Luis A. Jauregui
Biography
Luis A. Jauregui, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as Director of the Irvine Quantum Materials Center. He holds a joint appointment with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jauregui received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where he worked with Philip Kim in collaboration with Hongkun Park, Mikhail Lukin, and Federico Capasso. His research focuses on emergent quantum phenomena in novel materials, with particular emphasis on excitonic physics and topological matter.
Jauregui has made several contributions to quantum materials research, including the discovery of a spin-triplet excitonic insulator phase in hafnium pentatelluride and the observation of strain-driven topological phase transitions in the same material. His work on using acoustic waves to manipulate electrons in quantum materials has enabled the creation of electron stripes and acoustic moiré patterns. He has also developed techniques for fabricating clean heterostructures that led to the observation of Rydberg excitons in molybdenum ditelluride and gate-tunable optical quantum dots based on atomically thin materials. His research has been published in over 50 peer-reviewed articles, including 12 papers in Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, and Nature Communications, as well as 3 papers in Physical Review Letters.
Jauregui is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award and a Scialog Research Corporation for Science Advancement Fellow. He founded the Quantum Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program at UCI in 2021 and serves as the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Eddleman Quantum Institute. He has mentored 11 graduate students, 1 postdoctoral scholar, and 29 undergraduate researchers, with a focus on supporting first-generation and underrepresented minority students. Jauregui is also the founder of NanoREPU, a program that has supported over 20 Peruvian undergraduates in gaining international research experience in nanotechnology.
Return to topEducation
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics and Nanotechnology/Solid State Physics), Purdue University, 2016
- B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National University of Engineering (UNI), Lima, Peru, 2007
Distinctions
- NSF CAREER Award, 2022-2027
- Scialog Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Quantum Materials and Information Award, 2026
- Scialog RCSA Fellow, 2025-2028
- Intel PhD Fellowship, 2012-2013
- APL Early Career Outstanding Presentation Award, 2023
- Best Student Presentation Award at the International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research, 2008
- Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2024
- Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship, 2013-2014
Areas of Expertise
- Quantum Materials Physics
- Topological Insulator Transport
- Exciton Dynamics Heterostructures
- Van der Waals Device Fabrication
- Acoustoelectric Carrier Modulation
- Strain-Driven Phase Transitions
- Berry Curvature Dipole Phenomena
Recent Publications
- T. J. McSorley, K. Simha, J. E. Corcoran, I. J. Catanzaro, H. Zhang, M. Yin, T.-M. Lu, D. Thuillier, M. A. Campbell, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, T. Scaffidi, L. A. Jauregui, “Dynamic Carrier Modulation via Nonlinear Acoustoelectric Transport in van der Waals Heterostructures” (opens in new tab), Nano Letters, vol. 25, pp. 14082, 2025.
- J. Liu, V. Subramanyan, R. Welser, T. McSorley, T. Ho, D. Graf, M. T. Pettes, A. Saxena, L. E. Winter, S.-Z. Lin, L. A. Jauregui, “Possible Spin-Triplet Exciton Insulator in the Ultraquantum Limit of HfTe₅” (opens in new tab), Physical Review Letters, vol. 135, pp. 046601, 2025.
- J. Liu, Y. Zhou, S. Yepez-Rodriguez, M. Delmont, R. Welser, T. Ho, N. Sirica, K. McClure, P. Vilmercati, J. W. Ziller, N. Mannella, J. Sanchez-Yamagishi, M. T. Pettes, R. Wu, L. A. Jauregui, “Controllable strain-driven topological phase transition and dominant surface-state transport in HfTe₅” (opens in new tab), Nature Communications, vol. 15, pp. 332, 2024.
- W. Moore, T. McSorley, L. A. Jauregui, W. Evans, “van der Waals Heterostructures Based on Nanolayered Paramagnetic Tm(II) Compounds and Boron Nitride for Investigating Spin Frustration” (opens in new tab), ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 6461, 2023.
