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2023
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Optomechanical Generation of Coherent GHz Vibrations in a Phononic Waveguide
Madiot, G., Ng, R.C., Arregui, G., Florez, O., Albrechtsen, M., Stobbe, S., García, P.D. and Sotomayor-Torres, C.M., 2023. Optomechanical generation of coherent GHz vibrations in a phononic waveguide. Physical Review Letters, 130(10), p.106903. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.106903
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Cavity Optomechanics with Anderson-Localized Optical Modes
Arregui, G., Ng, R.C., Albrechtsen, M., Stobbe, S., Torres, C.M.S. and García, P.D., 2021. Cavity optomechanics with Anderson-localized optical modes. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 043802. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.043802
2022
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Chapter Fourteen - Electromechanical Brillouin scattering
Li, H., Florez, O., Pan, B., Madiot, G., Torres, C.M.S. and Li, M., 2022. Electromechanical Brillouin scattering. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.semsem.2022.05.007
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Comparison of Brillouin Light Scattering and Density of States in a Supported Layer: Analytical and Experimental Study
El Abouti, O., Cuffe, J., El Boudouti, E.H., Sotomayor Torres, C.M., Chavez-Angel, E., Djafari-Rouhani, B. and Alzina, F., 2022. Comparison of Brillouin Light Scattering and Density of States in a Supported Layer: Analytical and Experimental Study. Crystals, 12(9), p.1212. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst12091212
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Controlling the electrochemical hydrogen generation and storage in graphene oxide by in-situ Raman spectroscopy
Pinilla-Sánchez, A., Chávez-Angel, E., Murcia-López, S., Carretero, N.M., Palardonio, S.M., Xiao, P., Rueda-García, D., Torres, C.M.S., Gómez-Romero, P., Martorell, J. and Ros, C., 2022. Controlling the electrochemical hydrogen generation and storage in graphene oxide by in-situ Raman spectroscopy. Carbon, 200, pp.227-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2022.08.055
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Engineering nanoscale hypersonic phonon transport
Florez, O., Arregui, G., Albrechtsen, M., Ng, R.C., Gomis-Bresco, J., Stobbe, S., Sotomayor-Torres, C.M. and García, P.D., 2022. Engineering nanoscale hypersonic phonon transport. Nature Nanotechnology, 17(9), pp.947-951. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01178-1
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Excitation and detection of acoustic phonons in nanoscale systems
Ng, R.C., El Sachat, A., Cespedes, F., Poblet, M., Madiot, G., Jaramillo-Fernandez, J., Florez, O., Xiao, P., Sledzinska, M., Sotomayor-Torres, C.M. and Chavez-Angel, E., 2022. Excitation and detection of acoustic phonons in nanoscale systems. Nanoscale, 14(37), pp.13428-13451. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR04100F
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Exciton tuning and strain imaging in WS2 supported on PDMS micropillars
Sledzinska, M., Xiao, P., Puig Vilardell, E., Chávez Angel, E., Esplandiu, M.J. and Sotomayor Torres, C.M., 2022. Exciton tuning and strain imaging in WS2 supported on PDMS micropillars. Applied Physics Letters, 121(25), p.253101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0130927
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Thermal Properties of Nanocrystalline Silicon Nanobeams
Maire, J., Chávez‐Ángel, E., Arregui, G., Colombano, M.F., Capuj, N.E., Griol, A., Martínez, A., Navarro‐ Urrios, D., Ahopelto, J. and Sotomayor‐Torres, C.M., 2022. Thermal properties of nanocrystalline silicon nanobeams. Advanced Functional Materials, 32(4), p.2105767. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202105767
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Effect of crystallinity and film thickness on thermal transport in layered PtSe2
El Sachat A., Xiao P., Donadio D., Bonell F., Sledzinska M., Marty A., Vergnaud C., Boukari H., Jamet M., Arregui G., Chen Z., Alzina F., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Chavez-Angel E., NPJ 2D Mater. Appl., 6: 32, 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41699-022-00311-x
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Thermal Rectification and Thermal Logic Gates in Graded Alloy Semiconductors
Ng R.C., Castro-Alvarez A., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Chávez-Ángel E., Energies, 15:4685, 2022 DOI:10.3390/en15134685
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Spectroscopic and thermal characterization of extra virgin olive oil adulterated with edible oils
