1. 量子材料
2. 飛秒雷射光譜技術

運用超快飛秒雷射光譜技術，研究操控各式量子材料中的電子自旋翻轉機制，用以產生光磁鐵等效應來發展新一代記憶體的運作模式，並尋找可供量子邏輯運算的新穎量子材料與物理機制

1. Y. M. Sheu*, Y. M. Chang, C. P. Chang, Y. H. Li, K. R. Babu, G.Y. Guo, T. Kurumaji, and Y. Tokura, “Picosecond creation of switchable optomagnets from a polar antiferromagnet with giant photoinduced Kerr rotations”, Physical Review X 9, 031038 (2019).
2. Y. M. Sheu*, N. Ogawa, Y. Tokunaga, H. C. Chan, and Y. Tokura, “Selective probe of coherent polar phonon and quasiferromagnetic resonance modesin multiferroic GdFeO3” Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 98, 100301(R) (2018).
3. Yuqiao Zhang, Bin Feng, Hiroyuki Hayashi, Cheng-Ping Chang, Yu-Miin Sheu, Isao Tanaka, Yuichi Ikuhara, Hiromichi Ohta, “Double thermoelectric power factor of a 2D electron system” Nature Communications 9, 2224 (2018).
4. Y. M. Sheu*, N. Ogawa, Y. Kaneko, and Y. Tokura, ” Photocreating supercooled spiral-spin states in a multiferroic manganite “, Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 94, 081107(R) (2016).
5. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, “Using ultrashort optical pulses to couple ferroelectric and ferromagnetic order in an oxide heterostructure”, Nature Communications 5:5832 (2014).
6. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, J. Qi, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Polaronic transport induced by competing interfacial magnetic order in a La0.7Ca0.3MnO3/BiFeO3 heterostructure”, Physical Review X 4, 021001 (2014).
7. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, L. Yan, C.-P. Chuu, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Photo-induced stabilization and enhancement of the ferroelectric polarization in Ba0.1Sr0.9TiO3 /La0.7Ca(Sr)0.3MnO3 thin film heterostructures”, Physical Review B: Rapid Communications 88, 020101(R) (2013).
8. Y. M. Sheu*, Y. J. Chien, C. Uher, S. Fahy, and D. A. Reis, ”Free-carrier relaxation and lattice heating in photoexcited bismuth”, Physical Review B 87, 075429 (2013).
9. Y. M. Sheu*, S. A. Trugman, Y.-S. Park, S. Lee, H. T. Yi, S.-W. Cheong, Q. X. Jia, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar*, ”Ultrafast carrier dynamics and radiative recombination in multiferroic BiFeO3”, Applied Physics Letters 100, 242904 (2012).
10. M. Trigo*, Y. M. Sheu, D. A. Arms, J. Chen, S. Ghimire, R. S. Goldman, E. Landahl, R. Merlin, E. Peterson, M. Reason, and D. A. Reis, ”Probing unfolded acoustic phonons with x rays”, Physical Review Letters 101, 025505, (2008). (Selected for a focus in physics)
11. Y. M. Sheu*, S. H. Lee, J. K. Wahlstrand, D. A. Walko, E. C. Landahl, D. A. Arms, M. Reason, R. S. Goldman, and D. A. Reis, ”Thermal transport in a semiconductor heterostructure measured by time-resolved x-ray diffraction”, Physical Review B 78, 045317, (2008).