Publications

Journal/preprint publications

These papers are listed in reverse chronological list. The asterisk mark (*) denotes joint-first authorship with equal contributions. 
  1. Advanced Materials, 2024 (accepted)
"Sub-diffraction correlation of quantum emitters and local strain fields in strain-engineered WSe2 monolayers"D. D. Xu,* A. F. Vong,* M. I. B. Utama, D. Lebedev, R. Ananth, M. C. Hersam, E. A. Weiss, and C. A. Mirkin.
  1. MRS Bulletin 2023, 48, 905

“Mixed-dimensional heterostructures for quantum photonic science and technology.” 

M. I. B. Utama, A. Dasgupta, R. Ananth, E. A. Weiss, T. J. Marks, and M. C. Hersam.


  1. Nano Letters 2023, 23, 6799

“Layer-dependent interaction effects in the electronic structure of twisted bilayer graphene devices.”

N. Dale, M. I. B. Utama, D. Lee, N. Leconte, S. Zhao, K. Lee, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, R. J. Koch, J. Jung, F. Wang, and A. Lanzara.


  1. Nature Communications 2023, 14, 2193 
"Chemomechanical modification of quantum emission in monolayer WSe2."M. I. B. Utama,* H. Zeng,* T. Sadhukhan,* A. Dasgupta,* S. C. Gavin, R. Ananth, D. Lebedev, W. Wang, J-S. Chen, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, T. J. Marks, X. Ma, E. A. Weiss, G. C. Schatz, N. P. Stern, and M. C. Hersam. Highlighted by Northwestern University.
  1. Nature 2022,  609, 52
“Intralayer charge transfer moiré  excitons in van der Waals superlattices.”M. H. Naik,* E. C. Regan,* Z. Zhang,* Y.-H. Chan, Z. Li, D. Wang, Y. Yoon, C. S. Ong, W. Zhao, S. Zhao, M. I. B. Utama, B. Gao, X. Wei, M. Sayyad, K. Yumigeta, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, F. H. da Jornada, F. Wang, and S. G. Louie.  Highlighted by phys.org
  1. npj Quantum Materials 2022, 7, 9
“Correlation-driven electron-hole asymmetry in graphene field effect devices.”N. Dale, R. Mori, M. I. B. Utama, J. D. Denlinger, C. H. Stansbury, C. G. Fatuzzo, S. Zhao, K. Lee, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, R. J. Koch, F. Wang, and A. Lanzara. Highlighted in ALS News
  1. Science Advances 2021, 7, eabf4387
“Visualizing electron localization of WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattices in momentum space.”C. H. Stansbury, M. I. B. Utama, C. G. Fatuzzo, E. C. Regan, D. Wang, Z. Xiang, M. Ding, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Blei, Y. Shen, S. Lorcy, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, S. Tongay, J. Avila, E. Rotenberg, F. Wang, and A. Lanzara. 
  1. Nature Communications 2021, 12, 5039
“Gate-tunable plasmons in mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures.”S. Wang,* S. J. Yoo,* S. Zhao,* W. Zhao, S. Kahn, D. Cui, F. Wu, L. Jiang, M. I. B. Utama, H. Li, S. Li, A. Zibrov, E. Regan, D. Wang, Z. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Zhou, and F. Wang.
  1. Nature 2021, 594, 517
“Efficient Fizeau drag from Dirac electrons in monolayer graphene.”W. Zhao,* S. Zhao,* H. Li, S. Wang, M. I. B. Utama, S. Kahn, Y. Jiang, X. Xiao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.Highlighted in News and Views. Mentions in Physics World, Nature Asia, Science Springs.
  1. Nature Physics 2021, 17, 184
“Visualization of the flat electronic band in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle twist.”M. I. B. Utama,* R. J. Koch,* K. Lee,* N. Leconte, H. Li, S. Zhao, L. Jiang, J. Zhu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. D. Ashby, A. Weber-Bargioni, A. Zettl, C. Jozwiak, J. Jung,  E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, and F. Wang.Highlighted in ALS News
  1. Applied Physics Reviews 2020, 7, 041412
“Surface and grain boundary carbon heterogeneity in CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites and its impact on optoelectronic properties.”Y. Li,* Q. Hu,* P. Wang,* R. Chopdekar, A. Scholl, Z. Zhao, Y. Zou, M. I. B. Utama, F. Wang, M. Barnes, Y. Zhang, T. P. Rusell, and F. Liu.Highlighted as “Featured/Editor’s pick” and AIP Scilight
