Luis A. Jauregui

Assistant Professor, Director of the Irvine Quantum Materials Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of California at Irvine

affiliated, Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Biography

Luis A. Jauregui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, where he also serves as the Director of the Irvine Quantum Materials Center. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2016, specializing in Microelectronics and Nanotechnology/Solid State Physics under the supervision of Yong P. Chen. Before joining UC Irvine in 2019, Jauregui was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University, collaborating with Philip Kim, Hongkun Park, Mikhail Lukin, and Federico Capasso.

Jauregui's research is centered on the electronic properties of topological materials and nanostructures, with a focus on graphene and topological insulators. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, including works published in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Materials, and Physical Review Letters, and has an h-index of 33 with more than 8,000 citations. His research has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award (2022-2027). He has also received the APL Early Career Outstanding Presentation Award in 2023 and the Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 2024.

At UC Irvine, Jauregui is involved in both teaching and research mentorship. He teaches courses in physics and mentors both graduate and undergraduate students, including underrepresented groups in STEM. He is the founder of the Quantum Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (QUROP) in collaboration with the Eddleman Quantum Institute, which funds summer research opportunities for students. Additionally, he has contributed to the development of a quantum-based teaching laboratory used by over 100 students annually. Jauregui also serves the professional community as a reviewer for various scientific proposals and journals.

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Degrees

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics and Nanotechnology/Solid State Physics), Purdue University, 2016
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National University of Engineering (UNI), 2007

Distinctions

Outstanding Faculty Award for Undergraduate Teaching, 2024
APL Early Career Outstanding Presentation Award, 2023
NSF CAREER Award, 2022
Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship, 2013
Intel PhD Fellowship, 2012
Best Student Presentation Award at the International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2008
Selected among top-students from UNI to work as a fully funded senior undergraduate research assistant at TAMU, 2006

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Areas of Expertise

Quantum Materials Physics
Graphene and Topological Insulators
Electron Transport in Nano-devices
Van der Waals Heterostructures
Spintronics
Exciton Dynamics
Nanophotonics
Thermoelectric Applications
Biosensing Applications
DNA-based Molecular Devices

