Kai-Qiang Lin    林楷强                                             Born: 1992

Kaiqiang.lin{at}xmu.edu.cn,  Kaiqianglin {at} gmail.com

2023-     Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

2020-2022  Staff scientist (Akademischer Rat a.Z.), Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany

2018-2019  Postdoctoral researcher (Advisor: Prof. John M. Lupton), Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany 

2013-2018  Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry (Advisors: Prof. Bin Ren and Prof. Zhong-Qun Tian), Xiamen University, China

2009-2013  B.S. Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

Research interests: 

Quantum materials/Quantum nonlinear optics/Nano-optics/Raman spectroscopy/Plasmon-enhanced Raman spectroscopy/...

Grants and awards

2023 |  Walter-Schottky-Preis

2021–2025 | German Research Foundation (DFG), SFB 1277, B11 (project leader)

2021–2023 | Sino-German Center, Mobility Programme M-0153 (project leader)

2020–2023 | German Research Foundation (DFG), SPP 2244, ID-443378379 (project leader)

Service and activity

Refereeing activities

Science, Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Optical Express, npj 2D Materials and Applications, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Langmuir

Outstanding reviewer in 2021 for Light: Science & Applications.

Commentary

Kai-Qiang Lin, A road map for interlayer exciton, Light: Science & Applications, 10, 99 (2021).

Peer Reviewed Publications

28.            Jonas Bauer, Lijue Chen, Philipp Wilhelm, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sebastian Bange, John Lupton, Kai-Qiang Lin*

Excitonic resonances control the temporal dynamics of nonlinear optical wave mixing in monolayer semiconductors

Nature Photon., 16, 777-783 (2022)

27.            Kai-Qiang Lin*, Jonas D. Ziegler, Marina A. Semina, Javid V. Mamedov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sebastian Bange, Alexey Chernikov, Mikhail M. Glazov*, John M. Lupton 

High-lying valley-polarized trions in 2D semiconductors

Nature Commun., 13, 6980 (2022) 

26.            Lorenz Bauriedl, Christian Bäuml, Lorenz Fuchs, Christian Baumgartner, Nicolas Paulik, Jonas M Bauer, Kai-Qiang Lin, John M Lupton, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Christoph Strunk, Nicola Paradiso*

Supercurrent diode effect and magnetochiral anisotropy in few-layer NbSe nanowires

Nature Commun. 13, 4266 (2022)

25.            Jonas D Ziegler, Kai-Qiang Lin, Barbara Meisinger, Xiangzhou Zhu, Manuel Kober-Czerny, Pabitra K Nayak, Cecilia Vona, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Claudia Draxl, Henry J Snaith, John M Lupton, David A Egger, Alexey Chernikov*

Excitons at the Phase Transition of 2D Hybrid Perovskites

ACS Photonics, online (2022)

24.            Si-Si Wu, Teng-Xiang Huang, Xiaolan Xu, Yi-Fan Bao, Xin-Di Pei, Xu Yao, Mao-Feng Cao, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang*, Dongdong Wang*, and Bin Ren*

Quantitatively Deciphering Electronic Properties of Defects at Atomically Thin Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

ACS Nano, 16, 3, 4786 (2022) .

23.            Kai-Qiang Lin*, Chin Shen Ong, Sebastian Bange, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Bo Peng, Jonas D. Ziegler, Jonas Zipfel, Christian Bäuml, Nicola Paradiso, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christoph Strunk, Bartomeu Monserrat, Jaroslav Fabian, Alexey Chernikov, Diana Y. Qiu, Steven G. Louie, John M. Lupton*

Narrow-band high-lying excitons with negative-mass electrons in monolayer WSe2

Nature Commun.  12, 5500 (2021) .

