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Gradient Plasmonic Nanogap Homojunctions for Hot-Electron-Driven Photocatalysis Open

Jeyavelan Muthu, Farheen Khurshid, Yen‐Yu Wang, Hao‐Ting Chin, Ding‐Rui Chen , et al. · 2025

Unpinning the magnetic interface between 2D materials and NiFe for ultra-low coercivity spin valves Open

Ting-Chun Huang, Chun-Yi Lin, Chi‐Feng Pai, Chiashain Chuang, Ya‐Ping Hsieh , et al. · 2025

The integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials into spintronic devices could enable unconventional computing paradigms, such as stochastic computing, that surpass CMOS in energy efficiency and device density. However, their implementati…

Observing and Suppressing Metallization in MoS 2 for Near-Ideal Spin Filtering Open

Ting-Chun Huang, Yuxin Chen, Yulin Chen, Meng-Ting Wu, Chi‐Feng Pai , et al. · 2025

Two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer band alignments that are well-suited for minority-spin filtering when interfaced with ferromagnets. Unfortunately, interfacial hybridization results in the emergence of me…

Modulating electronic transport properties of wafer-scale vapor–liquid–solid grown tungsten nitride by a vacuum gentle heating method Open

Yuan-Chih Hung, Sheng-Zong Chen, Wei‐Chen Lin, Yih‐Loong Lai, Hao‐Ting Chin , et al. · 2025

We study the electronic transport properties of W 5 N 6 by vacuum gentle heating methods, which are useful ways to probe the electronic transport properties in highly sensitive 2D materials. Importantly, we found stable nearest-neighbor ho…

CNS-PENETRANT NLRP3 INHIBITOR ACHIEVES DURABLE WEIGHT LOSS AND REVERSES HYPOTHALAMIC INFLAMMATION IN DIET-INDUCED OBESITY Open

Jing Guo, Tomás P. Bachor, Ryan Takahashi, Micah Steffek, Gabriel A. Fitzgerald , et al. · 2025

The NLRP3 inflammasome is a key mediator of innate immunity that integrates inflammatory and metabolic stress signals. Increased and/or chronic activation of this critical pathway has been implicated in obesity, with hypothalamic neuroinfl…

Interference of resonant energy transfer from wrinkled graphene and surface plasmons: A novel mechanism for enhancement of light–matter interaction Open

Guan‐Zhang Lu, Tai‐Yuan Lin, Chun-Shao Yeh, Hsia Yu Lin, Ya‐Ping Hsieh , et al. · 2025

This study demonstrates a novel coherent interference mechanism of resonant energy transfer between localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) and wrinkled graphene, which significantly enhances light–matter interaction. To illustrate the …

Uncovering Stability Origins in Layered Ferromagnetic Electrocatalysts Through Homolog Comparison Open

Om Prakash Gujela, Sivasakthi Kuppusamy, Yuxiang Chen, C. R. Kao, Jian-Jhang Lee , et al. · 2025

Magnetic 2D materials offer a compelling platform for next-generation electrocatalysis by enabling spin-dependent reaction pathways. Among them, layered ferromagnets such as Fe3GeTe2 (FGT) have garnered attention for combining intrinsic fe…

Breaking Electrochemical Scaling Laws in Atomically Engineered van der Waals Stack Multisite Edge Catalysts Open

Ding‐Rui Chen, Jeyavelan Muthu, Jui-Teng Chang, Po-Han Lin, Yuxiang Chen , et al. · 2025

Electrocatalysis is key to sustainable energy conversion and storage, but its efficiency is limited by scaling laws between reactant adsorption and desorption. Multisite catalysts promises to overcome these limits, but challenges in fabric…

2D Atomic Templating for the Large-Scale Synthesis of Metastable CuInS2 and Its Heterojunctions Open

Jui-Teng Chang, Yuxiang Chen, Hao‐Ting Chin, Ding‐Rui Chen, Jian-Jhang Lee , et al. · 2025

