Faculty Directory
Lincoln J. Lauhon

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Contact

2220 Campus Drive
Cook Hall 3019
Evanston, IL 60208

Email Lincoln Lauhon

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Lauhon Research Group

Departments

Materials Science and Engineering

Affiliations

PhD Program in Applied Physics

Education

Post-doc Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

B.S. Physics (Hons), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI


Research Interests

The Lauhon group pursues fundamental insights into nanoscale structure-property relationships to provide a foundation for engineering new technologies based on low-dimensional materials. Towards that end, we develop new approaches to synthesize and assemble low dimensional materials, exploit scanning probe methodologies to interrogate the properties of nanomaterial-based devices, and use modeling in the design and interpretation of material and device properties. The current focus of the group is on the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials and composites for applications in novel modes of computing and sensing.


Significant Recognition

  • Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 2008
  • Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2007
  • Morris E. Fine Junior Chair in Materials and Manufacturing, 2006
  • Teacher of the Year, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2006
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2005
  • Searle Center for Teaching Excellence Junior Fellow, 2004
  • Nottingham Prize of the Physical Electronics Conference, 2000
  • Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society, 1992

Significant Professional Service

  • Board of Directors, Materials Research Society, 2017-2019
  • Program Chair, Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, 2019
  • Organizing committee, Electronic Materials Conference, 2016-present
  • Member of ACS, APS, and MRS

