Juan Carlos Idrobo Tapia
RD Staff
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
United States of America
Biography
Bio Juan Carlos Idrobo is a R&D Staff Scientist at Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences in Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His research consists in applying aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy techniques combined with first-principles calculations to study the structure, electronic, and optical properties of materials. Idrobo holds Physics degrees from Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia (B.Sc., 2000), University of Illinois at Chicago (master, 2003) and University of California (Ph.D., 2004). Projects Using atomic-size aberrated-electron probes for novel spectroscopy. Heterogeneity and defects in low-dimensional materials. Facilities Used Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences Specialized Equipment Aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes
Research Interest
Material Science
Publications
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W. Zhou, M.D. Kapetanakis, M.P. Prange, S.T. Pantelides, S.J. Pennycook, and J.C. Idrobo, “Direct Determination of the Chemical Bonding of Individual Impurities in Graphene,†Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 206803 (2012).
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“Intrinsic structural defects in monolayer molybdenum disulfide,†W. Zhou, X. Zou, S. Najmaei, Z. Liu, Y. Shi, J. Kong, J. Lou, P.M. Ajayan, B.I. Yakobson, J.C. Idrobo, Nano Letters 13, 2615 (2013).
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J. Rusz, J.C. Idrobo, and S. Bhowmick, “Achieving atomic resolution magnetic dichroism by controlling the phase symmetry of an electron probe,†Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 145501 (2014).
