Physics at Lancaster University

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Email: v.falko@lancaster.ac.uk

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Research Interests

• electronic properties of nanostrucutres
• graphene

Teaching

• Summer School on Condensed Matter Theory
• Co-ordinator for the North-West Universities PhD Lectures in Condensed Matter Physics

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Recent publications

Transport anomaly at the ordering transition for adatoms on graphene Physical Review B 83, 201401 (2011) Sergey Kopylov, Vadim Cheianov, Boris L Altshuler, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Strained bilayer graphene: Band structure topology and Landau level spectrum Physical Review B 84, 041404 (2011) Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski, Igor L Aleiner, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Special Issue Graphene Preface Solid State Communications 151, pp. 1053-1053 (2011) Vladimir Fal'ko
Non-Volatile Photochemical Gating of an Epitaxial Graphene/Polymer Heterostructure Advanced Materials 23, pp. 878-+ (2011) Samuel Lara-Avila, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Rositza Yakimova, Thomas Bjornholm, Vladimir Fal'ko, Alexander Tzalenchuk, Sergey Kubatkin
Manifestation of LO-LA phonons in Raman scattering in graphene Solid State Communications 151, pp. 1071-1074 (2011) Raffaello Ferone, John R Wallbank, Viktor Zolyomi, Edward McCann, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Landau levels in deformed bilayer graphene at low magnetic fields Solid State Communications 151, pp. 1088-1093 (2011) Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski, Igor L Aleiner, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Intra-Landau-level magnetoexcitons and the transition between quantum Hall states in undoped bilayer graphene Physical Review B 83, 115455 (2011) Csaba Toke, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Gauge fields and interferometry in folded graphene Physical Review B 83, 165403 (2011) Diego Rainis, Fabio Taddei, Marco Polini, Gladys Leon, Francisco Guinea, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Engineering and metrology of epitaxial graphene Solid State Communications 151, pp. 1094-1099 (2011) Alexander Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara-Avila, Karin Cedergren, Mikael Syvajarvi, Rositza Yakimova, Olga Kazakova, T. J. B. M Janssen, Kasper Moth-Poulsen, Thomas Bjornholm, Sergey Kopylov, Vladimir Fal'ko, Sergey Kubatkin
Anomalously strong pinning of the filling factor nu=2 in epitaxial graphene Physical Review B 83, 233402 (2011) T. J. B. M Janssen, A Tzalenchuk, R Yakimova, S Kubatkin, S Lara-Avila, S Kopylov, V. I Fal'ko
Towards a quantum resistance standard based on epitaxial graphene Nature Nanotechnology 5, pp. 186-189 (2010) Alexander Tzalenchuk, Samuel Lara-Avila, Alexei Kalaboukhov, Sara Paolillo, Mikael Syvajarvi, Rositza Yakimova, Olga Kazakova, T. J. B. M Janssen, Vladimir Fal'ko, Sergey Kubatkin
Sublattice ordering in a dilute ensemble of monovalent adatoms on graphene Epl 89, 56003 (2010) V. V Cheianov, O Syljuasen, B. L Altshuler, V. I Fal'ko
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and Lifshitz transition in bilayer graphene Physical Review B 82, 201408 (2010) Y Lemonik, I. L Aleiner, C Toke, V. I Fal'ko
Spectral features due to inter-Landau-level transitions in the Raman spectrum of bilayer graphene Physical Review B 82, 045405 (2010) Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski, Oleksiy Kashuba, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Electron-hole asymmetry and energy gaps in bilayer graphene Semiconductor Science And Technology 25, 033001 (2010) M Mucha-Kruczynski, E McCann, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Charge transfer between epitaxial graphene and silicon carbide Applied Physics Letters 97, 112109 (2010) Sergey Kopylov, Alexander Tzalenchuk, Sergey Kubatkin, Vladimir I Fal'ko
