Publications

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  1. Tian, E. Codecido, D. Mao, K. Zhang, S. Che, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Smirnov, E.-A. Kim, M. Bockrath, and C. N. Lau, Dominant 1/3-filling Correlated Insulator States and Orbital Geometric Frustration in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, Nat. Phys.  20, 1407 (2024).
  2. Shcherbakov, G. Voigt, S. Memaran, G.-B. Liu, Q. Wang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Smirnov, L. Balicas, F. Zhang, and C. N. Lau, Giant Tunability of Intersubband Transitions and Quantum Hall Quartets in Ultrathin InSe Quantum Wells, Nano Lett., 24, 3851 (2024).
  3. Zhang, H. Tian, H. Li, C. Yoon, R. A. Nelson, Z. Li, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Smirnov, R. K. Kawakami, J. E. Goldberger, F. Zhang, and C. N. Lau, Quantum octets in high mobility pentagonal two-dimensional PdSe2, Nat. Commun. 15, 761 (2024).
  4. S. Oh, T. Xu, N. Dhale, S. Li, C. Lei, C. Yoon, W. Liu, J. Huang, H. Wu, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, C. Jozwiak, A. Bostwick, E. Rotenberg, C. N. Lau, B. Lv, F. Zhang, R. J. Birgeneau, and M. Yi, Ideal weak topological insulator and protected helical saddle points, Phys. Rev. B 108, L201104 (2023).
  5. Haidong Tian, Xueshi Gao, Yuxin Zhang, Shi Che, Tianyi Xu, Patrick Cheung, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Mohit Randeria, Fan Zhang, Chun Ning Lau, Marc W. Bockrath, “Evidence for Flat Band Dirac Superconductor Originating from Quantum Geometry”, 614, 440 (2023).OSU News Release, Apple News
  6. Shcherbakov, Jiawei Yang, Shahriar Memaran, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dmitry Smirnov, Luis Balicas, Chun Ning Lau, “Quantum Hall Effect in a 2D Semiconductor with Large Spin Orbit Coupling”, Physical Review B, 106, 045307 (2022).
  7. Yongjin Lee, Shi Che, Jairo Velasco Jr., Yanmeng Shi, David Tran, Jacopo Baima, Francesco Mauri, Matteo Calandra, Marc Bockrath, Chun Ning Lau, “Gate Tunable Magnetism and Giant Magnetoresistance in Suspended Rhombohedral-stacked Few-Layer Graphene”, Nano Letters, 22, 5094 (2022).
  8. Hugo Henck, Diego Mauro, Daniil Domaretskiy, Marc Philippi, Shahriar Memaran, Wenkai Zheng, Zhengguang Lu, Dmitry Shcherbakov, Chun Ning Lau, Dmitry Smirnov, Luis Balicas, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama, Nicolas Ubrig, and Alberto F. Morpurgo, “Van der Waals Interface Transistors as Light Sources with Bias Tunable Spectrum”, Nature Communications, 13, 3917 (2022).
  9. Petr Stepanov, Dmitry L. Shcherbakov, Shi Che, Marc W. Bockrath, Yafis Barlas, Dmitry Smirnov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Roger K. Lake, and Chun Ning Lau, “Tuning Spin Transport in a Graphene Antiferromagnetic Insulator”, Phys. Rev. Applied 18, 014031(2022).
  10. C. N. Lau, M. W. Bockrath, K. F. Mak, and F. Zhang, “Reproducibility in the fabrication and physics of moiré materials”, Nature, 602,41 (2022).
  11. Warren LB Huey, Andrew M Ochs, Archibald J Williams, Yuxin Zhang, Simo Kraguljac, Ziling Deng, Curtis E Moore, Wolfgang Windl, Chun Ning Lau, Joshua E Goldberger, “CrxPt1–xTe2(x ≤ 0.45): A Family of Air-Stable and Exfoliatable van der Waals Ferromagnets”,ACS Nano, 16, 3852 (2022).
  12. Guanzhong Wu, Dongying Wang, Nishchhal Verma, Rahul Rao, Yang Cheng, Side Guo, Guixin Cao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Chun Ning Lau, Fengyuan Yang, Mohit Randeria, Marc Bockrath, P Chris Hammel, “Enhancing Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy in Garnet Ferrimagnet by Interfacing with Few-Layer WTe2”,Nano Letters, 22, 1115 (2022).
  13. Liu, R. Chen, Z. Zhang, M. Bockrath, C. N. Lau, Y.-F. Zhou, C. Yoon, S. Li, X. Liu, N. Dhale, B. Lv, F. Zhang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Huang, M. Yi, J. S. Oh, and R. J. Birgeneau, “Gate-Tunable Transport in Quasi-One-Dimensional α-Bi4I4 Field Effect Transistors”, Nano Lett. 22, 1151 (2022).
