Adriana Isabel Figueroa Garcia

Lecturer Professor

Scopus Author ID: 36005413800

Researcher ID: B-7161-2011

Knowledge area: Física de la Matèria Condensada

Contact Information
Department of Condensed Matter Physics
Facultat de Física I Química Universitat de Barcelona Carrer de Martí i Franquès, 1
660953779
aifigueroa(a)ub.edu

Academic training

Ingeniera Física . Universidad del Cauca . 13/08/2008 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctora en Física . Universidad de Zaragoza . 19/10/2012 . (Ph.D.)

Master en Física y Tecnologías Físicas . Universidad de Zaragoza . 24/07/2009 . (Official Master)

Research interests

Magnetic characterization of nanomaterials

Advanced characterization of nanomaterials

Structural characterization of nanomaterials

Nanomaterials

Spintronics

Participation in projects

Dissipationless topological channels for information transfer and quantum metrology- TOCHA . 2019 - 2023 . Ref.824140 . EU, H2020 . PI: Sergio Valenzuela

Electronics and spintronics of topological insulator/magnetic insulator heterostructures- ESTIMA . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.796925 . Marie SklodowskaCurie Individual Fellowship H2020 . PI: Adriana Figueroa

THESPIN - Terahertz emitters with spintronic devices . 2020 - 2021 . Fundació Institut de Ciència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) . PI: Adriana Figueroa

THESPIN - Terahertz emitters with spintronic devices . 2020 - 2021 . Ref.SO_SC1B_01 . Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia . PI: Adriana Isabel Figueroa Garcia

Journal Publications

Lopes, J. Marcelo J.; Czubak, Dietmar; Zallo, Eugenio; Figueroa, Adriana, I; Guillemard, Charles; Valvidares, Manuel; Rubio-Zuazo, Juan; Lopez-Sanchez, Jesus; Valenzuela, Sergio O.; Hanke, Michael; Ramsteiner, Manfred (2021). Large-Area van der Waals epitaxy and magnetic characterization of Fe3GeTe2 films on graphene. 2D Materials, 8(4), p. 041001 . https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac171d . ISSN: 2053-1583

Figueroa, A., I; Bonell, F.; Cuxart, M. G.; Valvidares, M.; Gargiani, P.; van der Laan, G.; Mugarza, A.; Valenzuela, S. O. (2020). Absence of magnetic proximity effect at the interface of Bi₂Se₃ and (Bi, Sb)₂Te₃ with EuS. Physical Review Letters, 125(22), p. 226801 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.226801 . ISSN: 0031-9007

Figueroa, A. I.; Hesjedal, T.; Steinke, N. -J. (2020). Magnetic order in 3D topological insulators-Wishful thinking or gateway to emergent quantum effects?. Applied Physics Letters, 117(15), p. 150502 . https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0027987 . ISSN: 0003-6951

Frédéric Bonell; Minori Goto; Guillaume Sauthier; Juan F. Sierra; Adriana I. Figueroa; Marius V. Costache; Shinji Miwa; Yoshishige Suzuki; and Sergio O. Valenzuela (2020). Control of spin-orbit torques by interface engineering in topological insulator heterostructures. Nano Letters, 20(8), pp. 5893 - 5899 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01850 . ISSN: 1530-6984

Feliciano Giustino; Jin Hong Lee, Felix Trier, Manuel Bibes, Stephen M Winter, Roser Valentí, Young-Woo Son, Louis Taillefer, Christoph Heil, Adriana I Figueroa, Bernard Plaçais, QuanSheng Wu, Oleg V Yazyev, Erik P A M Bakkers, Jesper Nygård, Pol Forn-Díaz, Silvano De Franceschi, J W McIver, L E F Foa Torres, Tony Low, Anshuman Kumar, Regina Galceran, Sergio O Valenzuela, Marius V Costache, Aurélien Manchon, Eun-Ah Kim, Gabriel R Schleder, Adalberto Fazzio and Stephan Roche (2021). The 2021 quantum materials roadmap. Journal of Physics: Materials, 3(4), p. 042006 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2515-7639