The influence of interlayer asymmetry on the magnetospectroscopy of bilayer graphene Solid State Communications 149, pp. 1111-1116 (2009) M Mucha-Kruczynski, E McCann, V. I Fal'ko
Special Issue Recent Progress in Graphene Studies Preface Solid State Communications 149, pp. 1039-1040 (2009) Vladimir Fal'ko, Andre Geim, Sankar Das Sarma, Allan MacDonald, Philip Kim
Signature of electronic excitations in the Raman spectrum of graphene Physical Review B 80, 241404 (2009) Oleksiy Kashuba, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Quantum Transport Thermometry for Electrons in Graphene Physical Review Letters 102, 066801 (2009) K Kechedzhi, D. W Horsell, F. V Tikhonenko, A. K Savchenko, R. V Gorbachev, I. V Lerner, V. I Fal'ko
Ordered states of adatoms on graphene Physical Review B 80, 233409 (2009) Vadim V Cheianov, Olav Syljuasen, B. L Altshuler, Vladimir Fal'ko
On spectral properties of bilayer graphene: the effect of an SiC substrate and infrared magneto-spectroscopy Journal Of Physics-Condensed Matter 21, 344206 (2009) M Mucha-Kruczynski, D. S. L Abergel, E McCann, V. I Fal'ko
Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in graphene Solid State Communications 149, pp. 1041-1045 (2009) D. W Horsell, A. K Savchenko, F. V Tikhonenko, K Kechedzhi, I. V Lerner, V. I Fal'ko
Hidden Kekule ordering of adatoms on graphene Solid State Communications 149, pp. 1499-1501 (2009) V. V Cheianov, V. I Fal'ko, O Syljuasen, B. L Altshuler
Tunable graphene system with two decoupled monolayers Applied Physics Letters 93, 172108 (2008) H Schmidt, T Luedtke, P Barthold, E McCann, V. I Fal'ko, R. J Haug
Spin-orbit-assisted electron-phonon interaction and the magnetophonon resonance in semiconductor quantum wells Physical Review B 77, 035317 (2008) D. S. L Abergel, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Quantum kinetic equation and universal conductance fluctuations in graphene Physical Review B 77, 193403 (2008) K Kechedzhi, O Kashuba, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Nuclear spin pumping under resonant optical excitation in a quantum dot Applied Physics Letters 93, 073113 (2008) M. N Makhonin, A. I Tartakovskii, A Ebbens, M. S Skolnick, A Russell, V. I Fal'ko, M Hopkinson
Long nuclear spin polarization decay times controlled by optical pumping in individual quantum dots Physical Review B 77, 125307 (2008) M. N Makhonin, A. I Tartakovskii, A. B Van'kov, I Drouzas, T Wright, J Skiba-Szymanska, A Russell, V. I Fal'ko, M. S Skolnick, H. -Y Liu, M Hopkinson
Electronic properties and the quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical And Engineering Sciences 366, pp. 205-218 (2008) Vladimir I Fal'ko
Characterization of graphene through anisotropy of constant-energy maps in angle-resolved photoemission Physical Review B 77, 195403 (2008) M Mucha-Kruczynski, O Tsyplyatyev, A Grishin, E McCann, Vladimir I Fal'ko, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg
Canted magnetization texture in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions Physical Review B 78, 184425 (2008) Igor Kuzmenko, Vladimir Fal'ko
Adsorbate-Limited Conductivity of Graphene Physical Review Letters 101, 196803 (2008) John P Robinson, Henning Schomerus, Laszlo Oroszlany, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Weak localization in monolayer and bilayer graphene European Physical Journal-Special Topics 148, pp. 39-54 (2007) K Kechedzhi, E McCann, V. I Fal'ko, H Suzuura, T Ando, B. L Altshuler
Weak localization in graphene Solid State Communications 143, pp. 33-38 (2007) Vladimir I Fal'ko, K Kechedzhi, E McCann, B. L Altshuler, H Suzuura, T Ando
Visibility of graphene flakes on a dielectric substrate Applied Physics Letters 91, 063125 (2007) D. S. L Abergel, A Russell, Vladimir I Fal'ko