Chavez-Angel E., Puertas B., Kreuzer M., Soliva-Fortuny R., Ng R. C., Castro-Alvarez A. and Sotomayor Torres C.M., Foods, 11:1304, 2022 DOI: 10.3390/foods11091304
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Highly‐Scattering Cellulose‐Based Films for Radiative Cooling
Jaramillo-Fernandez, J., Yang, H., Schertel, L., Whitworth, G. L., Garcia, P. D., Vignolini, S., Sotomayor-Torres, C. M. Adv. Sci. 9:2104758, 2022 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202104758
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Thermal transport in silver-coated polymer sphere composites by the bidirectional 3ω method
Sandell S., Wang T., Chavez-Angel E., Kristiansen H., Zhang Z. and He J., J Appl. Phys. 131: 125107, 2022 DOI: 10.1063/5.0080682
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Observation of slow light in glide-symmetric photonic-crystal waveguides
Murendranath Patil C, Arregui G., Mechlenborg M., Zhou X., Alaeian H., García P.D, and Stobbe S., O Opt. Express, 30:12565, 2022 10.1364/OE.449221
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Introducing surface functionality on thermoformed polymeric films
Sáez-Comet C, Muntada O, Francone A., Lozano N., Fernandez-Regulez M., Puiggali J. Kehagias N., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Perez-Murano F, MNE, 14:100112, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.mne.2022.100112
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Heat dissipation in few-layer MoS2 and MoS2/hBN heterostructure
Arrighi A., Del Corro E., Navarro Urrios D., Costache M.V., Sierra J.F., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Garrido J.A., Valenzuela S.O., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Sledzinska M., 2D Mat, 9: 015005, 2022 DIO: 10.1088/2053-1583/ac2e51
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Unraveling Heat Transport and Dissipation in Suspended MoSe2 from Bulk to Monolayer
Saleta Reig D, Varghese S, Farris R, Block A, Mehew JD, Hellman O, Woźniak P, Sledzinska M, El Sachat A., Chávez‐Ángel E., Valenzuela SO, van Hulst N.F., Ordejón P, Zanolli P, Sotomayor Torres CM, Verstraete J, Tielrooij K.J. , Adv. Mater. 34: 2108352, 2022 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202108352
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Room-Temperature Silicon Platform for GHz-Frequency Nanoelectro-Opto-Mechanical Systems
Navarro-Urrios D, Colombano M.F., Arregui G., Madiot G., Pitanti A., Griol A., Makkonen T., Ahopelto J., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Martínez A. ACS Photonics, 9:413, 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.1c01614
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On the thermoelectric properties of Nb-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial thin films
Chatterjee A, Lan Z., Christensen D.V., Bauitti F. , Morata A., Chavez-Angel E., Sanna S., Castelli I. E., Chen Y., Tarancon A., Pryds N. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 24: 374, 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03679C
2021
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Review on Sol-Gel Synthesis of Perovskite and Oxide Nanomaterials
Navas D., Fuentes S., Castro-Alvarez A., Chavez-Angel E., Gels, 7: 275(2021), 10.3390/gels7040275
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Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Crystalline Layered SnSe2
Xiao P., Chavez-Angel E., Chaitoglou S., Sledzinska M., Dimoulas A., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and El Sachat A., Nano Lett, 21: 9172–9179(2021), 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03018
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Thermal properties of nanocrystalline silicon nanobeams
Maire J., Chavez-Angel E., Arregui G., Colombano M.F., Capuj N.E., Griol A., Martinez A., Navarro-Urrios D., Ahopelto J. and Sotomayor-Torres C.M., Adv Funct Mat, Accepted: 2105767(2021) 10.1002/adfm.202105767
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Antimicrobial activity testing methods for hydrophobic patterned surfaces
Perez-Gavilan A., de Castro J. V., Arana A., Merino S., Retolaza A., Alves S.A., Francone A., Kehagias N., Sotomayor-Torres CM, Cocina D, Mortera R, Crapanzano S, Pelegrín C, Garrigos MC, Jiménez A, Galindo B, Araque MC, Dykeman D, Neves MN and Marimón JM Sci Rep 11: 6675(2021) 10.1038/s41598-021-85995-9
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Construction of 0D/2D composites heterostructures of CdTe QDs/ZnO hybrid layers to improve environmental remediation by a direct Z-scheme,
Alegria M, Aliaga J, Jofre P, Ballesteros L, Guzman D, Sotomayor Torres CM, Gonzalez G and Benavente E, Cat Comm 159: 106352(2021), 10.1016/j.catcom.2021.106352
