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Andras Kis

EPFL STI IEL LANES
BM 2141 (Bâtiment BM)
Station 17
1015 Lausanne

EPFL STI IMX-GE
BM 2141 (Bâtiment BM)
Station 17
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Nanotechnology
Nanoelectronics
Nanofabrication
Nanomechanics
Nanomanipulation
AFM, TEM, SEM
2022 - Full professor, EPFL, STI, Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL) and Materials Science and Engineering Institute (IMX)
2015 - 2022 Associate professor, EPFL, STI, Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL) and Materials Science and Engineering Institute (IMX)
2008 - 2015 Tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL, School of Engineering (STI), Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEL)
2004 - 2007 Postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, Physics Department in the group of Prof. Zettl
2000 - 2003 PhD student at EPFL, Faculty of basic sciences, Institute of physics of complex matter, group of Prof. Forró
1994 - 1999 MS, Physics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
1994 Baccalaureate, MIOC (Mathematical and Informational Educational Center) high school

Editor-in-Chief

Publication summary

Awards

Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for emerging technologies

IEEE

2024

Fellowship to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

2022

Selected publications

Single-layer MoS2 transistors

B. Radisavljevic, A. Radenovic, J. Brivio, V. Giacometti, A. Kis
Published in Nature Nanotechnology 6, 147 (2011); Featured on the cover and in the News and views in

Ultrasensitive photodetectors based on monolayer MoS2

O. Lopez-Sanchez, D. Lembke, M. Kayci, A. Radenovic, and A. Kis
Published in Nature Nanotechnology 8, 497-501, 2013. in

Room-temperature electrical control of exciton flux in a van der Waals heterostructure

D. Unuchek, A. Ciarrocchi, A. Avsar, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Kis.
Published in Nature 560, 340–344 (2018) in

Defect Induced, Layer-Modulated Magnetism in Ultrathin Metallic PtSe2

A. Avsar, A. Ciarrocchi, M. Pizzochero, D. Unuchek, O. V. Yazyev, A. Kis
Published in Nature Nanotechnology 14, 674 (2019) in

Polarization Switching and Electrical Control of Interlayer Excitons in Two-Dimensional van Der Waals Heterostructures

A. Ciarrocchi, D. Unuchek, A. Avsar, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. Kis
Published in Nature Photonics 13, 131–136 (2019) in

Teaching & PhD

Current Phd

Giuseppe Ferraro, Lukas Pott, Federico Bertocco, Eloi Collette, Asmund Kjellegaard Ottesen, Riccardo Chiesa, Cristian De Giorgio, Simone Di Stasi, Andra Felicia Gabriela Iacob

Past Phd As Director

Mohamed Malik Benameur, Branimir Radisavljevic, Jacopo Brivio, Dominik Sebastian Lembke, Simone Bertolazzi, Oriol López Sánchez, Daria Krasnozhon, Ming-Wei Chen, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Sajedeh Manzeli, Yen-Cheng Kung, Kolyo Marinov, Dmitrii Unuchek, Alberto Ciarrocchi, Yanfei Zhao, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Fedele Tagarelli, Zhenyu Wang, Gabriele Pasquale, Edoardo Lopriore

Past Phd As Codirector

Arash Alahgholipour Omrani, Francesca Volpetti

Courses

Lab in nanoelectronics

EE-490(i)

Students will work in the laboratory and the EPFL CMI cleanroom on a process flow for fabricating devices based on 2D semiconductors.

Physical models for micro and nanosystems

EE-536

Students will learn simple theoretical models, the theoretical background of finite element modeling as well as its application to modeling charge, mass and heat transport in electronic, fluidic and electromechanical micro and nanosystem.

Semiconductor devices II

EE-567

Students will learn about understanding the fundamentals and applications of emerging nanoscale devices, materials and concepts. Remark: at least 5 students should be enrolled for the course to be given

Teaching courses