Dr. Yi-Yu Cai

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University (2019)

M.S. in Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014)

Dissertation

Light Emission from Single Plasmonic Nanoparticles. View dissertation

Publications

1. K. Shiratori, L. D. C. Bishop, B. Ostovar, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, P. J. Rossky, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Machine-Learned Decision Trees for Predicting Gold Nanorod Sizes from Spectra J. Phys. Chem. C, 125 (35), 19353 (2021). View article

2. Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, B. Ostovar, S. Lee, and S. Link Light emission from plasmonic nanostructures J. Chem. Phys., 155, 060901 (2021). View article

3. S. S. E. Collins, E. K. Searles, L. J. Tauzin, M. Lou, L. Bursi, Y. Liu, J. Song, C. Flatebo, R. Baiyasi, Y.-Y. Cai, B. Foerster, T. Lian, P. Nordlander, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Plasmon Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanoantennas ACS Nano, 15 (6), 9522 (2021). View article

4. B. Ostovar, Y.-Y. Cai, L. J. Tauzin, S. A. Lee, A. Ahmadivand, R. Zhang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Increased Intraband Transitions in Smaller Gold Nanorods Enhance Light Emission ACS Nano, 14 (11), 15757 (2020). View article

5. Y.-Y. Cai, S. S. E. Collins, M. J. Gallagher, U. Bhattacharjee, R. Zhang, T. H. Chow, A. Ahmadivand, B. Ostovar, A. Al-Zubeidi, J. Wang, P. Nordlander, C. F. Landes, and S. Link Single particle emission spectroscopy resolves d-hole relaxation in copper nanocubes. ACS Energy Letters, 4, 2458 (2019). View article

6. C. Flatebo, S. S. E. Collins, B. S. Hoener, Y.-Y. Cai, S. Link, and C. F. Landes Electrodissolution Inhibition of Gold Nanorods with Oxoanions. J. Phys. Chem. C, 123(22), 13983 (2019). View article

7. Y.-Y. Cai, E. Sung, R. Zhang, L. J. Tauzin, J. G. Liu, B. Ostovar, Y. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, and S. Link Anti-Stokes Emission from Hot Carriers in Gold Nanorods. Nano Lett., 19 (2), 1067 (2019). View article

8. C. Yi, M.-N. Su, P. D. Dongare, D. Chakraborty, Y.-Y. Cai, D. M. Marolf, R. N. Kress, B. Ostovar, L. J. Tauzin, F. Wen, W.-S. Chang, M. R. Jones, J. E. Sader, N. J. Halas, and S. Link Polycrystallinity of Lithographically Fabricated Plasmonic Nanostructures Dominates Their Acoustic Vibrational Damping Nano Lett., 18 (6), 3494 (2018). View article

9. S. R. Kirchner, K. W. Smith, B. S. Hoener, Sean S. E. Collins, W. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, C. Kinnear, H. Zhang, W.-S. Chang, P. Mulvaney, C. F. Landes, S. Link Snapshot Hyperspectral Imaging (SHI) for Revealing Irreversible and Heterogeneous Plasmonic Processes. J. Phys. Chem. C 122, 6865 (2018). View article

10. Y.-Y. Cai, J. G. Liu, L. J. Tauzin, D. Huang, E. Sung, H. Zhang, A. Joplin, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, S. Link Photoluminescence of Gold Nanorods: Purcell Effect Enhanced Emission from Hot Carriers. ACS Nano Article, 12 (2), 976 (2018). View article

11. S. Indrasekara, B. Shuang, F. Hollenhorst, B. Hoener, A. Hoggard, S. Chen, E. Villarreal, Y.-Y Cai, L. Kisley, P. Derry, W.-S Chang, E. Zubarev, E. Ringe, S. Link and C. Landes Optimization of Spectral and Spatial Conditions to Improve Super-Resolution Imaging of Plasmonic Nanoparticles. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8(1), 299 (2017). View article

12. M. Yorulmaz, S. Nizzero, A. Hoggard, L.-Y. Wang, Y.-Y. Cai, M.-N. Su, W.-S. Chang, and S. Link Single-Particle Absorption Spectroscopy by Photothermal Contrast Nano Lett 15, 3041(2015). View article