  14. Y. Wang, M. Karaki, N. Mazzucca, H. D. Tian, G. X. Cao, C. N. Lau, Y. M. Lu, M. Bockrath, K. Watanabe, and T. Taniguchi, “Spin-orbit coupling and interactions in quantum Hall states of graphene/WSe2 heterobilayers”, Phys. Rev. B104,L201301 (2021).
  15. Huang, S. Li, C. Yoon, J. S. Oh, H. Wu, X. Liu, N. Dhale, Y.-F. Zhou, Y. Guo, Y. Zhang, M. Hashimoto, D. Lu, J. Denlinger, X. Wang, C. N. Lau, R. J. Birgeneau, F. Zhang, B. Lv, and M. Yi, “Room-Temperature Topological Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Material Bi4I4”, Phys. Rev. X11,031042 (2021).
  16. Lyu, Z. Tuchfeld, N. Verma, H. Tian, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. N. Lau, M. Randeria, and M. Bockrath, “Strange metal behavior of the Hall angle in twisted bilayer graphene”, Phys. Rev. B103,245424 (2021).
  17. Du, T. Hasan, A. Castellanos-Gomez, G.-B. Liu, Y. Yao, C. N. Lau, and Z. Sun, “Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials”, Nature Reviews Physics, 3, 193–206 (2021) (2021).
  18. Shcherbakov, P. Stepanov, S. Memaran, Y. Wang, Y. Xin, J. Yang, K. Wei, R. Baumbach, W. Zheng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Bockrath, D. Smirnov, T. Siegrist, W. Windl, L. Balicas, and C.N. Lau, “Layer- and Gate-tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling in a High Mobility Few-Layer Semiconductor”, Science Advances, 7, eabe2892 (2021).
  19. Che, P. Stepanov, S. Ge, M. Zhu, D. Wang, Y. Lee, K. Myhro, Y. Shi, R. Chen, Z. Pi, C. Pan, B. Cheng, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, Y. Barlas, R. K. Lake, M. Bockrath, J. Hwang, C.N. Lau, “Substrate-Dependent Band Structures in Trilayer Graphene/hBN Heterostructures”, Physical ReviewLetters,125, 246401 (2020).
  20. Yang, K. Wang, S. Che, Z. J. Tuchfeld, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Shcherbakov, S. Moon, D. Smirnov, R. Chen, M. Bockrath, C.N. Lau, “Equilibration and Filtering of Quantum Hall Edge States in Few-Layer Black Phosphorus”, Physical Review Materials,4, 114008 (2020).
  21. Che, Y. Shi, J. Yang, H. Tian, R. Chen, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, D. Smirnov, C.N. Lau, E. Shimshoni, G. Murthy, H. A. Fertig, “Helical Edge States and Quantum Phase Transitions in Tetralayer Graphene”, Physical Review Letters,125, 036803 (2020). Editor’s Suggestion
  22. McCreary, T. T. Mai, F. G. Utermohlen, J. R. Simpson, K. F. Garrity, X. Feng, D. Shcherbakov, Y. Zhu, J. Hu, D. Weber, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. E. Goldberger, Z. Mao, C. N. Lau, Y. Lu, N. Trivedi, R. Valdés Aguilar, and A. R. Hight Walker, “ Distinct magneto-Raman signatures of spin-flip phase transitions in CrI3”, Nat. Commun.11,3879 (2020).
  23. N. Lau, F. Xia, L. Cao, “Emergent Quantum Materials”, MRS Bulletin, 45, 1 (2020).
  24. Wang, S. Che, G. Cao, R. Lyu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C.N. Lau, M. Bockrath, “Quantum Hall Effect Measurement of Spin-Orbit Coupling Strengths in Ultraclean Bilayer Graphene/WSe2 Heterostructures”, Nano Letters,19,10, 7028 (2019)
  25. B. Cheng, C. Pan, S. Che, P. Wang, Y. Wu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Ge, R. Lake, D. Smirnov, C.N. Lau, M. Bockrath, “Tunable Fractional and Symmetry-Broken Chern Insulators in Bilayer-Moiré Superlattices”, Nano Letters, 19, 4321-4326 (2019).
  26. Codecido, Q. Wang, R. Koester, S. Che, H. Tian, R. Lv, S. Tran, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Zhang, M. Bockrath, C. N. Lau, “Correlated Insulating and Superconducting States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Below the Magic Angle”, Science Advances, 5, eaaw9770 (2019).preprint
  27. Stepanov, Y. Barlas, S. Che, K. Myhro, G. Voigt, Z. Pi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Smirnov, F. Zhang, R. Lake, A. H. MacDonald, C.N. Lau, “Quantum Parity Hall effect in ABA Graphene”, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 116, 10286-10290 (2018). preprint
  28. Myhro, S. Che, Y. Shi, Y. Lee, K. Thilahar, K. Bleich, Dmitry Smirnov, C. N. Lau, “Large tunable intrinsic gap in rhombohedral-stacked tetralayer graphene at half filling”, 2D Materials, 5, 045013 (2018).