  1. Science Advances 2020, 6, eabd1919
“Ultrahigh-resolution scanning microwave impedance microscopy of moiré lattices and superstructures.”K. Lee,* M. I. B. Utama,* S. Kahn,* A. Samudrala, N. Leconte, B. Yang, S. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. V. P. Altoé, G. Zhang, A. Weber-Bargioni, M. F. Crommie, P. D. Ashby, J. Jung, F. Wang, and A. Zettl.Highlighted as the rotator image in Science Advances issue, highlighted in Phys.org, fourth place winner of NanoArt 2020 of Molecular Foundry, highlighted by Molecular Foundry
  1. Physical Review Letters 2020, 125, 186803
"Nanoscale conductivity imaging of correlated electronic states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices.”Z. Chu,* E. C Regan,* X. Ma, D. Wang, Z. Xu, M. I. B. Utama, K. Yumigeta, M. Blei, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, F. Wang, and K. Lai.
  1. Nano Letters 2020, 20, 6712
“Tunneling spectroscopy in carbon nanotube-hexagonal boron nitride-carbon nanotube heterojunctions.”S. Zhao,* S. J. Yoo,* S. Wang,* B. Lyu, S. Kahn, F. Wu, Z. Zhao, D. Cui, W. Zhao, Y. Yoon, M. I. B. Utama, W. Shi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Shi, C. Zhou, and F. Wang.
  1. Nano Letters 2020, 20, 3106
“Global control of stacking order phase transition by doping and electrical field in few-layer graphene.”H. Li, M. I. B. Utama, S. Wang, W. Zhao, S. Zhao, X. Xiao, Y. Jiang, L. Jiang, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, A. Weber-Bargioni, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.
  1. Nature 2020, 579, 359
“Mott and generalized Wigner crystal states in WSe2/WS2 moiré superlattices.”E. C. Regan,* D. Wang,* C. Jin,* M. I. B. Utama, B. N. Gao, X. Wei, S. Zhao, W. Zhao, K. Yumigeta, M. Blei, J. Carlstroem, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, M. Crommie, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.Highlighted in Berkeley Lab
  1. Nature Physics 2019, 15, 1140
“Identification of spin, valley, and moiré quasi-angular momentum of interlayer excitons.”C. Jin,* E. C. Regan,* D. Wang,* M. I. B. Utama, C. S. Yang, J. Cain, Y. Qin, Y. Shen, Z. Zheng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.Highlighted in Phys.org, Berkeley Lab, Eurekalert
  1. Nature Materials 2019, 18, 1065
“Valley-dependent exciton fine-structure and Autler-Townes doublets from Berry phases in monolayer MoSe2.”C. K. Yong,* M. I. B. Utama,* C. S. Ong, T. Cao, E. C. Regan, J. Horng, Y. Shen, H. Cai, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, H. Deng, A. Zettl, S. G. Louie, and F. Wang.
  1. Nature 2019, 567, 76
“Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices.”C. Jin,* E. C. Regan,* A. Yan, M. I. B. Utama, D. Wang, Y. Qin, S. Yang, Z. Zheng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.Highlighted in News and Views of Nature: Physics World, Phys.org, Tech Explorist, Science Daily, Berkeley Lab, Molecular Foundry
  1. Nature Electronics 2019, 2, 60
“A dielectric-defined lateral heterojunction in a monolayer semiconductor.”M. I. B. Utama,* H. Kleemann,* W. Zhao, C. S. Ong, D. Y. Qiu, F. H. da Jornada, H. Cai, H. Li, R. Kou, S. Zhao, S. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, S. G. Louie, and F. Wang.Highlighted in News and Views of Nature Electronics.
  1. Science 2018, 360, 893
“Imaging of pure spin-valley diffusion current in WS2-WSe2 heterostructures.”C. Jin,* J. Kim,* M. I. B. Utama, E. C. Regan, H. Kleemann, H. Cai, Y. Shen, M. J. Shinner, A. Sengupta, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Tongay, A. Zettl, and F. Wang.
  1. Physical Review Letters 2018, 121, 047702
“Correlation of electron tunneling and plasmon propagation in a Luttinger liquid.”S. Zhao,* S. Wang,* F. Wu, W. Shi, I. B. Utama, T. Lyu, L. Jiang, Y. Su, S. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Zettl, X. Zhang, C. Zhou, and F. Wang.
