Dr Yi-Hsun Chen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Mathematics and Physics

Researcher biography
Yi-Hsun Chen completed his PhD in Physics at the Monash University in 2024. Prior to this PhD, he obtained his Master degree in Optoelectronics at the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2014.
His research interests relate to electronic transport and optical properties of the following field of study:
- Superconducting qubits
- Exciton science
- Bose-Einstein condensate
- 2D materials (graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.)
- Plasmonics
In 2024, He joins UQ as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow under an ARC Linkage Project "Surface and Interface Engineering for Superconducting Quantum Circuits," pursuing high-quality superconducting quantum circuits using surface engineering strategies.
Please find his publication list via google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com.tw/citations?user=EvKa9qIAAAAJ&hl=en
Journal Articles
Steele, Julian A., Strohbeen, Patrick J., Verdi, Carla, Baktash, Ardeshir, Danilenko, Alisa, Chen, Yi-Hsun, van Dijk, Jechiel, Knudsen, Frederik H., Leblanc, Axel, Perconte, David, Wang, Lianzhou, Demler, Eugene, Salmani-Rezaie, Salva, Jacobson, Peter and Shabani, Javad (2025). Superconductivity in substitutional Ga-hyperdoped Ge epitaxial thin films. Nature Nanotechnology, 20 (12), 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41565-025-02042-8
Chen, Yi-Hsun, Lo, Ping-Yuan, Boschen, Kyle W., Hsu, Chih-En, Hsu, Yung-Ning, Holtzman, Luke N., Peng, Guan-Hao, Huang, Chun-Jui, Holbrook, Madisen, Wang, Wei-Hua, Barmak, Katayun, Hone, James, Hawrylak, Pawel, Hsueh, Hung-Chung, Davis, Jeffrey A., Cheng, Shun-Jen, Fuhrer, Michael S. and Chen, Shao-Yu (2025). Efficient light upconversion via resonant exciton-exciton annihilation of dark excitons in few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides. Nature Communications, 16 (1) 2935, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57991-4
Xing, Kaijian, Mcewen, Daniel, Yin, Yuefeng, Zhao, Weiyao, Bake, Abdulhakim, Cortie, David, Liu, Jingying, Vu, Thi-Hai-Yen, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Hone, James, Stacey, Alastair, Edmonds, Mark T., Medhekar, Nikhil V., Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Ou, Qingdong, Qi, Dong-Chen and Fuhrer, Michael S. (2025). Pick-and-place transfer of arbitrary-metal electrodes for van der Waals device fabrication. ACS Nano, 19 (3), 3579-3588. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.4c13592
Nguyen, Alexander, Akhgar, Golrokh, Cortie, David L., Bake, Abdulhakim, Pastuovic, Zeljko, Zhao, Weiyao, Liu, Chang, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Suzuki, Kiyonori, Fuhrer, Michael S., Culcer, Dimitrie, Hamilton, Alexander R., Edmonds, Mark T. and Karel, Julie (2023). Increased phase coherence length in a porous topological insulator. Physical Review Materials, 7 (6) 064202, 1-6. doi: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.7.064202
Chen, Yi-Hsun, Xing, Kaijian, Liu, Song, Holtzman, Luke N., Creedon, Daniel L., McCallum, Jeffrey C., Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Barmak, Katayun, Hone, James, Hamilton, Alexander R., Chen, Shao-Yu and Fuhrer, Michael S. (2022). P-type Ohmic contact to monolayer WSe2 field-effect transistors using high-electron affinity amorphous MoO3. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4 (11), 5379-5386. doi: 10.1021/acsaelm.2c01053
