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High ImpactShunran Li, Burak Guzelturk, Conrad A. Kocoj, Donald A. Walko, Du Chen, Haidan Wen, Xian Xu, Xiaoming Wang, Bongjun Choi, Zhibo Kang, Borui Li, Cunming Liu, Suchismita Sarker, Benjamin T. Diroll, Xiaoyi Zhang, Yong Q. Cai, Yu He, Deep Jariwala, Yanfa Yan, Diana Y. Qiu, Peijun Guo, Conrad A Kocoj, Donald A Walko, Benjamin T Diroll, Yong Q Cai, Diana Y Qiu, Photoinduced metastable cation disorder in metal halide double perovskites.. Sci. Adv., 12(30), eadt5183-null, PMCID: 42497273 (2026). [doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adt5183]

F. Z. Yang, X. Huang, Hengxin Tan, A. Kundu, S. Kim, M. Thinel, J. Ingham, A. Rajapitamahuni, Y. Q. Cai, C. Nelson, E. Vescovo, W. R. Meier, D. Mandrus, B. R. Ortiz, A. N. Pasupathy, Binghai Yan, H. Miao, Fermi-surface driven frustrations in charge ordered kagome metal LuNb 6 Sn 6 . Phys. Rev. B, 112(24), 245113 (2025). [doi: 10.1103/6yk1-19mn]

YQ Cai, A Suvorov, DS Coburn, S Antonelli, KJ Gofron, Z Yin, A Cunsolo, The meV-resolved Inelastic X-ray Scattering Beamline at NSLS-II: Design and Performance. J Phys.: Conf. Ser., 3010(1), 012102 (2025). [doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/3010/1/012102]

Cited 3 timesArthur C. Campello, Jiajia Wen, Yong Q. Cai, Aaron T. Breidenbach, Rebecca W. Smaha, Hong-Chen Jiang, Young S. Lee, Phonon dynamics in quantum spin liquid and valence bond crystal states in the barlowite family of kagome magnets. Phys. Rev. B, 111(9), 094406 (2025). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.094406]

Cited 2 timesF. Z. Yang, T. T. Zhang, F. Y. Meng, H. C. Lei, C. Nelson, Y. Q. Cai, E. Vescovo, A. H. Said, P. M. Lozano, G. Fabbris, H. Miao, Charge density waves in the 2.5-dimensional quantum heterostructure. Phys. Rev. B, 111(4), L041101 (2025). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.111.L041101]

Cited 2 timesJames E. Fitzgerald, Dmytro Soloviov, Yong Q. Cai, Frederick A. Heberle, Daisuke Ishikawa, Alfred Q.R. Baron, Dima Bolmatov, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Edward R. Lyman, Phonons reveal coupled cholesterol-lipid dynamics in ternary membranes. Biophys. J., 123(23), 4042-4049 (2024). [doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2024.10.017]

Victor Smaluk, Li Hua Yu, Chenghao Yu, Sushil Sharma, Alexey Suvorov, Yong Q. Cai, Measurement of seasonal variations of the NSLS-II circumference and energy. Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A, 1069, 169858 (2024). [doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2024.169858]

Alessandro Cunsolo, Inelastic X-ray Scattering as a Probe of Terahertz Phonon Propagation in Nanoparticle Suspensions. Applied Sciences, 14(8), 3377 (2024). [doi: 10.3390/app14083377]

Cited 1 timeS. T. Lynch, A. De Francesco, L. Scaccia, A. Suvorov, Y. Q. Cai, D. M. Agra-Kooijman, L. L. Sharpnack, Satyendra Kumar, A. Cunsolo, S. T. Lynch, A. De Francesco, L. Scaccia, A. Suvorov, Y. Q. Cai, D. M. Agra-Kooijman, L. L. Sharpnack, Satyendra Kumar, A. Cunsolo, Shear wave propagation in a liquid crystal: An inelastic X-ray scattering study. J. Chem. Phys., 160(23), 234505, PMCID: 38904943 (2024). [doi: 10.1063/5.0212229]

Kazimierz Gofron, David Scott Coburn, Alexey Suvorov, Yong Cai, TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF CRYSTAL OPTICS FOR ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION APPLICATIONS, 19th Int. Conf. Accel. Large Exp. Phys. Control Syst. (ICALEPCS2023) (2023). [doi: 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP132]

