Prof. Joe’s study on electrically controlled interlayer trions has ben published in Science!
Two new graduate students join the group. Welcome to Mona Rezavand and Daniel Torres!
Juan Arreola presents his summer research poster at the RISE/MARC symposium!
The Joe Lab has been funded by the Committee on Research of the Riverside Division of the Academic Senate to pursue studies on TMD heterostructures!
Welcome to our UCR RISE undergraduate, Juan, and two Crafton Hills College students, Noemi and Jorge!
Prof. Joe is selected as a Scialog Fellow for Quantum Matter and Information and will participate in Quantum Matter and Information Scialog meeting hosted by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
Congratulations to Vanessa Kwong, Louis Lin, and Juan Arreola for winning end-of-year undergraduate Physics department awards!
Prof. Joe’s study on optically detecting perfect Coulomb drag of interlayer excitons is published in Science!
Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Qiao Li!
Louis has been funded for a UCR Mini-Grant to build and test his auto-exfoliation machine for 2D materials. Congratulations!
The Joe lab has been funded by the American Chemical Society’s Petroleum Research fund!
Link to the UCR news article: https://insideucr.ucr.edu/awards/2025/01/15/acs-funding-supports-research-photocatalytic-applications
Andy hosts physics undergraduates from Cal-State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) for a visit day of the condensed matter experimental labs at UCR.
Link to Physics Department News article: https://www.physics.ucr.edu/news/2024/10/23/cal-state-university-san-bernardino-visit-day
Congratulations to Vanessa Kwong for being selected to participate in the prestigious Students Transforming Through Research (STR) Program!
Check out the UCR News article: https://insideucr.ucr.edu/awards/2024/10/16/ucr-team-participate-national-undergraduate-research-program
Our study on controlled interlayer exciton ionization is published in Nature Communications!
We welcome summer undergraduate researchers Harit, Lucas, Martin, and Mariah!
We had our first group outing to Lake Arrowhead!
We have our new Attodry 2100 installation complete!
Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Louis and Federico!
Our transport study on charge-carrier scattering in monolayer WSe$_2$ is published in Physical Review Letters!
Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Daniel Bartolome and Christan Jin!
A paper studying electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures from work at UC Berkeley is published in Nature Communications!
Two new students join the group. Welcome to Hongyu Yao, a graduate student, and Vanessa Kwong, an undergraduate student!
Our first graduate students, S.M. Umayer and Zhihan Wu, join the group. Welcome!
The Joe Lab website launches and we begin our search to build the lab! Interested students and postdocs should check out the Contact page and reach out!