Elton Santos

Dr. E. Santos

Position: Reader in Theoretical/Computational Condensed Matter Physics
Category: Academic staff
Location: James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 2503

Email: esantos [at] ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)131 651 7688
Twitter: @@esantos2727
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School research affiliations

Elton is a member of the following School research institute and research areas:

Research institute

Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems

Research areas

Dr Santos received his PhD in 2011 from the Danish Technical University/University of the Basque Country with a European Honour. Then, he was awarded the highly prestigious and competitive John A. Paulson Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University to perform research on energy materials and method developments for functional devices. He moved to Stanford University in 2013 as an assistant staff scientist. Dr Santos moved to the UK in 2015 to start his research group at Queen’s University Belfast (QuB) as a prestigious Queen’s Fellow and has taken a leading role on the research of 2D materials and Energy Efficient Processes in QuB. He was promoted to a full Lecturership in 2019, where his leadership was recognized at the national level being appointed to the governance board of the Materials and Molecular Modelling (MMM) Hub. Dr Santos is one of the recipients of the Charles Hatchett 2020 Award for his investigations on energy materials. He moved in 2020 to The University of Edinburgh to hold the position of Reader in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics at the School of Physics and Astronomy, and the Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems. He is an EPSRC Fellow.

PhD project opportunities

Elton currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:

Designing the next generation of smart devices using quantum materials and energy-efficient computing

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Publications

Recent publications

Spin-glass states generated in a van der Waals magnet by alkali-ion intercalation DOI
Safe Khan, Eva S. Y. Aw, Liam A. V. Nagle-Cocco, Aakanksha Sud, Sukanya Ghosh, Mohammed K. B. Subhan, Zekun Xue, Charlie Freeman, Dimitrios Sagkovits, Elton J. G. Santos et al., Advanced Materials, 36, 36, p. 1-10 (2024)
Imaging nanomagnetism and magnetic phase transitions in atomically thin CrSBr DOI
Märta A. Tschudin, David A. Broadway, Patrick Reiser, Carolin Schrader, Evan J. Telford, Boris Gross, Jordan Cox, Adrien E. E. Dubois, Daniel G. Chica, Elton J. G. Santos et al., Nature Communications, 15, 1, p. 1-10 (2024)
Direct observation of twisted stacking domains in the van der Waals magnet CrI<sub>3</sub> DOI
Myeongjin Jang, Sol Lee, Fernando Cantos-Prieto, Ivona Kosic, Yue Li, Arthur R.C. McCray, Min-Hyoung Jung, Jun-Yeong Yoon, Loukya Boddapati, Elton J. G. Santos et al., Nature Communications, 15, 1, p. 1-9 (2024)
Epitaxial Growth of Large-Scale 2D CrTe<sub>2</sub> Films on Amorphous Silicon Wafers With Low Thermal Budget DOI
Xiaoqian Zhang, Yue Li, Qiangsheng Lu, Xueqiang Xiang, Xiaozhen Sun, Chunli Tang, Muntasir Mahdi, Clayton Conner, Jacob Cook, Elton J. G. Santos et al., Advanced Materials, 36, 24, p. 1-11 (2024)
Topological Spin Textures in an Insulating van der Waals Ferromagnet DOI
Sergey Grebenchuk, Conor McKeever, Magdalena Grzeszczyk, Zhaolong Chen, Makars Siskins, Arthur R. C. McCray, Yue Li, Amanda K. Petford-Long, Charudatta M. Phatak, Elton J. G. Santos et al., Advanced Materials, 36, 24, p. 1-11 (2024)

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