Adina Luican-Mayer

Adina Luican-Mayer is a condensed matter experimentalist who joined UIC in Fall 2025 from the University of Ottawa, where she was faculty for 10 years. Her work was pioneering in the use of scanning tunneling microscopy to study two-dimensional materials, specifically twisted graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. She directed the NSERC Quantum CREATE MaQTech graduate training program and the NSERC Quantum Alliance Consortium in Programmable Quantum Simulators in 2D materials, and served as Interim Department Chair of the Physics Department at the University of Ottawa. She was a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. She is a member of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Experimental Physics Investigators program, and a recipient of the CIFAR Quantum Materials Fellowship, the Ontario Early Career Award, and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Science Research Award.

• Brunette, J. et al. Visualization of defect electronic states in layered semiconductor CrSBr. arXiv 2607.21301 (2026).
• Walker, S. M. et al. Locally resolved electronic textures of reconstruction domains in marginally twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene. arXiv 2605.26393 (2026).
• Luican-Mayer, A. Twisted topology visualized in real space: 2D materials. Nat. Phys. 21, 1179–1180 (2025).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J. et al. Valley-spin polarization at zero magnetic field induced by strong hole-hole interactions in monolayer WSe₂. Sci. Adv. 11, eadu4696 (2025).
• Pawłowski, J. et al. Interacting holes in a gated WSe₂ quantum channel: valley correlations and zigzag Wigner crystal. Phys. Rev. B 110, 125147 (2024).
• Ménard, J.-M., Luican-Mayer, A. & Rautela, R. Illuminated ultra-thin chemical sensors, and systems and methods comprising same. US Patent 12,013,364 (2024).
• Molino, L. et al. Influence of atomic relaxations on the moiré flat band wave functions in antiparallel twisted bilayer WS₂. Nano Lett. 23, 11778–11784 (2023).
• Jiménez-Galán, Á. et al. Orbital perspective on high-harmonic generation from solids. Nat. Commun. 14 (2023).
• Ramos, S. L. L. M. et al. Selective electron–phonon coupling in dimerized 1T-TaS₂ revealed by resonance Raman spectroscopy. ACS Nano (2023).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J. et al. Anomalous conductance quantization of a one-dimensional channel in monolayer WSe₂. npj 2D Mater. Appl. 7, 50 (2023).
• Molino, L. et al. Ferroelectric switching at symmetry-broken interfaces by local control of dislocation networks. Adv. Mater. (2023).
• Alzate-Carvajal, N. et al. Arrays of functionalized graphene chemiresistors for selective sensing of volatile organic compounds. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 5, 1514–1520 (2023).
• Thoutam, L. R. et al. Temperature-driven changes in the Fermi surface of graphite. Phys. Rev. B 106, 155117 (2022).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J. et al. Charge detection using a WSe₂ van der Waals heterostructure. Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 054017 (2022).
• Park, J. et al. Drone-mountable gas sensing platform using graphene chemiresistors for remote in-field monitoring. Sensors 22, 2383 (2022).
• Alzate-Carvajal, N. et al. Graphene field effect transistors: a sensitive platform for detecting sarin. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13, 61751–61757 (2021).
• Park, J. et al. UV illumination as a method to improve the performance of gas sensors based on graphene field-effect transistors. ACS Sens. 6, 4417–4424 (2021).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J. et al. Gate controlled quantum dots in monolayer WSe₂. Appl. Phys. Lett. 119, 133104 (2021).
• Scarfe, S., Cui, W., Luican-Mayer, A. & Ménard, J.-M. Systematic THz study of the substrate effect in limiting the mobility of graphene. Sci. Rep. 11, 8729 (2021).
• Plumadore, R. et al. Prevalence of oxygen defects in an in-plane anisotropic transition metal dichalcogenide. Phys. Rev. B 102, 205408 (2020).
• Alzate-Carvajal, N. & Luican-Mayer, A. Functionalized graphene surfaces for selective gas sensing. ACS Omega 5, 21320–21329 (2020).
• Rautela, R. et al. Mechanistic insight into the limiting factors of graphene-based environmental sensors. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces (2020).
• Plumadore, R., Al Ezzi, M. M., Adam, S. & Luican-Mayer, A. Moiré patterns in graphene–rhenium disulfide vertical heterostructures. J. Appl. Phys. 128, 044303 (2020).
• Ramos, S. L. L. M. et al. Suppression of the commensurate charge density wave phase in ultrathin 1T-TaS₂ evidenced by Raman hyperspectral analysis. Phys. Rev. B 100, 165414 (2019).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J., Scarfe, S., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T. & Luican-Mayer, A. Flattening van der Waals heterostructure interfaces by local thermal treatment. Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 231603 (2019).
• Luican-Mayer, A. et al. Negative differential resistance observed on the charge density wave of a transition metal dichalcogenide. Nanoscale 11, 22351–22358 (2019).
• Stecher, K., Huang, S. H.-Y., Escorcio, R. & Luican-Mayer, A. Demonstrating the concepts of sheet resistance, field effect, and mobility of a semiconductor using graphene field effect transistors. Eur. J. Phys. 40, 065501 (2019).
• Luican-Mayer, A. A needle in a moiré stack. Nat. Phys. 15, 1107–1108 (2019).
• Boddison-Chouinard, J., Plumadore, R. & Luican-Mayer, A. Fabricating van der Waals heterostructures with precise rotational alignment. J. Vis. Exp. 149, e59727 (2019)