Cited 9 timesAndi Barbour, Yong Q. Cai, Andrei Fluerasu, Guillaume Freychet, Masafumi Fukuto, Oleg Gang, Eliot Gann, Ricarda Laasch, Ruipeng Li, Benjamin M. Ocko, Esther H. R. Tsai, Patryk Wąsik, Lutz Wiegart, Kevin G. Yager, Lin Yang, Honghu Zhang, Yugang Zhang, X-Ray Scattering for Soft Matter Research at NSLS-II. Synch. Rad. News, 36(2), 24-30 (2023). [doi: 10.1080/08940886.2023.2207449]

Cited 3 timesAlessio De Francesco, Ferdinando Formisano, Luisa Scaccia, Eleonora Guarini, Ubaldo Bafile, Marco Maccarini, Dmytro Nykypanchuck, Alexei Suvorov, Yong Q. Cai, Scott T. Lynch, Alessandro Cunsolo, Altering Terahertz Sound Propagation in a Liquid upon Nanoparticle Immersion. Nanomaterials, 12(14), 2401 (2022). [doi: 10.3390/nano12142401]

High ImpactCited 6 timesThanh Nguyen, Nina Andrejevic, Hoi Chun Po, Qichen Song, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Nathan C. Drucker, Ahmet Alatas, Esen E. Alp, Bogdan M. Leu, Alessandro Cunsolo, Yong Q. Cai, Lijun Wu, Joseph A. Garlow, Yimei Zhu, Hong Lu, Arthur C. Gossard, Alexander A. Puretzky, David B. Geohegan, Shengxi Huang, Mingda Li, Signature of Many-Body Localization of Phonons in Strongly Disordered Superlattices. Nano Lett., 21(17), 7419-7425 (2021). [doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01905]

Michael Rolland, Kazimierz Gofron, EPICS CONTROLLED WIRELESS SENSORS, 17th Int. Conf. on Acc. and Large Exp. Physics Control Systems, Vol ICALEPCS2019, p. 1015-1019, sponsored by BNL (2021). [doi: 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEMPL007]

Jakub Wlodek, Kazimierz Gofron, ADUVC - an EPICS Areadetector Driver for USB Video Class Devices, International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (17th), p. 1492-1496, sponsored by BNL (2021). [doi: 10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2019-WEPHA174]

Cited 9 timesAlessio De Francesco, Luisa Scaccia, Ferdinando Formisano, Eleonora Guarini, Ubaldo Bafile, Marco Maccarini, Ahmet Alatas, Yong Q. Cai, Alessandro Cunsolo, The Terahertz Dynamics of an Aqueous Nanoparticle Suspension: An Inelastic X-ray Scattering Study. Nanomaterials, 10(5), 860 (2020). [doi: 10.3390/nano10050860]

Cited 8 timesAlessio De Francesco, Luisa Scaccia, Ferdinando Formisano, Eleonora Guarini, Ubaldo Bafile, Marco Maccarini, Ahmet Alatas, Yong Q. Cai, Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Alessandro Cunsolo, Onset of interfacial waves in the terahertz spectrum of a nanoparticle suspension. Phys. Rev. E, 102(2), 022601 (2020). [doi: 10.1103/physRevE.102.022601]

Cited 39 timesDima Bolmatov, Dmytro Soloviov, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Dmitry Zav’yalov, Eugene Mamontov, Alexey Suvorov, Yong Q. Cai, John Katsaras, Molecular Picture of the Transient Nature of Lipid Rafts. Langmuir, 36(18), 4887-4896 (2020). [doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00125]

Cited 10 timesAlessio De Francesco, Luisa Scaccia, Ferdinando Formisano, Marco Maccarini, Francesco De Luca, Alexandra Parmentier, Ahmet Alatas, Alexey Suvorov, Yong Q. Cai, Ruipeng Li, Alessandro Cunsolo, Shaping the terahertz sound propagation in water under highly directional confinement. Phys. Rev. B, 101(5), 054306 (2020). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.101.054306]

Cited 6 timesA De Francesco, L Scaccia, M Maccarini, F Formisano, E Guarini, U Bafile, A Cunsolo, Interpreting the Terahertz Spectrum of Complex Materials: The Unique Contribution of the Bayesian Analysis. Materials, 12(18), 2914 (2019). [doi: 10.3390/ma12182914]