CuInS₂ has emerged as a promising material for sustainable energy technologies due to its combination of attractive electronic, economic, and ecological properties. However, current synthesis routes exhibit limited phase uniform…

Provable Maximum Entropy Manifold Exploration via Diffusion Models Open

Riccardo De Santi, Marin Vlastelica, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Zebang Shen, Niao He , et al. · 2025

Exploration is critical for solving real-world decision-making problems such as scientific discovery, where the objective is to generate truly novel designs rather than mimic existing data distributions. In this work, we address the challe…

Electron Cloaking in MoS2 for High-Performance Optoelectronics Open

Yuxiang Chen, Jian-Jhang Lee, Ding‐Rui Chen, You-Chen Lin, Hao‐Ting Chin , et al. · 2025

Defects in two-dimensional (2D) materials represent both challenges and opportunities to their optoelectronic performance. While defects limit the carrier mobility in transistors through increased charge scattering, they also enhance 2D ma…

Mitigating Defectiveness in 2D Materials Devices by a Visualization‐Assisted Fabrication Process Open

Bhartendu Papnai, Yen Nguyen, Poonam Subhash Borhade, Hsin‐Yi Tiffany Chen, Ya‐Ping Hsieh , et al. · 2025

2D materials are considered promising alternatives for traditional semiconductors in future electronics, but despite significant research efforts, their defectiveness remains too high for modern device requirements. Here, a new strategy is…

Ultra-Low Coercivity in 2d Materials-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junction Open

Ting-Chun Huang, Yuxin Chen, Chun-Yi Lin, Chi‐Feng Pai, Chiashain Chuang , et al. · 2025

The Importance of Catalytic Effects in Hot-Electron-Driven Chemical Reactions Open

Farheen Khurshid, Jeyavelan Muthu, Yen‐Yu Wang, Y.-S. Wang, Min-Chuan Shih , et al. · 2024

Hot electrons (HEs) represent out-of-equilibrium carriers that are capable of facilitating reactions which are inaccessible under conventional conditions. Despite the similarity of the HE process to catalysis, optimization strategies such …

Magnetic Microactuators Based on Particle Jamming Open

Khalil ur Rehman, Jeyavelan Muthu, R. Raman, Ian Daniell Santos, Bhartendu Papnai , et al. · 2024

Review of Extrinsic Factors That Limit the Catalytic Performance of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) in Hydrogen Evolution Reactions (HER) Open

Jeyavelan Muthu, Farheen Khurshid, Mario Hofmann, Ya‐Ping Hsieh · 2024

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered attention as potential catalysts for water splitting owing to their unique structures, diverse electronic properties, and composition from earth‐abundant elements. While certain TMD cat…

Enhancing the Electrochemical Activity of 2D Materials Edges through Oriented Electric Fields Open

Hao Wang, Ding‐Rui Chen, You-Chen Lin, Po-Han Lin, Jui-Teng Chang , et al. · 2024

The edges of 2D materials have emerged as promising electrochemical catalyst systems, yet their performance still lags behind that of noble metals. Here, we demonstrate the potential of oriented electric fields (OEFs) to enhance the electr…

Gas phase alloyed crystalline S–Se dielectrics with high ionic mobility Open

Pradyumna Kumar Chand, R. Raman, Zhi‐Long Yen, Ian Daniell Santos, Wei‐Ssu Liao , et al. · 2024

The advancement of future electronic devices necessitates dielectric materials with enhanced compositional complexity and improved capabilities. We here demonstrate a gas-phase alloying approach that yields ultrathin and crystalline dielec…

Z-Laminating Assembly of Graphene Nanoflakes for Super-Strong Membranes and Functional Coatings Open

Ian Daniell Santos, Patrick P. Tjarks, Jeyavelan Muthu, You-Chen Lin, Zhi‐Long Yen , et al. · 2024

We demonstrate the strengthening of graphene, an atomically thin carbon allotrope, by out-of-plane folding. Through lateral confinement of graphene at the water–air interface, nanoscale buckling was induced in suspended flakes, leading to …

