Our recent collaborative work on stadium shaped graphene quantum dots is published and highlighted in Nature. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03649-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08190-6 Also, check out the UCSC press release on our paper: https://news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/quantum-scars-proven.html

Our STM experiments that reveal giant orbital magnetic moments are highlighted by UCSC news! Check out the press release here: https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/03/quantum-sensor.html

Velasco lab will receive $1.25 million over the next five years from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to advance research in experimental physics and quantum information science. Check out the  press release: https://news.ucsc.edu/2022/10/velasco-moore-award.html

The Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship is awarded yearly by UCSC and is based on academic merits. Congratulations Zhehao!!!

Our STM experiments that reveal the bilayer graphene quantum dot wave function are highlighted by UCSC news! Check out the press release here: https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/11/quantum-dots.html

Our planar tunnel junction experiments at high magnetic fields were highlighted by APL. Check out the highlight here: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/10.0000166

Our collaboration employing NanoARPES and STM to unravel the local electronic structure of bilayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures was highlighted at PRB!  

Velasco is awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award. This award will support visualization and control of chiral bound states and chiral trajectories in 2D material heterostructures.

Team of Velasco and Lederman are awarded funds from the Army Office of Research for a glove box system for fabrication and characterization of new Quantum Materials Devices. 

Imaging relativistic electrons in graphene p-n junctions. Check it out here: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65483