{"id":70,"date":"2013-12-29T20:51:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2013-12-29T20:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T20:51:10","slug":"leonor-chico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/people\/leonor-chico\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonor Chico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research activity is centered on the <strong>physical properties of low\u00a0dimensional systems<\/strong>. Currently I am <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/leoahu.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-850\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-850 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2013\/12\/leoahu-102x300.jpg\" alt=\"leoahu\" width=\"131\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a>working on carbon-based materials, such as carbon nanotubes or graphene nanoribbons, and semiconductor nanowires. I am interested in effects related to low dimensions, where <strong>defects and symmetries<\/strong> play a fundamental role. I have studied <strong>electronic and spin transport<\/strong> in nanosystems based on <strong>graphene and nanotubes<\/strong>, as well as different types of<strong> edges<\/strong>, <strong>topological defects and boundaries<\/strong> in these materials, relevant for nanoelectronics. Recently I have worked in the role of <strong>symmetry<\/strong> to achieve spin-polarized transport by solely using electric fields in carbon tubes and graphene ribbons. These results can be applied to other low-dimensional materials with <strong>spin-orbit interaction<\/strong>, of interest for the emerging field of spin-orbitronics.<\/p>\n<p>I obtained my Ph.D. at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1993. Then I spent two years at UC Berkeley in a postdoctoral stay. After one year as a research associate at ICMM, I joined Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, where I got a permanent position as an Associate Professor in 1999. In 2008 I returned to ICMM as Staff Scientist. In April 2015 I got clearance\u00a0(acreditaci\u00f3n) by ANECA that allows me to apply to full Professorship in Spanish Universities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research activity is centered on the physical properties of low\u00a0dimensional systems. Currently I am working on carbon-based materials, such as carbon nanotubes or graphene nanoribbons, and semiconductor nanowires. I am interested in effects related to low dimensions, where defects and symmetries play a fundamental role. I have studied electronic and spin transport in nanosystems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/people\/leonor-chico\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Leonor Chico<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":58,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-70","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/tqe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}