Pavel Valencia-Acuna

Publications as a group member:

First-author publications

1. P. Valencia-Acuna, S. Amos, H. Peelaers, and H. Zhao, Energy-valley-dependent charge transfer in few-layer transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures, Physical Review B 108, 085302 (2023).

2. P. Valencia-Acuna, F. Rudayni, K. Rijal, W. L. Chan, and H. Zhao, Hybrid heterostructures to generate long-lived and mobile photocarriers in graphene, ACS Nano 17, 3939–3947 (2023).

3. P. Valencia-Acuna, T. R. Kafle, P. Zereshki, H. Peelaers, W.-L. Chan, and H. Zhao, Transient Ultrafast Hole Transfer from Monolayer ReS2 to Thin-Film F8ZnPc, Applied Physics Letters 118, 153104 (2021).

4. P. Valencia-Acuna, P. Zereshki, M. M. Tavakoli, J.-H. Park, J. Kong, and H. Zhao, Transient absorption of transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers studied by a photodope-pump-probe technique, Physical Review B 102, 035414 (2020).

Other-author publications

5. R. J. Scott, N. Fuller, A. Sadanandan, P. Valencia-Acuna, W.-L. Chan, Q. Zhou, and H. Zhao, Long-Lived Charge-Transfer Excitons in a Graphene-PTCDI-TiOPc Trilayer Heterostructure, Journal of Physical Chemistry C 129, 6882–6889 (2025).

6. N. Fuller, F. Rudayni, S. Amos, K. Rijal, S. A. Maroufian, P. Valencia-Acuna, H. Zhao, H. Peelaers, Q. Zhou, W.-L. Chan, Modulation of Electrostatic Potential in 2D Crystal Engineered by an Array of Alternating Molecular Dipoles, Nano Letters 24, 10258–10264 (2024).

7. R. J. Scott, P. Valencia-Acuna, and H. Zhao, Spatiotemporal Observation of Quasi-Ballistic Transport of Electrons in Graphene, ACS Nano 17, 25368–25376 (2023).

8. K. Rijal, S. Amos, P. Valencia-Acuna, F. Rudayni, N. Fuller, H. Zhao, H. Peelaers, and W. L. Chan, Nanoscale Periodic Trapping Sites for Interlayer Excitons Built by Deformable Molecular Crystal on 2D Crystal, ACS Nano 17, 7775–7786 (2023).

9. S. Pan, P. Valencia-Acuna, W. Kong, J. Liu, X. Ge, W. Xie, and H. Zhao, Efficient interlayer electron transfer in a MoTe2/WS2/MoS2 trilayer heterostructure, Applied Physics Letters 118, 253106 (2021).

10. P. Zereshki, P. Valencia-Acuna, and H. Zhao, All-Optical Control of Charge Transfer and Interlayer Excitons in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures, Physical Review B 103, 165416 (2021).

11. T. Zheng, P. Valencia-Acuna, P. Zereshki, K. Beech, L. Deng, Z. Ni, and H. Zhao, Thickness dependent interlayer charge transfer in MoSe2/MoS2 heterostructures studied by femtosecond transient absorption measurements, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13, 6489–6495 (2021).

12. T. Zheng, Y.-C. Lin, Y. Yu, P. Valencia-Acuna, A. A. Puretzky, R. Torsi, C. Liu, I. N. Ivanov, G. Duscher, D. B. Geohegan, Z. Ni, K. Xiao, and H. Zhao, Excitonic Dynamics in Janus MoSSe and WSSe Monolayers, Nano Letters 21, 931–937 (2021).