22.            Robert Wallauer*, Raul Perea-Causin, Lasse Münster, Sarah Zajusch, Samuel Brem, Jens Güdde, Katsumi Tanimura, Kai-Qiang Lin, Rupert Huber, Ermin Malic*, Ulrich Höfer

Momentum-resolved observation of exciton formation dynamics in monolayer WS2

Nano Lett.  21, 5867 (2021).

21.            P. Parzefall, J. Holler, M. Scheuck, A. Beer, K.-Q. Lin, B. Peng, B. Monserrat, P. Nagler, M. Kempf, T. Korn, C. Schüller*

Moiré phonons in twisted MoSe2-WSe2 heterobilayers and their correlation with interlayer excitons

2D Mater. 8, 035030 (2021).

20.            Kai-Qiang Lin*, Johannes Holler, Jonas M. Bauer, Philipp Parzefall, Marten Scheuck, Bo Peng, Tobias Korn, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton, Christian Schüller*

Large-scale mapping of moiré superlattices by hyperspectral Raman imaging

Adv. Mater. 33, 2008333 (2021). 

Frontispiece

19.            Kai-Qiang Lin*, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Jonas M. Bauer, Bo Peng, Bartomeu Monserrat, Martin Gmitra, Jaroslav Fabian, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton*

Twist-angle engineering of excitonic quantum interference and optical nonlinearities in stacked 2D semiconductors

Nature Commun. 12, 1553 (2021).

18.            Shu Hu, Jun Yi, Yue-Jiao Zhang, Kai-Qiang Lin, Bi-Ju Liu, Liang Chen, Chao Zhan, Zhi-Chao Lei, Juan-Juan Sun, Cheng Zong, Jian-Feng Li, Bin Ren*

Observing atomic layer electrodeposition on single nanocrystals surface by dark field microscopy

Nature Commun. 11, 2518 (2020). 

17.            Samuel Brem*, Kai-Qiang Lin*, Roland Gillen, Jonas M Bauer, Janina Maultzsch, John M. Lupton, Ermin Malic

Hybridized intervalley moiré excitons and flat bands in twisted WSe2 bilayers

Nanoscale 12, 11088-11094 (2020).

16.            Philipp Merkl, Fabian Mooshammer, Samuel Brem, Anna Girnghuber, Kai-Qiang Lin, Leonard Weigl, Marlene Liebich, Chaw-Keong Yong, Roland Gillen, Janina Maultzsch, John M. Lupton, Ermin Malic* & Rupert Huber*

Twist-tailoring Coulomb correlations in van der Waals homobilayers

Nature Commun.  11, 2167 (2020).

15.            Motoharu Inagaki, Taichi Isogai, Kenta Motobayashi, Kai-Qiang Lin, Bin Ren, Katsuyoshi Ikeda*

Electronic and vibrational surface-enhanced Raman scattering: from atomically defined Au (111) and (100) to roughened Au

Chem. Sci. 11, 9807 (2020)

14.            Kai-Qiang Lin, Robert Martin, Sebastian Bange, and John M. Lupton

Polymer coatings tune electromagnetically induced transparency in two-dimensional semiconductors

ACS Photonics 6, 3115 (2019).

13.            Teng-xiang Huang, Xin Cong, Si-Si Wu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xu Yao, Yu-han He, Jiang-Bin Wu, Yi-Fan Bao, Sheng-Chao Huang, Xiang Wang, Ping-Heng Tan, and Bin Ren

Probing the edge-related properties of atomically thin MoS2 at nanoscale

Nature Commun. 10, 5544 (2019). 

12.            Si-Si Wu+, Teng-Xiang Huang+, Kai-Qiang Lin+, Xu Yao, Jing-Ting Hu, Ding-Liang Tang, Yi-Fan Bao, and Bin Ren*

Photo-induced exfoliation of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors

2D Mater. 6, 045052 (2019). 

Photoinduced exfoliation.mp4

11.            Kai-Qiang Lin*, Sebastian Bange, John M. Lupton* 

Quantum interference in second-harmonic generation from monolayer WSe2

Nature Phys. 15, 242-246 (2019). 

