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Refereed Publications

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  1. Dinesh Baral, ZhuangEn Fu, Jifa Tian, Hua Chen, and TeYu Chien, "Te Vacancies Induced Magnetic Domains and Domain Wall Stabilization on Fe3GeTe2 Surfaces", submitted
  2. Alirza Orujov, Jon M. Pikal, TeYu Chien, and Saman A. Aryana, "Magnetic nanoparticle detection methods for subsurface gas monitoring", submitted
  3. Sabit Horoz, Baichhabi Yakami, Thilini K. Ekanayaka, Prescott E. Evans, Rabindra Dulal, Zach DeGeorge, Jon Pikal, Mario F. Borunda, Jinke Tang, TeYu Chien, and Andrew J. Yost, "Giant sp-d Exchange Interactions in Mn-doped CdS Quantum Dots", submitted.
  4. Dinesh Baral, Rabindra Basnet, William R. Scougale, Raz Q. Rivlis, Dinesh Upreti, Yuri Dahnovsky, Jin Hu, and TeYu Chien, "Possible Coexistence of Magnetism and the Paramagnetic Singularity in Lightly Fe doped WTe2", Phys. Rev. B 109, 245419 (2024).
  5. Lauren Kim, Prince Sharma, William R. Scougale, Nozomi Shirato, Sarah Wieghold, Rose Volker, Wei Chen, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and TeYu Chien, "Distinguishing Elements at the sub-nanometer Scale on the Surface of a High Entropy Alloy", Adv. Mater. 36, 2402442 (2024) (Frontispiece highlight)
  6. ZhuangEn Fu, Piumi I. Samarawickrama, John Ackerman, Yanglin Zhu, Zhiqiang Mao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Wenyong Wang, Yuri Dahnovsky, Mingzhong Wu, TeYu Chien, Jinke Tang, Allan H. MacDonald, Hua Chen, and Jifa Tian, "Tunneling current-controlled spin states in few-layer van der Waals magnets", Nature Commun. 15, 3630 (2024)
  7. Sabin Gautam, Joseph McBride, William R. Scougale, Piumi I. Samarawickrama, ZhuangEn Fu, Wenyong Wang, Jinke Tang, John Ackerman, TeYu Chien, Brian M. Leonard, and Jifa Tian, "Controllable superconducting to semiconducting phase transition in topological superconductor 2M-WS2", 2D Mater. 11, 015018 (2024).
  8. Yangyan Gao, Xin He, Keke Mao, Christopher K. Russell, Sam Toan, Aaron Wang, TeYu Chien, Fangqin Cheng, Armistead G. Russell, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Maohong Fan, "Catalytic CO2 Capture via Ultrasonically Activating Dually Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes", ACS Nano 17, 8345-8354 (2023)
  9. Umar Farooq Ghumman, Anton van Beek, Joydeep Munshi, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and Wei Chen, "Designing active layer of organic solar cells using multi-fidelity molecular simulations and spectral density function," Computational Materials Science 211, 111491 (2022)
  10. Umar Farooq Ghumman, Anton van Beek, Joydeep Munshi, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and Wei Chen, "SDF-Based Inverse Process Design of Solar Cells Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Proceedings of the ASME 2021 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 3B, Paper No: DETC2021-71595, V03BT03A005 (2021).
  11. Rabindra Dulal, William R. Scougale, Wei Chen, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and TeYu Chien, "Direct Observations of Uniform Bulk-heterojunctions and the Energy Level Alignments in Non-Fullerene Organic Photovoltaic Active Layers," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. 13, 56430-56437 (2021).
  12. Ganesh Balasubramanian, Joydeep Munshi, Wei Chen, and TeYu Chien, "Towards improving the efficiency of organic solar cells by coarse-grained atomistic modeling of processing dependent morphologies", Computing in Science and Engineering 23, 48-55 (2021).
