Publications

2025

Atom-by-atom Imaging of Moiré Phasons using Electron Ptychography
Zhang, Y., Ahammed, B., Bae, S.H., Lee, C. H, Huang, J.,  Hossain, M.A., Rakib, T., van der Zande, A.,Ertekin, E., Huang, P.Y.
ArXiV. (2025).

3D Imaging Reveals Widespread Stacking Disorder in Single Crystal 2D Covalent Organic Frameworks
Kharel, P., Carmichael, P.T., Natraj, A., Pelkowski, C.E., Bae, S.H., Dichtel, W.R., Huang, P.Y.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2025).

2024

Effects of amine-based covalent organic framework on platinum electrocatalyst performance towards hydrogen evolution reaction
Park, J. H., Lee, C.H., Yu, S., Kharel, P., Choi, R., Zhang, C., Huang, P.Y., Kwon, J.S.-I., Yang, H. Nano Energy 128, 109947, (2024).

Atom-by-atom imaging of moiré transformations in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides
Zhang, Y., Baek, J.-H., Lee, C.-H., Jung, Y., Hong, S.C., Nolan, G., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Lee, G.-H., Huang, P.Y. Sci. Adv. 10, eadk1874, (2024).


Dataset available at Zenodo

Disorder and diffuse scattering in single-chirality (TaSe₄)₂I crystals
Christensen, J.A., Bettler, S., Qu, K., Huang, J., Kim, Soyeun, Lu, Y., Zhao, C., Chen, J., Krogstad, M.J., Woods, T.J., Mahmood, F., Huang, P.Y., Abbamonte, P., Shoemaker, D.P. Phys. Rev. Materials 8, 034202, (2024). (Editor's Suggestion)

Achieving sub-0.5-angstrom–resolution ptychography in an uncorrected electron microscope
Nguyen, K.X., Jiang, Y., Lee, C.-H., Kharel, P., Zhang, Y., van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P.Y. Science 383, 865-870, (2024).

Press release "Reimagining electron microscopy: Bringing high-end resolution to lower-cost microscopes"


Dataset available at Zenodo

Facilitated fluorination and etching of 2D materials
Shin, Y., Shin, S., Sung, D., Cha, J., Choi, H.-K., Jeong, Y., Im, M. J., Kim, Y. H., Ahn, S., Bae, S., Lim, J., Han, E., Huang, P. Y., van der Zande, A. M., Hong, S., Lee, G.-H., Son, J. Appl. Surf. Sci. 645, 158857, (2024).

2023

Thermally induced atomic reconstruction into fully commensurate structures of transition metal dichalcogenide layers
Baek, J.-H., Kim, H. G., Lim, S. U., Hong, S. C., Chang, Y., Ryu, H., Jung, Y., Jang, H., Kim, J., Zhang, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Huang, P. Y., Cheong, H., Kim, M., Lee, G.-H. Nat. Mater. 22, 1463-1469, (2023).

Leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks to Generate Realistic Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Khan, A., Lee, C. -H. Huang, P. Y., Clark, B. K. npj Computational Materials (2023)

Bend-Induced Ferroelectric Domain Walls in α-In₂Se₃
Han, E., Nahid, S. H., Rakib, T., Nolan, G., Ferrari, P. F., Hossain, M. A., Schleife, A., Nam, S., Ertekin, E., van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P. Y. ACS Nano 17, 7881-7888 (2023).

Angstrom-scale Imaging of Magnetization in Antiferromagnetic Fe₂As via 4D-STEM
Nguyen, K. X. Huang, J., Karigerasi, M. H., Kang, K., Cahill, D. G., Zuo, J. -M., Schleife, A., Shoemaker, D. P., Huang, P. Y. Ultramicroscopy 247, 113696 (2023).

Press release "Huang’s group images magnetic behavior at the smallest scales to date"

In Situ Imaging of an Anisotropic Layer-by-Layer Phase Transition in Few-Layer MoTe₂
Lee, C. -H., Ryu, H., Nolan, G., Zhang, Y., Lee, Y., Oh, S., Cheong, H., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Kim, K. Lee, G. -H., Huang, P. Y. Nano Lett. 469, 667-684 (2023).

2022

Wafer-Scale Programmed Assembly of One-Atom-Thick Crystals
Yang, S. -J., Jung, J. -H., Lee, E., Han, E., Choi, M. -Y., Jung, D., Choi, S., Park, J. -H., Oh, D., Noh, S., Kim, K. J., Huang, P. Y., Hwang, C. C., Kim, C. J. Nano Lett. 469, 1518-1524 (2022).