Recent Publications

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”, Nature Communications, vol. 15, pp. 332, 2024.
L. Chen, A. Wu, N. Tulu, J. Wang, A. Juanson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. T. Pettes, M. Campbell, C. A. Gadre, Y. Zhou, H. Chen, P. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, R. Wu, X. Pan, J. Sanchez-Yamagishi, “Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials”, Nature Materials, vol. 23, pp. 741, 2024.
A. Y. Joe, A. M. Valdivia, L. A. Jauregui, K. Pistunova, D. Ding, Y. Zhou, G. Scuri, K. D. Greve, A. Sushko, B. Kim, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. C. Hone, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, P. Kim, “Controlled Interlayer Exciton Ionization in an Electrostatic Trap in Atomically Thin Heterostructures”, Nature Communications, vol. 15, pp. 6743, 2024.
A. Y. Joe, K. Pistunova, K. Kaasbjerg, K. Wang, B. Kim, D. A. Rhodes, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, J. Hone, T. Low, L. A. Jauregui, P. Kim, “Transport Study of Charge-Carrier Scattering in Monolayer WSe2”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 132, pp. 056303, 2024.
S. Yepez-Rodriguez, M. A. Campbell, J. Liu, L. A. Jauregui, “Rydberg exciton states and near-infrared light-emitting diode in MoTe2 devices”, Nano Letters, 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”, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 6461, 2023.
T. I. Andersen, G. Scuri, A. Sushko, K. D. Greve, J. Sung, Y. Zhou, D. S. Wild, R. J. Gelly, H. Heo, D. Berube, A. Y. Joe, L. A. Jauregui, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Kim, H. Park, M. D. Lukin, “Excitons in a Reconstructed Moire Potential in Twisted WSe2/Wse2 Homobilayers”, Nature Materials, vol. 20, pp. 480, 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”, Phys. Rev. B, vol. 103, pp. L161411, 2021.
P. Sengupta, L. A. Jauregui, “Anomalous photo-thermal effects in multi-layered semi-Dirac black phosphorous”, J. of Appl. Phys., vol. 130, pp. 054303, 2021.
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”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 33, pp. 495301, 2021.
K. Chaudhary, M. Tamagnone, X. Yin, C. M. Spagele, S. L. Oscurato, J. Li, C. Persch, R. Li, N. A. Rubin, L. A. Jauregui, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Kim, M. Wuttig, J. H. Edgar, A. Ambrosio, F. Capasso, “Polariton nanophotonics using phase change materials”, Nature Communications, vol. 10, pp. 4487, 2019.
A. Dibos, Y. Zhou, L. A. Jauregui, G. Scuri, D. S. Wild, A. A. High, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. D. Lukin, P. Kim, H. Park, “Electrically tunable exciton-plasmon coupling in a WSe2 monolayer embedded in a plasmonic crystal cavity”, Nano Letters, vol. 19, pp. 3543, 2019.
Yin X., Spägele C.M., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Oscurato S.L., Li J., Li R., Rubin N., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Edgar J.H., Ambrosio A., Capasso F., “Reconfigurable mid-infrared optical elements using phase change materials”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F127-CLEO_AT 2019, 2019.
Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Yin X., Spagele C., Li J., Oscurato S., Rubin N.A., Jauregui L., Kim P., Edgar J.H., Ambrosio A., Capasso F., “Polariton Meta-Optics with Phase-Change Materials”, 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2019 - Proceedings, 2019.
Yin X., Spagele C.M., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Oscurato S.L., Li J., Li R., Rubin N., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Edgar J.H., Ambrosio A., Capasso F., “Reconfigurable mid-infrared optical elements using phase change materials”, 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2019 - Proceedings, 2019.
Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Yin X., Spagele C., Li J., Oscurato S., Rubin N.A., Jauregui L., Kim P., Edgar J.H., Ambrosio A., Capasso F., “Polariton meta-optics with phase-change materials”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F128-CLEO_QELS 2019, 2019.
K. Wang, K. D. Greve, L. A. Jauregui, A. Sushko, A. A. High, Y. Zhu, G. Scuri, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, P. Kim, “Electrical control of charged carriers and excitons in atomically thin materials”, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 13, pp. 128, 2018.
M. Tamagnone, A. Ambrosio, K. Chaudhary, L. A. Jauregui, P. Kim, W. L. Wilson, F. Capasso, “Ultra-confined mid-infrared resonant phonon polaritons in van der Waals nanostructures”, Science Advances, vol. 4, pp. 6, 2018.
A. Ambrosio, M. Tamagnone, K. Chaudhary, L. A. Jauregui, P. Kim, W. L. Wilson, F. Capasso, “Selective excitation and imaging of ultraslow phonon polaritons thin hexagonal nitride crystals”, Light: Science and Applications, pp. 27, 2018.
L. A. Jauregui, M. Kayyalha, A. Kazsakov, I. Miotkowski, L. P. Rokhinson, Y. P. Chen, “Gate-tunable supercurrent and multiple Andreev reflections in a superconductor-topological insulator nanoribbon-superconductor hybrid device”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 112, pp. 093105, 2018.
D. Wintz, K. Chaudhary, K. Wang, L. A. Jauregui, A. Ambrosio, A. Y. Zhu, R. C. Devlin, M. Tamagnone, J. D. Crossno, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Kim, F. Capasso, “Guided modes of anisotropic van der Waals materials investigated by near-field scanning optical microscopy”, ACS Photonics, vol. 5, pp. 4, 2018.
Ambrosio A., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Wilson W.L., Capasso F., “Imaging of Ultra-Confined Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Gold”, 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2018 - Proceedings, 2018.
Ambrosio A., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Wilson W., Capasso F., “New Nano-Photonics Based on vdW Materials”, 2018 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, CLEO-PR 2018, 2018.
Ambrosio A., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Wilson W., Capasso F., “New nano-photonics based on vdW materials”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F113-CLEOPR 2018, 2018.
Ambrosio A., Tamagnone M., Chaudhary K., Jauregui L.A., Kim P., Wilson W.L., Capasso F., “Imaging of ultra-confined phonon polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride on gold”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F93-CLEO_QELS 2018, 2018.
