Jonas Brown

Background

About Jonas Brown

As a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California—Los Angeles Samueli School of Engineering, I conduct research with Distinguished Professor Alexander A. Balandin. My research interests involve the fabrication and characterization of nanodevices made of low-dimensional quantum van der Waals materials and heterostructures using various lithography, etching, and metal deposition techniques. In 2021 I joined Professor Balandin's Nano Device Laboratory (NDL) and Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Laboratory (POEM) at the University of California - Riverside in 2021. As a Graduate Student Researcher, I received a Master's in Electrical Engineering in 2023. I received a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy Physics (2020) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with Comprehensive Honors. Here, I worked with Professor Victor Brar focusing on the growth of graphene on copper substrates and the fabrication of various van der Waals heterostructures. With the Brar Lab, I also worked on understanding the perturbed surface states of various materials using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM).