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| Biography |  |
| B. E., Material Physics, Shandong University, 2002.09-2006.07 Ph. D, Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006.09-2012.05 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 2012.06-2015.10 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015.11-2017.03 PI, ShanghaiTech University, 2017.03-Present |
| Research Interests | |
| 1. With low-temperature and high magnetic field scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), our group studies the electronic states of novel materials, including charge density wave materials, superconductors and topological materials. 2. By harnessing the power of spin-resolved and time-resolved STM, our group probes spin dynamics of few-atom nanomagnets. 3. Developing new scanning tunneling spectroscopy methods with which we can probe the ultrafast dynamics of solids at atomic scale. |
| Selected Publications | |
* Corresponding authors; # Equally contributed authors. * Corresponding authors; # Equally contributed authors. 1. H. Liu#, W. Li#, Z. Zhou#, H. Qu#, J. Zhang, W. Hu, C. Wen, N. Wang*, H. Deng*, G. Li*, S. Yan*, “Direct Evidence of Intrinsic Mott State and Its Layer-parity Oscillation in a Breathing Kagome Crystal down to Monolayer” Physical Review Letters 135, 076503 (2025) 2. Z. Yang#, F. Zheng#, D. Wu#, B. Zhang#, N. Li, W. Li, C. Zhang*, G. Zhang, X. Chen, Y. Chen*, S. Yan*, “Spectroscopic Evidence of Symmetry Breaking in the Superconducting Vortices of UTe2” National Science Review 12, nwaf267 (2025) 3. C. Wen#, T. Qin#, X. Zhang#, M. Zhang#, W. Hu, S. Shen, Z. Yang, Y. Qi*, G. Li*, S. Yan*, “Probing Hidden Mott Gap and Incommensurate Charge Modulation on the Polar Surfaces of PdCrO2” Physical Review Letters 131, 116501 (2023) 4. S. Shen, C. Wen, P. Kong, J. Gao, J. Si, X. Luo, W. Lu, Y. P. Sun, G. Chen, S. Yan*, “Inducing and Tuning Kondo Screening in a Narrow-Electronic-Band System” Nature Communications 13, 2156 (2022) 5. C. Wen, J. Gao, Y. Xie, Q. Zhang, P. Kong, J. Wang, Y. Jiang, X. Luo, J. Li, W. Lu, Y. Sun*, S. Yan*, “Roles of the Narrow Electronic Band near the Fermi Level in 1T-TaS2-Related Layered Materials” Physical Review Letters 126, 256402 (2021) 6. S. Shen, B. Shao*, C. Wen, X. Yuan, J. Gao, Z. Nie, X. Luo, B. Huang, Y. Sun, S. Meng, S. Yan*, “Single-water-dipole-layer-driven Reversible Charge Order Transition in 1T-TaS2” Nano Letters 20, 8854-8860 (2020) 7. S. Rolf-Pissarczyk#,*, S. Yan#,*, L. Malavolti, J. Burgess, G. McMurtrie, S. Loth*, “Dynamical Negative Differential Resistance in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Few-atom Spin Chains” Physical Review Letters 119, 217201 (2017) 8. S. Yan, D. Iaia, E. Morosan, E. Fradkin, P. Abbamonte, V. Madhavan*, “Influence of Domain Walls in the Incommensurate Charge Density Wave State of Cu Intercalated 1T-TiSe2” Physical Review Letters 118, 106405 (2017) 9. S. Yan*, L. Malavolti, J. A. J. Burgess, A. Droghetti, A. Rubio, S. Loth*, “Non-locally Sensing the Magnetic States of Nanoscale Antiferromagnets with an Atomic-scale Spin Sensor” Science Advances 3,e1603137 (2017) 10. S. Yan*, D. Choi, J. Burgess, S. Rolf-Pissacrczyk, S. Loth*, “Control of Quantum Magnets by Atomic Exchange Bias” Nature Nanotechnology 10, 40-45 (2015) |