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Impact of surface topography on the antibacterial activity of patterned polymer films using nanoimprint lithography
Francone A, Merino S, Retolaza A, Ramiro J, Alves S, Vieira de Castro J, Neves NM, Arana A, Marimon JM, Pelegrín C, Garrigós MdC, Jiménez A, Sotomayor Torres CM and Kehagias N, Surf and Inter, 27, 101494 (2021), 10.1016/j.surfin.2021.101494
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Optomechanical crystals for spatial sensing of submicron sized particles
Navarro-Urrios D, Kang E, Xiao P, Colombano MF, Arregui G, Graczykowski B, Capuj NE, Sledzinska M, Sotomayor-Torres CM and Fytas G. Sci Rep 11: 7829(2021) 10.1038/s41598-021-87558-4
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Quantifying thermal transport in buried semiconductor nanostructures via cross-sectional scanning thermal microscopy
Spiece J, Charalambos E, Robson A, El-Sachat A, Haenel L, Alsonso MI, Garriga M, Robinson B, Oehme, M, Schulze J, Alzina F, Sotomayor Torres CM and Kosolev O Nanoscale 13: 10829-10836, 2021 10.1039/d0nr08768h
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Bottom-up development of nanoimprinted PLLA composite films with enhanced antibacterial properties for smart packaging applications,
Psochia E, Papadopoulos L, Gkiliopoulos DJ, Francone A, Grigora M-E, Tzetzis D, Vieira de Castro J, Neves NM,Triantafyllidis KS, Sotomayor Torres CM, Kehagias N, Bikiaris DN, Macromol 1:49-63, 2021, 10.3390/macromol1010005
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Simulations of Micro-sphere/shell 2D Silica Photonic Crystals for Radiative Cooling
Whitworth GL, Jaramillo Fernandez J, Pariente JA, Garcia PD, Blanco A, Lopez C and Sotomayor Torres CM, Opt Exp 29:16857-16866, 2021, 10.1364/OE.420989
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Electron beam lithography for direct patterning of MoS2 on PDMS substrates
Jumbert G, Placidi M, Alzina F, Sotomayor Torres CM and Sledzinska M, RSC Advances 11: 19908-19913, 2021, 10.1039/D1RA00885D
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Fabrication and characterization of large-area suspended MoSe2 crystals down to the monolayer
Varghese S., Saleta Reig D., Dudley Mehew J., Block A., El Sachat A., Chávez-Ángel E., Sledzinska M., Ballesteros B., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Tielrooij K. J. Phys. Mater. 4:046001, 2021. 10.1088/2515-7639/ac2060
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Understanding the Molecular Basis of 5-HT4 Receptor Partial Agonists through 3D-QSAR Studies
Castro-Alvarez A., Chávez-Ángel E. and Nelson R., Int. J. Mol. Sci., 22:3602 (2021) 10.3390/ijms22073602
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Heat transport control and thermal characterization of low-dimensional materials: A Review
El Sachat A., Alzina F., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Chavez-Angel E. Nanomaterials 11: 175, 2021 10.3390/nano11010175
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Injection locking in an optomechanical coherent phonon source
Arregui G., Colombano M.F., Maire J., Pitanti A., Capuj N.E., Griol A., Martínez A., Sotomayor-Torres C.M. and Navarro-Urrios D., Nanophotonics 10:1319-1327, 2021 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0592
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Quantifying the Robustness of Topological Slow Light
Arregui, G., Gomis-Bresco, J., Sotomayor-Torres, C. M., & García, P. D. Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 027403. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.027403
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Reversing the Humidity Response of MoS2- and WS2-Based Sensors Using Transition-Metal Salts
Xiao P, Mencarelli D., Chavez-Angel E., Hardly Joseph C, Cataldo A, Pierantoni L, Sotomayor Torres C.M., and Sledzinska M., ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13:23201–23209, 2021. 10.1021/acsami.1c03691
2020
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Layered Nanocomposite 2D-TiO2 with Cu2O Nanoparticles as an Efficient Photocatalyst for 4-Chlorophenol Degradation and Hydrogen Evolution
Alegría M., Aliaga J., Ballesteros L., Sotomayor Torres C.M., González G. and BenaventeE., Topics in Catalysis (2020), 10.1007/s11244-020-01360-6
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Properties of nanocrystalline silicon probed by optomechanics
Navarro-Urrios D., Colombano M.F., Maire J., Chávez-Ángel E., Arregui G., Capuj N.E., Devos A., Griol A., Bellieres L., Martínez A., Grigoras K., Häkkinen T., Saarilahti J., Makkonen T., Sotomayor-Torres C.M. and Ahopelto J., Nanophotonics 9: 4819–4829, 2020 10.1515/nanoph-2020-0489