  29. Shcherbakov, P. Stepanov, D. Weber, J. Hu, Y. Zhu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Z. Mao, J. Goldberger, M. Bockrath, and C. N. Lau, “Raman Spectroscopy, Photocatalytic Degradation and Stabilization of Atomically Thin Chromium Triiodide”, Nano Letters, 18, 4214 (2018).
  30. Stepanov, S. Che, D. Shcherbakov, K. Thilahar, G. Voigt, M. W. Bockrath, D. Smirnov, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Lake, Y. Barlas, A. H. MacDonald, C. N. Lau, “Long Distance Spin Transport Through a Graphene Quantum Hall Antiferromagnet”, Nature Physics, 14, 907 (2018)
  31. Shi, S. Che, K. Zhou, S. Ge, Z. Pi, T. Espiritu, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, R. Lake, and C.N. Lau, “Tunable Lifshitz Transitions and Multiband Transport in Tetralayer Graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 120, 096802 (2018).
  32. Jiawei Yang, Son Tran, Jason Wu, Shi Che, Petr Stepanov, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Hongwoo Baek, Dmitry Smirnov, Ruoyu Chen, Chun Ning Lau, “Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall effect in Ultra-high Quality Few-layer Black Phosphorus Transistors”, Nano Letters, 18, 229 (2018).
  33. Y. Liu, J. Hu, D. Graf, T. Zou, M. Zhu, Y. Shi, S. Che, S. M. A. Radmanesh, C. N. Lau, L. Spinu, H. B. Cao, X. Ke, and Z. Q. Mao, Unusual interlayer quantum transport behavior caused by the zeroth Landau level in YbMnBi2, Nat. Commun. 8, 646 (2017).
  34. Tran, J. Yang, N. Gillgren, T. Espiritu, Y. Shi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Moon, H. Baek, D. Smirnov, M.W. Bockrath, R. Chen, C. N. Lau, “Surface Transport and Quantum Hall Effect in Ambipolar Black Phosphorus Double Quantum Wells,” Science Advances, 3, e1603179 (2017).
  35. Pan, Y. Wu, B. Cheng, S. Che, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. N. Lau, and M. Bockrath, “Layer Polarizability and Easy-Axis Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Bilayer Graphene”, Nano Lett. 17, 3416 (2017).
  36. Kalugin, L. Jing, E. Suarez Morell, G. Dyer, L. Wickey, M. Ovezmyradov, A. Grine, M. Wanke, E. Shaner, C. N. Lau, L. Foa Torres, M. Fistul, K. Efetov, “Photoelectric polarization-sensitive broadband photoresponse from interface junction states in graphene”, 2D Materials, 4, 015002 (2017).
  37. Shi, N. Gillgren, T. Espiritu, S. Tran, J. Yang, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C.N. Lau, “Weak Localization and Electron-electron Interactions in Few Layer Black Phosphorus Devices”, 2D Materials, 3, 034003 (2016).
  38. Stepanov, Y. Barlas, T. Espiritu, S. Che, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. Smirnov, C.N. Lau, “Tunable Symmetries of Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Phases in Multi-Dirac-Band Heterostructures”, Physical Review Letters, 117, 076807 (2016).
  39. -Y. Jiang, G. X. Ni, C. Pan, Z. Fei, B. Cheng, C. N. Lau, M. Bockrath, D. N. Basov, and M. M. Fogler, “Tunable Plasmonic Reflection by Bound 1D Electron States in a 2D Dirac Metal”, Physical Review Letters, 117, 086801 (2016).
  40. Hu, Z. J. Tang, J. Y. Liu, X. Liu, Y. L. Zhu, D. Graf, K. Myhro, S. Tran, C. N. Lau, J. Wei, and Z. Q. Mao, “Evidence of Topological Nodal-Line Fermions in ZrSiSe and ZrSiTe”, Physical Review Letters, 117, 016602 (2016).
  41. Shi, Y. Lee, S. Che, Z. Pi, T. Espiritu, P. Stepanov, D. Smirnov, C.N. Lau and F. Zhang, “Energy gaps and layer polarization of integer and fractional quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene”, Physical Review Letters, 116, 056601 (2016)
  42. Lee, D. Tran, K. Myhro, J. V. Jr., N. Gillgren, Y. Barlas, J. M. Poumirol, D. Smirnov and C. N. Lau, “Multicomponent Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism and Landau Level Crossing in Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene”, Nano Letters, 16, 227 (2016).
  43. Wang, B. Cheng, O. Martynov, T. Miao, L. Jing, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, V. Aji, C.N. Lau, M. Bockrath, “Topological Winding Number Change and Broken Inversion Symmetry in a Hofstadter’s Butterfly”, Nano Letters, 15, 6395 (2015).
  44. -W. Huang, C. Pan, S. Tran, B. Cheng, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. N. Lau and M. Bockrath, “Superior Current Carrying Capacity of Boron Nitride Encapsulated Carbon Nanotubes with Zero-Dimensional Contacts”, Nano Letters, 15, 6836 (2015).