- J. Tian, L. A. Jauregui, C. D. Wilen, A. F. Rigosi, D. B. Newell, R. McDermott, Y. P. Chen, “A Josephson junction with h-BN tunnel barrier: observation of low critical current noise” (opens in new tab), Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 33, pp. 495301, 2021.
- P. Sengupta, L. A. Jauregui, “Anomalous photo-thermal effects in multi-layered semi-Dirac black phosphorous” (opens in new tab), Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 130, pp. 054303, 2021.
- A. Y. Joe, L. A. Jauregui, K. Pistunova, A. M. Mier Valdivia, Z. Lu, D. S. Wild, G. Scuri, K. D. Greve, R. J. Gelly, Y. Zhou, J. Sung, A. Sushko, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, D. Smirnov, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, P. Kim, “Electrically controlled emission from singlet and triplet exciton species in atomically thin light-emitting diodes” (opens in new tab), Physical Review B, vol. 103, pp. L161411, 2021.
Most Cited Publications
- Q. Yu, L. A. Jauregui, W. Wu, R. Colby, J. Tian, Z. Su, H. Cao, Z. Liu, D. Pandey, D. Wei, T. F. Chung, P. Peng, N. P. Guisinger, E. A. Stach, J. Bao, S. S. Pei, Y. P. Chen, “Single-crystal Grains and Grain Boundaries in Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition” (opens in new tab), Nature Materials, vol. 10, pp. 443, 2011.
- L. A. Jauregui, A. Y. Joe, K. Pistunova, D. S. Wild, A. A. High, Y. Zhou, G. Scuri, K. D. Greve, A. Sushko, C-H Yu, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, D. Needleman, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, P. Kim, “Electrical control of interlayer exciton dynamics in atomically thin heterostructures” (opens in new tab), Science, vol. 366, pp. 870, 2019.
- I. Childres, L. A. Jauregui, J. Tian, Y. P. Chen, “Effect of oxygen plasma etching on graphene studied with Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport” (opens in new tab), New Journal of Physics, vol. 13, pp. 025008, 2011.
- H. Yang, L. A. Jauregui, G. Zhang, Y. P. Chen, Y. Wu, “Non-toxic and abundant Copper Zinc Tin Sulfide nanocrystals for potential high temperature thermoelectric energy harvesting” (opens in new tab), Nano Letters, vol. 12, pp. 540, 2012.
- Wu W., Jauregui L.A., Su Z., Liu Z., Bao J., Chen Y.P., Yu Q., “Growth of single crystal graphene arrays by locally controlling nucleation on polycrystalline Cu using chemical vapor deposition” (opens in new tab), Advanced Materials, vol. 23, pp. 4898-4903, 2011.
- I. Childres, L. A. Jauregui, M. Foxe, J. Tian, R. Jalilian, I. Jovanovic, Y. P. Chen, “Effect of electron-beam irradiation on graphene field effect devices” (opens in new tab), Applied Physics Letters, vol. 97, pp. 173109, 2010.
- W. Park, J. Hu, L. A. Jauregui, X. Ruan, Y. P. Chen, “Electrical and thermal conductivities of reduced graphene oxide/polystyrene composites” (opens in new tab), Applied Physics Letters, vol. 104, pp. 113101, 2014.
- L. A. Jauregui, M. T. Pettes, L. P. Rokhinson, L. Shi, Y. P. Chen, “Magnetic field induced helical mode and topological transitions in a topological insulator nanoribbon” (opens in new tab), Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 11, pp. 345, 2016.
- R. Jalilian, L. A. Jauregui, G. A. Lopez, J. Tian, C. Roecker, M. M. Yazdanpanah, R. W. Cohn, I. Jovanovic, Y. P. Chen, “Scanning Gate Microscopy on Graphene: Charge Inhomogeneity and Extrinsic Doping” (opens in new tab), Nanotechnology, vol. 22, pp. 295705, 2011.
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