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1. Y. Shao*†, F. Dirnberger†, S. Qiu†, S. Acharya†, S. Terres, E. J. Telford, D. Pashov, B. S. Y. Kim, F. L. Ruta, D. G. Chica, A. H. Dismukes, M. E. Ziebel, Y. Wang, J. Choe, Y. J. Bae, A. J. Millis, M. I. Katsnelson, K. Mosina, Z. Sofer, R. Huber, X. Zhu, X. Roy, M. van Schilfgaarde, A. Chernikov, and D. N. Basov*, "Magnetically confined surface and bulk excitons in a layered antiferromagnet", Nat. Mater., 24, 391–398 (2025)

2.  F. L. Ruta*, Y. Shao ,S. Acharya, A. Mu, N. H. Jo, S. H. Ryu, D. Balatsky, Y. Su, D. Pashov, B. S. Y. Kim, M. I. Katsnelson, J. G. Analytis, E. Rotenberg, A. J. Millis, M. van Schilfgaarde, and D. N. Basov*, “Good plasmons in a bad metal”, Science 387, 786 (2025).

3. Y. Shao*, Seongphill Moon, A. N. Rudenko, Jie Wang, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Mykhaylo Ozerov, David Graf, Zhiyuan Sun, Raquel Queiroz, Seng Huat Lee, Yanglin Zhu, Zhiqiang Mao, M. I. Katsnelson, B. Andrei Bernevig, Dmitry Smirnov, Andrew. J. Millis and D. N. Basov*, “Semi-Dirac Fermions in a Topological Metal”, Phys. Rev. X 14, 041057 (2024).

4. Francesco Ruta†, Shuai Zhang†, Y. Shao†, S. L. Moore, S. Acharya, Z. Sun, S. Qiu, J. Geurs, B. S. Y. Kim, M. Fu, D. G. Chica, D. Pashov, X. Xu, D. Xiao, M. Delor, X.-Y. Zhu, A. J. Millis, X. Roy, J. C. Hone, C. R. Dean, M. I. Katsnelson, M. van Schilfgaarde, D. N. Basov, “Hyperbolic exciton polaritons in a van der Waals magnet”, Nat. Comm. 14, 8261 (2023)

5. A. J. Sternbach*, S. L. Moore, A. Rikhter, S. Zhang, R. Jing, Y. Shao, B. S. Y. Kim, S. Xu, S. Liu, J. H. Edgar, A. Rubio, C. Dean, J. Hone, M. M. Fogler, and D. N. Basov, “Negative Refraction in Hyperbolic Hetero-Bicrystals”, Science 379, 555 (2023).

6. B. S. Y. Kim*, A. J. Sternbach, M. S. Choi, Z. Sun, F. L. Ruta, Y. Shao, A. S. McLeod, L. Xiong, Y. Dong, T. S. Chung, A. Rajendran, S. Liu, A. Nipane, S. H. Chae, A. Zangiabadi, X. Xu, A. J. Millis, P. J. Schuck, C. R. Dean, J. C. Hone, D. N. Basov*, “Ambipolar Charge-Transfer Graphene Plasmonic Cavities”, Nat. Mater. 22, 7 (2023).

7. M. Dapolito, M. Tsuneto, W. Zheng, L. Wehmeier, S. Xu, X. Chen, J. Sun, Z. Du, Y. Shao, R. Jing, S. Zhang, A. Bercher, Y. Dong, D. Halbertal, V. Ravindran, Z. Zhou, M. Petrovic, A. Gozar, G. L. Carr, Q. Li, A. B. Kuzmenko, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov*, X. Du*, M. Liu*, “Infrared nano-imaging of Dirac magnetoexcitons in graphene”. 

Nat. Nano., 1, (2023).

8. Shuai Zhang*, Yang Liu, Zhiyuan Sun, Xinzhong Chen, Baichang Li, SL Moore, Song Liu, Zhiying Wang, SE Rossi, Ran Jing, Jordan Fonseca, Birui Yang, Y. Shao, Chun-Ying Huang, Taketo Handa, Lin Xiong, Matthew Fu, Tsai-Chun Pan, Dorri Halbertal, Xinyi Xu, Wenjun Zheng, PJ Schuck, AN Pasupathy, CR Dean, Xiaoyang Zhu, David H Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Mengkun Liu, MM Fogler, James C Hone, DN Basov*, "Visualizing Moiré Ferroelectricity via Plasmons and Nano-Photocurrent in Graphene/Twisted-WSe2 Structures", Nat. Comm. 14, 1 (2023).