10.            P. Merkl, F. Mooshammer, P. Steinleitner, A. Girnghuber, K.-Q. Lin, P. Nagler, J. Holler, C. Schüller, J. M. Lupton, T. Korn, S. Ovesen, S. Brem, E. Malic* & R. Huber*

Ultrafast transition between exciton phases in van der Waals heterostructures

Nature Mater. 18, 691-696 (2019). 

9.            Shu Hu, Bi-Ju Liu, Jia-Min Feng, Cheng Zong, Kai-Qiang Lin, Xiang Wang, De-Yin Wu, Bin Ren* 

Quantifying surface temperature of thermoplasmonic nanostructures 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 13680-13686 (2018).


8.            Teng-Xiang Huang, Cha-Wei Li, Li-Kun Yang, Jin-Feng Zhu, Xu Yao, Chuan Liu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Zhi-Cong Zeng, Si-Si Wu, Xiang Wang, Fang-Zu Yang,  Bin Ren* 

Rational fabrication of silver-coated AFM TERS tips with a high enhancement and long lifetime 

Nanoscale 10, 4398-4405 (2018).


7.            Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Jin-Hui Zhong, Shu Hu, Biju Liu, Jun-Yang Liu, Cheng Zong, Zhichao Lei, Xiang Wang, Javier Aizpurua, Ruben Esteban, Bin Ren* 

Plasmonic photoluminescence for recovering native chemical information from surface enhanced Raman scattering

Nature Commun. 8, 14891 (2017).

6.            Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Shu Hu, Juanjuan Sun, Jueting Zheng, Xiang Wang, and Bin Ren*

Intraband hot-electron photoluminescence from single silver nanorods

ACS Photonics. 3, 1248 (2016).

5.            Kai-Qiang Lin, Jun Yi, Shu Hu, Bi-Ju Liu, Jun-Yang Liu, Xiang Wang, and Bin Ren*

Size effect on SERS of gold nanorods demonstrated via single nanoparticle spectroscopy 

J. Phys. Chem. C. 120, 20806 (2016). 

4.            Bi-Ju Liu, Kai-Qiang Lin, Shu Hu, Xiang Wang, Zhi-Chao Lei, Hai-Xin Lin, and Bin Ren*

Extraction of absorption and scattering contribution of metallic nanoparticles toward rational synthesis and application

Anal. Chem. 82, 1058 (2015).


3.             Chengyi Hu, Kaiqiang Lin, Xingli Wang, Shengjie Liu, Jun Yi, Yu Tian, Binghui Wu, Guangxu Chen, Huayan Yang, Yan Dai, Huan Li, and Nanfeng Zheng*

Electrostatic self-assembling formation of Pd superlattice nanowires from surfactant-free Ultrathin Pd nanosheets

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 12856 (2014).


2.            Xiang Wang, Mao-Hua Li, Ling-Yan Meng, Kai-Qiang Lin, Jia-Min Feng, Teng-Xiang Huang, Zhi-Lin Yang* and Bin Ren*

Probing the location of hot spots by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy: toward uniform substrates

ACS Nano 8, 528 (2014). 


1.            Yan Dai, Xiaoliang Mu, Yueming Tan, Kaiqiang Lin, Zhilin Yang*, and Nanfeng Zheng*

Carbon monoxide-assisted synthesis of single-crystalline Pd tetrapod nanocrystals through hydride formation 

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 7073 (2012).

Presentations

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2019. 11. 26  |  Invited talk, MPIP, Mainz, Germany

2019. 07. 04  |  69th Nobel Laureate Meeting, Lindau, Germany  |  Poster flash talk

2019. 06. 27  |  Graphene2019, Rome, Italy  |  Oral

2019. 06. 12  |  ICP2DC4, Hangzhou, China  |  Oral

2019. 04. 02  |  DPG Conference, Regensburg, Germany  |  Oral