  45. Cheng, P. Wang, C. Pan, T. Miao, Y. Wu, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, C. N. Lau and M. Bockrath, “Raman spectroscopy measurement of bilayer graphene’s twist angle to boron nitride”, Applied Physics Letters, 107, 033101 (2015).
  46. Wang, P. Stepanov, M. Gray, C.N. Lau, M. E. Itkis and Robert C. Haddon, “Ionic Liquid Gating of Suspended MoS2 Field Effect Transistor Devices”, Nano Letters, 15, 5284 (2015).
  47. Fei, E. G. Iwinski, G. X. Ni, L. M. Zhang, W. Bao, A. S. Rodin, Y. Lee, M. Wagner, M. K. Liu, S. Dai, M. D. Goldflam, M. Thiemens, F. Keilmann, C. N. Lau, A. H. Castro-Neto, M. M. Fogler, and D. N. Basov, “Tunneling Plasmonics in Bilayer Graphene”, Nano Letters, 15, 4973 (2015).
  48. J. Tielrooij, L. Piatkowski, M. Massicotte, A. Woessner, Q. Ma, Y. Lee, K.S. Myhro, C.N. Lau, P. Jarillo-Herrero, N.F. van Hulst, F.H.L. Koppens, “Generation of photovoltage in graphene on a femtosecond timescale through efficient carrier heating”, Nature Nanotechnology, 10, 437 (2015).
  49. Wang, P. Stepanov, M. Gray and C.N. Lau, “Annealing and transport studies of suspended molybdenum disulfide devices”, Nanotechnology, 26,105709 (2015).
  50. Gillgren, D. Wickramaratne, Y. Shi, Tim Espiritu, J. Yang, J. Hu, J. Wei, X. Liu, Z. Mao, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Bockrath, Y. Barlas, R. K. Lake, C. N. Lau, “Gate Tunable Quantum Oscillations in Air-Stable and High Mobility Few-Layer Phosphorene Heterostructures”, 2D Materials, 2, 011001 (2015).
  51. Lee, D. Tran, K. Myhro, J. Velasco Jr., N. Gillgren, Y. Barlas, C. N. Lau, J. M. Poumirol, D. Smirnov and F. Guinea, “Competition Between Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Single Particle Gaps in Trilayer Graphene”, Nature Communications, 5, 5656 (2014).
  52. Velasco Jr., Y. Lee, F. Zhang, K. Myhro, D. Tran, M. Deo, D. Smirnov, A. H. MacDonald, C.N. Lau, “Observation of Distinct Competing Ordered n=2 States in Bilayer Graphene”, Nature Communications, 5,4550 (2014).
  53. Velasco Jr., Y. Lee, Z. Zhao, Lei Jing, P. Kratz, M. Bockrath, and C. N. Lau, “Transport Measurement of Landau Level Gaps in Bilayer Graphene with Layer Polarization Control”, Nano Letters, 14, 1324 (2014).
  54. Wagner, Z. Fei, A. S. McLeod, A. S. Rodin, W. Bao, E. G. Iwinski, Z. Zhao, M. Goldflam, M. Liu, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, A. H. Castro Neto, C.N. Lau, S. Amarie, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov, “Ultrafast and Nanoscale Plasmonic Phenomena in Exfoliated Graphene Revealed by Infrared Pump-Probe Nanoscopy”, Nano Letters, 14, 894 (2014).
  55. Zhang, J.-W. Huang, J. Velasco Jr., K. Myhro, M. Maldonado, D. Tran, Z. Zhao, F. Wang, Y. Lee, G. Liu, W. Bao and C. N. Lau, “Transport in suspended monolayer and bilayer graphene under strain: A new platform for material studies”, Carbon, 69, 336 (2014).
  56. Jang, W. Bao, L. Jing, C.N. Lau and C. Dames, “Thermal conductivity of suspended few-layer graphene by a modified T-bridge method”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 103, 133102 (2013).
  57. Lee, K. Myhro, D. Tran, N. Gillgren, J. Velasco Jr., W. Bao, M. Deo, and C. N. Lau, “Band Gap and Correlated Phenomena in Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene”, Micro- And Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems, And Applications V, SPIE Conference Proceedings on Defense, Security and Sensing, 8725, 872506 (2013).
  58. (Invited News and Views)N. Lau, “Graphene’s Topological Insulation”, Nat. Phys., 9, 135 (2013)
  59. Yankowitz, F. Wang, C. N. Lau, B. J. LeRoy, “Local spectroscopy of the electrically tunable band gap in trilayer graphene”, Phys. Rev. B, 87, 165102 (2013).
  60. Lee, J. Velasco Jr., D. Tran, F. Zhang, W. Bao, L. Jing, K. Myhro, D. Smirnov, and C.N. Lau, “Broken Symmetry Quantum Hall States in Dual-Gated ABA Trilayer Graphene”, Nano Lett., 13, 1627 (2013).
