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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For experimental studies of unconventional superconductors, heavy fermion materials, and frustrated magnetic systems

Overview

Luis Balicas is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics explored in their body of work include:

  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Iron-Based Superconductors Research
  • Advanced Condensed Matter Physics
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
  • Magnetic Properties of Thin Films

Frequent publication venues for Balicas include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Nature Communications
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Nano

Some of the notable recent papers by Luis Balicas are:

  • "Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The Magnetic Genome of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials," 2022, ACS Nano
  • "Evidence of a room-temperature quantum spin Hall edge state in a higher-order topological insulator," 2022, Nature Materials
  • "Giant and Reversible Barocaloric Effect in Trinuclear Spin-Crossover Complex Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6," 2021, Advanced Materials
  • "Enhanced Superconductivity in Monolayer Td-MoTe2," 2021, Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors working alongside Balicas include Brian Casas, Maksim Litskevich, Md Shafayat Hossain, Tyler A. Cochran, and Xiàn Yáng.

Throughout their career, Luis Balicas has received recognition including:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2012, with a citation for experimental studies of unconventional superconductors, heavy fermion materials, and frustrated magnetic systems

Best Publications

  • Atomic layers of hybridized boron nitride and graphene domains

    Lijie Ci;Li Song;Chuanhong Jin;Deep Jariwala;Deep Jariwala

  • Superconductivity at 250 K in lanthanum hydride under high pressures

    A. P. Drozdov;P. P. Kong;V. S. Minkov;S. P. Besedin

  • Controlled synthesis and transfer of large-area WS2 sheets: from single layer to few layers.

    Ana Laura Elías;Néstor Perea-López;Andrés Castro-Beltrán;Andrés Castro-Beltrán;Ayse Berkdemir

  • Electron pockets in the Fermi surface of hole-doped high-Tc superconductors.

    David LeBoeuf;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;Julien Levallois;R. Daou

  • New First Order Raman-active Modes in Few Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

    H. Terrones;E. Del Corro;S. Feng;J. M. Poumirol

  • An ultrafast symmetry switch in a Weyl semimetal.

    Edbert J. Sie;Clara M. Nyby;C. D. Pemmaraju;Su Ji Park

  • One-pot growth of two-dimensional lateral heterostructures via sequential edge-epitaxy

    Prasana K. Sahoo;Shahriar Memaran;Yan Xin;Luis Balicas

  • Superconductivity up to 243 K in the yttrium-hydrogen system under high pressure.

    Panpan Kong;Vasily S. Minkov;Mikhail A. Kuzovnikov;Alexander P. Drozdov

  • Surface electronic structure of the topological Kondo-insulator candidate correlated electron system SmB6.

    M. Neupane;N. Alidoust;S. Y. Xu;T. Kondo

  • Small anisotropy, weak thermal fluctuations, and high field superconductivity in Co-doped iron pnictide Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2

    A. Yamamoto;J. Jaroszynski;C. Tarantini;L. Balicas

  • Field-effect transistors based on few-layered α-MoTe2

    Nihar R. Pradhan;Daniel Rhodes;Simin Feng;Yan Xin

  • A coherent three-dimensional Fermi surface in a high-transition-temperature superconductor

    NE Hussey;M Abdel-Jawad;Antony Carrington;AP Mackenzie

  • Metallic Spin-Liquid Behavior of the Geometrically Frustrated Kondo Lattice Pr 2 Ir 2 O 7

    S. Nakatsuji;Y. Machida;Y. Maeno;T. Tayama

  • Upper critical fields and thermally-activated transport of NdFeAsO 0.7 F 0.3 single crystal

    J. Jaroszynski;F. Hunte;L. Balicas;Youn-jung Jo

  • Field-Effect Transistors Based on Few-Layered alpha-MoTe_2

    Nihar R. Pradhan;Daniel Rhodes;Simin Feng;Yan Xin

  • Superconductivity and quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion system |[beta]|-YbAlB4

    S. Nakatsuji;K. Kuga;K. Kuga;Y. Machida;T. Tayama

  • Linear temperature dependence of resistivity and change in the Fermi surface at the pseudogap critical point of|[nbsp]|a|[nbsp]|high-Tc superconductor

    R. Daou;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;David LeBoeuf;S. Y. Li

  • Dimensional reduction at a quantum critical point

    S. E. Sebastian;N. Harrison;C. D. Batista;L. Balicas

  • Lifshitz critical point in the cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3Oy from high-field Hall effect measurements

    David LeBoeuf;Nicolas Doiron-Leyraud;B. Vignolle;Mike Sutherland

  • Artificially stacked atomic layers: toward new van der Waals solids

    Guanhui H. Gao;Wei Gao;E. Cannuccia;Jaime Taha-Tijerina

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Rhodes
Daniel Rhodes Columbia University
Theo Siegrist
Theo Siegrist Florida A&M University - Florida State University College of Engineering
Mauricio Terrones
Mauricio Terrones Pennsylvania State University
Nicholas M. Harrison
Nicholas M. Harrison Imperial College London
Zachary Fisk
Zachary Fisk University of California, Irvine
Madoka Tokumoto
Madoka Tokumoto National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Saikat Talapatra
Saikat Talapatra Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Pulickel M. Ajayan
Pulickel M. Ajayan Rice University
Simin Feng
Simin Feng Tsinghua University
Humberto Terrones
Humberto Terrones Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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