Samuel Lara Avila

Associate Professor at Quantum Device Physics

Im interested in bridging basic and applied nano research. In our lab we produce new low-dimensional materials & systems to study their physical properties, looking for new discoveries, and use them to develop new applications.

Our Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure for material (epitaxial) growth, and cryogenic magneto transport experiments. We also benefit from access to fantastic cleanroom facilities at Chalmers, extraordinary collaboration with other labs (including MAX IV synchrotron), and interaction with several companies.  

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Showing 83 publications

2024

Single-photon detection using large-scale high-temperature MgB<inf>2</inf> sensors at 20 K

Ilya Charaev, Emma K. Batson, Serguei Cherednichenko et al
Nature Communications. Vol. 15 (1)
Journal article
2024

Ultralow 1/f noise in epigraphene devices

Naveen Shetty, Federico Chianese, Hans He et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 124 (9)
Journal article
2024

Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing

Jonathan Bradford, Benjamin T. Dewes, Mustaqeem Shiffa et al
Small. Vol. 20 (40)
Journal article
2024

All-2D CVD-grown semiconductor field-effect transistors with van der Waals graphene contacts

Anamul Md Hoque, Antony George, Vasudev Ramachandra et al
npj 2D Materials and Applications. Vol. 8 (1)
Journal article
2023

Field Manipulation of Band Properties in Infrared Spectra of Thin Films

Karsten Hinrichs, Naveen Shetty, Sergey Kubatkin et al
ADVANCED PHOTONICS RESEARCH. Vol. In Press
Journal article
2023

Spin-valley coupling and spin-relaxation anisotropy in all-CVD Graphene- MoS2 van der Waals heterostructure

Anamul Md Hoque, Vasudev Ramachandra, Antony George et al
Physical Review Materials. Vol. 7 (4)
Journal article
2023

Bottom-Up Growth of Monolayer Honeycomb SiC

Craig Michael Polley, H. Fedderwitz, T. Balasubramanian et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 130 (7)
Journal article
2023

Mesoscopic 3D Charge Transport in Solution-Processed Graphene-Based Thin Films: A Multiscale Analysis

Alex Boschi, Alessandro Kovtun, F. Liscio et al
Small. Vol. 19 (42)
Journal article
2023

Electric Field and Strain Tuning of 2D Semiconductor van der Waals Heterostructures for Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors

Konstantina Iordanidou, Richa Mitra, Naveen Shetty et al
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Vol. 15 (1), p. 1762-1771
Journal article
2023

Exploring the impact of select anchor groups for norbornadiene/quadricyclane single-molecule switches

Shima Ghasemi, Luca Ornago, Zacharias Liasi et al
Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Vol. 11 (44), p. 15379-15776
Journal article
2023

Scalable Fabrication of Edge Contacts to 2D Materials: Implications for Quantum Resistance Metrology and 2D Electronics

Naveen Shetty, Hans He, Richa Mitra et al
ACS Applied Nano Materials. Vol. 6 (7), p. 6292-6298
Journal article
2022

Highly efficient UV detection in a metal-semiconductor-metal detector with epigraphene

Hans He, Naveen Shetty, Sergey Kubatkin et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 120 (19)
Journal article
2022

Silicene nanosheets intercalated in slightly defective epitaxial graphene on a 4H-SiC(0001) substrate

Filippo Fabbri, Manuela Scarselli, Naveen Shetty et al
Surfaces and Interfaces. Vol. 33
Journal article
2022

Toward Optimized Charge Transport in Multilayer Reduced Graphene Oxides

Mustafa Neşet Çlnar, Aleandro Antidormi, Viet Hung Nguyen et al
Nano Letters. Vol. 22 (6), p. 2202-2208
Journal article
2022

Accurate graphene quantum Hall arrays for the new International System of Units

Hans He, Karin Cedergren, Naveen Shetty et al
Nature Communications. Vol. 13 (1)
Journal article
2021