A. Ambrosio, L. A. Jauregui, S. Dai, K. Chaudhary, M. Tamagnone, M. Fogler, D. N. Basov, F. Capasso, P. Kim, W. L. Wilson, “Mechanical detection and imaging of hyperbolic phonon polaritons in hexagonal Boron Nitride”, ACS Nano, vol. 11, pp. 8741, 2017.
Jauregui L.A., Kim P., “2D materials: Curved paths of electron-hole pairs”, Nature Materials, vol. 16, pp. 1169-1170, 2017.
L. A. Jauregui, P. Kim, “Curved path of electron and hole pairs in atomically thin semiconductors”, Nature Materials, vol. 16, pp. 1169, 2017.
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”, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 11, pp. 345, 2016.
L. A. Jauregui, M. T. Pettes, L. P. Rokhinson, L. Shi, Y. P. Chen, “Gate Tunable Relativistic Mass and Weak-localization Transition in Topological Insulator Surface State Dirac Fermion Transport”, Scientific Reports, vol. 5, pp. 8452, 2015.
F. W. Chen, L. A. Jauregui, Y. Tan, M. Manfra, Y. P. Chen, G. Klimeck, T. Kubis, “In-surface confinement of topological insulator nanowire surface states”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 107, pp. 121605, 2015.
W. Park, J. Hu, L. A. Jauregui, X. Ruan, Y. P. Chen, “Electrical and thermal conductivities of reduced graphene oxide/polystyrene composites”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 104, pp. 113101, 2014.
I. Childres, L. A. Jauregui, Y. P. Chen, “Raman spectra and electron-phonon coupling in disordered graphene with gate-tunable doping”, J. Appl. Phys., vol. 116, pp. 233101, 2014.
Jauregui L.A., Pettes M.T., Shi L., Chen Y.P., “Topological surface state transport and current saturation in topological insulator nanoribbons field effect transistors”, Device Research Conference - Conference Digest, DRC, pp. 167-168, 2014.
R. He, T. F. Chung, C. Delaney, C. Keiser, L. A. Jauregui, P. M. Shand, C. C. Chancey, Y. Wang, J. Bao, Y. P. Chen, “Observation of Low Energy Raman Modes in Twisted Bilayer Graphene”, Nano Letters, vol. 13, pp. 3594, 2013.
T. F. Chung, T. Shen, H. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, W. Wu, Q. Yu, D. Newell, Y. P. Chen, “Synthetic Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition on Copper Foils”, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, vol. 27, no. 10, 2013.
G. Zhang, H. Fang, H. Yang, L. A. Jauregui, Y. P. Chen, Y. Wu, “Design Principle of Telluride-based Nanowire Heterostructures for Potential Thermoelectric Applications”, Nano Letters, vol. 12, pp. 3627, 2012.
R. Jalilian, L. A. Jauregui, K. Lee, Y. P. Chen, J. Irudayaraj, “Chapter 6: “Graphene for Biosensing Applications””, Biomedical Nanosensors, Pan Stanford, 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”, Advanced Materials, vol. 23, pp. 4898-4903, 2011.
Jauregui L.A., Cao H., Wu W., Yu Q., Chen Y.P., “Electronic properties of grains and grain boundaries in graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition”, Solid State Communications, vol. 151, pp. 1100-1104, 2011.
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”, Nanotechnology, vol. 22, pp. 295705, 2011.
Wu, L. A. Jauregui, Z. Su, Z. Liu, Bao, Y. P. Chen, Q. Yu, “Growth of Single Crystal Graphene Arrays”, Advanced Materials, vol. 42, pp. 4898, 2011.
L. A. Jauregui, H. Cao, W. Wu, Q. Yu, Y. P. Chen, “Electronic properties of chemically vapor deposited graphene grains and grain boundaries”, Solid State Communications, vol. 151, no. 16, 2011.
H. Cao, Q. Yu, L. A. Jauregui, J. Tian, W. Wu, Z. Liu, R. Jalilian, D. K. Benjamin, Z. Jiang, J. Bao, S. S. Pei, Y. P. Chen, “Electronic Transport in Chemical Vapor Deposited Graphene Synthesized on Cu: Quantum Hall Effect and Weak Localization”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 96, pp. 122106, 2010.
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”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 97, pp. 173109, 2010.
L. A. Jauregui, Y. Yue, A. N. Sidorov, J. Hu, Q. Yu, G. A. Lopez, R. Jalilian, D. K. Benjamin, D. A. Delk, W. Wu, Z. Liu, X. Wang, Z. Jiang, X. Ruan, J. Bao, S. S. Pei, Y. P. Chen, “Thermal Transport in Graphene Nanostructures: Experiments and Simulations”, ECS Transactions, vol. 28, pp. 73, 2010. Presented at 217th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting,
J. Tian, L. A. Jauregui, G. A. Lopez, H. Cao, Y. P. Chen, “Ambipolar Graphene Field Effect Transistors by Local Metal Side Gates”, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 96, pp. 263110, 2010.
Cao H., Yu Q., Jauregui L.A., Tian J., Wu W., Liu Z., Jalilian R., Benjamin D.K., Jiang Z., Bao J., Pei S.S., Chen Y.P., “Erratum: Electronic transport in chemical vapor deposited graphene synthesized on Cu: Quantum Hall effect and weak localization (Appl. Phys. Lett. (2010) 96 (122106))”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 96, 2010.
K. Salazar-Salinas, L. A. Jauregui, C. Kubli-Garfias, J. M. Seminario, “Molecular biosensor based on a coordinated iron complex”, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 130, pp. 105101, 2009.
L. A. Jauregui, K. Salazar-Salinas, J. M. Seminario, “Transverse Electronic Transport in Double-Stranded DNA Nucleotides”, J. Phys. Chem. B, vol. 113, pp. 6230, 2009.
D. Pandey, G. Prakash, Q. Yu, H. Cao, L. A. Jauregui, S. S. Pei, Y. P. Chen, “Surface Microscopy Characterizations of Large Size Graphene Films Grown by Surface Segregation on Ni and Transferred to Si/SiO2 Substrate”, ECS Transactions, vol. 19, pp. 75, 2009. Presented at 215th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting,
L. A. Jauregui, H. Lu, J. Lou, Y. P. Chen, “Towards NEMS fluid sensors based on suspended nanomaterials”, MRS Proceedings, vol. 1222, pp. DD05-31, 2009. Presented at Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting of 2009,
L. A. Jauregui, J. M. Seminario, “A DNA sensor for sequencing and mismatches based on electron transport through Watson-Crick and non-Watson-Crick base pairs”, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 8, pp. 803, 2008.
S. Hong, L. A. Jauregui, N. L. Rangel, H. Cao, S. Day, M. L. Norton, A. S. Sinitskii, J. M. Seminario, “Impedance measurements on a DNA junction”, J. Chem. Phys., vol. 128, pp. 201103, 2008.
L. A. Jauregui, J. Seminario, “Transversal Characteristics of DNA devices”, pp. 725-728, 2008. Presented at Nanotechnology, 2008. Nano-08. 8th IEEE Conference on, 18-21 Aug. 2008.

