News & milestones

Our paper published in Nano Letters Moire Potential, Lattice Relaxation, and Layer Polarization in Marginally Twisted MoS 2 Bilayers, Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei, Nanoletters 23 , 73 (2023 )

Eva wins inaugural 2023 Mildred Dresselhaus Prize in Nanoscience or Nanomaterials

Our US patent is awarded US11474127B2 Modular scanning probe microscope head

Skanda graduates with high honors! Picks MIT for grad school - one of many choices. Best of luck Skanda!!

Doctor Phanibhusan Singha Mahapatra - Phani- joins our group as a postdoctoral fellow . Welcome Phani!!

Graduate student Siyou Guo joins our group.

Welcome Siyou!

US patent application published: US20210237972A1, Low profile transfer mechanism for controlled environment.

Our paper made the COVER of Applied Physics Letters , 119, 121601 (2021) Observation of a Topological Defect Lattice in the Charge Density Wave of 1T-TaS 2

Michael, Ni khil, Skanda, and Guohong 's paper together with collaborators published in Applied Physics Letters , 119, 121601 (2021) Observation of a Topological Defect Lattice in the Charge Density Wave of 1T-TaS 2

Michael, Ni khil, Skanda, and Guohong 's paper together with collaborators published in Nanoletters 21, 6132 (2021) Charge Density Wave Vortex Lattice Observed in Graphene-Passivated 1T-TaS2 by Ambient Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Nikhil, Xinyuan, S hu ang and Jimmy's paper together with collaborators published in Nature Communications, 12 , 4180 (2021) Flat band carrier confinement in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Shuang and Jimmy's paper together with collaborators published in Nature Materials, 20, 488 2021 Chern Insulators and Topological Flat-bands in Magic-angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Shuang selected to give an invited talk at the 2021 March Meeting of the American Physical Society on his Chern insulator work.

Jinhai Mao selected to give an invited talk at the 2021 March Meeting of the American Physical Society on his buckled graphene work.

Eva Y. Andrei and Allan H. MacDonald,mGraphene Bilayers with a Twist,  Nature Materials 19, 1265 (2020).

Jinhai, Yuhang and Xinyuan's paper, Evidence of Flat Bands and Correlated States in Buckled Graphene Superlattices, Nature 584, 215 (2020).

Eva Andrei named Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) investigator by the Betty and Gordon Moore foundation.

Yuhang Jiang accepted a faculty position at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Lucas wins the prestigious Henry Rutgers Scholar Award, recognizing outstanding undergraduate independent research and thesis work.

Lucas wins the Paul L. Leath Award.

Yuhang Jiang's paper, Charge-order and broken rotational symmetry in magic-angle twisted graphene bilayers,  Nature 573, 91 (2019).

Yuhang Jiang, Xinyuan Lai, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kristjan Haule, Jinhai Mao, and Eva Y. Andrei.

Jinhai Mao accepted a faculty position at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Michael's paper published in 2D Materials , 6 , 045034 (2019) Electrostatic Imaging of Encapsulated Graphene Michael A. Altvater, Shuang Wu, Zhenyuan Zhang, Tianhui Zhu, Guohong Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Eva Y. Andrei

Yuhang presented an invited talk at the 2019 March meeting of the American Physical Society in Boston: Strain, Stack, Fold, and Twist: New Strategies for Engineering the Electronic Properties of 2D Materials

Yuhang Jiang invited to give a plenary talk at IWEPNM 2018.

International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials  March 2018, Kirchberg, Austria.

• IWEPNM 2018 announcement (PDF)

Yuhang and Jinhai's Nature Nanotechnology article makes the news.

Tuning a Circular p-n Junction in Graphene from Quantum Confinement to Optical Guiding, Nature Nanotechnology (2017), doi:10.1038/nnano.2017.181.

Press coverage:

• Rutgers Today Taming Wild Electrons in Graphene
• NextBIGFutureControl of electrons in graphene could lead to novel electronic devices
• Silicon Republic  Researchers have tamed wild electrons in graphene
• Futurity Wild electrons in graphene
• Computing  Researchers learn how to tame wild electrons in graphene
• Engineering & Technology  aining control over wild electrons
• R&D  Scientists discover how to control electrons in graphene

Angela Coe wins a 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Alexis Clavijo received the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Presenter Award at the 2017 March Meeting in New Orleans.

Junxi Duan accepted a faculty position in the Department of Physics, Beijing University, China. He starts his appointment in October 2017.

Our work on scanning tunneling microscopy made the news. highlighted in PHYS.Org Controlling traffic on the electron highway researching graphene

Jinhai and Yuhang's Nature Physics article makes the news! Highlighted in Nanowerk.com " Creation of artificial atoms in graphene" Highlighted in Nanotechweb.org Supercritically charged vacancy in graphene is like an artificial atom Realization of a tunable artificial atom at a supercritically charged vacancy in graphene , Nature Physics 12, 545 (2016) doi:10.1038/nphys3665

Junxi Duan's PNAS paper on thermoelectric cooling featured in the news: how graphene could cool smartphone, computer, and other electronics chips. Press coverage:

Adina Luican-Mayer - accepted a faculty position in the Department of Physics, Ottawa University, Canada. She will start her appointment in January 2016.

Eva Y. Andrei receives the 2014 Society of Physics Students Outstanding Teaching Award

Physicists Eva Andrei and Karin Rabe Named Rutgers Board of Governors Professors.

Eva Y. Andrei elected to the National Academy of Sciences  April 30, 2013.

Adina Luican-Mayer wins the 2013 Plano Award for best PhD dissertation.

After completing her thesis work in the Andrei lab in 2012, Adina received the prestigious Abrikosov Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by Argonne National Laboratory to promising young researchers.

COVER: Reports on Progress in Physics

Eva Y. Andrei elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

SCIENCE NEWS (August 13, 2011)