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Joe Lab end of year dinner
The Joe lab celebrates the end of the quarter with a group dinner!
Publication: Electrically Controlled Interlayer Trion Fluid in Electron-Hole Bilayers

Prof. Joe’s study on electrically controlled interlayer trions has ben published in Science!

Welcome new lab members!

Two new graduate students join the group. Welcome to Mona Rezavand and Daniel Torres!

Juan presents his poster at the RISE/MARC symposium

Juan Arreola presents his summer research poster at the RISE/MARC symposium!

The Joe Lab is funded by the Academic Senate's Regents Faculty Fellowship

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 summer lab members!

Welcome to our UCR RISE undergraduate, Juan, and two Crafton Hills College students, Noemi and Jorge!

Prof. Joe is selected as a Scialog Fellow

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).

Student awards: Congratulations to Vanessa, Louis, and Juan

Congratulations to Vanessa Kwong, Louis Lin, and Juan Arreola for winning end-of-year undergraduate Physics department awards!

Publication: Perfect Coulomb Drag and Exciton Transport in an Excitonic Insulator

Prof. Joe’s study on optically detecting perfect Coulomb drag of interlayer excitons is published in Science!

Welcome to Qiao Li

Welcome to our new postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Qiao Li!

Louis is funded for his UCR Mini-Grant: Automated Exfoliation Machine for Producing Two-dimensional, van der Waals Materials

Louis has been funded for a UCR Mini-Grant to build and test his auto-exfoliation machine for 2D materials. Congratulations!

The Joe Lab is funded by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund

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

Joe Lab end of year dinner
The Joe lab celebrates the end of the quarter with a group dinner!
Cal-State University San Bernardino Visit Day

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

Vanessa is selected for STR program

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

Welcome summer lab members!

We welcome summer undergraduate researchers Harit, Lucas, Martin, and Mariah!

Joe Lab group outing

We had our first group outing to Lake Arrowhead!

Cryostat installation complete!

We have our new Attodry 2100 installation complete!

Welcome new lab members!

Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Louis and Federico!

Publication: Transport Study of Charge-Carrier Scattering in Monolayer WSe$_2$

Our transport study on charge-carrier scattering in monolayer WSe$_2$ is published in Physical Review Letters!

Welcome new lab members!

Two new undergraduate students join the group. Welcome to Daniel Bartolome and Christan Jin!

Publication: Thermodynamic behavior of correlated electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures

A paper studying electron-hole fluids in van der Waals heterostructures from work at UC Berkeley is published in Nature Communications!

Welcome new lab members!

Two new students join the group. Welcome to Hongyu Yao, a graduate student, and Vanessa Kwong, an undergraduate student!

Welcome new lab members!

Our first graduate students, S.M. Umayer and Zhihan Wu, join the group. Welcome!

The Joe Lab website launches

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!