Cheng, Chih-Yi, Pai, Wei-Liang, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Paylaga, Naomi Tabudlong, Wu, Pin-Yun, Chen, Chun-Wei, Liang, Chi-Te, Chou, Fang-Cheng, Sankar, Raman, Fuhrer, Michael S., Chen, Shao-Yu and Wang, Wei-Hua (2022). Phase Modulation of Self-Gating in Ionic Liquid-Functionalized InSe Field-Effect Transistors. Nano Letters, 22 (6), 2270-2276. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04522
Di Bernardo, Iolanda, Blyth, James, Watson, Liam, Xing, Kaijian, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Chen, Shao-Yu, Edmonds, Mark T. and Fuhrer, Michael S. (2022). Defects, band bending and ionization rings in MoS2. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 34 (17) 174002, 1-7. doi: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac4f1d
Wang, Chih-Yuan, Lin, Yun-Wu, Chuang, Chiashain, Yang, Cheng-Hsueh, Patel, Dinesh K., Chen, Sheng-Zong, Yeh, Ching-Chen, Chen, Wei-Chen, Lin, Chia-Chun, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Wang, Wei-Hua, Sankar, Raman, Chou, Fang-Cheng, Kruskopf, Mattias, Elmquist, Randolph E. and Liang, Chi-Te (2021). Magnetotransport in hybrid InSe/monolayer graphene on SiC. Nanotechnology, 32 (15) 155704, 1-7. doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/abd726
Chen, Yi-Hsun, Cheng, Chih-Yi, Chen, Shao-Yu, Rodriguez, Jan Sebastian Dominic, Liao, Han-Ting, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Chen, Chun-Wei, Sankar, Raman, Chou, Fang-Cheng, Chiu, Hsiang-Chih and Wang, Wei-Hua (2019). Oxidized-monolayer tunneling barrier for strong Fermi-level depinning in layered InSe transistors. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 3 (1) 49, 1-7. doi: 10.1038/s41699-019-0133-3
Huang, Yu-Ting, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Ho, Yi-Ju, Huang, Shih-Wei, Chang, Yih-Ren, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Chiu, Hsiang-Chih, Liang, Chi-Te, Sankar, Raman, Chou, Fang-Cheng, Chen, Chun-Wei and Wang, Wei-Hua (2018). High-Performance InSe Transistors with Ohmic Contact Enabled by Nonrectifying Barrier-Type Indium Electrodes. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10 (39), 33450-33456. doi: 10.1021/acsami.8b10576
Yang, Zih-Ying, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Liao, Bo-Huei and Chen, Kuo-Ping (2016). Room temperature fabrication of titanium nitride thin films as plasmonic materials by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering. Optical Materials Express, 6 (2) 245651, 540-551. doi: 10.1364/ome.6.000540
Chang, Che-Yuan, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Tsai, Yu-Lin, Kuo, Hao-Chung and Chen, Kuo-Ping (2015). Tunability and Optimization of Coupling Efficiency in Tamm Plasmon Modes. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 21 (4) 6967778, 262-267. doi: 10.1109/jstqe.2014.2375151
Chen, Yi-Hsun, Chen, Kuo-Ping, Shih, Min-Hsiung and Chang, Che-Yuan (2014). Observation of the high-sensitivity plasmonic dipolar antibonding mode of gold nanoantennas in evanescent waves. Applied Physics Letters, 105 (3) 031117, 1-4. doi: 10.1063/1.4891573
Conference Papers
Chen, Kuo-Ping, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Kuo, Yu-Lun, Yang, Zhen-Hong and Chang, Che-Yuan (2015). High sensitivity dark mode plasmonic resonance of gold nanoantennas arrays in evanescent waves. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1364/CLEO_AT.2015.JTu5A.68
Yang, Zih-Ying, Chen, Yi-Hsun, Liao, Bo-Huei and Chen, Kuo-Ping (2015). Titanium nitride thin-films as plasmonic materials with high-power impulse magnetron sputtering. Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA).
Chen, Yi-Hsun, Shih, Min-Hsiung and Chen, Kuo-Ping (2013). SPR biosensor using gold nanoantenna arrays in Kretchmann configuration. IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/NMDC.2013.6707463