Dr. Yi-Yu Cai

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2019)
M.S. in Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014)

Dissertation

Light Emission from Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Publications

  1. K. Shiratori, L. D. C. Bishop, B. Ostovar, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Machine-Learned Decision Trees for Predicting Gold Nanorod Sizes from Spectra, J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (35), 19353 (2021). 
  2. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link, Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures, J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021). 
  3. S. S. E. Collins, E. K. Searles, L. J. Tauzin, M. Lou, L. Bursi, Y. Liu, J. Song, C. Flatebo, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, B. Foerster, T. Lian, P. Nordlander, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Plasmon Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanoantennas, ACS Nano, 15 (6), 9522 (2021).
  4. B. Ostovar, Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, S. A. Lee, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission, ACS Nano, 14 (11), 15757 (2020).
  5. Y.-Y. Cai, S. S. E. Collins, M. J. Gallagher, U. Bhattacharjee, R. Zhang, T. H. Chow, A. Ahmadivand, B. Ostovar, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Wang, P. Nordlander, C. F. Landes, and S. Link, Single particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes, ACS Energy Letters, 4, 2458 (2019). 
  6. C. Flatebo, S. S. E. Collins, B. S. Hoener, Y.-Y. Cai, S. Link, and C. F. Landes, Electrodissolution Inhibition of Gold Nanorods with Oxoanions, J. Phys. Chem. C, 123(22), 13983 (2019).
  7. Y.-Y. Cai, E. Sung, R. Zhang, L. J. Tauzin, J. G. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link, Anti-Stokes Emission from Hot Carriers in Gold Nanorods, Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1067 (2019). 
  8. C. Yi, M.-N. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y.-Y. Cai, D. M. Marolf, R. N. Kress, B. Ostovar, L. J. Tauzin, F. Wen, W.-S. Chang, M. R. Jones, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link, Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping, Nano Lett., 18 (6), 3494 (2018). 
  9. S. R. Kirchner, K. W. Smith, B. S. Hoener, Sean S. E. Collins, W. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, C. Kinnear, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Mulvaney, C. F. Landes, S. Link, Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging (SHI) for Revealing Irreversible and Heterogeneous Plasmonic Processes, J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 6865 (2018). 
  10. Y.-Y. Cai, J. G. Liu, L. J. Tauzin, D. Huang, E. Sung, H. Zhang, A. Joplin, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, S. Link, Photoluminescence of Gold Nanorods: Purcell Effect Enhanced Emission from Hot Carriers, ACS Nano Article, 12 (2), 976 (2018). 
  11. S. Indrasekara, B. Shuang, F. Hollenhorst, B. Hoener, A. Hoggard, S. Chen, E. Villarreal, Y.-Y Cai, L. Kisley, P. Derry, W.-S Chang, E. Zubarev, E. Ringe, S. Link and C. Landes, Optimization of Spectral and Spatial Conditions to Improve Super-Resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Nanoparticles, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8(1), 299 (2017). 
  12. M. Yorulmaz, S. Nizzero, A. Hoggard, L.-Y. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, M.-N. Su, W.-S. Chang, and S. Link, Single-Particle Absorption Spectroscopy by Photothermal Contrast, Nano Lett 15, 3041(2015).