Structure and Magnetic Properties of Ni₄V₃O₁₀, an Antiferromagnet with Three Types of Vanadium–Oxygen Polyhedra.
Riedel, Z. W., Amerikheirabadi, F., Qu, K., Huang, J., Gebre, M. S., Bhutani, A., Haasch, R. T., Huang, P. Y., Schleife, A., Shoemaker, D. P. Chem. Mater. 34,4721–4731 (2022).

Atomic-Resolution Imaging of Small Organic Molecules on Graphene
Kharel, K., Janicek, B. E., Bae, S. H., Loutris, A. L., Carmichael, P. T., Huang, P. Y. Nano Lett. 22, 3628-3635 (2022).

High-resolution Diffraction Reveals Magnetoelastic Coupling and Coherent Phase Separation in Tetragonal CuMnAs.
Karigerasi, M. H., Kang, K., Huang, J., Peterson, V. K., Rule, K. C., Studer, A. J., Schleife, A, Huang, P. Y., Shoemaker, D. P. Phys. Rev. Mater. 6, 094405 (2022).

2021

Nearly Hyperuniform, Nonhyperuniform, and Antihyperuniform Density Fluctuations in Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Defects
Chen, D., Zheng, Y., Lee, C. -H., Kang, S., Zhu, W., Zhuang, H., Huang, P. Y., Jiao, Y. Phys. Rev., B 103, 224102 (2021).

Designing the Bending Stiffness of 2D Material Heterostructures
Yu, J., Han, E., Hossain, M. A., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Ertekin, E., van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P. Y. Adv. Mater. 33, 2007269 (2021).

Enhanced Photoluminescence of Multiple Two-Dimensional van der Waals Heterostructures Fabricated by Layer-by-Layer Oxidation of MoS₂
Kang, S., Kim, Y. S., Jeong, J. H., Kwon, J., Kim, J. H., Jung, Y., Kim, J. C., Kim, B., Bae, S. H., Huang, P. Y., Hone, J. C., Jeong, H. Y., Park, J. -W., Lee, C. -H., Lee, G. -H. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 1245-1252 (2021).

2020

Preparation of Nonprecious Metal Electrocatalysts for the Reduction of Oxygen Using a Low-Temperature Sacrificial Metal
Talha Al-Zoubi, Yu Zhou, Xi Yin, Blanka Janicek, Chengjun Sun, Charles E. Schulz, Xiaohui Zhang, Andrew A. Gewirth, Pinshane Huang, Piotr Zelenay, and Hong Yang. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 142, 5477-5481 (2020).

Deep Learning Enabled Strain Mapping of Single-Atom Defects in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides with Sub-picometer Precision
Lee, C. -H., Khan, A., Luo, D., Santos, T. P., Shi, C., Janicek, B. E., Kang, S., Zhu, W., Sobh, N. A., Schleife, A., Clark, B. K., Huang, P. Y. Nano Lett. 20, 3369-3377 (2020).

Stochastic Stress Jumps Due to Soliton Dynamics in Two-Dimensional van der Waals Interfaces
Kim, S., Annevelink, E., Han, E., Yu, J., Huang, P. Y., Ertekin, E., van der Zande, A. M. Nano Lett. 20,1201-1207 (2020).

Evolution of Nb Oxide Nanoprecipitates in Cu during Reactive Mechanical Alloying
Li, Q., Shang, X., Janicek, B., Huang, P. Y., Bellon, P., Averback, R. S. J. Mater. Res. 35, 98-111 (2020).

2019

Ultrasoft Slip-mediated Bending in Few-layer Graphene
Han, E., Yu, J., Annevelink, E., Son, J., Kang, D. A., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Ertekin, E., Huang, P. Y., van der Zande, A. M. Nat. Mater. 19, 305-309 (2019).

Press Release: "Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets"

Quantitative Imaging of Organic Ligand Density on Anisotropic Inorganic Nanocrystals
Janicek, B. E., Hinman, J. G., Hinman, J. J., Bae, S., Wu, M., Turner, J. G., Chang, H.-H., Park, E., Lawless, R., Suslick, K. S., Murphy, C. J., Huang, P. Y. Nano Lett. 19, 6308-6314 (2019).

