Dr Colin Robert Woods is an expert in two-dimensional; materials, physics, and devices. Dr Woods received a Master’s in physics (MPhys) from the university of Manchester in 2012. In 2016, he received his PhD from the university of Manchester, for his work on interfacial interactions between graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Upon completion of his PhD, Dr Woods was awarded the Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC-UK) doctoral prize fellowship to continue his inquiries. In 2018, Colin was awarded the British Councils UK-Israel collaborative grant. Dr Woods’ current interests are in strain-engineering and emergent phenomena in 2D crystals. Dr Woods joined NUS as an assistant professor in November, 2021.
Research Interests
- Strain-engineering and emergent phenomena in two-dimensional (2D) crystals;
modifying electronic, optical, and dielectric properties through mechanical coupling.
Selected Publications
- C. R. Woods, P. Ares, H. Nevison-Andrews, M. J. Holwill, R. Fabregas, F. Guinea, A. K. Geim, K. S. Novoselov, N. R. Walet & L. Fumagalli
Charge-polarized interfacial superlattices in marginally twisted hexagonal boron nitride
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 347 (2021) - P. Ares, T. Cea, M. Holwill, Y. Wang, R. Roldan, F. Guinea, D. Andreeva, L. Fumagalli, K. S. Novoselov,
C.R. Woods
Piezoelectricity in Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Advanced Materials 32 (1), 1905504 - Z. Wang, Y. Wang, J. Yin, Y. Yang, L. Lin, M. Holwill, J. Birkbeck, D. J. Perello, S. Xu, J. Zultak, R. V.
Gorbachev, A. V. Kretinin, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, S. V. Morozov, M. Anđelković, S. Milovanović, L. Covaci, F.M. Peeters, A. Mishchenko, A. K. Geim, K. S. Novoselov, V. I. Fal’ko, A. Knothe, C. R. Woods.
Composite Super-Moiré Lattices in Double Aligned Graphene Heterostructures
Science advances 5 (12), eaay8897 - Tatiana Latychevskaia, Colin Robert Woods, Yi Bo Wang, Matthew Holwill, Eric Prestat, Sarah J. Haigh, and Kostya S. Novoselov
Convergent beam electron holography for analysis of van der Waals heterostructures
PNAS July 17, 2018 115 (29) 7473-7478 - C. R. Woods, F. Withers, M. J. Zhu, Y. Cao, G. Yu, A. Kozikov¬, M. Ben Shalom, S. V. Morozov, M. M. van Wijk, A. Fasolino, M. I. Katsnelson, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. K. Geim, A. Mishchenko, K. S. Novoselov
Macroscopic self-reorientation of interacting two-dimensional crystals
Nature Communications 7, Article number: 10800 (2016) - Nils Michael Freitag, Larisa A. Chizhova, Peter Nemes-Incze, Colin R. Woods, Roman Vladislavovich Gorbachev, Yang Cao, Andre K. Geim, Kostya S. Novoselov, Joachim Burgdörfer, Florian Libisch, and Markus Morgenstern.
Electrostatically confined monolayer graphene quantum dots with orbital and valley splittings
NanoLetters 2016, 16 (9), pp 5798–5805 - Joshua D. Caldwell, Andrey Kretinin, Yiguo Chen, Vincenzo Giannini, Michael M. Fogler, Yan Francescato, Chase T. Ellis, Joseph G. Tischler, Colin R. Woods, Alexander J. Giles, Minghui Hong, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Stefan A. Maier and Kostya S. Novoselov
Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride.
Nature Communications 5, Article number:5221. (2014) - C. R. Woods, L. Britnell, A. Eckmann, R. S. Ma, J. C. Lu, H. M. Guo, X. Lin, G. L. Yu, Y. Cao, R. V. Gorbachev, A.V. Kretinin, J. Park, L. A. Ponomarenko, M. I. Katsnelson, Yu. N. Gornostyrev, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Casiraghi, H. -J. Gao, A. K. Geim, K. S. Novoselov
Commensurate–incommensurate transition in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride.
Nature Physics 10, 451–456 (2014) - L. A. Ponomarenko, R. V. Gorbachev, G. L. Yu, D. C. Elias, R. Jalil, A. A. Patel, A. Mishchenko, A. S. Mayorov, C. R. Woods, J. R. Wallbank, M. Mucha-Kruczynski, B. A. Piot, M. Potemski, I. V. Grigorieva, K. S. Novoselov, F. Guinea, V. I. Fal’ko & A. K. Geim
Cloning of Dirac fermions in graphene superlattices.
Nature 497, 594–597 (30 May 2013)