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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
  • 2011 - David Turnbull Lectureship, Materials Research Society
  • 2003 - Irving Langmuir Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Phaedon Avouris is a researcher affiliated with IBM in the United States. Their work primarily spans the intersection of materials science, engineering, and physics and astronomy, with a focus on atomic and molecular physics, optics, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's research topics include plasmonic and surface plasmon research, 2D materials and applications, mechanical and optical resonators, thermal radiation and cooling technologies, metamaterials and metasurfaces applications, quantum mechanics and non-Hermitian physics, and gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications.

They have authored a number of papers with notable recent publications including:

  • Bandgap engineering of two-dimensional semiconductor materials (2020) published in npj 2D Materials and Applications
  • Nanophotonic biosensors harnessing van der Waals materials (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • Planar hyperbolic polaritons in 2D van der Waals materials (2024) published in Nature Communications
  • Twisted Two-Dimensional Material Stacks for Polarization Optics (2022) published in Physical Review Letters
  • Accessing the Exceptional Points in a Graphene Plasmon-Vibrational Mode Coupled System (2021) published in ACS Photonics

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Tony Low, Sang-Hyun Oh, Michael S. Strano, L. Martín-Moreno, and Steven J. Koester.

Avouris has contributed to several respected publication venues across their career. The most frequent publication venues include Advanced Electronic Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, arXiv (Cornell University), and npj 2D Materials and Applications.

Over the course of their career, Phaedon Avouris has been recognized with a series of awards and honors. These include election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017), Fellowships with the Materials Research Society (2012), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1996). They have also received the David Turnbull Lectureship from the Materials Research Society (2011) and the Irving Langmuir Award from the American Chemical Society (2003).

Best Publications

  • Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

    R. Martel;T. Schmidt;H. R. Shea;T. Hertel

  • Photodetectors based on graphene, other two-dimensional materials and hybrid systems

    F. H. L. Koppens;T. Mueller;Ph. Avouris;A. C. Ferrari

  • Ultrafast graphene photodetector

    Fengnian Xia;Thomas Mueller;Yu-ming Lin;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • 100-GHz Transistors from Wafer-Scale Epitaxial Graphene

    Y.-M. Lin;C. Dimitrakopoulos;K. A. Jenkins;D. B. Farmer

  • Graphene photodetectors for high-speed optical communications

    Thomas Mueller;Fengnian Xia;Phaedon Avouris

  • Engineering Carbon Nanotubes and Nanotube Circuits Using Electrical Breakdown

    Philip G. Collins;Michael S. Arnold;Phaedon Avouris

  • Carbon-based electronics.

    Phaedon Avouris;Zhihong Chen;Vasili Perebeinos

  • Graphene nano-ribbon electronics

    Zhihong Chen;Yu-Ming Lin;Michael J. Rooks;Phaedon Avouris

  • Graphene: electronic and photonic properties and devices.

    Phaedon Avouris

  • Carbon nanotubes as schottky barrier transistors.

    S. Heinze;J. Tersoff;R. Martel;V. Derycke

  • Carbon Nanotube Inter- and Intramolecular Logic Gates

    V. Derycke;R. Martel;J. Appenzeller;Ph. Avouris

  • Graphene field-effect transistors with high on/off current ratio and large transport band gap at room temperature.

    Fengnian Xia;Damon B. Farmer;Yu-ming Lin;Phaedon Avouris

  • Graphene plasmonics for terahertz to mid-infrared applications

    Tony Low;Phaedon Avouris

  • Nanotubes for electronics.

    Philip G. Collins;Phaedon Avouris

  • Field-Effect Transistors Based on Single Semiconducting Oxide Nanobelts

    Michael S. Arnold;Phaedon Avouris;Zheng Wei Pan;Zhong L. Wang

  • Carbon-nanotube photonics and optoelectronics

    Phaedon Avouris;Marcus Freitag;Vasili Perebeinos

  • Tunable infrared plasmonic devices using graphene/insulator stacks

    Hugen Yan;Xuesong Li;Bhupesh Chandra;George Tulevski

  • Operation of Graphene Transistors at Gigahertz Frequencies

    Yu-Ming Lin;Keith A. Jenkins;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Joshua P. Small

  • Operation of Graphene Transistors at GHz Frequencies

    Yu-Ming Lin;Keith A. Jenkins;Alberto Valdes-Garcia;Joshua P. Small

  • Molecular Electronics with Carbon Nanotubes

    Phaedon Avouris

  • Carbon nanotube electronics

    P. Avouris;J. Appenzeller;R. Martel;S.J. Wind

Frequent Co-Authors

Yu-Ming Lin
Yu-Ming Lin Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Taiwan)
Richard Martel
Richard Martel University of Montreal
Joerg Appenzeller
Joerg Appenzeller Purdue University West Lafayette
Damon B. Farmer
Damon B. Farmer IBM (United States)
Vasili Perebeinos
Vasili Perebeinos University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Fengnian Xia
Fengnian Xia Yale University
Marcus Freitag
Marcus Freitag IBM (United States)
Tony Low
Tony Low University of Minnesota
Wenjuan Zhu
Wenjuan Zhu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zhihong Chen
Zhihong Chen Purdue University West Lafayette

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