Electron-phonon coupling of epigraphene at millikelvin temperatures measured by quantum transport thermometry

Bayan Karimi, Hans He, Yu Cheng Chang et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 118 (10)
Journal article
2021

Clustering and Morphology Evolution of Gold on Nanostructured Surfaces of Silicon Carbide: Implications for Catalysis and Sensing

Ivan Shtepliuk, Ivan G. Ivanov, Nikolaos Pliatsikas et al
ACS Applied Nano Materials. Vol. 4 (2), p. 1282-1293
Journal article
2021

Multiscale Charge Transport in van der Waals Thin Films: Reduced Graphene Oxide as a Case Study

Alessandro Kovtun, Andrea Candini, Anna Vianelli et al
ACS Nano. Vol. 15 (2), p. 2654-2667
Journal article
2020

The performance limits of epigraphene Hall sensors doped across the Dirac point

Hans He, Naveen Shetty, Thilo Bauch et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 116 (22)
Journal article
2020

Chemical Sensing with Atomically Thin Platinum Templated by a 2D Insulator

Kyung Ho Kim, Hans He, Marius Rodner et al
Advanced Materials Interfaces. Vol. 7 (12)
Journal article
2019

Polymer-encapsulated molecular doped epigraphene for quantum resistance metrology

Hans He, Samuel Lara Avila, Kyung Ho Kim et al
Metrologia. Vol. 56 (4)
Journal article
2019

Molecular Lipid Films on Microengineering Materials

Silver Jõemetsa, Kiryl Kustanovich, Severin Schindler et al
Langmuir. Vol. 35 (32), p. 10286-10298
Journal article
2019

Towards quantum-limited coherent detection of terahertz waves in charge-neutral graphene

Samuel Lara Avila, Andrey Danilov, Dmitry Golubev et al
Nature Astronomy. Vol. 3 (11), p. 983-988
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2019

Quantum transport at Dirac point enables graphene for terahertz heterodyne astronomy

Serguei Cherednichenko, Andrey Danilov, Dmitry Golubev et al
ISSTT 2019 - 30th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Proceedings Book, p. 236-
Paper in proceeding
2019

Effect of graphene substrate type on formation of Bi <inf>2</inf> Se <inf>3</inf> nanoplates

J. Andzane, Liga Britala, Edijs Kauranens et al
Scientific Reports. Vol. 9 (1)
Journal article
2019

MgB<inf>2</inf> HEB terahertz mixers: Diffusion- or phonon- cooled?

Narendra Acharya, Samuel Lara Avila, Serguei Cherednichenko
ISSTT 2019 - 30th International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Proceedings Book, p. 101-
Paper in proceeding
2018

Uniform doping of graphene close to the Dirac point by polymer-assisted assembly of molecular dopants

Hans He, Kyung Ho Kim, Andrey Danilov et al
Nature Communications. Vol. 9 (1)
Journal article
2018

Probing variable range hopping lengths by magneto conductance in carbonized polymer nanofibers

Kyung Ho Kim, Samuel Lara Avila, Hans He et al
Scientific Reports. Vol. 8 (1)
Journal article
2018

Stable and tunable charge carrier control of graphene for quantum resistance metrology

Hans He, Samuel Lara Avila, Tobias Bergsten et al
2018 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2018)
Paper in proceeding
2017

Thermal stability of epitaxial graphene electrodes for conductive polymer nanofiber devices

Kyung Ho Kim, Samuel Lara Avila, Hans He et al
Crystals. Vol. 7 (12)
Journal article
2017

Enhancing optoelectronic properties of SiC-grown graphene by a surface layer of colloidal quantum dots

O. Makarovsky, L. Turyanska, N. Mori et al
2D Materials. Vol. 4 (3)
Journal article
2017

Site-selective immobilization of functionalized DNA origami on nanopatterned Teflon AF

Mehrnaz Shaali, Jakob Woller, Peter Johansson et al
Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Vol. 5 (30), p. 7637-7643
Journal article
2017