  13. Dinesh Baral, Zhuangen Fu, Andrei S. Zadorozhnyi, Rabindra Dulal, Aaron Wang, Narendra Shrestha, Uppalaiah Erugu, Jinke Tang, Yuri Dahnovsky, Jifa Tian, and TeYu Chien, "Small Energy Gap Revealed in CrBr3 by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy," arXiv: 1909.00074. PhysChemChemPhys 23, 3225-3232 (2021) (Front Cover Article)
  14. Piumi Samarawickrama, Rabindra Dulal, Zhuangen Fu, Uppalaiah Erugu, Wenyong Wang, John Ackerman, Brian Leonard, Jinke Tang, TeYu Chien, and Jifa Tian, "Two-dimensional 2M-WS2 Nanolayers for Superconductivity", ACS Omega 6, 2966-2972 (2021).
  15. Joydeep Munshi, Wei Chen, TeYu Chien, and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Transfer Learned Designer Polymers for Organic Solar Cells", Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 61, 134-142 (2021).
  16. Christoffer A. Masi, Teneil A. Schumacher, Joann Hillman, Rabindra Dulal, Gaurab Rimal, Bang Xu, Brian Leonard, Jinke Tang, Maohong Fan, and TeYu Chien, "Converting Raw Coal Powder into Polycrystalline Nano-Graphite by Metal-Assisted Microwave Treatment," Nano-Structures Nano-Objects 25, 100660 (2021).
  17. Anton van Beek, Umar Farooq Ghumman, Joydeep Munshi, Siyu Tao, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Matthew Plumlee, Daniel Apley, and Wei Chen, "Scalable Adaptive Batch Sampling in Simulation-Based Design with Heteroscedastic Noise," J. Mech. Design 143, 031709 (2021).
  18. Joydeep Munshi, Wei Chen, TeYu Chien and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Machine Learned Metaheuristic Optimization of the Bulk Heterojunction Morphology in P3HT:PCBM Thin Films", Comp. Mater. Sci. 187, 110119 (2021).
  19. Anton von Beek, Umar F. Ghumman, Joydeep Munshi, Siyu Tao, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Matthew Plumlee, Daniel Apley, and Wei Chen, "Scalable Objective Driven Batch Sampling in Simulation Based Design for Models with Heteroscedastic Noise," Proceedings of the ASME 2020 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 11B, Paper No: DETC2020-22629, pp. V11BT11A049 (2020).
  20. Joydeep Munshi, TeYu Chien, Wei Chen, and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Elasto-morphology of P3HT:PCBM Bulk Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells," Soft Matter 16, 6743-6751 (2020).
  21. Akshay Iyer, Rabindra Dulal, Yichi Zhang, Umar F. Ghumman, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and Wei Chen, "Designing Anisotropic Microstructures with Spectral Density Function," submitted. arXiv: 1908.07661. Comp. Mater. Sci. 179, 109559 (2020).
  22. Rabindra Dulal, Akshay Iyer, Umar F. Ghumman, Joydeep Munshi, Aaron Wang, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Wei Chen, and TeYu Chien, "Elongated Nanodomains and Molecular Intermixing induced Doping in Organic Photovoltaic Active Layers with Electric Field Treatment," arXiv: 1908.03229. ACS Appl. Poly. Mater. 2, 335-341 (2020).
  23. Andrew J. Yost, Thilini K. Ekanayaka, Gautam Gurung, Gaurab Rimal, Sabit Horoz, Jinke Tang, Tula Paudel, and TeYu Chien, "Influence of the Cation on the Surface Electronic Band Structure and Magnetic Properties of Mn:ZnS and Mn:CdS Quantum Dot Thin Films," J. Phys. Chem. C 123, 24890-24898 (2019).
  24. Aaron Wang, Gaurab Rimal, Yuri Dahnovsky, Jinke Tang, and TeYu Chien, "Large Electronic Wave Function Extension of the Oxygen Vacancies on EuO1-x Surface," Mater. Res. Express 6, 116408 (2019).
