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Salvador Barraza-Lopez

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Federal Grant PI

Professor

Also affiliated: The University of Tokyo (2026)

30 h-index 150 pubs 3,825 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Salvador Barraza-Lopez, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, has a research focus on the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. His work investigates the physical properties of materials such as graphene, group-IV monochalcogenides, and black phosphorus, particularly in their monolayer and few-layer forms. Recent publications explore topics including the effects of metallic contacts on electron transport through graphene, the microscopic manipulation of ferroelectric domains in tin selenide (SnSe) monolayers, and the enhanced spontaneous polarization in ultrathin tin telluride (SnTe) films with layered antipolar structures.

Barraza-Lopez's research also delves into structural phase transitions and the material properties of these 2D materials, as well as the phenomenon of two-dimensional disorder in materials like black phosphorus and monochalcogenide monolayers. He has authored or co-authored over 150 publications, accumulating more than 3,800 citations and an h-index of 30. He has also served as Principal Investigator on an NSF-funded project for high-performance computing resources, totaling $499,113.

His collaborations include work with researchers such as Joseph E. Roll, Angiolo Huamán, Luis Enrique Rosas-Hernandez, and Gustavo S. Orozco-Galvan, all from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Barraza-Lopez remains an active researcher, with recent publications in 2021 and 2020.

Metrics

  • h-index: 30
  • Publications: 150
  • Citations: 3,825

Positions

  • Professor 2024–present
    University of Arkansas Physics ORCID

Selected Publications

  • Tuning terahertz optomechanics of MoS 2 bilayers with homogeneous in-plane strain (2026)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B DOI OpenAlex
  • Surface Diffusion in SnTe‐PbTe Monolayer Lateral Heterostructures (2026)
    Advanced Functional Materials 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Perturbative second-order optical susceptibility of bulk materials: a symmetry-enforced return to non-orthogonal localized basis sets (2026)
    Journal of Physics Condensed Matter DOI OpenAlex
  • Perturbative second-order optical susceptibility of bulk materials: a symmetry-enforced return to non-orthogonal localized basis sets (2026)
    Journal of Physics Condensed Matter DOI OpenAlex
  • Ferroelectrically switched valley-dependent transmission in SnTe-PbTe-SnTe monolayer lateral heterostructures (2025)
    Nature Communications 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Reference lattice, sound, stiffness, and magnetic transitions of Ising monolayers (2025)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B DOI OpenAlex
  • A lateral valley tunnel junction controlled by ferroelectric polarization (2025)
    Research Square DOI OpenAlex
  • Winding Berry dipoles on uniaxially strained graphene/insulator moiré superlattices (2025)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Defect‐Free Nanowelding of Bilayer SnSe Nanoplates (Adv. Mater. 36/2024) (2024)
    Advanced Materials DOI OpenAlex
  • Insulating moiré homobilayers lack a threefold symmetric second-harmonic generation (2024)
    Physical Review Materials 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Substrate Interference and Strain in the Second-Harmonic Generation from MoSe 2 Monolayers (2024)
    Nano Letters 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Defect‐Free Nanowelding of Bilayer SnSe Nanoplates (2024)
    Advanced Materials 4 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Size-dependent ferroelectric-to-paraelectric sliding transformations and antipolar-to-ferroelectric topological phase transitions in binary homobilayers (2024)
    Physical Review Materials 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tight-binding model with sublattice-asymmetric spin-orbit coupling for square-net nodal line Dirac semimetals (2024)
    Physical review. B./Physical review. B 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Mechanical, electronic, optical, piezoelectric and ferroic properties of strained graphene and other strained monolayers and multilayers: an update (2023)
    Reports on Progress in Physics 30 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $499,113 total

NSF PI Jul 2024 - Jun 2027

Equipment: CC* Campus Compute: A High-Performance Computing System for Research and Education in Arkansas

EPSCoR Co-Funding, Campus Cyberinfrastructure $499,113

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