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Most Cited Publications

Q. Yu, L. A. Jauregui, W. Wu, R. Colby, J. Tian, Z. Su, H. Z. Liu, 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”, Nature Materials, vol. 10, pp. 443, 2011.
I. Childres, L. A. Jauregui, W. Park, H. Cao, Y. P. Chen, “Chapter 19: “Raman Spectroscopy of Graphene and Related Materials””, New Developments in Photon and Materials Research, Nova Publishers, 2013.
“Electrical control of interlayer exciton dynamics atomically thin heterostructures”, Science, vol. 366, pp. 870, 2019.
Y. Zhou, G. Scuri, D. S. Wild, A. A. High, A. Dibos, L. A. Jauregui, C. Shu, K. D. Greve, K. Pistunova, A. Y. Joe, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, P. Kim, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, “Probing dark excitons in atomically thin semiconductors via near-field coupling to surface plasmon polaritons”, Nature Nanotechnology, vol. 12, pp. 856, 2017.
G. Zhang, B. Kirk, L. A. Jauregui, X. Xu, Y. P. Chen, Y. Wu, “Rational Synthesis of Ultrathin n-type Bi2Te3 Nanowires with Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties”, Nano Letters, vol. 12, pp. 56, 2012.
W. Wu, Z. Liu, L. A. Jauregui, Q. Yu, R. Pillai, H. Cao, J. Bao, Y. P. Chen, S. S. Pei, “Wafer-scale Synthesis of Graphene by Chemical Vapor Deposition and its Application in Gas Sensing”, Sensors and Actuators B, vol. 150, pp. 296, 2010.
X. Cui, E. M. Shih, L. A. Jauregui, S. Chae, Y. D. Kim, B. Li, D. Seo, K. Pistunova, J. Ying, J. H. Park, Y. H. Lee, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Kim, C. Dean, J. Hone, “Low-temperature ohmic contact to monolayer MoS2 by van der Waals bonded Co/h-BN electrodes”, Nano Letters, vol. 17, pp. 4781, 2017.
I. Childres, L. A. Jauregui, J. Tian, Y. P. Chen, “Effect of oxygen plasma etching on graphene studied with Raman spectroscopy and electronic transport”, New J. Phys., vol. 13, pp. 025008, 2011.
H. 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”, Nano Letters, vol. 12, pp. 540, 2012.
G. Scuri, Y. Zhou, A. A. High, D. S. Wild, C. Shu, K. D. Greve, L. A. Jauregui, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, P. Kim, M. D. Lukin, H. Park, “Large Excitonic Reflectivity of Monolayer MoSe2 Encapsulated in Hexagonal Boron Nitride”, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 120, pp. 037402, 2018.

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Contact Information

Website: https://www.physics.uci.edu/people/Luis-A-Jauregui

Email: lajaure1@uci.edu

Phone: (949)824-5943

Address: 210D Rowland Hall, The University of California, Irvine, CA 92697

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