  61. Sarkar, H. Zhang, J.-W. Huang, F. Wang, E. Bekyarova, C. N. Lau, and R. C. Haddon, “Organometallic Hexahapto Functionalization of Single Layer Graphene as a Route to High Mobility Graphene Devices”, Advanced Materials, 8, 1131 (2012).
  62. Bao, K. Myhro, L. Jing, C. Chen, F. Miao, W. Jang, H. Zhang, C. Dames and C. N. Lau, “in Situ Observation of Electrostatic and Thermal Manipulation of Suspended Graphene Membranes”, Nano Lett., 12, 5470 (2012).
  63. Fei, A.S. Rodin, G.O. Andreev, W. Bao, A.S. McLeod, M. Wagner, M. Zhang, Z. Zhao, M. Thiemens, G. Dominguez, M.M. Fogler, A.H. Castro Neto, C. N. Lau, F. Kellmann, D.N. Basov, “Gate-tuning of graphene plasmons revealed by infrared nano-imaging”, Nature, 487, 82 (2012).
  64. G. Kalugin, L. Jing, W. Bao, L. Wickey, C. Del Barga, M. Ovezmyradov, E. A. Shaner, and C. N. Lau, Graphene-Based Quantum Hall Effect Infrared Photodetectors, Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices Ix 8268 (2012).
  65. (invited and refereed review article) N. Lau, W. Bao, J. Velasco Jr., “Properties of Suspended Graphene Membranes”, Materials Today Review, 15, 238 (2012).
  66. Bao, J. Velasco Jr., F. Zhang, L. Jing, B. Standley, D. Smirnov, M. Bockrath, A. MacDonald and C. N. Lau, “Evidence for a Spontaneous Gapped State in Ultra-Clean Bilayer Graphene”, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 109, 10802 (2012).
  67. Velasco Jr., Y. Lee, L. Jing, G. Liu, W. Bao, and C. N. Lau, “Quantum transport in double-gated graphene devices”, Sol. State Commun., 152, 1301 (2012).
  68. Zhang, W. Bao, Z. Zhao, J.-W. Huang, B. Standley, G. Liu, F. Wang, P. Kratz, Lei Jing, M. Bockrath, and C.N. Lau, “Visualizing Electrical Breakdown and ON/OFF States in Electrically Switchable Suspended Graphene Break Junctions”, Nano Lett., 12, 1772 (2012).
  69. C. Chen, W.Z. Bao, C.C. Chang, Z. Zhao, C.N. Lau, S.B. Cronin, “Raman spectroscopy of substrate-induced compression and substrate doping in thermally cycled graphene”, Phys. Rev. B, 85, 035431 (2012).
  70. Velasco Jr., L. Jing, W. Bao, Y. Lee, V. Aji, M. Bockrath, C.N. Lau, C. Varma, R. Stillwell , D. Smirnov, Fan Zhang, and A. MacDonald, “Transport Spectroscopy of Symmetry-Broken Insulating States in Bilayer Graphene”, Nature Nanotechnology, 7, 156 (2012).
  71. Velasco, L. Jing, Y. Lee, P. Kratz, W. Bao, D. Smirnov, M. Bockrath, C.N. Lau, “Transport measurements on ultra-clean dual-gated suspended bilayer graphene”, EPJ Web of Conferences, 23, 00018 (2012).
  72. Liu, Y. Zhang and C. N. Lau, “Electronic Double Slit Interferometer Based on Carbon Nanotubes”, Nano Lett., 11, 4043(2011).
  73. Bao, L. Jing, J. Velasco Jr., Y. Lee, G. Liu, D. Tran, B. Standley, M. Aykol, S. B. Cronin, D. Smirnov, M. Koshino, E. McCann, M. Bockrath, and C.N. Lau, “Stacking-dependent Band Gap and Quantum Transport in Trilayer graphene”, Nature Physics, 7, 948 (2011).

Highlighted by Nature Physics News and Views

  1. H. Zhang, E. Bekyarova, J.-W. Huang, Z. Zhao, W. Bao, F. Wang, R. Haddon and C.N. Lau, “Aryl Functionalization as a Route to Band Gap Engineering in Single Layer Graphene Devices”, Nano Lett., 11, 4047 (2011).
  2. Fei, G. O. Andreev, W. Bao, L. M. Zhang, A. S. McLeod, C. Wang, M. K. Stewart, Z. Zhao, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, M. M. Fogler, M. J. Tauber, A. H. Castro-Neto, C.N. Lau, F. Keilmann, and D. N. Basov, Infrared Nanoscopy of Dirac Plasmons at the Graphene–SiO2 Interface, Nano Lett., 11, 4701 (2011).
  3. G. Kalugin, L. Jing, W. Bao, L. Wickey, C. Del Barga, M. Ovezmyradov, E. Shaner, and C.N. Lau, “Graphene-Based Quantum Hall Effect Infrared Photodetector Operating at liquid Nitrogen temperatures”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 99, 013504 (2011).