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Large thermoelectric power variations in epitaxial thin films of layered perovskite GdBaCo2O5.5±δ with different preferred orientation and strain
Chatterjee A., Chavez-Angel E., Ballesteros B., Caicedo J.M., Padilla-Pantoja J., Leboran Alvarez V., Sotomayor Torres C. M., Rivadulla F. and Santiso J. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 8: 19975-19983(2020). 10.1039/D0TA04781C
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High-temperature silicon thermal diode and switch
Kasprzak M., Sledzinska M., Zaleski K., Iatsunskyi I., Alzina F., Volz S., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Graczykowski B. Nano Energy. 78:105261(2020) 10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.105261
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High-Frequency Mechanical Excitation of a Silicon Nanostring with Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Layers Pitanti A., Makkonen T., Colombano M.F., Zanotto S., Vicarelli L., Cecchini M., Griol A., Navarro-Urrios D., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Martinez A. and Ahopelto J. Phys. Rev. Applied 14: 014054, 2020, 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.14.014054
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Phonon Bridge Effect in Superlattices of Thermoelectric TiNiSn/HfNiSn With Controlled Interface Intermixing
Heinz S., Chavez Angel E., Trapp M., Kleebe H.J. and Jakob G. Nanomaterials 10 (6): 1239, 2020, 10.3390/nano10061239
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Nanoimprint lithography: A competitive fabrication technique towards nanodevices
Kam A.P. and Sotomayor Torres C.M., Chapter VI in: 3D Nanoelectronic Computer Architecture and Implementation, Edited by Crawley D., Nikolic K. and Forshaw M., 1st edition 2004, e-book 2020, Publisher CRC Press, Boca Raton, 10.1201/9780429150081-6
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Enhancement of Thermal Boundary Conductance of Metal–Polymer System
Sandell S., Maire J., Chávez-Ángel E., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Kristiansen H., Zhang Z. and He J., Nanomaterials, 10:670 (2020), 10.3390/nano10040670
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Fracturing of polycrystalline MoS2 nanofilms
Sledzinska M., Jumbert G., Placidi M., Arrighi A., Xiao P., Alzina F., Sotomayor Torres C.M., ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2:1169–1175(2020), 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00189
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Real-time Optical Dimensional Metrology via Diffractometry for Nanofabrication
Whitworth G.L., Francone A., Sotomayor-Torres C.M. and Kehagias N., Sci. Rep. 10:5371 (2020), 10.1038/s41598-020-61975-3
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Optomechanics of Chiral Dielectric Metasurfaces
Zanotto S., Tredicucci A., Navarro-Urrios D., Cecchini M., Biasiol G., Mencarelli D., Pierantoni L., and Pitanti A., Adv. Optical Mater. 8:1901507 (2020), 10.1002/adom.201901507
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Broadband Dynamic Polarization Conversion in Optomechanical Metasurfaces
Zanotto S., Colombano M., Navarro-Urrios D., Biasiol G., Sotomayor-Torres C.M., Tredicucci A. and Pitanti A., Front. Phys. 7:231 (2020), 10.3389/fphy.2019.00231
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Ion bombardment induced formation of self-organized wafer-scale GaInP nanopillar assemblies
Visser D., Jaramillo-Fernandez J., Haddad G., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Anand S., J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 38: 012801 (2020), 10.1116/1.5127265
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Graphene related materials for thermal management
Fu Y., Hansson J., Liu Y., Chen S., Zehri A., Samani M. K., Wang N., Ni Y., Zhang Y., Zhang Z.-B., Wang Q., Li M., Lu H., Sledzinska M., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Volz S., Balandin A.A., Xu X. and Liu J., 2D Mater. 7: 012001 (2020), 10.1088/2053-1583/ab48d9
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Nanoscale mapping of thermal and mechanical properties of bare and metal-covered self-assembled block copolymer thin films
El Sachat A., Spièce J., Evangeli C., Robson A.J., Kreuzer M., Chavez E., Rodríguez-Laguna M.R., Sledzinska M., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Kolosov O.V. and Alzina F., ACS Appl. Polym. Mater 2: 487-496 (2020), 10.1021/acsapm.9b00924
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2D Phononic Crystals: Progress and Prospects in Hypersound and Thermal Transport Engineering
Sledzinska M., Graczykowski B., Maire J., Chavez-Angel E., Sotomayor Torres C.M. and Alzina F., Adv. Funct. Mater. 30: 1904434 (2020), 10.1002/adfm.201904434