Frank Ceballos


Frank Ceballos
  • Fall 2012-Spring 2017
  • Data Engineer, Exxon mobil Corp.

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Selected Publications

Publications as a group member:

First-author publications

1. F. Ceballos, P. Zereshki, and H. Zhao, Separating Electrons and Holes by Monolayer Increments in van der Waals Heterostructures, Physical Review Materials 1, 044001 (2017).

2. F. Ceballos, M.-G. Ju, S. D. Lane, X. C. Zeng, and H. Zhao, Highly Efficient and Anomalous Charge Transfer in van der Waals Trilayer Semiconductors, Nano Letters 17, 1623–1628 (2017).

3. F. Ceballos and H. Zhao, Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene (Feature Article), Advanced Functional Materials 27, 1604509 (2017).

4. F. Ceballos, Q. Cui, M. Z. Bellus, and H. Zhao, Exciton Formation in Monolayer of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Nanoscale 8, 11681–11688 (2016).

5. F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Probing Charge Transfer Excitons in a MoSe2-WS2 van der Waals Heterostructure, Nanoscale 7, 17523–17528 (2015).

6. F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast charge separation and indirect exciton formation in a MoS2-MoSe2 van der Waals heterostructure, ACS Nano 8, 12717 (2014).

Other-author publications

7. P. Zereshki, Y. Wei, F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, S. D. Lane, S. Pan, R. Long, and H. Zhao, Photocarrier Dynamics in Monolayer Phosphorene and Bulk Black Phosphorus, Nanoscale 10, 11307–11313 (2018).

8. Y. Li, Q. Cui, F. Ceballos, S. D. Lane, Z. Qi, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast Interlayer Electron Transfer in Incommensurate Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Homo-bilayers, Nano Letters 17, 6661 (2017).

9. X. Li, A. A. Puretzky, X. Sang, S. KC, M. Tian, F. Ceballos, M. Mahjouri-Samani, K. Wang, R. R. Unocic, H. Zhao, C. M. Rouleau, D. B. Geohegan, K. Xiao, Suppression of Defects and Deep Levels Using Isoelectronic Tungsten Alloying in Monolayer MoSe2, Advanced Functional Materials 27, 1603805 (2017).

10. M. Z. Bellus, M. Li, S. D. Lane, F. Ceballos, Q. Cui, X. C. Zeng, and H. Zhao, Type-I van der Waals heterostructure Formed by MoS2 and ReS2 Monolayers, Nanoscale Horizons 2, 31–36 (2017).

11. S. Pan, F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, P. Zereshki, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast Charge Transfer between MoTe2 and MoS2 Monolayers, 2D Materials 4, 015033 (2016).

12. K. Wang, B. Huang, M. Tian, F. Ceballos, M.-W. Lin, M. Mahjouri-Samani, A. Boulesbaa, A. Puretzky, C. Rouleau, M. Yoon, H. Zhao, K. Xiao, G. Duscher, and D. Geohegan, Interlayer Coupling in Twisted WSe2/WS2 Bilayer Heterostructures Revealed by Optical Spectroscopy, ACS Nano 10, 6612–6622 (2016).

13. J. He, D. He, Y. Wang, Q. Cui, F. Ceballos, and H. Zhao, Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Excitons in Monolayer and Bulk WS2, Nanoscale 7, 9526 (2015).

14. Q. Cui, F. Ceballos, N. Kumar, and H. Zhao, Transient absorption microscopy of monolayer and bulk WSe2, ACS Nano 8, 2970 (2014).

15. N. Kumar, Q. Cui, F. Ceballos, D. W. He, Y. S. Wang, and H. Zhao, Exciton diffusion in monolayer and bulk MoSe2, Nanoscale 6, 4915 (2014).

16. N. Kumar, Q. Cui, F. Ceballos, D. W. He, Y. S. Wang, and H. Zhao, Exciton-exciton annihilation in monolayer MoSe2, Physical Review B 89, 125427 (2014).