  4. Velasco Jr. , Z. Zhao, H. Zhang, F. Wang, Z. Wang, P. Kratz, L. Jing, W. Bao, J. Shi and C.N. Lau, “Suspension and Measurement of Graphene and Bi2Se3 Thin Crystals”, Nanotechnology, 22, 285305 (2011).

selected for Nanotechnology cover.                                                                                       

  1. Vandeparre, M. Piñeirua, F. Brau, B. Roman, J. Bico, C. Gay, W. Bao, C. N. Lau, P. M. Reis, and P. Damman, “Wrinkling Hierarchy in Constrained Thin Sheets from Suspended Graphene to Curtains”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 224301 (2011).

selected for PRL cover, Editor’s Suggestion, and Synopsis.

  1. Deshpande, W. Bao, Z. Zhao, C. N. Lau, and B. Leroy, “Spatial Mapping of the Dirac Point in Monolayer and Bilayer Graphene”. IEEE Trans. Nanotechnol. 10, 88-91 (2011).
  2. Miao, D. A. A. Ohlberg, R. S. Williams, and C. N. Lau, “Characterization of quantum conducting channels in metal/molecule/metal devices using pressure-modulated conductance microscopy.” Appl. Phys. A. 102, 943-948 (2011).
  3. Deshpande, W. Bao, Z. Zhao, C. N. Lau, and B. J. LeRoy, “Imaging charge density fluctuations in graphene using Coulomb blockade spectroscopy.” Phys. Rev. B. 83, 155409 (2011).
  4. C. Yeh, M. L. Teague, D. A. Boyd, M. W. Bockrath, J. Velasco, and C. N. Lau, Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopic Studies of the Effects of Dielectrics and Metallic Substrates on the Local Electronic Characteristics of Graphene, in Graphene, Ge III-V, and Emerging Materials for Post-CMOS Applications 2, edited by P. Srinivasan, Y. Obeng, D. Misra, Z. Karim, and S. DeGendt (2010), pp. 115.
  5. M. McCreary, K. Pi, A. G. Swartz, W. Han, W. Bao, C. N. Lau, F. Guinea, M. I. Katsnelson, and R. K. Kawakami, “Effect of cluster formation on graphene mobility.” Phys. Rev. B. 81, 115453 (2010).
  6. Jing, J. Velasco Jr., P. Kratz, G. Liu, W. Bao, Marc Bockrath, C. N. Lau, “Quantum Transport and Field Induced Insulating States in Bilayer graphene pnp Junctions”, Nano Letters, 10, 4000 (2010).
  7. Ghosh, W. Z. Bao, D. L. Nika, S. Subrina, E. P. Pokatilov, C. N. Lau, and A. A. Balandin, “Dimensional crossover of thermal transport in few-layer graphene”. Nature Mater. 9, 555 (2010).
  8. Niyogi, E. Bekyarova, M.E. Itkis, H. Zhang, K. Shepperd, J. Hicks, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, C.N. Lau, W.A. Deheer, E.H. Conrad, and R.C. Haddon, “Spectroscopy of Covalently Functionalized Graphene. Nano Lett., 10, 4061 (2010).
  9. Olmedo, A. A. Martinez-Morales, G. Liu, E. Yengel, C. S. Ozkan, C. N. Lau, M. Ozkan, and J. L. Liu, “Study of the effects of growth temperature and time on the alignment of Si quantum dots on hafnium oxide coated single wall carbon nanotubes”. Thin Solid Films. 518, S35-S37 (2010).
  10. Bao, Z. Zhao, H. Zhang, G. Liu, P. Kratz, L. Jing, J. Velasco Jr, D. Smirnov, C.N. Lau, “Magnetoconductance Oscillations and Evidence for Fractional Quantum Hall States in High-Mobility Suspended Bilayer and Trilayer Graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 246601 (2010).
  11. Jang, Z. Chen, W. Bao, C.N. Lau, and C. Dames, “Thickness-Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Encased Graphene and Ultrathin Graphite”, Nano Lett., 10, 3909 (2010).
  12. (Invited)S. Fuhrer, C.N. Lau, and A.H. MacDonald, “Graphene: Materially Better Carbon”, MRS Bulletin, 35, 289 (2010).
  13. Velasco, G. Liu, L. Jing, P. Kratz, H. Zhang, W. Bao, M. Bockrath, and C.N. Lau, “Probing Charging and Localization in the Quantum Hall Regime using Graphene pnp Junctions”, Phys. Rev. B. (Rapid Communications), 81, 121407(R) (2010).

Highlighted as Editor’s Suggestion.

  1. W. Bao, G. Liu, Zhao, H. Zhang, D. Yan, A. Deshpande, B.J. LeRoy and C.N. Lau, “Lithography-free Fabrication of High Quality Substrate-supported and Freestanding Graphene devices”, Nano Research, 3, 98 (2010).
