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In preparation:

“Manipulating moires by controlling heterostrain in van der Waals devices” 

“van der Waals injection-molded crystals”

UCI Publications

“Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials”
Laisi Chen*, Amy X. Wu*, Naol Tulu, Joshua Wang, Adrian Juanson, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Michael T. Pettes, Marshall Campbell, Chaitanya A. Gadre, Yinong Zhou, Hangman Chen, Penghui Cao, Luis A. Jauregui, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi
Nature Materials (2024)
recommended by the Journal Club for Condensed Matter Physics with commentary by Joe Checkelsky

“Electrically driven amplification of terahertz acoustic waves in graphene”
Aaron H. Barajas-Aguilar, Jasen Zion, Ian Sequeira, Andrew Z. Barabas, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Eric B. Barrett, Thomas Scaffidi & Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi
Nature Communications vol. 15, Article number: 2550 (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46819-2
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.12225

“Mechanically-reconfigurable van der Waals devices via low-friction gold sliding”
Andrew Z. Barabas *, Ian Sequeira *, Yuhui Yang, Aaron H. Barajas-Aguilar, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Javier D. Sanchez-Yamagishi
Science Advances eadf9558 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf9558
https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.02536
Pop press: ieee spectrum, UCI news

Pre-UCI

“Electron-phonon instability in graphene revealed by global and local noise probes”
T. I. Andersen*, B. L. Dwyer*, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi*, J. F. Rodriguez-Nieva, K. Agarwal, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, E. A. Demler, P. Kim, H. Park, M. D. Lukin
Science 364 ,6436 (2019)
* equal first-author contribution

“Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices”
Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Ahmet Demir, Shiang Fang, Spencer L. Tomarken, Jason Y. Luo, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, E. Kaxiras, R. C. Ashoori, P. Jarillo-Herrero
Nature 556, 80-84 (2018) arXiv:1802:00553

“Magnetic resonance spectroscopy of an atomically thin material using a single-spin qubit”
I. Lovchinsky, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, E. K. Urbach, S. Choi, S. Fang, T. Andersen, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Bylinskii, E. Kaxiras, P. Kim, H. Park, and M. D. Lukin
Science 355, 6324 (2017)

“Observation of Helical Edge States and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Graphene Electron-hole Bilayer”
J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi*, J. Y. Luo*, A. F. Young, B. Hunt, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. C. Ashoori, P. Jarillo-Herrero
Nature Nanotechnology 12, 118-222 (2017)
* equal first-author contribution

“Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state”
A. F. Young*, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi*, B. Hunt*, S. H. Choi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. C. Ashoori, P. Jarillo-Herrero
Nature 505, 528–532 (2014)
* equal first-author contribution

“Massive Dirac fermions and Hofstadter butterfly in a van der Waals heterostructure”
B. Hunt*, J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi*, A. F. Young*, M. Yankowitz, B. J. LeRoy, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Moon, M. Koshino, P. Jarillo-Herrero, R. C. Ashoori
Science 340, 1427 (2013)
* equal first-author contribution

“Quantum Hall Effect, Screening and Layer-Polarized Insulating States in Twisted Bilayer Graphene”
J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi, T. Taychatanapat, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Yacoby, P. Jarillo-Herrero
Physical Review Letters 108, 076601 (2012)

 

Patents

Lukin, M.D., Andersen, T.I., Dwyer, B.L., Sanchez, J.D. and Agarwal, K., Harvard College, 2023. System and method of generating phonons. U.S. Patent 11,555,738.

Lovchinsky, I., Sanchez, J., Urbach, E.K., Soonwon, C.H.O.I., Andersen, T., Kim, P., Park, H. and Lukin, M.D., Harvard College, 2021. Nanoscale nuclear quadrupole resonance spectroscopy. U.S. Patent 10,895,617.

Thesis

“Superlattices and Quantum Spin Hall States in Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructures” 2015 Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi (link)