Publications

 *Equal contributions
✉Corresponding authors

2024-2025

1. Efficient on-chip terahertz generation and detection with GaN photoconductive emitters
   C. B. Uzundal*, Q. Feng*, W. Tang, C. Hu, C. Sanborn, Y. Yoon, S. Chen, J. Ruan, S. G. Louie, and F. Wang✉
   Light Sci. Appl. 14, 226 (2025)

2. Electronic melt
   Y. Yoon✉
   Nat. Phys. 21, 340 (2025), pdf

3. Terahertz phonon engineering with van der Waals heterostructures
   Y. Yoon✉, Z. Lu, C. Uzundal, R. Qi, W. Zhao, S. Chen, Q. Feng, W. Kim, M. H. Naik, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. G. Louie, M. F. Crommie, and F. Wang✉
   Nature 631, 771 (2024)

Northeastern professor achieves major breakthrough in the manufacture of quantum computing components
N. Lloyd
Northeastern Global News

2020-2023

4. Reanalysis of experimental determinations of polariton-polariton interactions in microcavities
   D. W. Snoke✉, V. Hartwell, J. Beaumariage, S. Mukherjee, Y. Yoon, D. M. Myers, M. Steger, Z. Sun, K. A. Nelson, and L. N. Pfeiffer
   Phys. Rev. B 107, 165302 (2023)

5. Charge transfer dynamics in MoSe2/hBN/WSe2 heterostructures
   Y. Yoon✉, Z. Zhang, R. Qi, A. Y. Joe, R. Sailus, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, and F. Wang
   Nano Lett. 22, 10140 (2022)

6. Intralayer charge-transfer moiré excitons in van der Waals superlattices
   M. H. Naik*, E. C. Regan*, Z. Zhang*, Y.-H. Chan, Z. Li, D. Wang, Y. Yoon, C. S. Ong, W. Zhao, S. Zhao, M. I. B. Utama, B. Gao, X. Wei, M. Sayyad, K. Yumigeta, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, F. H. da Jornada, F. Wang, and S. G. Louie✉
   Nature 609, 52 (2022)

7. Enhanced thermalization of exciton-polaritons in optically generated potentials
   Y. Yoon✉, J. Deschamps, M. Steger, K. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, and K. A. Nelson✉
   arXiv:2209.13703

8. Tunneling spectroscopy in carbon nanotube-hexagonal boron nitride-carbon nanotube heterojunctions
   S. Zhao✉, S. Yoo, S. Wang, B. Lyu, S. Kahn, F. Wu, Z. Zhao, D. Cui, W. Zhao, Y. Yoon, M. I. B. Utama, W. Shi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. F. Crommie, Z. Shi, C. Zhou, and F. Wang✉
   Nano Lett. 20, 6712 (2020)

2012-2019

9. Effect of optically induced potential on the energy of trapped exciton polaritons below the condensation threshold
   M. Pieczarka✉, M. Boozarjmehr, E. Estrecho, Y. Yoon, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. A. Nelson, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya✉
   Phys. Rev. B 100, 085301 (2019)

10. Cascaded cavities boost the indistinguishability of imperfect quantum emitters
    H. Choi✉, D. Zhu, Y. Yoon, and D. Englund✉
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 183602 (2019)

Generating high-quality single photons for quantum computing
R. Matheson
MIT News

11. Observation of bulk Fermi arc and polarization half charge from paired exceptional points
    H. Zhou*, C. Peng*, Y. Yoon, C. W. Hsu, K. A. Nelson, L. Fu, J. D. Joannopoulos, M. Soljačić, and B. Zhen✉
    Science 359, 1009 (2018)

Perspective: Fermi arcs connect topological degeneracies
Ş. K. Özdemir
Science 359, 995 (2018)

New exotic phenomena seen in photonic crystals
D. L. Chandler
MIT News

12. Stable switching among high-order modes in polariton condensates
    Y. Sun*, Y. Yoon*✉, S. Khan, L. Ge, M. Steger, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, H. E. Türeci, D. W. Snoke, and K. A. Nelson✉
    Phys. Rev. B 97, 045303 (2018)

13. Direct measurement of polariton-polariton interaction strength
    Y. Sun✉, Y. Yoon, M. Steger, G. Liu, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, D. W. Snoke✉, and K. A. Nelson
    Nat. Phys. 13, 870 (2017)

14. Bose-Einstein condensation of long-lifetime polaritons in thermal equilibrium
    Y. Sun✉, P. Wen, Y. Yoon, G. Liu, M. Steger, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. West, D. W. Snoke✉, and K. A. Nelson
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 016602 (2017)

Viewpoint: Matter-light condensates reach thermal equilibrium
J. Keeling and F. M. Marchetti
Physics 9, 154 (2017)

15. Hexameric octahedral clusters of PbSe nanocrystals grown from amorphous lead(II) carboxylate nanoparticles
    D. K. Britt, Y. Yoon, P. Ercius, T. D. Ewers, and A. P. Alivisatos✉
    Chem. Mater. 25, 2544 (2013)

16. Highly selective CO2 capture on N-doped carbon produced by chemical activation of polypyrrole functionalized graphene sheets
    V. Chandra*, S. U. Yu*, S. H. Kim, Y. S. Yoon, D. Y. Kim, A. H. Kwon, M. Meyyappan, and K. S. Kim✉
    Chem. Commun. 48, 735 (2012)