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*, 鈥楴ano-ironing van der Waals Heterostructures Towards Electrically Controlled Quantum Dots鈥,ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces,16, 24, 31738鈥31746 (2024)
- Feng,C. S. Lau, S.-J. Liang, C. H. Lee, S. A. Yang, Y. S. Ang, 鈥楬alf-Valley Ohmic Contact: Contact-Limited Valley-Contrasting Current Injection鈥,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, 鈥楧ielectrics 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*, 鈥楲iquid-Metal-Printed Ultrathin Oxides for Atomically Smooth 2D Material Heterostructures鈥,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. M眉llen, Y. Mai, X. Feng, L. Bogani, 鈥楨xceptionally-Clean Electronic Transport in Molecular Graphene Nanoribbons with Enhanced Solubility鈥,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, 鈥楪ate-Defined Quantum Confinement in CVD 2D WS2鈥,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, 鈥楺uantum Transport in Two-Dimensional WS2with High-Efficiency Carrier Injection through Indium Alloy Contacts鈥,ACS Nano14, 10, 13700-13708 (2020)
- Y.Q. Huan, Y. Liu, K.E.J. Goh, S.L. Wong,C.S. Lau*, 鈥楧eep learning-enabled prediction of 2D material breakdown鈥, Nanotechnology 32, 26, 265203 (2021)
- Kotekar-Patil, J. Deng, S.L. Wong,C.S. Lau, K.E.J. Goh, 鈥楽ingle Layer MoS2Nanoribbon Field Effect Transistor鈥, 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,鈥 Lateral Graphene鈥怌ontacted Vertically Stacked WS2/MoS2Hybrid Photodetectors with Large Gain鈥, 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, 鈥楳oS2/Polymer Heterostructures Enabling Stable Resistive Switching and Multistate Randomness鈥, 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, 鈥楪raphene-Porphyrin Single-Molecule Transistors鈥,Nanoscale7, 31, 13181-13185 (2015)
- Sadeghi, J.A. Mol,C.S. Lau, G.A.D. Briggs, J.H. Warner, C.J. Lambert, 鈥楥onductance Enlargement in Picoscale Electroburnt Graphene Nanojunctions鈥,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, 鈥楴anoscale Control of Graphene Electrodes鈥,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, 鈥楻edox-Dependent Franck鈥揅ondon Blockade and Avalanche Transport in a Graphene鈥揊ullerene Single-Molecule Transistor鈥,Nano Letters16, 1, 170-176 (2016)
- K.E.J. Goh, F. Bussolotti,C.S. Lau, D. Kotekar-Patil, Z.E. Ooi, J.Y. Chee, 鈥橳oward Valley-Coupled Spin Qubits鈥,Advanced Quantum Technologies3, 1900123 (2020)