  25. Kaidi Sun, Tongtong Wang, Zhe Chen, Wenyang Lu, Xin He, Weibo Gong, Mingchen Tang, Fangjing Liu, Qinghua Lai, Jinke Tang, TeYu Chien, Gang Tan, and Maohong Fan, "Clean and Low-Cost Synthesis of High Purity beta-Silicon Carbide with Carbon Fiber Production Residual and a Sandstone" J. Clean. Prod. 238, 117875 (2019).
  26. Joydeep Munshi, Umar Farooq Ghumman, Akshay Iyer, Rabindra Dulal, Wei Chen, TeYu Chien, and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Effect of polydispersity on the bulk-heterojunction morphology of P3HT:PCBM solar cells," J. Polym. Sci. Pol. Phys. 57, 895-903 (2019). (Cover Article for Vol. 57 Iss. 14, July 8th 2019)
  27. Joydeep Munshi, Rabindra Dulal, TeYu Chien, Wei Chen, and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Solution Processing Dependent Bulk Heterojunction Nanomorphology of P3HT:PCBM Thin Films," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 11, 17056-17067 (2019).
  28. Umar F. Ghumman, Akshay Iyer, Rabindra Dulal, Joydeep Munshi, Aaron Wang, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and Wei Chen, "A Spectral Density Function Approach for Active Layer Design of Organic Photovoltaic Cells," J. Mech. Design 140, 111408 (2018).
  29. Umar F. Ghumman, Akshay Iyer, Rabindra Dulal, Aaron Wang, Joydeep Munshi, TeYu Chien, Ganesh Balasubramanian, and Wei Chen, "A Spectral Density Function Approach for Design of Organic Photovoltaic Cells," Proceedings of the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2B, Paper No. DETC2018-86154, pp. V02BT03A015 (2018).
  30. Joydeep Munshi, Umar Farooq Ghumman, Akshay Iyer, Rabindra Dulal, Wei Chen, TeYu Chien, and Ganesh Balasubramanian, "Composition and Processing Dependent Miscibility of P3HT and PCBM in Organic Solar Cells by Coarse-Grained Molecular Simulations," Comp. Mater. Sci. 155, 112 (2018).
  31. Aaron Wang, and TeYu Chien, "Perspectives of Cross-sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Complex Oxide Physics," Phys. Lett. A 382, 739 (2018).
  32. Zhao Sun, Shiyi Chen, Christopher K. Russell, Jun Hu, Asif H. Rony, Gang Tan, Aimin Chen, Lunbo Duan, John Boman, Jinke Tang, TeYu Chien, Maohong Fan, and Wenguo Xiang, "Improvement of H2-rich gas production with tar abatement from pine wood conversion over bi-functional Ca2Fe2O5 catalyst: Investigation of inner-looping redox reaction and promoting mechanisms," Appl. Energy 212, 931 (2018).
  33. Andrew J. Yost, Artem Pimachev, Gaurab Rimal, Jinke Tang, Yuri Dahnovsky, and TeYu Chien, "Effects of Mn Dopant Locations on the Electronic Bandgap of PbS Quantum Dots," Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 233101 (2017).
  34. Joann Hilman, Andrew J. Yost, Jinke Tang, Brian Leonard, and TeYu Chien, "Low Temperature Growth of CuO Nanowires through Direct Oxidation," Nano-Structures Nano-Objects 11, 124-128 (2017).
  35. J. Stacy, Andrew J. Yost, Y. N. Regmi, B. Leonard, TeYu Chien, and M. Fan, "A Facile Synthesis of Highly Stable Modified Carbon Nanotubes as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts," ChemistrySelect 2, 1932-1938 (2017).
  36. Andrew J. Yost, A. Pimachev, C.-C. Ho, S. B. Darling, L.Y. Wang, W.-F. Su, Y. Dahnovsky, and TeYu Chien, "Coexistence of Two Electronic Nano-Phases on a CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Surface Observed in STM Measurements," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8, 29110-29116 (2016).
  37. G. Rimal, A. K. Pimachev, Andrew J. Yost, U. Poudyal, S. Maloney, W. Wang, TeYu Chien, Y. Dahnovsky, and J. Tang, "Giant Photocurrent Enhancement by Transition Metal Doping in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells," Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 103901 (2016).