9. Y. Shao*, A. J. Sternbach, B. S. Y. Kim, A. A. Rikhter, X. Xu, U. De Giovannini, R. Jing, S. H. Chae, Z. Sun, S. H. Lee, Y. Zhu, Z. Mao, J. Hone, R. Queiroz, A. J. Millis, P. J. Schuck, A. Rubio, M. M. Fogler, D. N. Basov*, “Infrared Plasmons Propagate through a Hyperbolic Nodal Metal”, Science Advances 8, eadd6169 (2022).

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10. X. Xu, C. Trovatello, F. Mooshammer, Y. Shao, S. Zhang, K. Yao, D. N. Basov*, G. Cerullo*, P. James Schuck*, “Towards compact phase-matched and waveguided nonlinear optics in atomically layered semiconductors”, 

Nat. Photon. 16, 698 (2022).

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11. F. Mooshammer, S. Chae, S. Zhang, Y. Shao, S. Qiu, A. Rajendran, A. J. Sternbach, D. J. Rizzo, X. Zhu, P. J. Schuck, J. C. Hone, and D. N. Basov*, “In-Plane Anisotropy in Biaxial ReS2 Crystals Probed by Nano-Optical Imaging of Waveguide Modes”, ACS. Photon. 9, 443 (2022).

12. S. Zhang, B. Li, X. Chen, F. L. Ruta, Y. Shao, A. J. Sternbach, A. S. McLeod, Z. Sun, L. Xiong, S. L. Moore, X. Xu, W. Wu, S. Shabani, L. Zhou, Z. Wang, F. Mooshammer, E. Ray, N. Wilson, P. J. Schuck, C. R. Dean, A. N. Pasupathy, M. Lipson, X. Xu, X. Zhu, A. J. Millis, M. Liu, J. C. Hone, and D. N. Basov*, “Nano-Spectroscopy of Excitons in Atomically Thin Transition Metal Dichalcogenides”, Nat. Comm. 13, 542 (2022).

13. Y. Shao*, Ran Jing, Sang Hoon Chae, Chong Wang, Zhiyuan Sun, Eve Emmanouilidou, Suheng Xu, Dorri Halbertal, Baichang Li, Anjaly Rajendran, Francesco L. Ruta, Lin Xiong, Yinan Dong, Alexander S. McLeod, Sai S. Sunku, James C. Hone, Joel Moore, Joe Orenstein, James G. Analytis, Andrew J. Millis, Ni Ni, Di Xiao, D. N. Basov*, "Nonlinear nanoelectrodynamics of a Weyl metal", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118, e2116366118 (2021).

14. S. L. Moore, C. J. Ciccarino, D. Halbertal, L. J. McGilly, N. R. Finney, K. Yao, Y. Shao, G. Ni, A. Sternbach, E. J. Telford, B. S. Kim, S. E. Rossi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. N. Pasupathy, C. R. Dean, J. Hone, P. J. Schuck, P. Narang, D. N. Basov*. "Nanoscale lattice dynamics in hexagonal boron nitride moiré superlattices", Nat. Comm. 12, 5741 (2021).

15. Ran Jing, Y. Shao, Zaiyao Fei, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Rocco A. Vitalone, Francesco L. Ruta, John Staunton, William J.-C Zheng, Alexander S. Mcleod, Zhiyuan Sun, Bor-yuan Jiang, Xinzhong Chen, Michael M. Fogler, Andrew J. Millis, Mengkun Liu, David H. Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, D. N. Basov, "Terahertz response of monolayer and few-layer WTe2 at the nanoscale", Nat. Comm. 12, 5594 (2021). 

16. Ziheng Yao, Xinzhong Chen, Lukas Wehmeier, Suheng Xu, Y. Shao, Zimeng Zeng, Fanwei Liu, Alexander S. Mcleod, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Makoto Tsuneto, Wu Shi, Zihang Wang, Wenjun Zheng, Hans A. Bechtel, G. L. Carr, Michael C. Martin, Alex Zettl, D. N. Basov, Xi Chen, Lukas M. Eng, Susanne C. Kehr, Mengkun Liu, "Probing subwavelength in-plane anisotropy with antenna-assisted infrared nano-spectroscopy", Nat. Comm. 12, 2649 (2021). 