  1. Nature Nanotechnology 2018, 13, 204
“Manipulation of domain wall solitons in bi- and tri-layer graphene.”L. Jiang,* S. Wang,* Z. Shi , C. Jin, M. I. B. Utama, S. Zhao, Y-R. Shen, H-J. Gao, G. Zhang, and F. Wang.
  1. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2017, 23, 4900308
“Broadband tunable hybrid photonic crystal-nanowire light emitter.”C. E. Wilhelm, M. I. B. Utama, Q. H. Xiong, C. Soci, G. Lehoucq, D. Dolfi, A. De Rossi, and S. Combrié.
  1. Small 2017, 13, 1701039
“Gate-tunable Raman spectroscopy of bilayer MoS2.”X. Lu,* M. I. B. Utama,* X. Wang, S. M. H. Owen, W. Xu, W. Zhao, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 1738
“Weak van der Waals stacking, wide-range band gap and Raman study on ultrathin layers of metal phosphorus trichalcogenides.”K. Du, X. Wang, Y. Liu, P. Hu, M. I. B. Utama, C. K. Gan, Q. H. Xiong, and Ch. Kloc.
  1. Advanced Materials 2016, 28, 276
“Phonon-assisted anti-Stokes lasing in ZnTe nanoribbons.”Q. Zhang, X. F. Liu, M. I. B. Utama, G. Xing, T. C. Sum, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Advanced Materials 2015, 27, 4502
“Rapid and nondestructive identification of polytypism and stacking sequences in few-layer MoSe2 by Raman spectroscopy.”X. Lu, M. I. B. Utama, J. Lin, X. Luo, Y. Zhao, J. Zhang, S. T. Pantelides, W. Zhou, S. Y. Quek, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 13444
“Plasma-enhanced microwave solid-state synthesis of II-VI chalcogenides: reaction mechanism and optical properties.”K. Du, C. Apoorva, X. Wang, Y. Zhao, K. Zhang, M. I. B. Utama, H. Peng, H. Jiang, Q. H. Xiong, and Ch. Kloc.
  1. Nanoscale 2015, 7, 12343
“High-yield synthesis and optical properties of g-C3N4.”Y. Yuan, L. Zhang, J. Xing, M. I. B. Utama, X. Lu, Y. Li, X. Hu, S. Wang, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Applied Physics Letters 2014, 105, 253102
“Detrimental influence of catalyst seeding on the device properties of CVD-grown 2D layered materials: A case study on MoSe2.”M. I. B. Utama, X. Lu, Y. Yuan, Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nanoscale 2014, 6, 12376
“Etching-free patterning method for electrical characterization of atomically thin MoSe2 films grown by chemical vapor deposition.”M. I. B. Utama,* X. Lu,* D. Zhan, S. T. Ha, Y. Yuan, Z. X. Shen, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nano Letters 2014, 14, 2419
“Large-Area synthesis of monolayer and few-layer MoSe2 films on SiO2 substrates.”X. Lu,* M. I. B. Utama,* J. Lin, X. Gong, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. T. Pantelides, J. Wang, Z. Dong, Z. Liu, W. Zhou, and Q. H. Xiong.Top 20 most downloaded article, May 2014
  1. Crystal Growth and Design 2013, 13, 2590
“The growth of ultralong ZnTe micro/nanostructures: the influence of polarity and twin direction on the morphogenesis of nanobelts and nanosheets.”M. I. B. Utama,* M. de la Mata,* Q. Zhang, C. Magen, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Advanced Functional Materials 2013, 23, 1636
”Twinning-, polytypism-, and polarity-induced morphological modulation in non-planar nanostructures with van der Waals epitaxy.”M. I. B. Utama,* M. de la Mata,* C. Magen, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nanoscale 2013, 5, 8904
“Layer-by-layer thinning of MoS2 by thermal annealing.”X. Lu, M. I. B. Utama, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nanoscale 2013, 5, 7242
“Solution phase van der Waals epitaxy of ZnO wire arrays.”Y. Zhu, Y. Zhou, M. I. B. Utama, M. de la Mata, Y. Zhao, Q. Zhang, B. Peng, C. Magen, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.Selected as the inside front cover
  1. Nanoscale 2013, 5, 3570