  38. TeYu Chien, J. Liu, Andrew J. Yost, J. Chakhalian, J. W. Freeland, and N. P. Guisinger, "Built-in Electric Field Induced Mechanical Property Change at the Lanthanum Nickelate/Nb-doped Strontium Titanate Interfaces," Sci. Rep. 6, 19017 (2016).
  39. TeYu Chien, X. He, S.-K. Mo, M. Hashimoto, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, and E. W. Plummer, "Electron-phonon coupling in a system with broken symmetry: Surface of Be(0001)," Phys. Rev. B 92, 075133 (2015).
  40. H. J. Karmel, TeYu Chien, V. Demers-Carpentier, J. J. Garramone, and M. C. Hersam, "Self-assembled two-dimensional heteromolecular nanoporous molecular arrays on epitaxial graphene," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 5, 270 (2014).
  41. J. Alaboson, C.-H. Sham, S. Kewalramani, J. Emery, J. Johns, A. Deshpande, TeYu Chien, M. Bedzyk, J. Elam, M. Pellin, M. Hersam, "Templating sub-10 nm atomic layer deposited oxide nanostructures on graphene via one-dimensional organic self-assembled monolayers," Nano Lett. 13, 5763 (2013). (Cover Article for Vol. 13 Iss. 12, Dec. 11th 2013)
  42. TeYu Chien, L. F. Kourkoutis, J. Chakhalian, B. Gray, M. Kareev, N. P. Guisinger, D. A. Muller, and J. W. Freeland, "Visualizing short range charge transfer at the interfaces between ferromagnetic and superconducting oxides," Nature Commun. 4, 2336 (2013).
  43. TeYu Chien, J. Chakhalian, J. W. Freeland, and N. P. Guisinger, "Cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy applied to complex oxide interfaces", Adv. Funct. Mater. 23, 2565 (2013).
  44. V. Rose, K. Wang, TeYu Chien, J. Hiller, D. Rosenmann, J. W. Freeland, C. Preissner, and S.-W. Hla, "Synchrotron X-ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy: Fingerprinting near to far field transitions on Cu(111) induced by synchrotron radiation", Adv. Funct. Mater. 23, 2646 (2013). (Back Cover Article for Vol. 23, Iss. 20, May 28th 2013)
  45. S. Singh, TeYu Chien, J. R. Guest, and M. R. Fitzsimmons, "Correlation between surface rumpling and structural phase transformation in SrTiO3", Phys. Rev. B 85, 115450 (2012).
  46. V. Rose, TeYu Chien, J.W. Freeland, D. Rosenmann, J. Hiller, and V. Metlushko, "Spin-dependent synchrotron x-ray excitations studied by scanning tunneling microscopy", J. Appl. Phys. 111, 07E304 (2012).
  47. TeYu Chien, J. W. Freeland, and N. P. Guisinger, "Morphology control of Fe films using ordered termination on SrTiO3 surfaces", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 031601 (2012).
  48. M.L. Cummings, TeYu Chien, C. Preissner, V. Madhavan, D. Diesing, M. Bode, J.W. Freeland, V. Rose, "Combining scanning tunneling microscopy and synchrotron radiation for high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy with chemical, electronic, and magnetic contrast", Ultramicroscopy 112, 22 (2012).
  49. V. Rose, TeYu Chien, J. Hiller, D. Rosenmann, R.P. Winarski, "X-ray nanotomography of SiO2-coated Pt90Ir10 tips with sub-micron conducting apex", Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 173102 (2011).
  50. TeYu Chien, T. S. Santos, M. Bode, N. P. Guisinger, and J. W. Freeland, "Response to "Comment on 'Controllable localmodification of fractured Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces'" [Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 256102 (2011)]", Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 256103 (2011).