Cited 6 timesJ Wlodek, K Gofron, Y Cai, Achieving 3D Imaging through Focus Stacking, SRI 2018, Vol 2054, p. 050001, sponsored by AIP (2019). [doi: 10.1063/1.5084619]

Cited 12 timesD Bolmatov, Q Zhang, D Soloviov, Y Li, J Werner, A Suvorov, Y Cai, U Weisner, M Zhernenkov, J Katsaras, Nanoscale Q-resolved phonon dynamics in block copolymers. ACS Appl. Nanomater., 1(9), 4918-4926 (2018). [doi: 10.1021/acsanm.8b01087]

High ImpactCited 14 timesA De Francesco, L Scaccia, M Maccarini, F Flormisano, Y Zhang, O Gang, D Nykypanchuk, A Said, B Leu, Damping off Terahertz Sound Modes of a Liquid Upon Immersion of Nanoparticles. ACS Nano, 12(9), 8867-8874 (2018). [doi: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03101]

Cited 16 timesD Bolmatov, D Soloviov, D Zav'yalov, L Sharpnack, D Kooijman, S Kumar, J Zhang, M Liu, J Katsaras, Anomalous Nanoscale Optoacoustic Phonon Mixing in Nematic Mesogens. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 9, 2546-2553 (2018). [doi: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b00926]

A Cunsolo, Inelastic X-Ray Scattering as a Probe of the Transition Between the Hydrodynamic and the Single Particle Regimes in Simple Fluids, X-ray Scattering, p. 1-25, InTech, Rjeka (2017). [doi: 10.5772/66126]

High ImpactCited 25 timesD Bolmatov, M Zhernenkov, L Sharpnack, D Agra-Kooijman, S Kumar, A Suvorov, R Pindak, Y Cai, A Cunsolo, Emergent Optical Phononic Modes upon Nanoscale Mesogenic Phase Transitions. Nano Lett., 17(6), 3870-3876 (2017). [doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01324]

Cited 2 timesA Suvorov, Y Cai, Simulation of an IXS Imaging Analyzer with an Extended Scattering Source, Proceedings of SPIE: Advances in X-ray/EUV Optics and Components XI, Vol 9963, p. 99630A, sponsored by SPIE (2016). [doi: 10.1117/12.2237868]

Cited 1 timeK Gofron, Y Cai, D Coburn, S Antonelli, J Flores, A Suvorov, On-axis Microscopes for the Inelastic X-ray Scattering Beamline at NSLS-II, J of Phys: Conf Series (12th International Conference on Synchrotron Radiation Instrumentation), Vol 1741, p. 030027, sponsored by NSLS-II (2016). [doi: 10.1063/1.4952850]

Y Cai, The ultrahigh resolution Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS) beamline at NSLS-II and opportunities for the study of fast dynamics in mesoscale, IXS 2015, sponsored by National Synchrotron Radiation Researc Center, Taiwan (2015).

Cited 2 timesA Suvorov, A Cunsolo, O Chubar, Y Cai, Ultrahigh Energy Resolution Focusing Monochromator for Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Spectrometer. Opt. Express, 23(24), 31607-31618 (2015). [doi: 10.1364/OE.23.031607]

A Suvorov, Y Cai, J Sutter, O Chubar, Partially Coherent Wavefront Propagation Simulations for Inelastic X-ray Scattering Beamline Including Crystal Optics, Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics III, Vol 9209, p. 92090H, sponsored by Manuel Sanchez del Rio; Oleg Chubar (2014).

A Suvorov, D Coburn, A Cunsolo, J Keister, Y Cai, Simulation of the Ultrahigh Energy Resolution IXS Analyzer System at NSLS-II, Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics III, 92090Y , Vol 9209, sponsored by Manuel Sanchez del Rio; Oleg Chubar (2014).

A Suvoro, D Coburn, A Cunsolo, J Keister, Y Cai, Simulation of the Ultrahigh Energy Resolution IXS Analyzer System at NSLS-II, Proc. SPIE 9209, Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics III, Vol 9209, sponsored by Manuel Sanchez del Rio; Oleg Chubar (2014).

J Keister, D Siddons, A Kuczewski, D Coburn, R Beuttenmuller, A Rumaiz, Y Cai, Compact Pseudo-2D Strip Detector System for sub-meV IXS. J Phys.: Conf. Ser., 493, 012015 (2014).