Guided selective deposition of nanoparticles by tuning of the surface potential

Johnas Eklöf, Alicja Stolas, M. Herzberg et al
Europhysics Letters. Vol. 119 (1)
Journal article
2016

Fabrication of graphene quantum hall resistance standard in a cryogen-Table-Top system

Hans He, Tjbm Janssen, S. Rozhko et al
2016 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, CPEM 2016; The Westin OttawaOttawa; Canada; 10-15 July 2016, p. Art no 7540516-
Paper in proceeding
2016

Towards a cryogen-free table-top primary resistance standard

Tjbm Janssen, S. Rozhko, J. M. Williams et al
2016 Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (Cpem 2016)
Paper in proceeding
2016

Controlling deposition of nanoparticles by tuning surface charge of SiO2 by surface modifications

Johnas Eklöf, Tina Gschneidtner, Samuel Lara Avila et al
RSC Advances. Vol. 6 (106), p. 104246-104253
Journal article
2016

Apparent Power Law Scaling of Variable Range Hopping Conduction in Carbonized Polymer Nanofibers

Kyung Ho Kim, Samuel Lara Avila, H. Kang et al
Scientific Reports. Vol. 6
Journal article
2016

Giant quantum Hall plateaus generated by charge transfer in epitaxial graphene

J. A. Alexander-Webber, J. Huang, D. K. Maude et al
Scientific Reports. Vol. 6
Journal article
2015

Hot carrier relaxation of Dirac fermions in bilayer epitaxial graphene

J. Huang, J. A. Alexander-Webber, Tjbm Janssen et al
Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. Vol. 27 (16)
Journal article
2015

Wafer-scale homogeneity of transport properties in epitaxial graphene on SiC

Thomas Yager, Arseniy Lartsev, R. Yakimova et al
Carbon. Vol. 87 (C), p. 409-414
Journal article
2015

Physics of a disordered Dirac point in epitaxial graphene from temperature-dependent magnetotransport measurements

J. Huang, J. A. Alexander-Webber, A. M. R. Baker et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 92 (7)
Journal article
2015

High mobility epitaxial graphene devices via aqueous-ozone processing

Thomas Yager, M. J. Webb, H. Grennberg et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 106 (6)
Journal article
2015

A prototype of RK/200 quantum Hall array resistance standard on epitaxial graphene

Arseniy Lartsev, Samuel Lara Avila, Andrey Danilov et al
Journal of Applied Physics. Vol. 118 (4), p. art nr. 044506-
Journal article
2015

Operation of graphene quantum Hall resistance standard in a cryogen-free table-top system

Tjbm Janssen, S. Rozhko, I. Antonov et al
2D Materials. Vol. 2 (3), p. Art. no. 035015-
Journal article
2015

Low contact resistance in epitaxial graphene devices for quantum metrology

Thomas Yager, Arseniy Lartsev, Karin Cedergren et al
AIP Advances. Vol. 5 (8), p. 087134-
Journal article
2015

Influence of Impurity Spin Dynamics on Quantum Transport in Epitaxial Graphene

Samuel Lara Avila, Sergey Kubatkin, O. Kashuba et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 115 (10), p. 106602-
Journal article
2015

Nanopatterning of Mobile Lipid Mono layers on Electron-Beam-Sculpted Teflon AF Surfaces

Mehrnaz Shaali, Samuel Lara Avila, Paul Gunnar Dommersnes et al
ACS Nano. Vol. 9 (2), p. 1271-1279
Journal article
2015

Bianthrone at a Metal Surface: Conductance Switching with a Bistable Molecule Made Feasible by Image Charge Effects

V. Geskin, Samuel Lara Avila, Andrey Danilov et al
AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 1642, p. 469-472
Paper in proceeding
2014

The conquest of middle-earth: combining top-down and bottom-up nanofabrication for constructing nanoparticle based devices

Yuri A. Diaz Fernandez, Tina Gschneidtner, Carl Wadell et al
Nanoscale. Vol. 6 (24), p. 14605-14616
Journal article
2014

