Background

Place and date of birth: Lima, Peru, May 2nd, 1988
Highest academic degree obtained: Ph.D. in Physics
Current Position: Junior Researcher at CONICET
Workplace: Magnetic Resonance Division - Centro Atómico Bariloche/Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
E-mail: lavilesf@gmail.com

Academic Formation

2011 – 2015 Ph.D. in Physics – Instituto Balseiro & Centro Atómico Bariloche – Argentina.
Advisor: PhD. Martin Sirena
2005 – 2010 Licenciatura en Física (Bachelor in Physics) – Engineering National University – Lima, Perú.
Advisor: Dr. Abel Gutarra
2016 – Master in Science Technology and Innovation –  Rio Negro’s National University (In progress)

Publications 

A complete list of publications can be found here

Conferences

Invited talk

1. INTERMAG2020 Montreal, Canada. May 4th – 8th 2020″Integration of single-shot all-optical switching Tb/Co multilayer-based electrodes within magnetic tunnel junctions” L. Aviles, A. Olivier, G. Li, C. Davies, L. Álvaro-Gómez, M. Rubio Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, A.V. Kimel, T. Rasing, B. Dieny, R. Sousa and I.L. Prejbeanu (Cancelled for Covid-19)

Contributed talks

1. XIX Peruvian Meeting of Physics, Lima Peru September 24th – 26th, 2020. “Manipulation of spin currents in synthetic antiferromagnets” Avilés-Félix L., A. Butera, J. E. Gómez.
2. 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials MMM2019 Las Vegas USA. November 4th – 8th, 2019. “Pure spin current manipulation in antiferromagnetically exchange coupled heterostructures” Avilés-Félix L., A. Butera, D. González-Chávez, R. L. Sommer, J. E. Gómez.
3. 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials MMM2019 Las Vegas USA. 4 – 8 de Noviembre 2019. “Integration of Tb/Co multilayers within ultrafast optically switchable p-MTJ”. L. Avilés-Félix, C. Davies, G. Li, L. Alvaro-Gomez, M. Rubio-Roy, S. Auffret, A. Kirilyuk, T. Rasing, L. Buda-Prejbeanu, B. Dieny, R. Sousa and I. L. Prejbeanu.
4. XXIII Latin American Symposium of Solid State Physics. Bariloche – Argentina. April 10 – 13th 2018.  “Synthetic antiferromagnet as a pure spin injector” Avilés-Félix L., Gómez J. E., Leiva L. and Butera A.
5. XXVI Simposio Peruano de Física Huacho Perú. November 13-17th 2017 (Peruvian Physics Meeting) “Rare–earth ores concentration using magnetic separation.” J. Rocca, E. Monteblanco, L. Avilés, Abel Gutarra
6. VII Solids National Meeting, November 4th – 9th 2017, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. “Inverse spin Hall effect in synthetic antiferromagnetic heterostructures [Co/Ru/Co]/Pt”. L. Avilés-Félix, Javier Gómez, Livio Leiva and Alejandro Butera.
7. I LatinAmerican Conference on Superconductivity and Magnetism. 24th – 28th October 2016, Lima, Perú. “Design and implementation of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer” Daniel Jordán, Diego González, Misael León, Kevin Alvarado, Dámaso Laura, Nahuel Monteblanco, Luis Avilés and Abel Gutarra.
8. International Conference on Magnetism 2015, ICM2015, Barcelona, España, July 5th – 10th, 2015. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, Martin Sirena, Luis Avilés Félix, Jesús Gonzalez, Laura Steren.
9. XIII Encontro de Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa em Materiais, João Pessoa, Brasil, September 28th – October 2nd, 2014. Infuence of experimental conditions on obtention of SPION by polyol method”.  Jaime Vega Chacon, Luis Avilés Félix, Gino Picasso Escobar, Miguel Jafelicci Júnior.
10. Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS, CMD25, Paris, August 24th – 29th, 2014. “Transport properties of ultra-thin oxide layers for the development of tunnel junctions like devices”. M. Sirena, L. Avilés Felix, J. G. Sutter, H. Navarro, S. Carreira, N. Haberkorn, L. B. Steren.
11. XIV Encuentro de Superficies y Materiales Nanoestructurados, Nano 2014, Bariloche May 14th – 16th, 2014, “Transport in nanostructured systems”, L. Avilés Felix, F. Baldis, J. G. Sutter, M. Sirena, S. Carreira, L. B. Steren, N. Haberkorn, F. Soldera. (Invited talk)