A Suvorov, D Coburn, A Cunsolo, J Keister, M Upton, Y Cai, Performance of a Collimating L-Shaped Laterally Graded Multilayer Mirror for the IXS Analyzer System at NSLS-II. J. Synch. Rad., 21, 473-478 (2014).

J Keister, A Suvorov, D Coburn, A Cunsolo, C Kodituwakku, Y Stetsko, Y Cai, Realizing an Analyzer Instrument for Medium-Energy Sub-meV IXS. J Phys.: Conf. Ser., 425, 052032 (2013).

Y Cai, D Coburn, A Cunsolo, J Keister, M Honnicke, X Huang, C Kodituwakku, Y Stetsko, A Suvorov, The Ultrahigh Resolution IXS Beamline of NSLS-II: Recent Advances and Scientific Opportunities. J Phys.: Conf. Ser., 425, 202001 (2013).

O. Chubar, J. Bengtsson, A. Blednykh, Ch. Kitegi, G. Rakowsky, T. Tanabe, J. Clarke, SPECTRAL PERFORMANCE OF SEGMENTED ADAPTIVE-GAP IN-VACUUM UNDULATORS FOR STORAGE RINGS, Particle Accelerator Conference, IPAC’12, sponsored by Louisiana State University, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science (2012).

Cited 25 timesX Huang, A Macrander, M Honnicke, Y Cai, P Fernandez, Dispersive Spread of Virtual Sources by Asymmetric X-ray Monochromators. J. Appl. Cryst., 45(2), 255-262 (2012). [doi: 10.1107/S0021889812003366]

High ImpactT Willers, F Strigari, N Hiraoka, Y Cai, M Haverkort, K Tsuei, Y Liao, S Seiro, C Geibel, Determining the In-Plane Orientation of the Ground-State Orbital of CeCu2Si2. Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 046401 (2012).

High ImpactX Huang, D Siddons, A Macrander, R Peng, X Wu, Multicavity X-Ray Fabry-Perot Resonance with Ultrahigh Resolution and Contrast. Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 224801 (2012).

Cited 1 timeY Stetsko, J Keister, A Suvorov, D Coburn, C Kodituwakku, A Cunsolo, Y Cai, Dynamical Modeling of High-energy-resolution X-ray Optics, Proceeding of SPIE: Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics II, Vol 8141, p. 81410R, sponsored by SPIE (2011). [doi: 10.1117/12.892820]

High ImpactCited 9 timesY Stetsko, J Keister, D Coburn, N Kodituwakku, A Cunsolo, Y Cai, Multiple-wave Diffraction in High Energy-resolution X-ray Back-reflecting Optics. Phys. Rev. Lett., 107(15), 155503 (2011). [doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.155503]

Cited 20 timesM Honnicke, J Keister, R Conley, K Kaznatcheev, P Takacs, D Coburn, L Reffi, Y Cai, Synchrotron X-ray Tests of an L-shaped Laterally Graded Multilayer Mirror for the Analyzer System of the Ultrahigh Resolution IXS Spectrometer at NSLS-II. J. Synch. Rad., 18, 862-870 (2011). [doi: 10.1107/S0909049511031098]

Cited 6 timesO. Chubar, J. Bengtsson, L. Berman, A. Broadbent, Y. Q. Cai, S. Hulbert, Q. Shen, T. Tanabe, R. Garrett, I. Gentle, K. Nugent, S. Wilkins, Parametric Optimization of Undulators for NSLS-II Project Beamlines, SRI 2009, 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RADIATION INSTRUMENTATION, p. 37-40 (2010). [doi: 10.1063/1.3463218]

Cited 18 timesM Honnicke, X Huang, J Keister, C Kodituwakku, Y Cai, Tracing X-rays Through an L-shaped Laterally Graded Multilayer Mirror: A Synchrotron Application. J. Synch. Rad., 17, 352-359 (2010). [doi: 10.1107/S0909049510004383]

IXS Publication Summary

Year High Impact* Total**
2026 1 1
2025 0 4
2024 0 4
2023 0 2
2022 0 1
2021 1 3
2020 0 4
2019 0 2
2018 1 3
2017 1 2
2016 0 2
2015 0 2
2014 0 5
2013 0 2
2012 2 4
2011 1 3
2010 0 2
Total 7 46

*High Impact = Journal Impact Factor > 7.0

**The total publication count includes all journal articles, peer-reviewed conference proceedings, books, book chapters, and dissertations.