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Tenure Track Assistant Professor STI IEL LANES

Andras Kis Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures birth date: 01.11.1975 web site: http://lanes.epfl.ch office(s): BM2141 phone(s): [+41 21 69] 33925,31161 Curriculum vitae Link with CV How to reach me Map with directions EDUCATION 2004-2007 Postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley in the group of Prof. Zettl 2000-2003 PhD student of prof. Forró at EPFL, School of basic sciences, Institut de physique de la matiere complexe 1999 Diploma thesis on the subject of the development of microcalorimetric measurements and the measurements of heat capacity of (TaSe4)2I 1994-1999 Physics department at the University of Zagreb, experimental and theoretical solid-state physics 1994 baccalaureate, MIOC high school AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS 2009 ERC Starting Grant (1.8 Mill. Eur) 2004 Latsis Foundation University Prize (25000 CHF) 2003 Fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation 1997 Scholarship of the University of Zagreb 1997 Rector's award for the best student work in the academic year 1996/97 for the best student paper "Application of hierarchical models on the thermal relaxation in SDW systems" 1994 Participation on the 25th International Physics Olympiad in Beijing All publications Total of 26 peer-reviewed papers with 944 citations (36 per paper) and h-factor 14. (December 2011) Full list from infoscience MAIN PUBLICATIONS Single-layer MoS2 transistors, B. Radisavljevic, A. Radenovic, J. Brivio, V. Giacometti, A. Kis, Nature Nanotechnology, 6, 147 (2011); Featured on the cover and in the News and views Integrated circuits and logic operations based on single-layer MoS2, B. Radisavljevic, M.B. Whitwick, A. Kis, ACS Nano (2011), DOI: 10.1021/nn203715c Ripples and Layers in Ultrathin MoS2 Membranes, J. Brivio, D. T. L. Alexander, A. Kis, Nano Letters (2011) DOI: 10.1021/nl2022288; Highlighted in Nature Stretching and Breaking of Ultrathin MoS2, S. Bertolazzi, J. Brivio, A. Kis, ACS Nano (2011), DOI: 10.1021/nn203879f Visibility of dichalcogenide nanolayers, M. M. Benameur, B. Radisavljevic, J. S. Heron, S. Sahoo, H. Berger, A. Kis, Nanotechnology, 22, 125706 (2011) Interlayer Forces and Ultralow Sliding Friction in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes, A. Kis, K. Jensen, S. Aloni, W. Mickelson, A. Zettl, Physical Review Letters 97, 025501 (2006) Reinforcement of single-walled nanotube bundles by intertube bridging, A. Kis, G. Csanyi, J.-P. Salvetat, Lee, Thien-Nga E. Couteau, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoit, J. Brugger, L. Forró, Nature Materials 3, 153 (2004) A Cell Nanoinjector Based on Carbon Nanotubes, Xing Chen, Andras Kis, Alex Zettl Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 8218 (2007). Imaging the life story of nanotube devices, T. D. Yuzvinsky, W. Mickelson, S. Aloni, S. L. Konsek, A. M. Fennimore, G. E. Begtrup, A. Kis, B. C. Regan A. Zettl, Applied Physics Letters 87, 083103 (2005) Nanomechanics of microtubules, A. Kis, S. Kasas, B. Babic, A. J. Kulik, W. Benoît, G.A.D. Briggs, C. Schönenberger, S. Catsicas, L. Forró, Physical Review Letters 89, 248101 (2002)

Skills Nanotechnology Nanoelectronics Nanofabrication Nanomechanics Nanomanipulation AFM, TEM, SEM Teaching Electrical and Electronics Engineering Physical models for micro and nanosystems [en] (SEL) Phd programs Microsystems and Microelectronics Physics (edoc) Electrical Engineering Materials Science and Engineering (edoc) Phd Students Alahgholipour Omrani Arash Benameur Mohamed Bertolazzi Simone Brivio Jacopo Kostiuchenko Zinaida Krasnozhon Daria Lembke Dominik Sebastian Radisavljevic Branimir Researcher ID