Publications

1. Highly anisotropic spin transport in ultrathin black phosphorus, L. Cording et al, Nature Materials, 1-7 (2024). https://doi-org.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/10.1038/s41563-023-01779-8 

2. Electrical spectroscopy of defect states and their hybridization in monolayer MoS2, Y. Zhao et al, Nature Communications, 14 (1), 44 (2023).

3. Highly anisotropic van der Waals magnetism, A. Avsar, Nature Materials, 21 (7), 731-733 (2022).

4. Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics, A. Ciarrocchi, F. Tagarelli, A. Avsar, and A. Kis, Nature Reviews Materials, (2022).

5. Probing magnetism in atomically thin semiconducting PtSe2, A Avsar, CY Cheon, M Pizzochero, M Tripathi, A Ciarrocchi, OV Yazyev, and A. Kis, Nature Communications, 11, 4806 (2020). 

6. Logic-in-memory based on an atomically thin semiconductor, G. M. Marega, Y. Zhao, A. Avsar, Z. Wang, M. Tripathi, A. Radenovic and A. Kis, Nature, 587 72-77 (2020). 

7. Colloquium: Spintronics in graphene and other two-dimensional materials, A. Avsar, H. Ochoa, F. Guinea, B. Özyilmaz,  B. J. van Wees, and I. J. Vera-Marun, Rev. Mod. Phys. 92, 021003 (2020).

8. Valley-polarized exciton currents in a van der Waals heterostructure, D. Unuchek, A. Ciarrocchi, A. Avsar, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi and A. Kis,  Nature Nanotechnology, 14, 1104-1109 (2019). 

9. Defect induced, layer-modulated magnetism in ultra-thin metallic PtSe2, A. Avsar*, A. Ciarrocchi, M. Pizzochero, D. Unuchek, O. V. Yazyev, and A. Kis*, Nature Nanotechnology 14, 674-678 (2019). * Corresponding Author. 

10. Control of Interlayer excitons in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures, A. Ciarrocchi, D. Unuchek, A. Avsar, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi and A. Kis, Nature Photonics, 13, 131-136 (2019). 

11. Room-temperature electrical control of exciton flux in an atomically thin van der Waals heterostructure, D. Unuchek, A. Ciarrocchi, A. Avsar, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi and A. Kis, Nature, 560 (7718), 340 (2018). 

12. Thickness-Modulated Metal-to-Semiconductor Transformation in a Transition Metal Dichalcogenide, A. Ciarrocchi, A. Avsar, D. Ovchinnikov and A. Kis , Nature Communications, 9, 919 (2018). 

13. Gate-tunable black phosphorus spin valve with nanosecond spin lifetimes, A. Avsar, J.Y.Tan, M. Kurpas, M. Gmitra, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Fabian, and B. Özyilmaz, Nature Physics, 13, 888–893 (2017). 

14. Optospintronics in graphene via proximity coupling, A. Avsar, D. Unuchek, J Liu, O.L.Sanchez, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, B. Özyilmaz  and A. Kis, ACS Nano, (2017). 

15. Air-stable transport in graphene-contacted, fully encapsulated ultrathin black phosphorus field-effect transistors, A. Avsar, I. J. Vera-Marun, J. Y. Tan, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. H. Castro Neto, and B. Özyilmaz, ACS Nano, 9, 4138-4145 (2015).

16. Spin-orbit proximity effect in graphene, A. Avsar, J. Y. Tan, J. Balakrishnan, G. K. W. Koon, J. Lahiri, A. Carvalho, A. Rodin, T. Taychatanapat, E. C. T. O’Farrell, G. Eda, A. H. Castro Neto, and B. Özyilmaz, Nature Communications, 5,4875 (2014).