Yakun YUAN

  • Associate Professor

  • Email address: ykyuan@sjtu.edu.cn

  • EDUCATION

  • WORKING EXPERIENCE

  • RESEARCH

  • HONORS AND AWARDS

  • PUBLICATIONS

  • 2009-2013: Peking University, Physics & Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science

  • 2013-2018: the Pennsylvania State University, Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy

  • 2018-2021: University of California, Los Angeles, School of Physics and Astronomy, Postdoctoral fellow

  • 2020-2021: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Postdoctoral fellow

  • Atomic electron tomography, computational microscopy, phase-retrieval algorithm, structural-property relationship, material physics

  • MIT Technology Review '35 Innovators under 35' China

  • Shanghai Science & Technology 35 under 35

  • Promising Scientist Award of DAMO Academy Young Fellow

  • Yakun Yuan*; Dennis S. Kim*; Jihan Zhou*; Dillan J. Chang; Fan Zhu; Yasutaka Nagaoka; Yao Yang; Minh Pham; Stanley J. Osher; Ou Chen; Peter Ercius; Andreas K. Schmid; Jianwei Miao; Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure, Nature Materials, 2021,21(1): 95-102

  • Yao Yang*; Jihan Zhou*; Fan Zhu*; Yakun Yuan*; Dillan J. Chang; Dennis S. Kim; Minh Pham; Arjun Rana; Xuezeng Tian; Yonggang Yao; Stanley J. Osher; Andreas K. Schmid; Liangbing Hu; Peter Ercius; Jianwei Miao; Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of an amorphous solid, Nature, 2021, 592: 60-64

  • Yakun Yuan; Yanfu Lu; Greg Stone; Ke Wang; Charles M. Brooks; Darrell G. Schlom; Susan B. Sinnott; Hua Zhou; Venkatraman Gopalan; Three-dimensional atomic scale electron density reconstruction of octahedral tilt epitaxy in functional perovskites, Nature Communications, 2018, 9(1)

  • Yakun Yuan*; Peter Kissin*; Danilo Puggioni; Kevin Cremin; Shiming Lei; Yu Wang; Zhiqiang Mao; James M. Rondinelli; Richard D. Averitt; Venkatraman Gopalan; Ultrafast quasiparticle dynamics in the correlated semimetal Ca3Ru2O7, Physical Review B, 2019, 99(15): 155111

  • Yixin Yan; Yakun Yuan; Baomin Wang; Venkatraman Gopalan; Noel C. Giebink; Sub-wavelengthmodulation of chi((2)) optical nonlinearity in organic thin films, Nature Communications, 2017, 8(2): 14269

  • Qian Li; Vladimir A. Stoica; Marek Paściak; Yi Zhu; Yakun Yuan; Tiannan Yang; Margaret R.McCarter; Sujit Das; Ajay K. Yadav; Suji Park; Cheng Dai; Hyeon Jun Lee; Youngjun Ahn; Samuel D.Marks; Shukai Yu; Christelle Kadlec; Takahiro Sato; Matthias C. Hoffmann; Matthieu Chollet; Michael E. Kozina; Silke Nelson; Diling Zhu; Donald A. Walko; Aaron M. Lindenberg; Paul G. Evans; Long-Qing Chen; Ramamoorthy Ramesh; Lane W. Martin; Venkatraman Gopalan; John W. Freeland; Jirka Hlinka; Haidan Wen; Subterahertz collective dynamics of polar vortices, Nature, 2021, 592: 376-380

  • Xuezeng Tian*; Xingxu Yan*; Georgios Varnavides*; Yakun Yuan; Dennis S. Kim; Christopher J.Ciccarino; Polina Anikeeva; Ming-Yang Li; Lain-Jong Li; Prineha Narang; Xiaoqing Pan; Jianwei Miao; Capturing 3D atomic defects and phonon localization at the 2D heterostructure interface, Science Advances, 2021, 7(38)

  • V. A. Stoica; N. Laanait; C. Dai; Z. Hong; Y. Yuan; Z. Zhang; S. Lei; M. R. McCarter; A.Yadav; A. R. Damodaran; S. Das; G. A. Stone; J. Karapetrova; D. A. Walko; X. Zhang; L. W. Martin;R. Ramesh; L.-Q. Chen; H. Wen; V. Gopalan; J. W. Freeland; Optical creation of a supercrystal with three-dimensional nanoscale periodicity, Nature Materials, 2019, 18(4): 377-383

  • T. H. Kim*; D. Puggioni*; Y. Yuan; L. Xie; H. Zhou; N. Campbell; P. J. Ryan; Y. Choi; J.-W.Kim; J. R. Patzner; S. Ryu; J. P. Podkaminer; J. Irwin; Y. Ma; C. J. Fennie; M. S. Rzchowski; X.Q. Pan; V. Gopalan; J. M. Rondinelli; C. B. Eom; Polar metals by geometric design, Nature, 2016,533(7601): 68-72

  • Hirofumi Akamatsu; Yakun Yuan; Vladimir A. Stoica; Greg Stone; Tiannan Yang; Zijian Hong;Shiming Lei; Yi Zhu; Ryan C. Haislmaier; John W. Freeland; Long-Qing Chen; Haidan Wen; Venkatraman Gopalan; Light-Activated Gigahertz Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics, Physical Review Letters, 2018, 120(9): 096101