The low energy electronic band structure of bilayer graphene European Physical Journal-Special Topics 148, pp. 91-103 (2007) E McCann, D. S. L Abergel, V. I Fal'ko
The focusing of electron flow and a Veselago lens in graphene p-n junctions Science 315, pp. 1252-1255 (2007) Vadim V Cheianov, Vladimir Fal'ko, B. L Altshuler
Random resistor network model of minimal conductivity in graphene Physical Review Letters 99, 176801 (2007) Vadim V Cheianov, Vladimir I Fal'ko, Boris L Altshuler, Igor L Aleiner
QHE and far infra-red properties of bilayer graphene in a strong magnetic field European Physical Journal-Special Topics 148, pp. 105-115 (2007) D. S. L Abergel, E McCann, V. I Fal'ko
Power dependence of the photocurrent lineshape in a semiconductor quantum dot Applied Physics Letters 91, 193107 (2007) A Russell, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Optical and magneto-optical far-infrared properties of bilayer graphene Physical Review B 75, 155430 (2007) D. S. L Abergel, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Nuclear spin switch in semiconductor quantum dots Physical Review Letters 98, 026806 (2007) A. I Tartakovskii, T Wright, A Russell, V. I Fal'ko, A. B Van'kov, J Skiba-Szymanska, I Drouzas, R. S Kolodka, M. S Skolnick, P. W Fry, A Tahraoui, H. -Y Liu, M Hopkinson
Influence of trigonal warping on interference effects in bilayer graphene Physical Review Letters 98, 176806 (2007) K Kechedzhi, Vladimir I Falko, E McCann, B. L Altshuler
Graphene: Emerging matter in two dimensions European Physical Journal-Special Topics 148, pp. 1-3 (2007) V. I Fal'ko, A. K Geim
Graphene - Quantum information on chicken wire Nature Physics 3, pp. 151-152 (2007) Vladimir Fal'ko
Giant magnetothermopower and magnetoresistance in metals with embedded ferromagnetic nanoclusters Journal Of Applied Physics 101, 014324 (2007) Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev, Oleksiy Kashuba, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Filling-factor-dependent magnetophonon resonance in graphene Physical Review Letters 99, 087402 (2007) M. O Goerbig, J.-N Fuchs, K Kechedzhi, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Electrons in bilayer graphene Solid State Communications 143, pp. 110-115 (2007) Edward McCann, David S. L Abergel, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Bistability of optically induced nuclear spin orientation in quantum dots Physical Review B 76, 195310 (2007) A Russell, Vladimir I Fal'ko, A. I Tartakovskii, M. S Skolnick
0-pi transition in superconductor-ferromagnet-superconductor junctions with strongly spin-dependent scattering Physical Review B 75, 132502 (2007) O Kashuba, Ya. M Blanter, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Weak-localization magnetoresistance and valley symmetry in graphene Physical Review Letters 97, 146805 (2006) E McCann, K Kechedzhi, Vladimir I Fal'ko, H Suzuura, T Ando, B. L Altshuler
Unconventional quantum Hall effect and Berry's phase of 2 pi in bilayer graphene Nature Physics 2, pp. 177-180 (2006) KS Novoselov, E McCann, SV Morozov, VI Fal'ko, MI Katsnelson, U Zeitler, D Jiang, F Schedin, AK Geim
Triplet pairing due to spin-orbit-assisted electron-phonon coupling Physical Review B 74, 012501 (2006) Vladimir I Fal'ko, Boris N Narozhny
Thermally excited spin current and giant magnetothermopower in metals with embedded ferromagnetic nanoclusters Physical Review B 74, 132403 (2006) Oleksandr Tsyplyatyev, Oleksiy Kashuba, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Selective transmission of Dirac electrons and ballistic magnetoresistance of n-p junctions in graphene Physical Review B 74, 041403 (2006) Vadim V Cheianov, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Landau-level degeneracy and quantum hall effect in a graphite bilayer Physical Review Letters 96, 086805 (2006) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Friedel oscillations, impurity scattering, and temperature dependence of resistivity in graphene Physical Review Letters 97, 226801 (2006) Vadim V Cheianov, Vladimir I Fal'ko
