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20192025
most citedProximity-Induced Superconductivity in Epitaxial Topological Insulator/Graphene/Gallium Heterostructures

56 citations · 79 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Defect-Mediated Phase Engineering of 2D Ag at the Graphene/SiC Interface

Arpit Jain, Boyang Zheng, Sawani Datta +23

Atomically thin silver (Ag) films offer unique opportunities in plasmonic, quantum optics, and energy harvesting, yet conventional growth methods struggle to achieve structural con…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Charge to spin conversion in atomically thin bismuth

Wilson J. Yánez-Parreño, Alexander Vera, Sandra Santhosh +8

We report charge to spin conversion in a hybrid heterostructure comprised of atomically thin bismuth (Bi) confined between a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate and epitaxial graphene…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 21 cited

Large-Area Intercalated 2D-Pb/Graphene Heterostructure as a Platform for Generating Spin-Orbit Torque

Alexander Vera, Boyang Zheng, Wilson Yanez +19

A scalable platform to synthesize ultrathin heavy metals may enable high efficiency charge-to-spin conversion for next-generation spintronics. Here we report the synthesis of air-s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 56 cited

Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Epitaxial Topological Insulator/Graphene/Gallium Heterostructures

Cequn Li, Yi-Fan Zhao, Alexander Vera +16

The introduction of superconductivity to the Dirac surface states of a topological insulator leads to a topological superconductor, which may support topological quantum computing…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Tunable Two-Dimensional Group-III Metal Alloys

Siavash Rajabpour, Alexander Vera, Wen He +20

Chemically stable quantum-confined 2D metals are of interest in next-generation nanoscale quantum devices. Bottom-up design and synthesis of such metals could enable the creation o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Epitaxial Graphene Intercalation: A Route to Graphene Modulation and Unique 2D Materials

Natalie Briggs, Zewdu M. Gebeyehu, Alexander Vera +7

Intercalation of atomic species through epitaxial graphene layers began only a few years following its initial report in 2004. The impact of intercalation on the electronic propert…