, 12, 1121 (2017).
2011-2017:
  • Yanhao Tang, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire⁎, Chih-Wei Lai⁎, “Layer-and Frequency-Dependent Second Harmonic Generation in Reflection from GaSe Atomic Crystals,” Phys. Rev. B, 94, 125302 (2016).
  • Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire⁎, Chih-Wei Lai⁎, “Exciton Spin Dynamics in GaSe,” J. Appl. Phys., 118, 113103 (2015).
  • Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai⁎, “Linearly Polarized Remote-Edge Luminescence in GaSe Nanoslabs,” Phys. Rev. Appl., 4, 034008 (2015).
  • Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai⁎, “Optical and spin polarization dynamics in GaSe nanoslabs,” Phys. Rev. B, 91,195429 (2015).