Ultrasonic Nebulization for TEM Sample Preparation on Single-Layer Graphene Grids
Hinman, J. G., Hinman, J. J., Janicek, B. E., Huang, P. Y., Suslick, K. S., Murphy, C. J. Nano Lett.19,1938-1943 (2019).

2018

Spin–Orbit Torque Switching in a Nearly Compensated Heusler Ferrimagnet
Finley, J., Lee, C. -H., Huang, P. Y., Liu, L. Adv. Mater.31, 1805361 (2018).

Atomically Precise Graphene Etch Stops for Three Dimensional Integrated Systems from Two Dimensional Material Heterostructures
Son, J., Kwon, J., Kim, S., Lv, Y., Yu, J., Lee, J.-Y., Ryu, H., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Garrido-Menacho, R., Mason, N., Ertekin, E., Huang, P. Y., Lee, G.-H., van der Zande, A.M. Nat. Commun. 9, 3988 (2018).

High Thermal Conductivity in Cubic Boron Arsenide Crystals
Li, S., Zheng, Q., Lv, Y., Liu, X., Wang, X., Huang, P. Y., Cahill, D. G., Lv, B.
Science 361, 579-581(2018).

Unusual High Thermal Conductivity in Boron Arsenide Bulk Crystals
Tian, F., Song, B., Chen, X., Ravichandran, N. K., Lv, Y., Chen, K., Sullivan, S., Kim, J., Zhou, Y., Liu, T.-H., Goni, M., Ding, Z., Sun, J., Gamage, G. A. G. U., Sun, H., Ziyaee, H., Huyan, S., Deng, L., Zhou, J., Schmidt, A. J., Chen, S., Chu, C.-W., Huang, P. Y., Broido, D., Shi, L., Chen, G., Ren, Z.
Science 361, 582-585 (2018).

High Thermal Conductivity in Isotopically Enriched Cubic Boron Phosphide
Zheng, Q., Li, S., Li, C., Lv, Y., Liu, X., Huang, P. Y., Broido, D. A., Lv, B., Cahill, D. G. Adv. Funct. Mater.28 1805116 (2018).

Selective-Area Superconductor Epitaxy to Ballistic Semiconductor Nanowires
Gill, S. T., Damasco, J., Janicek, B. E., Durkin, M. S., Humbert, V., Gazibegovic, S., Car, D., Bakkers, E. P. A. M., Huang, P. Y., Mason, N.
Nano Lett. 18, 6121-6128 (2018).

Strain Modulation of Graphene by Nanoscale Substrate Curvatures: a Molecular View
Zhang, Y., Heiranian, M., Janicek, B., Budrikis, Z., Zapperi, S., Huang, P.Y., Johnson, H. Aluru, N., Lyding, J., Mason, N., Nano Lett. 18 2098–2104 (2018).

2017

Engineering the Structural and Electronic Phases of MoTe₂ through W Substitution
Rhodes, D., Chenet, D. A., Janicek, B. E., Nyby, C., Lin, Y., Jin, W., Edelberg, E., Mannebach, E., Finney, N., Antony, A., Schiros, T., Klarr, T., Mazzoni, A., Chin, M., Chiu, Y. -C., Zheng, W., Zhang, Q. R., Ernst, F., Dadap, J. I., Tong, X., Ma, J., Lou, R., Wang, S., Qian, T., Ding, H., Osgood, R. M. Jr., Paley, D. W., Lindenberg, A. M., Huang, P. Y., Pasupathy, A. N., Dubey, M., Hone, J., Balicas, L.
Nano Lett. 17, 1616–1622 (2017).

2016

Energy Transfer from Quantum Dots to Graphene and MoS₂: The Role of Absorption and Screening in Two-dimensional Materials
Raja, A., Montoya-Castillo, A., Zultak, J., Zhang, Z. Z., Ye, Z., Roquelet, C., Chenet, D., van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P. Y., Jockusch, S., Hone, J., Reichman, D. R., Brus, L. E., Heinz, T. F.
Nano Lett. 6, 2328-2333 (2016).

2015

Graphene Kirigami
Blees, M. K., Barnard, A. W., Rose, P. A., Roberts, S. P., McGill, K. L., Huang, P. Y., Ruyack, A. R., Kevek, J. W., Kobrin, B., Muller, D. A., McEuen, P. L.
Nature 524, 204-207 (2015).

Multi-terminal Transport Measurements of MoS₂ Using a van der Waals Heterostructure Device platform
Cui, X., Lee, G.-H., Kim, Y. D., Arefe, G., Huang, P. Y., Lee, C.-H., Chenet, D. A., Zhang, X., Wang, L., Pizzocchero, F., Jessen, B. J., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Muller, D. A., Low, T., Kim, P., Hone, J.
Nat. Nanotechnol. 10, 534-540 (2015).