Selected Publications

  • Chu, Ting Ching; Choi, Hyeonseon; Mead, Christopher E.; Hu, Xiaobing; Liu, Kevin J.; Hersam, Mark C.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., Resistive Switching in α-In2Se3 Lateral Field-Effect Transistors, ACS nano (2025).
  • Kuo, Lidia; Pereyra, Alessandro; Li, Siyang; Chu, Ting Ching; Song, Thomas W.; Lee, Jung Hun; Luijten, Benjamin J.; Söll, Aljoscha; Sofer, Zdeněk; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Hersam, Mark C., Ultrahigh-Responsivity Near-Infrared Printed Photodetectors Based on Megasonically Processed RuCl3 Nanosheets, Nano letters (2025).
  • Zheng, Ding; Xie, Zhaoqian; Huang, Wei; Bai, Dongjun; Kim, Jaehyun; Zhao, Dan; Qin, Fei; Zhang, Dayong; Kim, Joon Seok; Chen, Jianhua; Yao, Yao; Wang, Zhi; Sakshi, Sharma; Correa-Baena, Juan Pablo; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G.; Marks, Tobin J.; Facchetti, Antonio, Ultra-Flexible Pixelated Perovskite Photodetectors Enabled by Honeycomb Polymer Grids for High-Resolution Imaging, Advanced Materials (2025).
  • Schreitmüller, T.; Kumar Saluja, D.; Mead, C. E.; Ramsteiner, M.; Jeong, H. W.; Esmaielpour, H.; Huang, C.; Ruhstorfer, D.; Finley, J. J.; Lauhon, L. J.; Koblmüller, G., Spatial dependence of dopant incorporation and electrical transport in Si-doped GaAs(Sb) nanowires, Physical Review Materials (2024).
  • Guo, Huiming; Mead, Christopher; Balingit, Marquez; Shah, Soham; Wang, Xin; Xu, Mingjie; Tran, Ich; Aoki, Toshihiro; Samaniego, Jack D.; Gilliard-AbdulAziz, Kandis Leslie; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Bowman, William J., Designing nanostructure exsolution-self-assembly in a complex concentrated oxide, Matter (2024).
  • Schreitmüller, Tobias; Jeong, Hyowon W.; Esmaielpour, Hamidreza; Mead, Christopher E.; Ramsteiner, Manfred; Schmiedeke, Paul; Thurn, Andreas; Ajay, Akhil; Matich, Sonja; Döblinger, Markus; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Finley, Jonathan J.; Koblmüller, Gregor, Large Tolerance of Lasing Properties to Impurity Defects in GaAs(Sb)-AlGaAs Core-Shell Nanowire Lasers, Advanced Functional Materials (2024).
  • Kim, Joon Seok; Gavin, Sarah Carin; Stern, Nathaniel P.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., Nonvolatile Modulation of Light Emission from Delocalized and Defect-Bound Excitons in Monolayer MoS2 Using the Remnant Polarization in the Ferroelectric Polymer P(VDF-TrFE), ACS Applied Nano Materials (2023).
  • Moody, Michael J.; Paul, Joshua T.; Smeets, Paul J.M.; dos Reis, Roberto; Kim, Joon Seok; Mead, Christopher E.; Gish, Jonathan Tyler; Hersam, Mark C.; Chan, Maria K.Y.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., van der Waals Epitaxy, Superlubricity, and Polarization of the 2D Ferroelectric SnS, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (2023).
  • Sangwan, Vinod K.; Chica, Daniel G.; Chu, Ting Ching; Cheng, Matthew; Quintero, Michael A.; Hao, Shiqiang; Mead, Christopher E.; Choi, Hyeonseon; Zu, Rui; Sheoran, Jyoti; He, Jingyang; Liu, Yukun; Qian, Eric; Laing, Craig C.; Kang, Min A.; Gopalan, Venkatraman; Wolverton, Chris; Dravid, Vinayak P.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hersam, Mark C.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G., Bulk photovoltaic effect and high mobility in the polar 2D semiconductor SnP2Se6, Science Advances (2024).
  • Kuo, Lidia; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Rangnekar, Sonal V.; Chu, Ting Ching; Lam, David; Zhu, Zhehao; Richter, Lee J.; Li, Ruipeng; Szydłowska, Beata M.; Downing, Julia R.; Luijten, Benjamin J.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hersam, Mark C., All-Printed Ultrahigh-Responsivity MoS2 Nanosheet Photodetectors Enabled by Megasonic Exfoliation, Advanced Materials (2022).
  • Padgaonkar, Suyog; Olding, Jack N.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hersam, Mark C.; Weiss, Emily A., Emergent Optoelectronic Properties of Mixed-Dimensional Heterojunctions, Accounts of chemical research 53(4):763-772 (2020).
  • Teich, Jonah; Dvir, Ravit; Henning, Alex; Hamo, Eliran R.; Moody, Michael J.; Jurca, Titel; Cohen, Hagai; Marks, Tobin J.; Rosen, Brian A.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Ismach, Ariel, Light and complex 3D MoS2/graphene heterostructures as efficient catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction, Nanoscale 12(4):2715-2725 (2020).