  2. Chen, W. Y. Jang, W. Z. Bao, C. N. Lau, C. Dames, and Asme, Heat transfer in encased graphene 2009, HT2009: Proceedings of the Asme Summer Heat Transfer Conference 2009, Vol 2.
  3. Chen, W. Y. Jang, W. Z. Bao, C. N. Lau, C. Dames, and Asme, Thermal conductivity of graphene layers encased in oxide 2010, Imece 2009: Proceedings of the Asme International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Vol 12, Pts a and B.
  4. Han, K. Pi, W. H. Wang, K. M. McCreary, Y. Li, W. Bao, P. Wei, J. Shi, C. N. Lau, and R. K. Kawakami, Spin transport in graphite and graphene spin valves, in Spintronics Ii, edited by M. Razeghi, H. J. M. Drouhin, and J. E. Wegrowe (2009).
  5. Deshpande, Wd. Bao, Z. Zhao, C. N. Lau, and B. J. LeRoy, “Mapping the Dirac point in gated bilayer graphene”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 243502 (2009).
  6. C. Chen, W. Bao, J. Theiss, C. Dames, C.N. Lau, S. B. Cronin, “Raman Spectroscopy of Ripple Formation in Suspended Graphene”, Nano Lett., 9, 4172 (2009).
  7. Zhen, J. Wang, W. Bao, C.N. Lau and C. Dames, “Thermal contact resistance between graphene and silicon dioxide”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 161910 (2009).
  8. Miao, J. J. Yang, D. R. Stewart, R. Stanley Williams, C.N. Lau, “AFM force modulation of tunnel gaps in metal/oxide/metal nano-switches”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 113503 (2009).
  9. Pi, K.M. McCreary, W. Bao, W. Han, Y.F. Chiang, Y. Li, S.W. Tsai, C.N. Lau and R.K. Kawakami, “Electronic doping and scattering by transition metals on graphene”, Phys. Rev. B, 80,075460 (2009).
  10. Velasco Jr., G. Liu, W. Bao, and C.N. Lau, “Electrical Transport in High Quality Graphene pnp Junctions”, New Journal of Physics, 11, 095008 (2009).
  11. L. Teague, A.P. Lai, J. Velasco, C.R. Hughes, A.D. Beyer, M.W. Bockrath, C.N. Lau, N.-C. Yeh, “Evidence for Strain-Induced Local Conductance Modulations in Single-Layer Graphene on SiO2”, Nano Lett., 9, 2542 (2009).
  12. Bao, F. Miao, Z. Chen, H. Zhang, W. Jang, C. Dames, and C. N. Lau, “Controlled Ripple Texturing of Suspended Graphene and Ultrathin Graphite Membranes”, Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 562 (2009).

Featured in Nature Nanotechnology News and Views.

  1. Miao, W. Bao, H. Zhang, and C.N. Lau, “Premature Switching in Graphene Josephson Transistors”, Solid State Communications, 149, 1046 (2009).
  2. Calizo, S. Ghosh, W. Bao, F. Miao, C.N. Lau, A.A. Balandin, “Raman nanometrology of graphene: Temperature and substrate effects”, Solid State Communications, 149, 1132 (2009).
  3. J. Yang, F. Miao, M.D. Pickett, D.A.A. Ohlberg, D.R. Stewart, C.N. Lau, R.S. Williams, “The mechanism of electroforming of metal oxide memristive switches”, Nanotechnology, 20, 215201 (2009).
  4. Deshpande, W. Bao, F. Miao, C.N. Lau, and B.J. LeRoy, “Spatially resolved spectroscopy of monolayer graphene on SiO2”, Phys. Rev. B, 79, 205411 (2009).
  5. Wei, W. Bao, Y. Pu, C.N. Lau, and J. Shi, “Anomalous thermoelectric transport of Dirac particles in graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 166808 (2009).
  6. Olmedo, A.A. Martinez-Morales, G. Liu, E. Yengel, C.S. Ozkan, C.N. Lau, M. Ozkan, J.L. Liu, “Periodic alignment of Si quantum dots on hafnium oxide coated single wall carbon nanotubes”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 94, 123109 (2009).
  7. Han, W.H. Wang, K. Pi, K.M. McCreary, W. Bao, Y. Li, F. Miao; C.N. Lau, R.K. Kawakami “Electron-hole asymmetry of spin injection and transport in single-layer graphene”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 137205 (2009).
  8. Liu, Y. Zhang and C. N. Lau, “Gate tunable dissipation and superconductor-insulator transition in carbon nanotube Josephson transistors”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 016803 (2009).
  9. Calizo, D. Teweldebrhan, W. Bao, F. Miao, C. N. Lau, and A. A. Balandin, Spectroscopic Raman Nanometrology of Graphene and Graphene Multilayers on Arbitrary Substrates, in International Symposium on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology, edited by S. M. Goodnick, and D. K. Ferry (2008).
  10. H. Wang, W. Han, K. Pi, K. M. McCreary, F. Miao, W. Bao, C. N. Lau, and R. K. Kawakami, “Growth of Atomically Smooth MgO Films on Graphene by Molecular Beam Epitaxy”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 93, 183107 (2008).