High-mobility Three-atom-thick Semiconducting Films with Wafer-scale Homogeneity
Kang, K., Xie, S., Huang, L., Han, Y., Huang, P. Y., Mak, K. F., Kim, C.-J., Muller, D. A., Park, J.
Nature 520, 656-660 (2015).

In-plane Anisotropy in Mono-and Few-layer ReS₂ Probed by Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
Chenet, D. A., Aslan, O. B., Huang, P. Y., Fan, C., van der Zande, A. M., Heinz, T. F., Hone, J. C. Nano Lett. 15, 5667-5672 (2015).

Rapid, All-optical Crystal Orientation Imaging of Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers
David, S. N., Zhai, Y., van der Zande, A. M., O'Brien, K., Huang, P. Y., Chenet, D. A., Hone, J. C., Zhang, X., Yin, X. Appl. Physs Lett. 107, 111902 (2015).

Pre-2015

Tailoring the Electronic Structure in Bilayer Molybdenum Disulfide via Interlayer Twist
van der Zande, A. M., Kunstmann, J., Chernikov, A., Chenet, D. A., You, Y., Zhang, X., Huang, P. Y., Berkelbach, T. C., Want, L., Zhang, F., Hybertsen, M. S., Muller, D. A., Reichman, D. R., Heinz, T. F., Hone, J. C. Nano Lett. 14, 3869-3875 (2014).

Imaging Atomic Rearrangements in Two-Dimensional Silica Glass: Watching Silica’s Dance
Huang, P. Y., Kurasch, S., Alden, J.A., Shekhawat, A., Alemi, A.A., McEuen, P.L., Sethna, J.P. Kaiser, U., Muller, D.A. Science 342, 224-227 (2013).

One-Dimensional Electrical Contact to a Two-Dimensional Material
Wang, L., Meric, I., Huang, P. Y., Gao, Y., Tran, H., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Campos, L. M., Muller, D. A., Gao, Q., Guo, J., Kim, P., Hone, J., Shepard, K. L., Dean, C. R. Science 342, 614-617 (2013).

Strain Solitons and Topological Defects in Bilayer Graphene
Alden, J. S., Tsen, A. W., Huang, P. Y., Hovden, R., Brown, L., Park, J., Muller, D. A., McEuen, P. L. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110, 11256–11260 (2013).

Grains and Grain Boundaries in Highly Crystalline Monolayer Molybdenum Disulphide
van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P. Y., Chenet, D. A., Berkelbach, T. C., You, Y., Lee, G. -H., Heinz, T. F., Reichman, D. R., Muller, D. A., Hone, J. C. Nat. Mater. 12, 554–561 (2013).

From Atoms to Grains: Transmission Electron Microscopy of Graphene
Huang, P.Y., Meyer, J. C., Muller, D. A. MRS Bull. 37, 1214–1221 (2012).

Graphene and Boron Nitride Lateral Heterostructures for Atomically Thin Circuitry
Levendorf, M. P., Kim, C. J., Brown, L., Huang, P. Y., Havener, R. W., Muller, D. A., Park, J. Nature 488, 627-632 (2012).

Chemical Vapor Deposition-Derived Graphene with Electrical Performance of Exfoliated Graphene
Petrone, N., Dean, C. R., Meric, I., van der Zande, A. M., Huang, P. Y., Wang, L., Muller, D., Shepard, K. L., Hone, J. Nano Lett. 12, 2751-2756 (2012).

Twinning and twisting of tri-and bilayer graphene
Brown, L., Hovden, R., Huang, P. Y., Wojcik, M., Muller, D. A., Park, J. Nano Lett. 12, 1609-1615 (2012).

Tailoring Electrical Transport across Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Graphene
Tsen, A. W., Brown, L., Levendorf, M. P., Ghahari, F., Huang, P. Y., Havener, R. W., Ruiz-Vargas, C. S., Muller, D. A., Kim, P., Park, J. Science 336, 1143-1146 (2012).

Ultrathin Oxide Films by Atomic Layer Deposition on Graphene
Wang, L., Travis, J. J., Cavanagh, A. S., Liu, X., Koenig, S. P., Huang, P. Y., George, S. M., Bunch, J. S. Nano Lett. 12, 3706-3710 (2012).