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
Author: Jairo Velasco Jr.
Velasco wins $1.25 million award from Moore Foundation!
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
Zhehao is selected for Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship!!!
The Chancellor’s Dissertation-Year Fellowship is awarded yearly by UCSC and is based on academic merits. Congratulations Zhehao!!!
Direct visualization of quantum dots reveals shape of quantum wave function
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
Planar tunnel junctions at high magnetic fields highlighted by APL
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
Combined NanoARPES and STM study highlighted by PRB
Our collaboration employing NanoARPES and STM to unravel the local electronic structure of bilayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures was highlighted at PRB!
New award from NSF
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.
New award from the ARO
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
Imaging relativistic electrons in graphene p-n junctions. Check it out here: http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/65483
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy Highlighted in Nature Nanotechnology
Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy was recently highlighted in the November 2015 edition of Nature Nanotechnology. Check it out here: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v10/n11/covers/index.html