Single-molecule electronics: from chemical design to functional devices

Lanlan Sun, Yuri A. Diaz Fernandez, Tina Gschneidtner et al
Chemical Society Reviews. Vol. 43 (21), p. 7378-7411
Review article
2014

Quantum Hall Effect and Quantum Point Contact in Bilayer-Patched Epitaxial Graphene

C. Chua, M. Connolly, Arseniy Lartsev et al
Nano Letters. Vol. 14 (6), p. 3369-3373
Journal article
2014

Tuning carrier density across Dirac point in epitaxial graphene on SiC by corona discharge

Arseniy Lartsev, Thomas Yager, T. Bergsten et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 105 (6)
Journal article
2013

Magnetic quantum ratchet effect in graphene

C. Drexler, S. A. Tarasenko, P. Olbrich et al
Nature Nanotechnology. Vol. 8 (2), p. 104-107
Journal article
2013

Graphene and the universality of the quantum Hall effect

A.Y. Tzalenchuk, Tjbm Janssen, O. Kazakova et al
Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi". Vol. 185, p. 323-350
Paper in proceeding
2013

Express Optical Analysis of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC: Impact of Morphology on Quantum Transport

Thomas Yager, Arseniy Lartsev, Sumedh Mahashabde et al
Nano Letters. Vol. 13 (9), p. 4217-4223
Journal article
2013

Phase Space for the Breakdown of the Quantum Hall Effect in Epitaxial Graphene

J. A. Alexander-Webber, A. M. R. Baker, Tjbm Janssen et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 111 (9)
Journal article
2013

Phase coherence and energy relaxation in epitaxial graphene under microwave radiation

V. Eless, Thomas Yager, S. Spasov et al
Applied Physics Letters. Vol. 103 (9), p. art. no. 093103-
Journal article
2013

Magnetic quantum ratchet effect in graphene

S.D. Ganichev, S.A. Tarasenko, P. Olbrich et al
International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz
Paper in proceeding
2013

Reststrahlen Band assisted photocurrents in graphene

C. Drexler, L.E. Golub, S.N. Danilov et al
International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, IRMMW-THz
Paper in proceeding
2013

Reststrahl band-assisted photocurrents in epitaxial graphene layers

P. Olbrich, C. Drexler, L. E. Golub et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 88 (24), p. 7-
Journal article
2013

Quantum resistance metrology using graphene

Tjbm Janssen, Alexander Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara Avila et al
Reports on Progress in Physics. Vol. 76 (10)
Journal article
2013

Energy loss rates of hot Dirac fermions in epitaxial, exfoliated, and CVD graphene

A. M. R. Baker, J. A. Alexander-Webber, T. Altebaeumer et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 87 (4), p. art. no. 045414-
Journal article
2013

Practical and Fundamental Impact of Epitaxial Graphene on Quantum Metrology

Tjbm Janssen, A.Y. Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara Avila et al
Mapan - Journal of Metrology Society of India. Vol. 28 (4), p. 239-250
Review article
2012

Dihydroazulene Photoswitch Operating in Sequential Tunneling Regime: Synthesis and Single-Molecule Junction Studies

S. L. Broman, Samuel Lara Avila, C. L. Thisted et al
Advanced Functional Materials. Vol. 22 (20), p. 4249-4258
Journal article
2012

Weak localization scattering lengths in epitaxial, and CVD graphene

A. M. R. Baker, J. A. Alexander-Webber, T. Altebaeumer et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 86 (23)
Journal article
2012

Aligned Growth of Gold Nanorods in PMMA Channels: Parallel Preparation of Nanogaps

T. Jain, Samuel Lara Avila, Yann-Vai Kervennic et al
ACS Nano. Vol. 6 (5), p. 3861-3867
Journal article
2012

Precision comparison of the quantum Hall effect in graphene and gallium arsenide

Tjbm Janssen, J. M. Williams, N. E. Fletcher et al
Metrologia. Vol. 49 (3), p. 294-306
Journal article
2012