  11. Standley, W. Bao, H. Zhang, J. Bruck, C.N. Lau, and M.W. Bockrath, “Graphene Atomic Switches”, Nano Lett., 8, 3345 (2008).
  12. Zhang, G. Liu, C. N. Lau, “Phase Diffusion in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Josephson Junctions”, Nano Research, 2, 145 (2008).
  13. Miao, D. Ohlberg, D. R. Stewart, R. S. Williams, and C. N. Lau, “Quantum Conductance Oscillations in Metal/Molecule/Metal Switches at Room Temperature,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 016802 (2008).
  14. Liu, J. Velasco Jr., and C.N. Lau, “Graphene p-n-p Junctions with Contactless Top Gates”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 203103 (2008).
  15. Balandin, S. Ghosh, W. Bao, I. Calizo, D. Teweldebrhan, F. Miao, and C. N. Lau, “Superior thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene”, Nano Lett., 8, 902 (2008).
  16. Ghosh, I. Calizo, D. Teweldebrhan, E.P. Pokatilov, D.L. Nikka, A. A. Balandin, F. Miao and C. N. Lau, “Extremely high thermal conductivity of graphene: Prospects for thermal management applications in nanoelectronic circuits”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 151911 (2008).
  17. Calizo, W. Bao, F. Miao, N. Lau, and A. A. Balandin, “ Effect of Substrates on Raman Spectroscoy in Graphene,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 201904 (2007).
  18. Calizo, A.A. Balandin, F. Miao, W. Bao, and C.N. Lau, “Temperature Coefficients of the Raman Peaks for the Single-Layer and Bi-Layer Graphene, Appl. Phys. Lett., 91, 071913 (2007).
  19. Miao, S. Wijeratne, U. Coskun, Y. Zhang W. Bao and C.N. Lau, “Phase Coherent Charge Transport in Graphene Quantum Billiards”, Science, 317, 1530 (2007).
  20. Calizo, A. A. Balandin, W. Bao, F. Miao, and N. Lau, “ Temperature dependence of the Raman spectra of graphene and graphene multi-layers,” Nano Lett., 7, 2645 (2007).
  21. -Y. Chiu, V. V. Deshpande, H. W. Ch. Postma, C. N. Lau, C. Mikó, L. Forró, M. Bockrath, Ballistic Phonon Thermal Transport in Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, 226101 (2005).
  22. N. Lau, D. R. Stewart, R. M. Bockrath and R.S. Williams, “Scanned probe imaging of nanoscale conducting channels in Pt/alkanoic acid monolayer/Ti devices”, Appl. Phys. A, 80, 1373 (2005).
  23. R. Stewart, D.A.A. Ohlberg, P.A. Beck, C.N. Lau and R.S. Williams, “Exponential temperature dependence and low-bias conductance anomaly in transport through Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer devices”, Appl. Phys. A, 80, 1379 (2005).
  24. N. Lau, D. R. Stewart, R. Stanley Williams and M. Bockrath, “Direct Observation of Nanoscale Switching Centers in Metal/Molecule/Metal Structures”, Nano Lett., 4, 569 (2004).
  25. Tinkham, J.U. Free, C.N. Lau and N. Markovic, “Hysteretic I-V Curves in Superconducting Nanowires”, Phys. Rev. B, 68, 134515 (2003).
  26. Shun-Chi Chang, Zhiyong Li, Chun Ning Lau, Brian Larade and R. Stanley Williams, “Investigation of a Model Molecular-Electronic Rectifier with an Evaporated Ti -Metal Top Contact”, Phys. Lett., 83, 3198 (2003).
  27. Markovic, C. N. Lau and M. Tinkham, “The limits of superconductivity in MoGe nanowires”, Physica C, 387, 44 (2003).
  28. Tinkham, C.N. Lau and N. Markovic, “Resistance Induced by Quantum Phase-Slips in Superconducting Nanowires”, Physica E, 18, 308 (2003).
  29. Tinkham and C. N. Lau, “Quantum limit to phase coherence in thin superconducting wires”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 80, 2946 (2002).
  30. N. Lau, N. Markovic, M. Bockrath, A. Bezryadin, and M. Tinkham, “Quantum Phase Slips in Superconducting Nanowires”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 217003 (2001).
  31. Bezryadin, N. Lau, and M. Tinkham, “Quantum Suppression of Superconductivity in Ultrathin Nanowires”, Nature, 404, 397 (2000).
  32. J. Radtke, C. N. Lau, and K. Levin, “What Does Intrinsic Josephson Coupling Say about the Pairing Symmetry in the Cuprates?”, J. of Supercond., 8, 499(1995).
  33. B. Knight, C.G. Fandrich, C. N. Lau, H.M. Jaeger, H M and S.R. Nagel, “Density relaxation in a vibrated granular material”, Phys. Rev. E, 51, 3957 (1995).