Faculty

Shuolong Yang

  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Engineering in the UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
  • Research and Scholarly Interests: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Materials Engineering, Thin-Film Deposition, Ultrafast Photoemission Spectroscopy
  • Websites: Yang Lab
  • Contact: yangsl@uchicago.edu
    773.834.6203
  • Office Location:
    5640 South Ellis Avenue
    ERC 387
    Chicago, IL 60637

Administrative support: Alicia Bearden-Mannie and Vanessa Fortenberry.

Shuolong obtained his BS in physics at Stanford University. He continued to pursue his PhD in applied physics at Stanford University.

Before coming to the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago as assistant professor of molecular engineering in 2018, Prof. Yang was a Kavli postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University, working at the interface between condensed matter physics and materials science.

Yang has received the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Early Career Research Program award and an NSF CAREER award.

Yang Lab utilizes molecular beam epitaxy to engineer quantum materials layer-by-layer, and characterizes the electronic properties of these materials using equilibrium and non-equilibrium photoemission spectroscopies. We are primarily interested in the quantum phenomena emerging at material interfaces, such as interfacial superconductivity and topological orders. Furthermore, ultrafast photoemission spectroscopy provides additional control over materials in the time domain, enabling us to drive materials into novel non-equilibrium states.

An integrated quantum material testbed with multi-resolution photoemission spectroscopy
C. Yan, E. Green, R. Fukumori, N. Protic, S. H. Lee, S. Fernandez-Mulligan, R. Raja, R. Erdakos, Z. Mao, and S.-L. Yang. Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 113907

Interfacial Electron-Phonon Coupling Constants Extracted from Intrinsic Replica Bands in Monolayer FeSe/SrTiO3

Mode-Selective Coupling of Coherent Phonons to the Bi2212 Electronic Band Structure
S.-L. Yang, J. A. Sobota, Y. He, D. Leuenberger, H. Soifer, H. Eisaki, P. S. Kirchmann, and Z.-X. Shen. Physical Review Letters 122, 176403 (2019).

Band-Resolved Imaging of Photocurrent in a Topological Insulator
H. Soifer, A. Gauthier, A. F. Kemper, C. R. Rotundu, S.-L. Yang, H. Xiong, D. Lu, M. Hashimoto, P. S. Kirchmann, J. A. Sobota, and Z.-X. Shen. Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 167401

Revealing the Coulomb interaction strength in a cuprate superconductor
S.-L. Yang, J. A. Sobota, Y. He, Y. Wang, D. Leuenberger, H. Soifer, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, H. Eisaki, B. Moritz, T. P. Devereaux, P. S. Kirchmann, and Z.-X. Shen. Phys. Rev. B 96, 245112

Femtosecond electron-phonon lock-in via photoemission and x-ray free-electron laser.
S. Gerber*, S.-L. Yang*, et al. Science 357, 71-75 (2017).

Inequivalence of Single-Particle and Population Lifetimes in a Cuprate Superconductor.
S.-L. Yang, J. A. Sobota, D. Leuenberger, Y. He, M. Hashimoto, D. H. Lu, H. Eisaki, P. S. Kirchmann, and Z.-X. Shen. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 247001

Thickness-Dependent Coherent Phonon Frequency in Ultrathin FeSe/SrTiO3 Films
Shuolong Yang, Jonathan A. Sobota, Dominik Leuenberger, Alexander F. Kemper, James J. Lee, Felix T. Schmitt, Wei Li, Rob G. Moore, Patrick S. Kirchmann, and Zhi-Xun Shen. Nano Letters 2015 15 (6), 4150-4154