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Lau Chit Siong Aaron

Lau Chit Siong Aaron

Adjunct Assistant Professor
EMAIL
chitsiong_lau
sutd.edu.sg
RESEARCH AREAS
Physics
Technology and Design

Biography

Lau Chit Siong Aaron is an experimental scientist who engineers and studies next-generation quantum materials and devices. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2012 with a Bachelor of Science (Physics), first class honors, before receiving the A*STAR Graduate Scholarship to pursue his PhD at the University of Oxford. There, he worked on quantum transport through graphene-based single-molecule electronics. He returned to A*STAR IMRE in 2017, where he is now working on atomically thin materials for quantum applications. He has received the Career Development Award, MTC Young Individual Research Grant, and MTC Individual Research Grant as a principal investigator to develop novel fabrication strategies for 2D materials toward quantum technological applications. In his spare time, he reads and partakes in the following subjects and activities: physics, quantum technology, traveling, gardening, cycling, and most sports involving teams chasing after a ball.
Education
  • University of Oxford, DPhil in Materials
  • National University of Singapore, Bachelor of Science (Physics), First class honours
Research Interests

Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Technologies, Two-Dimensional Materials, Single-Molecule Electronics
Awards
  • A*STAR Graduate Scholarship
  • Oxford Hetherington Prize
  • Career Development Award
  • MTC Young Individual Research Grant YIRG
  • MTC Individual Research Grant IRG
Selected Publications
  • Talha-Dean, Y. Tarn, S. Mukherjee, J. W. John, D. Huang, I. A. Verzhbitskiy, D. Venkatakrishnarao, S. Das, R. Lee, A. Mishra, S. Wang, Y.S. Ang, K.E.J. Goh,C. S. Lau*, ‘Nano-ironing van der Waals Heterostructures Towards Electrically Controlled Quantum Dots’,ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,16, 24, 31738–31746 (2024)
  • Feng,C. S. Lau, S.-J. Liang, C. H. Lee, S. A. Yang, Y. S. Ang, ‘Half-Valley Ohmic Contact: Contact-Limited Valley-Contrasting Current Injection’,Advanced Functional Materials, 2309848 (2023).
  •  C.S. Lau*, S. Das, D. Huang, Y. Zhang, I. Verzhbitskiy, T. Talha-Dean, W. Fu, D. Venkatakrishnarao, K.E.J. Goh, ‘Dielectrics for Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Applications,ACS Nano17, 11, 9870-99005 (2023).
  • Zhang, D. Venkatakrishnarao, M. Bosman, W. Fu, S. Das, F. Bussolotti, R. Lee, S.L. Teo, D. Huang, I. Verzhbitskiy, Z.J. Jiang, Z.L. Jiang, J.W. Chai, S.W. Tong, Z.E. Ooi, C.P.Y. Wong, Y.S. Ang, K.E.J. Goh, C.S. Lau*, ‘Liquid-Metal-Printed Ultrathin Oxides for Atomically Smooth 2D Material Heterostructures’,ACS Nano 17(8), 79229-7939 (2023).
  • Niu, S. Sopp, A. Lodi, A. Gee, F. Kong, T. Pei, P. Gehring, J. Naegele,C.S. Lau, J. Ma, J. Liu, A. Narita, J.A. Mol, M. Burghard, G.A.D. Briggs, K. Müllen, Y. Mai, X. Feng, L. Bogani, ‘Exceptionally-Clean Electronic Transport in Molecular Graphene Nanoribbons with Enhanced Solubility’,Nature Materials22, 180-185 (2023)
  • C.S. Lau, J.Y. Chee, L. Cao, Z.E. Ooi, S.W. Tong, M. Bosman, F. Bussolotti, T. Deng, G. Wu, S.W. Yang, T. Wang, S.L. Teo, C.P.Y. Wong, J.W. Chai, L.Chen, Z.M. Zhang, K.W. Ang, Y.S. Ang, K.E.J. Goh, ‘Gate-Defined Quantum Confinement in CVD 2D WS2’,Advanced Materials34, 25, 2103907 (2022)
  • C.S. Lau, J.Y. Chee, Y.S. Ang, S.W. Tong, L. Cao, Z.E. Ooi, T. Wang, L.K. Ang, Y. Wang, M. Chhowalla, K.E.J. Goh, ‘Quantum Transport in Two-Dimensional WS2with High-Efficiency Carrier Injection through Indium Alloy Contacts’,ACS Nano14, 10, 13700-13708 (2020)
  • Y.Q. Huan, Y. Liu, K.E.J. Goh, S.L. Wong,C.S. Lau*, ‘Deep learning-enabled prediction of 2D material breakdown’, Nanotechnology 32, 26, 265203 (2021)
  • Kotekar-Patil, J. Deng, S.L. Wong,C.S. Lau, K.E.J. Goh, ‘Single Layer MoS2Nanoribbon Field Effect Transistor’, Applied Physics Letters 114, 1, 013508 (2019)
  • Tan, W. Xu, Y. Sheng,C.S. Lau, Y. Fan, Q. Chen, M. Tweedie, X. Wang, Y. Zhou, J.H. Warner,’ Lateral Graphene‐Contacted Vertically Stacked WS2/MoS2Hybrid Photodetectors with Large Gain’, Advanced Materials 29, 46, 1702917 (2017)
  • J.W. Chai, S.W. Tong, C. Li, C. Manzano, B. Li, Y. Liu, M. Lin, L. Wong, J. Cheng, J. Wu,C.S. Lau, Q. Xie, S.J. Pennycook, H. Medina, M. Yang, S.J. Wang, D. Chi, ‘MoS2/Polymer Heterostructures Enabling Stable Resistive Switching and Multistate Randomness’, Advanced Materials 32, 42, 2002704 (2020)
  • J.A. Mol*,C.S. Lau*(co-first), W.J.M. Lewis, H. Sadeghi, C. Roche, A. Cnossen, J.H. Warner, C.J. Lambert, H.L. Anderson, G.A.D. Briggs, ‘Graphene-Porphyrin Single-Molecule Transistors’,Nanoscale7, 31, 13181-13185 (2015)
  • Sadeghi, J.A. Mol,C.S. Lau, G.A.D. Briggs, J.H. Warner, C.J. Lambert, ‘Conductance Enlargement in Picoscale Electroburnt Graphene Nanojunctions’,Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 9, 2658-2663 (2015)
  •  C.S. Lau,J.A. Mol, J.H. Warner, G.A.D. Briggs, ‘Nanoscale Control of Graphene Electrodes’,Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics16, 38, 20398-20401 (2014)
  • C.S. Lau, H. Sadeghi, G. Rogers, S. Sangtarash, P. Dallas, K. Porfyrakis, J.H. Warner, C.J. Lambert, G.A.D. Briggs, J.A. Mol, ‘Redox-Dependent Franck–Condon Blockade and Avalanche Transport in a Graphene–Fullerene Single-Molecule Transistor’,Nano Letters16, 1, 170-176 (2016)
  • K.E.J. Goh, F. Bussolotti,C.S. Lau, D. Kotekar-Patil, Z.E. Ooi, J.Y. Chee, ’Toward Valley-Coupled Spin Qubits’,Advanced Quantum Technologies3, 1900123 (2020)