Detection of the electron spin resonance of two-dimensional electrons at large wave vectors Physical Review Letters 96, 126807 (2006) IV Kukushkin, JH Smet, DSL Abergel, VI Fal'ko, W Wegscheider, K von Klitzing
Spin-orbit coupling and anisotropy of spin splitting in quantum dots Physical Review Letters 94, 226404 (2005) J Konemann, RJ Haug, DK Maude, VI Fal'ko, BL Altshuler
Quantum and classical surface-acoustic-wave-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas Physical Review B 71, 195420 (2005) MP Kennett, JP Robinson, NR Cooper, VI Fal'ko
Magnetoresistance in metals with embedded magnetic nanoclusters International Journal Of Modern Physics B 19, pp. 2175-2181 (2005) O Tsyplyatyev, VI Fal'ko
Degeneracy breaking and intervalley scattering due to short-ranged impurities in finite single-wall carbon nanotubes Physical Review B 71, 085415 (2005) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Commensurability oscillations in the surface-acoustic-wave-induced acoustoelectric effect in a two-dimensional electron gas Physical Review B 71, 241301 (2005) JP Robinson, VI Fal'ko
Anisotropy of spin splitting and spin relaxation in lateral quantum dots Physical Review Letters 95, 076603 (2005) VI Fal'ko, BL Altshuler, O Tsyplyatyev
Two-dimensional electron gas near full polarization Physical Review B 69, 075306 (2004) G Zala, BN Narozhny, IL Aleiner, VI Fal'ko
Symmetry properties of impurities in metallic single-wall carbon nanotubes International Journal Of Modern Physics B 18, pp. 3195-3212 (2004) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Symmetry of boundary conditions of the Dirac equation for electrons in carbon nanotubes Journal Of Physics-Condensed Matter 16, pp. 2371-2379 (2004) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Surface acoustic-wave-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in a two-dimensional electron gas Physical Review Letters 93, 036804 (2004) JP Robinson, MP Kennett, NR Cooper, VI Fal'ko
Spin and interaction effects in Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations and the quantum Hall effect in GaN/AlGaN heterostructures Journal Of Physics-Condensed Matter 16, pp. 3421-3432 (2004) W Knap, VI Fal'ko, E Frayssinet, P Lorenzini, N Grandjean, D Maude, G Karczewski, BL Brandt, J Lusakowski, I Grzegory, M Leszczynski, P Prystawko, C Skierbiszewski, S Porowski, X Hu, G Simin, MA Khan, MS Shur
Orbital effects of in-plane magnetic fields probed by mesoscopic conductance fluctuations Physical Review B 69, 121305 (2004) DM Zumbuhl, JB Miller, CM Marcus, VI Fal'ko, T Jungwirth, JS Harris
New type of B-periodic magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional electron system induced by microwave irradiation Physical Review Letters 92, 236803 (2004) IV Kukushkin, MY Akimov, JH Smet, SA Mikhailov, K von Klitzing, IL Aleiner, VI Falko
Magnetic field influence on the proximity effect in semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures and their thermal conductance Physical Review B 69, 092503 (2004) G Tkachov, VI Fal'ko
Comment on "Anomalous conductance distribution in quasi-one-dimensional gold wires: Possible violation of the one-parameter scaling hypothesis" Physical Review Letters 93, 159701 (2004) V Fal'ko, I Lerner, O Tsyplyatyev, I Aleiner
A tunnel junction between a ferromagnet and a normal metal: magnon-assisted contribution to thermopower and conductance Journal Of Magnetism And Magnetic Materials 268, pp. 123-131 (2004) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Weak localization and conductance fluctuations in a quantum dot with parallel magnetic field and spin-orbit scattering Physical Review B 68, 125329 (2003) JH Cremers, PW Brouwer, VI Fal'ko