“Recent developments and future directions in the growth of nanostructures by van der Waals epitaxy.”M. I. B. Utama, Q. Zhang, J. Zhang, Y. Yuan, F. J. Belarre, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nano Letters 2012, 12, 6420
“Highly enhanced exciton recombination rate by strong electron-phonon coupling in single ZnTe nanobelt".Q. Zhang, X. F. Liu, M. I. B. Utama, J. Zhang, M. de la Mata, J. Arbiol, Y. H. Lu, T. C. Sum, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Applied Physics Letters 2012, 101, 091104
“Size and surface effects on transient photoconductivity in CdS nanobelts probed by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy.”M. Li, B. Wu, S. A. Ekahana, M. I. B. Utama, G. Xing, Q. H. Xiong, T. C. Sum, and X. Zhang.
  1. Advanced Materials 2012, 30, 4151
“Composition-tunable vertically aligned CdSxSe1-x nanowire arrays via van der Waals epitaxy: investigation of optical properties and photocatalytic behavior.”J. Pan,* M. I. B. Utama,* Q. Zhang,* X. F. Liu, B. Peng, L. M. Wong, T. C. Sum, S. Wang, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nano Letters 2012, 12, 2579
“Polarity assignment in ZnTe, GaAs, ZnO, and GaN-AlN nanowires from direct dumbbell analysis.”M. de la Mata, C. Magen, J. Gazquez, M. I. B. Utama, M. Heiss, S. Lopatin, F. Furtmayr, C. J. Fernández-Rojas, B. Peng, J. R. Morante, R. Rurali, M. Eickhoff, A. Fontcuberta i Morral, Q. H. Xiong, and J. Arbiol.
  1. Nano Letters 2012, 12, 2146
“Incommensurate van der Waals epitaxy of nanowire arrays: a case study with ZnO on muscovite mica substrates.”M. I. B. Utama, F. J. Belarre, C. Magen, B. Peng, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. ACS Nano 2012, 6, 2281
“Epitaxial II-VI tripod nanocrystals: a generalization of van der Waals epitaxy for nonplanar polytypic nanoarchitectures.”M. I. B. Utama, Q. Zhang, S. F. Jia, D. H. Li, J. B. Wang, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Physical Review B 2012, 85, 085418
“Exciton-phonon coupling in individual ZnTe nanorods studied by resonant Raman spectroscopy.”Q. Zhang, J. Zhang, M. I. B. Utama, B. Peng, M. de la Mata, J. Arbiol, and Q. H. Xiong.
  1. Nanoscale 2012, 4, 1422
“Synthesis and optical properties of II-VI 1D nanostructures.”M. I. B. Utama, J. Zhang, R. Chen, X. Xu, D. H. Li, H. D. Sun, and Q. H. Xiong.Selected as part of the cover article
  1. Advanced Materials 2011, 23, 1404
“Excitonic properties and near-infrared coherent random lasing in vertically aligned CdSe nanowires.”R. Chen, M. I. B. Utama, Z. P. Peng, B. Peng, Q. H. Xiong, and H. D. Sun.
  1. Nano Letters 2011, 11, 3051
“Vertically aligned cadmium chalcogenide nanowire arrays on muscovite mica: a demonstration of epitaxial growth strategy.”M. I. B. Utama, Z. P. Peng, R. Chen, B. Peng, X. Xu, Y. Dong, L. M. Wong, S. J. Wang, H. D. Sun, and Q. H. Xiong.Selected as the cover article
  1. Nano Letters 2010, 10, 3940
“Heteroepitaxial decoration of Ag nanoparticles on Si nanowires: a case study on Raman scattering and mapping.”Z. P. Peng, H. L. Hu, M. I. B. Utama, K. Ghosh, R. Chen, L. M. Wong, S. J. Wang, and Q. H. Xiong.

Conference proceedings

  1. The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2015, CK_3_4
“Nanowire in photonic crystal visible light source.”C. Wilhelm, S. Combrie, M. I. B. Utama, G. Lehoucq, Q. H. Xiong, C. Soci, and A. De Rossi.
  1. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2012, AF2A.7
“Size and surface effects on transient photoconductivity in CdS nanobelts probed by optical pump-terahertz probe spectroscopy.”X. Zhang, M. Li, B. Wu, S. A. Ekahana, M. I. B. Utama, G. Xing, Q. H. Xiong, and T. C. Sum.

Book chapter

  1. Chapter 2, Semiconductor Nanowires: Materials, Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
“II-VI compound semiconductor nanowires: optical properties and nanophotonics.”H. Yu, C. Xin, Q. Zhang, M. I. B. Utama, L. Tong, and Q. H. Xiong.Woodhead Publishing Group, UK, 2015