Graduate students

email: patricia.villasana@uaz.edu.mx

M. Sc. Patricia Villasana Mercado, is a Ph. D. student at Academic Unit in Science and Technology of the Light and Matter (LUMAT– Spanish acronym) from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ – Spanish acronym). She obtained her bachelor and master in physics in 2007 and 2019, both from the Academic Unit Physics at UAZ. In her master’s thesis, she worked in so-called the Leonardo’s Rule, developing a hydraulic model and corroborating it experimentally. She also obtained a mention as the best student of her generation. She has participated in several research stays, some of them resulting in publications. In particular, the study of the Talbot effect in periodic and aperiodic structures was published as regular article. 

Her current research project is focused on the spin-valley polarization and magnetoresistance in 2D materials such as silicene, phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMDs). The main objective of the project is to find nanostructurations and external mechanisms to improve the spin-valley polarization and magetoresistive properties of the mentioned 2D materials. 

M. Sc. Karla Johana Lamas Martínez received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from Autonomous University of Zacatecas, in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Currently, she is a student of the program of Doctorate in Science and Technology of Light and Mater in Autonomous University of Zacatecas. During her Master’s studies carried out the growth and characterization of carbon nanotubes on silicon carbide. She has been an English teacher at the elementary level and of physical sciences at the secondary and high school levels. 

She joined 2D Materials Research Group in January 2020. Her research project is about thermoelectricity in 2D material. In particular, she study the Seebeck effect, power factor and figure of merit in superlattice structures based on phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers (TMDs).

email: klamaslumat@uaz.edu.mx

email: nancy.moraleslumat@uaz.edu.mx

Nancy Liliana is a Master’s student at the Academic Unit in Science and Technology of Light and Matter at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas. She obtained the degree in physics in 2018 from the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), Colombia. She participated as a co-author in a paper published in 2019 on the effect of the curvature of a closed nanoscopic loop on the electronic properties of an electron confined under electric and magnetic fields. Her current research project consists of studying the effect of the concavity change of the inner edge of a GaAs quantum ring on the electronic properties of a confined electron under the action of an external magnetic field.