Michigan State University The McGuire Group
Department of Physics and Astronomy 

Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optical Studies of Reduced Dimensional and Quantum Confined Systems
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PUBLICATIONS (in reverse chronological order) Google scholar profile

  1. Yanhao Tang, Mersedeh Saniepay, Chenjia Mi, Rémi Beaulac, and John A. McGuire, "Optical Stark Metrology of CdSe Quantum Dots: Reconciling the Size-dependent Oscillator Strength with Theory," arXiv:1703.00530 (2017).
  1. Yanhao Tang, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai, "Layer- and Frequency-Dependent Second Harmonic Generation in Reflection from GaSe Atomic Crystals," Physical Review B 94, 125302 (2016). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.125302. arXiv:1605.07898 (2016).
  1. Shunhao Xiao, Florian Figge, Guillaume Stirnemann, Damien Laage, John A. McGuire, "Orientational Dynamics of Water at an Extended Hydrophobic Interface," Journal of the American Chemical Society 138, 5551 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b01820.
  1. Whi Dong Kim, Ji-Hee Kim, Sooho Lee, Seokwon Lee, Ju Young Woo, Kangha Lee, Weon-Sik Chae, Sohee Jeong, Wan Ki Ban, John A. McGuire, Jun Hyuk Moon, Mun Seok Jeong, Doh Lee, "Role of Surface States in Photocatalysis: Study of Chlorine-Passivated CdSe Nanocrystals for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation," Chemistry of Materials 28, 962 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater5b04790.
  1. John A. McGuire, "Growth and Optical Properties of Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots," Physica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters 10, 91 (2016). DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201510287.
  1. Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai, "Exciton Spin Dynamics in GaSe," Journal of Applied Physics 118, 113103 (2015). DOI: 10.1063/1.4930809.
  1. Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai, "Linearly Polarized Remote-Edge Luminescence in GaSe Nanoslabs," Physical Review Applied 4, 034008 (2015). arXiv:1502.06070 (2015)
  1. Cheng Sun, Florian Figge, Isil Ozfidan, Marek Korkusinski, Xin Yan, Liangshi Li, Pawel Hawrylak, John A. McGuire, " Biexciton Binding of Dirac Fermions Confined in Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots,"  Nano Letters 15, 5472 (2015). DOI: 101021/acs.nanolett.5b01888.
  1. Yanhao Tang, Wei Xie, Krishna C. Mandal, John A. McGuire, Chih-Wei Lai, "Near Unity Optical Spin Polarization in GaSe Nanoslabs," Physical Review B 91, 195429 (2015). DOI: 101103/PhysRevB.91.195429. arXiv:1410.5523 (2015)
  1. Cheng Sun, Florian Figge, John A. McGuire, Qiqi Li, Liang-shi Li, "Biexciton Auger Recombination in Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots," Physical Review Letters 113, 107401 (2014). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.107401.
  1. Seokwon Lee, Dennis T. Lee, Jae-Hyeon Ko, Woo-Jae Kim, Jin Joo, Sohee Jeong, J.A. McGuire, Young-Hyun Kim, and Doh C. Lee, "Slow Colloidal Growth of PbSe Nanocrystals for Facile Morphology and Size Control," RSC Advances 4, 9842 (2014). DOI: 10.1039/c3ra46875e.
  1. Isil Ozfidan, Marek Korkusinski, A. Devrim Guclu, J.A. McGuire, and Pawel Hawrylak, "Microscopic Theory of the Optical Properties of Colloidal Graphene Quantum Dots," Physical Review B 89, 085310 (2014). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.085310.
  1. J.A. McGuire*, M. Sykora*, I. Robel, L.A. Padilha, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov, “Spectroscopic Signatures of Photocharging due to Hot-Carrier Transfer in Solutions of Semiconductor Nanocrystals under Low-Intensity Ultraviolet Excitation,” ACS Nano 4, 6087 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/nn1016296. (*equal contributors)
  1. M. Mueller, X. Yan, J.A. McGuire, L.S. Li, “Triplet States and Electronic Relaxation in Photo-Excited Graphene Quantum Dots,” Nano Lett. 10, 2679 (2010).
  1. J.A. McGuire*, M. Sykora*, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, and V.I. Klimov, “Apparent versus True Carrier Multiplication Yields in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Nano Lett. 10, 2049 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/nl101474d. (*equal contributors)
  1. M. Sykora, A. Koposov, J.A. McGuire, O. Tretyak, J.M. Pietryga, R. Schulze, and V.I. Klimov, “Effect of Air Exposure on Surface Properties, Electronic Structure, and Carrier Relaxation in PbSe Nanocrystals,” ACS Nano 4, 2021 (2010). DOI: 10.1021/nn100131w.
  1. J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, J.A. McGuire, S.H. Jeon, D.J. Williams, H.-L. Wang, and V.I. Klimov, “A Reduction Pathway in the Synthesis of PbSe Nanocrystal Quantum Dots,” Journal of the American Chemical Society 131, 10620 (2009). DOI: 10.1021/ja903445f.
  1. J.A. McGuire, J. Joo, J.M. Pietryga, R.D. Schaller, and V.I. Klimov, “New Aspects of Carrier Multiplication in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Accounts of Chemical Research 41, 1810 (2008). DOI: 10.1021/ar800112v.
  1. V.I. Klimov, J.A. McGuire, R.D. Schaller, and V. Rupasov, “Scaling of Multiexciton Lifetimes in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” Physical Review B 77, 195324 (2008). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.195324.
  1. V.I. Klimov, S.A. Ivanov, J. Nanda, M. Achermann, I. Bezel, J.A. McGuire, and A. Piryatinski, “Single-Exciton Optical Gain in Semiconductor Nanocrystals,”  Nature 447, 441 (2007). DOI: 10.1038/nature05839.
  1. Z.C. Zhao, H. Wang, Y.X. Xia, J.A. McGuire, Y. Ren, Q.Y. Jin, and T.R. Gao, “Anomalous Hysteresis Loops Measured by the Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in a Co/NiO/Cu/Co/Cu Structure,” Journal of Applied Physics 101, 016105 (2007). DOI: 10.1063/1.2423001.
  1. J.A. McGuire and Y.R. Shen, “Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics at Water Interfaces,” Science 313, 1945 (2006). DOI: 10.1126/science.1131536.
  1. J.A. McGuire, M.B. Raschke, and Y.R. Shen, “Electron Dynamics of Silicon Surface States: Second-Harmonic Hole Burning on Si(111)-(7x7),” Physical Review Letters 96, 087401 (2006). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.087401.
  1. J.A. McGuire and Y.R. Shen, “Signal and Noise in Fourier-Transform Sum-Frequency Surface Vibrational Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Lasers,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B 23, 363 (2006). DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.23.000363.
  1. J.A. McGuire, W. Beck, X. Wei, and Y.R. Shen, “Fourier-Transform Sum-Frequency Vibrational Spectroscopy with Femtosecond Pulses,” Optics Letters 24, 1877 (1999). DOI: 10.1364/OL.24.001877.