  • Li, Shaowei; Zhong, Chengmei; Henning, Alex; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Zhou, Qunfei; Liu, Xiaolong; Rahn, Matthew S.; Wells, Spencer A.; Park, Hong Youl; Luxa, Jan; Sofer, Zdeněk; Facchetti, Antonio; Darancet, Pierre; Marks, Tobin J.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Weiss, Emily A.; Hersam, Mark C., Molecular-Scale Characterization of Photoinduced Charge Separation in Mixed-Dimensional InSe-Organic van der Waals Heterostructures, ACS nano 14(3):3509-3518 (2020).
  • Olding, Jack N.; Henning, Alex; Dong, Jason T.; Zhou, Qunfei; Moody, Michael J.; Smeets, Paul J.M.; Darancet, Pierre; Weiss, Emily A.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., Charge Separation in Epitaxial SnS/MoS2 Vertical Heterojunctions Grown by Lowerature Pulsed MOCVD, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 11(43):40543-40550 (2019).
  • Lähnemann, Jonas; Hill, Megan O.; Herranz, Jesús; Marquardt, Oliver; Gao, Guanhui; Al Hassan, Ali; Davtyan, Arman; Hruszkewycz, Stephan O.; Holt, Martin V.; Huang, Chunyi; Calvo-Almazán, Irene; Jahn, Uwe; Pietsch, Ullrich; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Geelhaar, Lutz, Correlated nanoscale analysis of the emission from wurtzite versus zincblende (In,Ga)As/GaAs nanowire core-shell quantum wells, Nano letters 19(7):4448-4457 (2019).
  • Sun, Zhiyuan; Huang, Chunyi; Guo, Jinglong; Dong, Jason T.; Klie, Robert F.; Lauhon, Lincoln James; Seidman, David N, Strain-Energy Release in Bent Semiconductor Nanowires Occurring by Polygonization or Nanocrack Formation, ACS nano 13(3):3730-3738 (2019).
  • Chang, Alexander S.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., Atom probe tomography of nanoscale architectures in functional materials for electronic and photonic applications, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 22(5):171-187 (2018).
  • Friedl, Martin; Cerveny, Kris; Weigele, Pirmin; Tütüncüoglu, Gozde; Martí-Sánchez, Sara; Huang, Chunyi; Patlatiuk, Taras; Potts, Heidi; Sun, Zhiyuan; Hill, Megan O.; Güniat, Lucas; Kim, Wonjong; Zamani, Mahdi; Dubrovskii, Vladimir G.; Arbiol, Jordi; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Zumbühl, Dominik M.; Fontcuberta Morral, Anna I., Template-Assisted Scalable Nanowire Networks, Nano letters 18(4):2666-2671 (2018).
  • Sangwan, Vinod K.; Beck, Megan E.; Henning, Alex; Luo, Jiajia; Bergeron, Hadallia; Kang, Junmo; Balla, Itamar; Inbar, Hadass; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hersam, Mark C., Self-Aligned van der Waals Heterojunction Diodes and Transistors, Nano letters 18(2):1421-1427 (2018).
  • Hill, Megan O.; Calvo-Almazan, Irene; Allain, Marc; Holt, Martin V.; Ulvestad, Andrew; Treu, Julian; Koblmüller, Gregor; Huang, Chunyi; Huang, Xiaojing; Yan, Hanfei; Nazaretski, Evgeny; Chu, Yong S.; Stephenson, G. Brian; Chamard, Virginie; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Hruszkewycz, Stephan O., Measuring Three-Dimensional Strain and Structural Defects in a Single InGaAs Nanowire Using Coherent X-ray Multiangle Bragg Projection Ptychography, Nano letters 18(2):811-819 (2018).
  • Wang, Kuang Chung; Stanev, Teodor K.; Valencia, Daniel; Charles, James; Henning, Alex; Sangwan, Vinod K.; Lahiri, Aritra; Mejia, Daniel; Sarangapani, Prasad; Povolotskyi, Michael; Afzalian, Aryan; Maassen, Jesse; Klimeck, Gerhard; Hersam, Mark C.; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Stern, Nathaniel P.; Kubis, Tillmann, Control of interlayer physics in 2H transition metal dichalcogenides, Journal of Applied Physics 122(22) (2017).
  • Yoon, Jung Ho; Zhang, Jiaming; Ren, Xiaochen; Wang, Zhongrui; Wu, Huaqiang; Li, Zhiyong; Barnell, Mark; Wu, Qing; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Xia, Qiangfei; Yang, J. Joshua, Truly Electroforming-Free and Low-Energy Memristors with Preconditioned Conductive Tunneling Paths, Advanced Functional Materials 27(35) (2017).
  • Sun, Zhiyuan; Seidman, David N.; Lauhon, Lincoln J., Nanowire Kinking Modulates Doping Profiles by Reshaping the Liquid-Solid Growth Interface, Nano letters 17(7):4518-4525 (2017).
  • Irber, Dominik M.; Seidl, Jakob; Carrad, Damon J.; Becker, Jonathan; Jeon, Nari; Loitsch, Bernhard; Winnerl, Julia; Matich, Sonja; Döblinger, Markus; Tang, Yang; Morkötter, Stefanie; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Finley, Jonathan J.; Grayson, Matthew; Lauhon, Lincoln J.; Koblmüller, Gregor, Quantum Transport and Sub-Band Structure of Modulation-Doped GaAs/AlAs Core-Superlattice Nanowires, Nano letters 17(8):4886-4893 (2017).