17. A. J. Sternbach, S. H. Chae, S. Latini, A. A. Rikhter, Y. Shao, B. Li, D. Rhodes, B. Kim, P. J. Schuck, X. Xu, X.-Y. Zhu, R. D. Averitt, J. Hone, M. M. Fogler, A. Rubio, and D. N. Basov, "Programmable Hyperbolic Polaritons in van Der Waals Semiconductors", Science 371, 617 (2021).

18. A. J. Sternbach, S. Latini, S. Chae, H. Hübener, U. De Giovannini, Y. Shao, L. Xiong, Z. Sun, N. Shi, P. Kissin, G.-X. Ni, D. Rhodes, B. Kim, N. Yu, A. J. Millis, M. M. Fogler, P. J. Schuck, M. Lipson, X.-Y. Zhu, J. Hone, R. D. Averitt, A. Rubio, and D. N. Basov, "Femtosecond Exciton Dynamics in WSe2 Optical Waveguides", Nat. Comm. 11, 3567 (2020).

19. Y. Shao*, A. N. Rudenko, Jin Hu, Zhiyuan Sun, Yanglin Zhu, Seongphill Moon, A. J. Millis, Shengjun Yuan, A. I. Lichtenstein, Dmitry Smirnov, Z. Q. Mao, M. I. Katsnelson, D. N. Basov*, "Electronic correlations in nodal-line semimetals", Nat. Phys. 16, 636–641 (2020). 

20. L. Xiong, C. Forsythe, M. Jung, A. S. McLeod, S. S. Sunku, Y. M. Shao, G. X. Ni, A. J. Sternbach, S. Liu, J. H. Edgar, E. J. Mele, M. M. Fogler, G. Shvets, C. R. Dean, D. N. Basov, "Photonic crystal for graphene plasmons", Nat. Comm. 10, 4780 (2019). 

21. Y. Shao*, Zhiyuan Sun, Ying Wang, Chenchao Xu, Raman Sankar, Alexander J. Breindel, Chao Cao, Michael M. Fogler, Andrew J. Millis, Fangcheng Chou, Zhiqiang Li, Thomas Timusk, M. Brian Maple, D. N. Basov, "Optical signatures of Dirac nodal lines in NbAs2", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116,1168, (2019).

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22. A. M. Shuvaev, V. Dziom, N. N. Mikhailov, Z. D. Kvon, Y. Shao, D. N. Basov, and A. Pimenov, "Band Structure of a Two-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal from Cyclotron Resonance", Phys. Rev. B 96, 155434 (2017).

23. S. Dai, Q. Ma, Y. Yang, J. Rosenfeld, M. D. Goldflam, A. McLeod, Z. Sun, T. I. Andersen, Z. Fei, M. Liu, Y. Shao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, P. Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, and D. N. Basov, "Efficiency of Launching Highly Confined Polaritons by Infrared Light Incident on a Hyperbolic Material", Nano Lett. 17, 5285 (2017).

24. A. J. Frenzel, C. C. Homes, Q. D. Gibson, Y. M. Shao, K. W. Post, A. Charnukha, R. J. Cava, and D. N. Basov, "Anisotropic Electrodynamics of Type-II Weyl Semimetal Candidate WTe2", Phys. Rev. B 95, 245140 (2017).

25. W. S. Whitney, V. W. Brar, Y. Ou, Y. Shao, A. R. Davoyan, D. N. Basov, K. He, Q.-K. Xue, and H. A. Atwater, "Gate-Variable Mid-Infrared Optical Transitions in a (Bi1–XSbx)2Te3 Topological Insulator", Nano Lett. 17, 255 (2017).

26. Y. Shao*, K. W. Post, J.-S. Wu, S. Dai, A. J. Frenzel, A. R. Richardella, J. S. Lee, N. Samarth, M. M. Fogler, A. V. Balatsky, D. E. Kharzeev, and D. N. Basov, "Faraday Rotation Due to Surface States in the Topological Insulator (Bi1–XSbx)2Te3", Nano Lett. 17, 980 (2017).

27. L. Jiao, J. L. Zhang, Y. Chen, Z. F. Weng, Y. M. Shao, J. Y. Feng, X. Lu, B. Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ramakrishnan, and H. Q. Yuan*, "Anisotropic Superconductivity in Noncentrosymmetric BiPd", Phys. Rev. B 89, 060507 (2014).