Magnon-assisted transport and thermopower in ferromagnet-normal-metal tunnel junctions Physical Review B 68, 172404 (2003) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Applicability of the ergodicity hypothesis to mesoscopic fluctuations Physical Review B 68, 121301 (2003) O Tsyplyatyev, IL Aleiner, VI Fal'ko, IV Lerner
Andreev reflection and subgap transport due to electron-magnon interactions in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions International Journal Of Modern Physics B 17, pp. 5001-5005 (2003) G Tkachov, E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Subgap transport in ferromagnet-superconductor junctions due to magnon-assisted Andreev reflection Physical Review B 65, 024519 (2002) G Tkachov, E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Orbital effect of an in-plane magnetic field on quantum transport in chaotic lateral dots Physical Review B 65, 081306 (2002) VI Fal'ko, T Jungwirth
Magnon-assisted Andreev transport across ferromagnet-superconductor junctions Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 12, pp. 938-941 (2002) E McCann, G Tkachov, VI Fal'ko
Magnetothermopower and magnon-assisted transport in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions Applied Physics Letters 81, pp. 3609-3611 (2002) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Hyperfine-mediated spin-flip transitions in GaAs quantum dots Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 12, pp. 823-826 (2002) SI Erlingsson, YV Nazarov, VI Fal'ko
Giant magnetothermopower of magnon-assisted transport in ferromagnetic tunnel junctions Physical Review B 66, 134424 (2002) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Geometrical commensurability oscillations in the magnetoresistance of a two-dimensional electron gas under microwave irradiation Physical Review B 66, 121306 (2002) IV Kukushkin, JH Smet, VI Fal'ko, K von Klitzing, K Eberl
Correlations in the local density of states probed by single electron tunneling Physica E-Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures 12, pp. 853-856 (2002) J Konemann, P Konig, E McCann, VI Fal'ko, RJ Haug
Spin-orbit coupling effects on quantum transport in lateral semiconductor dots Physical Review Letters 87, 256801 (2001) IL Aleiner, VI Fal'ko
Parametric correlations of local density-of-states fluctuations in disordered pillars, wires and films Journal Of Physics-Condensed Matter 13, pp. 6633-6648 (2001) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Nucleus-mediated spin-flip transitions in GaAs quantum dots Physical Review B 64, pp. art. no.-195306 (2001) SI Erlingsson, YV Nazarov, VI Fal'ko
Magnon-assisted Andreev reflection in a ferromagnet-superconductor junction Europhysics Letters 56, pp. 583-589 (2001) E McCann, VI Fal'ko
Energy dependence of quasiparticle relaxation in a disordered fermi liquid Physical Review Letters 86, pp. 276-279 (2001) T Schmidt, P Konig, E McCann, VI Fal'ko, RJ Haug
Correlation-function spectroscopy of inelastic lifetime in heavily doped GaAs heterostructures Physical Review B 64, 155314 (2001) J Konemann, P Konig, T Schmidt, E McCann, VI Fal'ko, RJ Haug
Weak localization correction to the ferromagnet-superconductor interface resistance Physical Review B 62, pp. 6015-6020 (2000) E McCann, VI Fal'ko, AF Volkov, CJ Lambert
Spin-orbit coupling effect on quantum Hall ferromagnets with vanishing Zeeman energy Physical Review Letters 84, pp. 127-130 (2000) VI Fal'ko, SV Iordanskii
Resonant tunnelling spectroscopy of the local density of states in a disordered conductor Physica Status Solidi B-Basic Solid State Physics 218, pp. 309-318 (2000) AK Savchenko, JP Holder, VI Falko, B Jouault, C Faini, F Laruelle, E Bedel
Enhanced fluctuations of the tunneling density of states near the bottom of a Landau band measured by a local spectrometer Physical Review Letters 84, pp. 1563-1566 (2000) JP Holder, AK Savchenko, VI Fal'ko, B Jouault, G Faini, F Laruelle, E Bedel
Correlations in optical phonon spectra of complex solids Physical Review B 61, pp. 9851-9854 (2000) G Fagas, VI Fal'ko, CJ Lambert, Y Gefen