• "No small achievement - Thinking small," Dallas Morning News, February 4, 2006.

  • "Oh say can you see ... this very, very small flag?" Associated Press, July 4, 2006.

  • "Microscopic Flag a Test in Nanotechnology," About 80 news media coverage in the U.S. and abroad (e.g., CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, CNN, etc.), July 4, 2006.

  • "Oh say can you see?" Small Times, September 2006 (featured article).

  • "Silicon and lithium niobate bond at room temperature," Laser Focus World, September, 2006 (featured article).

  • "Probing nanoscale local lattice strains in advanced Si complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices," Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 063114 (2006) - selected for the August 21, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, which is published by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society in cooperation with numerous other societies and publishers, and covers a focused area of frontier research.

  • "Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates at High Yields by Slowing down the Polyol Reduction of Silver Nitrate with Polyacrylamide," Y. Xiong, A.R. Siekkinen, J. Wang, Y. Yin, M.J. Kim and Y. Xia, J. Mater. Chem. 17, 2600-2602 (2007). Featured on the Cover page.

  • "New Research Explores Making Electrical Contact with Nanotubes," Scitizen, New by Scientists, http://scitizen.com, August 14, 2007.