Harnessing Quantum Capacitance in 2D Material/Molecular Layer Junctions for Novel Electronic Device Functionality Open

Bhartendu Papnai, Ding‐Rui Chen, Rapti Ghosh, Zhi‐Long Yen, Yuxiang Chen , et al. · 2024

Two-dimensional (2D) materials promise advances in electronic devices beyond Moore’s scaling law through extended functionality, such as non-monotonic dependence of device parameters on input parameters. However, the robustness and perform…

Transferrable Alumina Membranes as High‐Performance Dielectric for Flexible 2D Materials Devices Open

Poonam Subhash Borhade, R. Raman, Zhi‐Long Yen, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Mario Hofmann · 2024

2D materials have shown great promise for novel electronic functionality. A common challenge for 2D materials‐based transistors is forming a high‐performance gate terminal due to the challenges of depositing a dielectric of sufficient qual…

Sinkhorn Flow: A Continuous-Time Framework for Understanding and Generalizing the Sinkhorn Algorithm Open

Mohammad Reza Karimi, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Andreas Krause · 2023

Many problems in machine learning can be formulated as solving entropy-regularized optimal transport on the space of probability measures. The canonical approach involves the Sinkhorn iterates, renowned for their rich mathematical properti…

Riemannian stochastic optimization methods avoid strict saddle points Open

Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Mohammad Reza Karimi, Andreas Krause, Panayotis Mertikopoulos · 2023

Many modern machine learning applications - from online principal component analysis to covariance matrix identification and dictionary learning - can be formulated as minimization problems on Riemannian manifolds, and are typically solved…

Ultrahigh Photoresponsivity of Gold Nanodisk Array/CVD MoS$_2$-based Hybrid Phototransistor Open

Shyam Narayan Singh Yadav, Po‐Liang Chen, Yu‐Chi Yao, Yen‐Yu Wang, Der‐Hsien Lien , et al. · 2023

Owing to its atomically thin thickness, layer-dependent tunable band gap, flexibility, and CMOS compatibility, MoS$_2$ is a promising candidate for photodetection. However, mono-layer MoS2-based photodetectors typically show poor optoelect…

A unified stochastic approximation framework for learning in games Open

Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Volkan Cevher · 2023

Aligned Diffusion Schroedinger Bridges Open

Vignesh Ram Somnath, Matteo Pariset, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, María Rodríguez Martínez, Andreas Krause , et al. · 2023

We add the processed and prepared raw datasets for the D3PM dataset. Paper Abstract Diffusion Schrödinger bridges (DSB) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for recovering stochastic dynamics via their marginal o…

Aligned Diffusion Schroedinger Bridges Open

Vignesh Ram Somnath, Matteo Pariset, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, María Rodríguez Martínez, Andreas Krause , et al. · 2023

We add the processed and prepared raw datasets for the D3PM dataset. Paper Abstract Diffusion Schrödinger bridges (DSB) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for recovering stochastic dynamics via their marginal o…

Unbalanced Diffusion Schrödinger Bridge Open

Matteo Pariset, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, Charlotte Bunne, Andreas Krause, Valentin De Bortoli · 2023

Schrödinger bridges (SBs) provide an elegant framework for modeling the temporal evolution of populations in physical, chemical, or biological systems. Such natural processes are commonly subject to changes in population size over time due…

Aligned Diffusion Schrödinger Bridges Open

Vignesh Ram Somnath, Matteo Pariset, Ya‐Ping Hsieh, María Rodríguez Martínez, Andreas Krause , et al. · 2023

Diffusion Schrödinger bridges (DSB) have recently emerged as a powerful framework for recovering stochastic dynamics via their marginal observations at different time points. Despite numerous successful applications, existing algorithms fo…

Folding Graphene into Super-Strong, Z-Laminated Membranes Open

Ian Daniell Santos, Mario Hofmann, Patrick P. Tjarks, Jeyavelan Muthu, You-Chen Lin , et al. · 2023

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