Biography
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Electronic and structural properties of the matter at nanoscale: quantum properties of materials, quantum phase transitions, superconductivity, charge density waves, electronic correlations, 2D-materials, quantum confinement, nanostructures.
• Experimental Techniques: Scanning Probe Microscopy and Spectroscopy, very low temperatures, ultrahigh vacuum.
Courses Taught
Number | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
PHYS 4091 | Undergraduate Research | Undergraduate |
PHYS 8702 | Solid State Physics | Graduate |
Selected Publications
Recent
Lechner, E., Oli, B., Makita, J., Ciovati, G., Gurevich, A., & Iavarone, M. (2020). Electron Tunneling and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of the Superconducting Properties of Nitrogen-Doped Niobium Resonator Cavities. Physical Review Applied, 13(4). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.044044.
Trainer, D., Wang, B., Bobba, F., Samuelson, N., Xi, X., Zasadzinski, J., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2020). Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Monolayer MoS
2 . ACS Nano, 14(3), 2718-2728. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07475.Trainer, D., Zhang, Y., Bobba, F., Xi, X., Hla, S., & Iavarone, M. (2019). The Effects of Atomic-Scale Strain Relaxation on the Electronic Properties of Monolayer MoS
2 . ACS Nano, 13(7), 8284-8291. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.9b03652.Giorgio, C.D., Scarfato, A., Longobardi, M., Bobba, F., Iavarone, M., Novosad, V., Karapetrov, G., & Cucolo, A. (2019). Quantitative magnetic force microscopy using calibration on superconducting flux quanta. Nanotechnology, 30(31). doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab1a4d.
Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Wang, B., Lane, C., Saari, T., Chang, T., Jeng, H., Lin, H., Xi, X., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2019). Moiré superlattices and 2D electronic properties of graphite/MoS
2 heterostructures. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 128, 325-330. doi: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2017.10.034.Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Vadimov, V., Trainer, D., Lechner, E., Curtis, J., Abdel-Hafiez, M., Volkova, O., Vasiliev, A., Chareev, D., Karapetrov, G., Koshelev, A., Aladyshkin, A., Mel'Nikov, A., & Iavarone, M. (2019). Vortex-core properties and vortex-lattice transformation in FeSe. Physical Review B, 99(14). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.99.144514.
Precner, M., Polaković, T., Qiao, Q., Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Cone, I., Zhu, Y., Xi, X., Iavarone, M., & Karapetrov, G. (2018). Evolution of Metastable Defects and Its Effect on the Electronic Properties of MoS
2 Films. Scientific Reports, 8(1). doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-24913-y.Precner, M., Polaković, T., Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Cone, I., Xi, X., Iavarone, M., & Karapetrov, G. (2018). Metastable defects in monolayer and few-layer films of MoS
2 . AIP Conference Proceedings, 2005. doi: 10.1063/1.5050721.Chareev, D., Ovchenkov, Y., Shvanskaya, L., Kovalskii, A., Abdel-Hafiez, M., Trainer, D., Lechner, E., Iavarone, M., Volkova, O., & Vasiliev, A. (2018). Single crystal growth, transport and scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of FeSe
1-x Sx . CrystEngComm, 20(17), 2449-2454. doi: 10.1039/c8ce00074c.Qiao, Q., Zhou, S., Tao, J., Zheng, J., Wu, L., Ciocys, S., Iavarone, M., Srolovitz, D., Karapetrov, G., & Zhu, Y. (2017). Anisotropic charge density wave in layered 1T-TiS e2. Physical Review Materials, 1(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.1.054002.
Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Saari, T., Wang, B., Wolak, M., Chandrasena, R., Lane, C., Chang, T., Jeng, H., Lin, H., Kronast, F., Gray, A., Xi, X., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2017). Erratum: Inter-Layer Coupling Induced Valence Band Edge Shift in Mono- to Few-Layer MoS
2 . Scientific Reports, 7, 42619. doi: 10.1038/srep42619.Giorgio, C., Putilov, A., Trainer, D., Volkova, O., Vasiliev, A., Chareev, D., Karapetrov, G., Zasadzinski, J., & Iavarone, M. (2017). Anisotropic Superconducting Gaps and Boson Mode in FeSe
1−x Sx Single Crystals. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 30(3), 763-768. doi: 10.1007/s10948-016-3644-6.Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Saari, T., Wang, B., Wolak, M., Chandrasena, R., Lane, C., Chang, T., Jeng, H., Lin, H., Kronast, F., Gray, A., Xi, X., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2017). Inter-Layer Coupling Induced Valence Band Edge Shift in Mono- to Few-Layer MoS 2. Scientific Reports, 7. doi: 10.1038/srep40559.
Iavarone, M. & Forster, D. 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in physics presented to Charles L. Kane, Ph.D., Eugene J. Mele, Ph.D. and Shoucheng Zhang, Ph.D JOURNAL of the FRANKLIN INSTITUTE-ENGINEERING and APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 354(1), 76-80. 10.1016/j.jfranklin.2015.05.013
Giorgio, C.D., D'Agostino, D., Cucolo, A., Iavarone, M., Scarfato, A., Karapetrov, G., Moore, S., Polichetti, M., Mancusi, D., & Pace, S. (2022). Superconducting Vortex‐Antivortex Pairs: Nucleation and Confinement in Magnetically Coupled Superconductor‐Ferromagnet Hybrids. In Vortex Dynamics and Optical Vortices. InTech.