Shen Group  at  UC Berkeley

Year 2008

 

F. Wang, Y. Zhang, C.  S. Tian, C. Girit, A. Zettl, M.l Crommie, Y. R. Shen , ¡°Gate-Variable Optical Transitions in Graphene¡±, Science,  2008

N. Ji, V. Ostroverkhov, C. S. Tian, Y.R.  Shen," Characterization of Vibrational Resonances of Water-Vapor Interfaces by Phase-Sensitive Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy" Physical Review Letters 100, 096102, 2008.

 

R. Chandrasekharan, L. Zhang, V. Ostroverkhov, S. Prakash, Y. Wu, Y. R.

Shen, M. A. Shannon, "High-Temperature Hydroxylation of Alumina Crystalline Surfaces", Surface Science, 602, 146, 2008.

 

Year 2007

 

 

F. Wang, D. J. Cho, B. Kessler, J. Deslippe, P. J. Schuck, S. G. Louie, A. Zettl, T. F. Heinz, Y. R. Shen, ¡°Observation of Excitons in One-Dimensional Metallic Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes¡±, Physical Review Letters, 99, 227401, 2007.

 

Thai V. Truong, Y. R. Shen, ¡°Resonance-Enhanced Optical Reorientation of Molecules in Liquids via Intermolecular Interaction¡±, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, 187802 (2007).

 

Thai V. Truong, Chao-Yuan Chen, Nelson V. Tabiryan, Y. R. Shen, ¡°Phase Transition Induced by Two-Photon Absorption in Azobenzene Liquid Crystals¡±, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol 24, 2623 (2007).

 

E.M. Kim, Y.R. Shen, W. Wu, E. Ponizovskaya Y. Liu,Z. Yu, A. Bratkovski, S.Y. Wang, R. S. Williams, ¡°Modulation of negative index metamaterials in the near IR-range¡±, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 173105, 2007.

 

E.M. Kim, W. Wu, E. Ponizovskaya Y. Liu,Z. Yu, A. Bratkovski, N. Fang, X. Zhang, Y.R. Shen, S.Y. Wang, "Optical Metamaterials at Near and  Mid-IR Range Fabricated By Nanoimprint Lithography", Applied Physics A Materials Science & Processing, 87, 143, 2007.

 

W. Wu, Y. Liu, E.M. Kim, Z. Yu, N. Fang, X. Zhang, Y.R. Shen, S.Y. Wang, "Midinfrared metamaterials fabricated by nanoimprint lithography", App. Phys. Lett., 90, 063107, 2007.

 

Luning Zhang, Weitao Liu, D. Cahill, and Y. R. Shen, "Competitive Molecular Adsorption at Liquid/Solid Interfaces: A Study by Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy" J. Phys. Chem. C111, 2069-76 (2007).

 

F. Wang, W. T. Liu, Y. Wu, M. Y. Sfeir, L. M. Huang, J. Hone, S. O¡¯Brien, L. E. Brus, T. F. Heinz, and Y. R. Shen, "Multiphonon Raman Scattering from Individual Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 047402 (2007).

 

Year 2006

 

P. Pagliusi, C.Y. Chen and Y.R. Shen, "Surface vibrational spectroscopic studies of rubbed polyvinyl cinnamate for liquid crystal alignment", Proc. of SPIE, 6332, 63320X (2006)

 

McGuire JA, Raschke MB, Shen YR, "Electron Dynamics of Silicon Surface States: Second Harmonic Hole Burning on Si(111)-(7x7)", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 087401 (2006).

 

Wei-Tao Liu, Luning Zhang, Y. R. Shen, "Interfacial Structures of methanol:water mixtures at a hydrophobic interface probed by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy", J. Chem. Phys. 125, 144711 (2006).

 

P. Pagliusi, C. Y. Chen, and Y. R. Shen, "Molecular Orientation and Alignment of Rubbed Poly(Vinyl Cinnamate) Surfaces", J. Chem. Phys. 125, 201104 (2006).

 

F. Wang and Y. R. Shen, "General Properties of Local Plasmons in Metal Nanostructures", Phys Rev Lett, 97, 206806 (2006).

 

Y. R. Shen, "Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Molecular Chirality", "Trends and Perspectives in Modern Computational Science", Vol. 6, 461-471, edited by G. Maroulis and T. Simos, (Brill Academic Pub., The Netherlands, 2006).

 

P. Pagliusi, F. Lagugne-Labarthet, D. K. Shenoy , E. Dalcanale, Y. R. Shen, "Sensing vase-to-kite switching of cavitands by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 12610-12611, (2006).

 

J. A. McGuire, Y. R. Shen, "Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces", Science, 313, 1945-1948, (2006).

 

N. Ji, V. Ostroverkhov, M. A. Belkin, Y. J. Shiu, Y. R. Shen, "Towards Chiral Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 8845-8848, (2006).

 

K. Ikeda, W. T. Liu, Y. R. Shen, H. Uekusa, Y. Ohashi, S. Koshihara, "Study of chirality and photo-induced chirality in cobaloxime complex crystals", Chemical Physics Letters, 422, 267-270, (2006).

 

Y. R. Shen, V.  Ostroverkhov, "Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy on water interfaces: Polar orientation of water molecules at interfaces", Chemical Reviews, 106, 1140-1154, (2006).

 

J. A. McGuire, M. B. Raschke, Y. R. Shen, "Electron dynamics of silicon surface states: Second-harmonic hole burning on Si(111)-(7x7)", Physical Review Letters, 96, No. 087401, (2006). 

 

N. Ji, K. Zhang, H. Yang,and Y. R. Shen, "Three-dimensional chiral imaging by sum-frequency generation", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 128, 3482 -3483, (2006).

