Projects
A living index of what I’m building, breaking, and writing about — computational physics, quantum-materials code, and the occasional side quest.
What I’m working on now
- Topological transistors that don't melt. Designing two-dimensional bismuth-based devices whose surface states stay protected at room temperature.
- Phonons, but make them spintronic. Pairing DFT lattice dynamics with ANSTO neutron measurements to find materials that conduct spin well and heat poorly.
- Open computational notebooks. Turning the group's DFT → Wannier → tight-binding pipeline into runnable, teachable Jupyter notebooks for new students.
Research projects
Long-running threads from my CV — each one a collaboration with experimentalists, theorists, or both.
- Developing DFT-Tight Binding Workflows for Quantum Physics May 2017 —Current
- Discovering New Topological Materials For Spintronics May 2017 —Current
- Change Graphene For Better Electronics Mar. 2012—2018
- 2D Materials Beyond Graphene Mar. 2012—Current
- Phonon Engineering in Mg3Bi2 for Thermoelectric Spintronics Jan. 2023 —Current
- Open Computational Notebooks for Topological Materials Jul. 2024 —Current
Full descriptions, collaborators and representative publications live on the CV page.
Selected papers
Code & reproducibility
I try to release the inputs and post-processing scripts behind each paper. Where journal policy permits, look for a github.com/yyfforce link on individual paper pages, or open an issue on yyfforce.github.io if something is missing — I’m happy to share.
A note on the side quests
Not every project lives in a journal. Some live in a notebook, a slide deck, a half-finished script, or a conversation over coffee that turned into something. As I dig those out, they’ll land here.