Reyes Calvo

I am currently a Research Associate Professor at the Applied Physics Department in the University of Alicante (Spain), where I lead the 2D Quantum materials lab. My research interests revolve around the behavior of electrons when confined in condensed matter systems and the associated quantum phenomena. I have been particularly interested in the confinement of electrons in one or two dimensions at the interface of so-called topological materials and lately, in the inherent low dimensionality of atomic layers of van der Waals materials and their potential to tailor their properties by proximity in stacked heterostructures.

Current research

  • Quantum transport in 2D (topological) materials

  • Optoelectronics and spintronics in van der Waals structures

Trajectory (learn more...)

  • 2019- present Research Professor (Cidegent) at UA

  • 2015- 2019 Ikerbasque Research Fellow at CIC Nanogune.

  • 2012-2015 Postdoctoral Marie Curie Research Fellow at Stanford University (Goldhaber-Gordon´s lab) and CIC Nanogune (CIC Nanogune, Nanoimaging)

  • 2009-2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, London Center for Nanotechnology, University College London, with C. Hirjibehedin.


Selected publications (full list here)

  • Large Multidirectional Spin-to-Charge Conversion in Low-Symmetry Semimetal MoTe2 at Room Temperature. Safeer et al. Nano Letters 9 8758 (2019).

  • Living on the edge: Topology, electrostatics, and disorder. van den Berg, Calvo, and Bercioux. Phys. Rev. Research 2, 013171 (2020)

  • Interplay of chiral and helical states in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator lateral junction. M. R. Calvo, et. al. Physical Review Letters 119, 226401 (2017). arXiv:1702.08561

  • Unexpected edge conduction in HgTe quantum wells under broken time reversal symmetry. E. Y. Ma, M. R. Calvo, et al. Nature Communications 6, 7252 (2015) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8252

  • Control of single-spin magnetic anisotropy by exchange coupling. J. C. Oberg*, M. R. Calvo*, et al. Nature Nanotechnology, 9, 64-68, 2014. DOI:10.1038/nnano.2013.264 arxiv

  • Activation Energy Paths for Graphene Nucleation and Growth on Cu. H.K. Kim, C. Mattevi , M. R. Calvo, et al. ACS Nano, 6, pp 3614-3623 (2012). DOI: 10.1021/nn3008965

  • The Kondo effect in ferromagnetic atomic contacts. M. R. Calvo, et al. Nature, 458, 1150-1153 (2009). DOI: 10.1038/nature07878

  • Formation of a metallic contact: Jump to contact revisited. C. Untiedt, M. J. Caturla, M. R. Calvo, et al. Physical Review Letters, 98, 206801 (2007)