 

N. Ji, Y. R. Shen, "A novel spectroscopic probe for molecular chirality", Chirality, 18, 146-158, (2006).

 

J. A. McGuire, Y. R. Shen, "Signal and noise in Fourier-transform sum-frequency surface vibrational spectroscopy with femtosecond lasers", Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 23, 363-369, (2006). 

 

R. Huber, B. A. Schmid, Y. R. Shen, D. S. Chemla, R. A. Kaindl, "Stimulated terahertz emission from intraexcitonic transitions in Cu2O", Physical Review Letters, 96, No. 017402 , (2006).

 

Year 2005

 

T. V. Truong and Y. R. Shen, "Novel method for selective probing of ground-state rotational dynamics of solutes in solvents", Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, No. 091104 , (2005).

T. V. Truong, L. Xu and Y. R. Shen, "Dynamics of the guest-host orientational interaction in dye-doped liquid-crystalline materials", Physical Review E, 72, No. 051709, (2005).

V. Ostroverkhov, G. A. Waychunas and Y. R. Shen, "New information on water interfacial structure revealed by phase-sensitive surface spectroscopy", Physical Review Letters, 94, No. 046102, (2005).

M. Oh-e, H. Yokoyama, S. Yorozuya, K. Akagi, M. A. Belkin and Y. R. Shen, "Chirality probed by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy for helically structured conjugated liquid crystalline polymers", Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 436, 1027-1035, (2005).

W. T. Liu, L. N. Zhang and Y. R. Shen, "Interfacial layer structure at alcohol/silica interfaces probed by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy", Chemical Physics Letters, 412, 206-209, (2005).

F. Lagugne-Labarthet, Y. Q. An, T. Yu, Y. R. Shen, E. Dalcanale and D. K. Shenoy, "Proton driven vase-to-kite conformational change in cavitands at an air-water interface monitored by surface SHG", Langmuir, 21, 7066-7070, (2005).

N. Ji and Y. R. Shen, "A dynamic coupling model for sum frequency chiral response from liquids composed of molecules with a chiral side chain and an achiral chromophore", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, 12933-12942, (2005).

K. Ikeda, W. T. Liu, Y. R. Shen, H. Uekusa, Y. Ohashi and S. Koshihara, "Photo-induced chirality switching in a cobaloxime complex crystal", Journal of Chemical Physics, 122, No. 141103, (2005).

M. A. Belkin and Y. R. Shen, "Non-linear optical spectroscopy as a novel probe for molecular chirality", International Reviews in Physical Chemistry, 24, 257-299, (2005).

Y. R. Shen, ¡°Laser Science: Past, Present, and Future¡±, AAPPS Bulletin 15, 22 (2005).

 

Thai V. Truong, Lei Xu, Y. R. Shen, "Optical studies of molecular rotational dynamics in isotropic liquid crystalline materials", Liquid Crystals IX, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5936, 142-156 (Aug 2005).

 

Year 2004


M. B. Raschke and Y. R. Shen, "
Nonlinear optical spectroscopy of solid interfaces", Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science, 8, 343-352, (2004).

V. Ostroverkhov, G. A. Waychunas and Y. R. Shen, "Vibrational spectra of water at water/alpha-quartz (0001) interface", Chemical Physics Letters, 386, 144-148, (2004).

M. Oh-e, H. Yokoyama, S. Yorozuya, K. Akagi, M. A. Belkin and Y. R. Shen, "Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of a helically structured conjugated polymer", Physical Review Letters, 93, No. 267402 , (2004).

O. Masahito, S. C. Hong and Y. R. Shen, "Nonlinear optical spectroscopic studies of polymer surfaces for liquid crystal alignment-photo-irradiated polyimide and rubbed polystyrene surfaces", Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 412, 1949-1959, (2004).

N. Ji and Y. R. Shen, "Sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy of leucine molecules adsorbed at air-water interface", Journal of Chemical Physics, 120, 7107-7112, (2004).

N. Ji and Y. R. Shen, "Optically active sum frequency generation from molecules with a chiral center: Amino acids as model systems", Journal of the American Chemical Society, 126, 15008-15009, (2004).

M. Hayashi, S. H. Lin and Y. R. Shen, "Applications of molecular theory of sum-frequency generations to study molecular chirality", Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 108, 8058-8076, (2004).

S. H. Han, M. A. Belkin and Y. R. Shen, "Optically active second-harmonic generation from a uniaxial fluid medium", Optics Letters, 29, 1527-1529, (2004).

K. C. Chou, S. Westerberg, Y. R. Shen, P. N. Ross and G. A. Somorjai, "Probing the charge-transfer state of CO on Pt(111) by two-dimensional infrared-visible sum frequency generation spectroscopy", Physical Review B, 69, No. 153413 , (2004).

M. A. Belkin, Y. R. Shen and R. A. Harris, "Sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of chiral liquids off and close to electronic resonance and the antisymmetric Raman tensor", Journal of Chemical Physics, 120, 10118-10126, (2004).

V. M. Agranovich, Y. R. Shen, R. H. Baughman and A. A. Zakhidov, "Linear and nonlinear wave propagation in negative refraction metamaterials", Physical Review B, 69, No. 165112 , (2004).

V. M. Agranovich, Y. R. Shen, R. H. Baughman and A. A. Zakhidov, "Optical bulk and surface waves with negative refraction", Journal of Luminescence, 110, 167-173, (2004).

Year 2003


Thai V. Truong, Lei Xu, Y.R. Shen, "Early Dynamics of Guest-Host Interaction in Dye-Doped Liquid Crystalline Materials",
Phys. Rev. Letts.