Breakdown of the quantum Hall effect in graphene

Tjbm Janssen, A.Y. Tzalenchuk, A. M. R. Baker et al
CPEM Digest (Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements), p. 510-511
Paper in proceeding
2011

Non-Volatile Photochemical Gating of an Epitaxial Graphene/Polymer Heterostructure

Samuel Lara Avila, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, R. Yakimova et al
Advanced Materials. Vol. 23 (7), p. 878-+
Journal article
2011

Engineering and metrology of epitaxial graphene

Samuel Lara Avila, Karin Cedergren, Sergey Kubatkin
Solid State Communications. Vol. 151 (16), p. 1094-1099
Journal article
2011

Graphene, universality of the quantum Hall effect and redefinition of the SI system

Tjbm Janssen, N. E. Fletcher, R. Goebel et al
New Journal of Physics. Vol. 13
Journal article
2011

Terahertz Radiation Driven Chiral Edge Currents in Graphene

J. Karch, C. Drexler, P. Olbrich et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 107 (27)
Journal article
2011

Helicity-dependent photocurrents in graphene layers excited by midinfrared radiation of a CO2 laser

C. Y. Jiang, V. A. Shalygin, V. Y. Panevin et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 84 (12)
Journal article
2011

Disordered Fermi Liquid in Epitaxial Graphene from Quantum Transport Measurements

Samuel Lara Avila, A.Y. Tzalenchuk, Sergey Kubatkin et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 107 (16)
Journal article
2011

Light-Triggered Conductance Switching in Single-Molecule Dihydroazulene/Vinylheptafulvene Junctions

Samuel Lara Avila, Andrey Danilov, Sergey Kubatkin et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Vol. 115 (37), p. 18372-18377
Journal article
2011

Anomalously strong pinning of the filling factor nu=2 in epitaxial graphene

Tjbm Janssen, A.Y. Tzalenchuk, R. Yakimova et al
Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. Vol. 83 (23)
Journal article
2010

Dynamic Hall Effect Driven by Circularly Polarized Light in a Graphene Layer

J. Karch, P. Olbrich, M. Schmalzbauer et al
Physical Review Letters. Vol. 105 (22)
Journal article
2010

Towards a quantum resistance standard based on epitaxial graphene

A.Y. Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara Avila, Alexei Kalaboukhov et al
Nature Nanotechnology. Vol. 5 (3), p. 186-189
Journal article
2010

Bianthrone in a Single-Molecule Junction: Conductance Switching with a Bistable Molecule Facilitated by Image Charge Effects

Samuel Lara Avila, Andrey Danilov, V. Geskin et al
Journal of Physical Chemistry C. Vol. 114 (48), p. 20686-20695
Journal article

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Showing 7 research projects

2022–2025

Quantum criticality and new quantum matter in two-dimensional Dirac materials

Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
Swedish Research Council (VR)

4 publications exist
2020–2029

2D material-based technology for industrial applications (2D-TECH)

Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
Jian Yang Antennas
Leif Asp Material and Computational Mechanics
Johan Liu Electronics Material and Systems
Ermin Malic Condensed Matter and Materials Theory
Timur Shegai Nano and Biophysics
VINNOVA
GKN Aerospace Sweden

84 publications exist
2019–2020

Current sensor based on graphene Hall device

Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
VINNOVA

2017–2018

Graphene Hall Sensors

Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
VINNOVA

2016–2021

Novel two-dimensional systems: from growth to applications

Sergey Kubatkin Quantum Device Physics
Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
Magnus Skoglundh Applied Surface Chemistry
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)

4 publications exist
2016–2020

Epitaxiell grafen för metrologi, sensorer och elektronik

Tomas Löfwander Applied Quantum Physics
Sergey Kubatkin Quantum Device Physics
Mikael Fogelström Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2)
Samuel Lara Avila Quantum Device Physics
Hans He Quantum Device Physics
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)

4 publications exist
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