  51. TeYu Chien, N. P. Guisinger, and J. W. Freeland, "Cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy for complex oxide interfaces", Proc. SPIE 7940, 79400T (2011). (Invited Paper)
  52. TeYu Chien, N. P. Guisinger, and J. W. Freeland, "A survey of fractured SrTiO3 surfaces: from the micrometer to nanometer scale", J. Vac. Sci. & Technol. B 28, C5A11-C5A13 (2010).
  53. TeYu Chien, J. Liu, J. Chakhalian, N. P. Guisinger, and J. W. Freeland, "Visualizing nanoscale electronic band alignment at the La2/3Ca1/3MnO3/Nb:SrTiO3 interface", Phys. Rev. B 82, 041101(R) (2010). (Editors' Suggestion)
  54. TeYu Chien, E. Rienks, M.F. Jensen, Ph. Hofmann and E.W. Plummer, "Anisotropic electron-phonon coupling on a two-dimensional circular Fermi contour", Phys. Rev. B 80, 241416(R) (2009).
  55. N. P. Guisinger, T. S. Santos, J. R. Guest, TeYu Chien, A. Bhattacharya, J. W. Freeland, and M. Bode, "Nanometer-scale striped surface terminations on fractured SrTiO3 surfaces", ACS Nano 3, 4132-4136 (2009).
  56. TeYu Chien, T. S. Santos, M. Bode, N. P. Guisinger, and J. W. Freeland, "Controllable local modification of fractured Nb-doped SrTiO3 surfaces", Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 163107 (2009).
  57. V.B. Nascimento, A. Li, D. R. Jayasundara, Y. Xuan, J. O'Neal, S. Pan, TeYu Chien, B. Hu, X.B. He, G. Li, A. S. Sefat, M. A. McGuire, B. C. Sales, D. Mandrus, M.H. Pan, J. Zhang, R. Jin, and E.W. Plummer, "Surface Geometric and Electronic Structure of BaFe2As2(001)", Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 076104 (2009).
  58. C.-H. Chen, TeYu Chien, W.-C. Yang, J.-M. Li, and C.-Y. Wen, "Surveillance Systems with Automatic Restoration of Linear Motion and Out-of-Focus Blurred Images", Innovative Comput., Inf. and Control Express Lett. 2, 409-414 (2008).
  59. C.-H. Chen, TeYu Chien, W.-C. Yang, and C.-Y. Wen, "Restoration of Linear Motion and Out-of-Focus Blurred Images in Surveillance Systems", IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2008), Taiwan, June 2008.
  60. TeYu Chien, C.T. Chia, T.C. Lin and S.C. Lee, "Photoluminescence and Raman studies of nanocrystalline Silicon enclosed in a SiO2 Shell", Chinese J. of Phys. 46, 91-97 (2008).
  61. S. W. Lee, P. S. Chen, TeYu Chien, L. J. Chen, C. T. Chia, and C. W. Liu, "Growth of high-quality SiGe films with a buffer layer containing Ge quantum dots", Thin Solid Films 508, 120-123 (2006).
  62. S. W. Lee, L. J. Chen, P. S. Chen, M.-J. Tsai, C. W. Liu, TeYu Chien, and C. T. Chia, "Self-assembled nanorings in Si-capped Ge quantum dots on (001) Si", Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 5283-5285 (2003).
  63. TeYu Chien, C. T. Chia, T. C. Lin, and S. C. Lee, "Determine the size and oxidization of silicon quantum dots prepared by thermal evaporation method", Int. J. Nanosci. 2, 357-362 (2003).

Book Chapters

  1. TeYu Chien, (2018) "Nanostructured Oxides: Cross-Sectional Scanning Probe Microscopy for Complex Oxide Interfaces." In: Balasubramanian G. (eds) "Advances in Nanomaterials." Springer, Cham.

Non-refereed Publications

  1. TeYu Chien, "Stepping up to the computer", Physics Today 63, 60-61 (2010).

Pending Patent

  1. TeYu Chien. 2022. "Method and system for converting raw coal powder into polycrystalline nano-graphite by metal-assisted microwave treatment" US20220363547A1, filed May 16th 2022. Patent pending
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