12. X Latin American Workshop of Magnetism, Magnetic Materials and Their Applications (LAW3M 2013). Buenos Aires, Argentina. April 8th – 12th, 2013. ‘‘Substrate influence in the barrier quality of multiferroic tunnel junctions, model and experiments’’, M. Sirena, L. Avilés Félix, L. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal and J. Lesueur.
13. Joint European Magnetic Symposia 2012, Parma, Italy, September 9th -14th. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, M. Sirena, L. Avilés Félix, L. B. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal, J. Lesueur and G. Faini.
14. XI International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rhodes, Greece, August 26th – 31th. “Structural and electrical characterization of ultra thin SrTiO3 tunnel barriers grown over YBa2Cu3O7 electrodes for the development of high Tc Josephson Junctions” M. Sirena, L. Avilés Félix, L. A. Agüero, J. González, S. Pons Vargas, L. B. Steren, R. Bernard, J. Briático, N. Bergeal, J. Lesueur and G. Faini.
15. XI International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rhodes, Greece, August 26th – 31th. “Roughness influence in the barrier quality of ferroelectric/ferromagnetic tunnel junctions, model and experiments”, M. Sirena, L. Avilés Félix.
16. INTERMAG 2012, Vancouver, Canada May 7th – 11th. “Growth and characterization of ferromagnetic/ferroelectric multilayers for tunnel junctions”, Steren, Laura; Avilés Félix, Luis; Alejandro, Gabriela; Carreira, Santiago; Kaul, Enrique; Sirena, Martin.
17. Material Research Society 2011 Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, USA November 28th  – December 2nd. “Development of Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions: Structure, Magnetic and Transport Properties of Ferromagnetic/Ferroelectric Multilayers”, L. Steren, L. Avilés Félix, S. Carreira, F. Fernández, E. Kaul, M. Sirena, J. Lesueur, N. Bergeal, R. Bernard, J. Briatico, G. Faini and J. Villegas.
18. XIX Simposio Peruano de Física. Lima, Perú. September, 2010. ‘‘Implementation of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer for the Characterization of Magnetic Materials”, L. Avilés Félix, A. Gutarra., N. Salazar, A. Rosales Rivera.
19. XIV Encuentro Peruano de Física. Lima, Perú September, 2010. ‘‘Ley de Curie en películas delgadas de Permalloy Ni81Fe19 y Principios básicos para la construcción de un Magnetómetro de Muestra Vibrante’’, L. Avilés, A. Gutarra.
20. XIII Encuentro Peruano de Física. Arequipa, Perú September, 2009. ‘‘Caracterización magnética de películas delgadas de Permalloy Ni81Fe19 usando efecto Faraday’’, L. Avilés, A. Gutarra
21. XII Encuentro Peruano de Física. Lima, Perú 2008. ‘‘Caracterización de películas delgadas de Permalloy Ni19Fe81 mediante microscopía de efecto Kerr de Superficie (MEKS)’’, E. Monteblanco, L. Avilés, C. Sotelo, L. Pauro y A. Gutarra.

Schools and PhD Courses

1. Internacional School of Oxide Electronics ISOE2013, September 2nd – 14th, Cargèse, France
2. Exploring Nanomagnetism and its Applications (ENA), April 15th – 19th, 2013. Buenos Aires Argentina
3. II Escola de Verão, February 7th – 11th, 2011. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
4. Latin American School of Magnetism, July 25th – 29th, 2010. Manizales, Colombia.
5. II Latinoamerican School on Condensed Matter: Spins in solids. August 10th – 22nd, 2009. Corrientes, Argentina.
6. II Andean School of Spectroscopy, March 2nd – 6th, 2009. Lima, Peru.
7. II International Conference of Spectroscopy, March 9th – 13th, 2009, Lima, Peru

Patents

Patent CONICET: “Electrical and structural characterization method for the development of electronic devices for a current perpendicular to the plane configuration”, L. Avilés-Félix, M. Sirena.
Patent application AVILES-SIRENA – Ref.: CONICET-LW-0005.
Patent presented to the National institute of industrial property INPI – Argentina.
Act 20130101355, July 2013

Research internships

1. Research internship: “Inverse Spin Hall Effect In Ferromagnetic‐Metal Bilayers”, ECM Group, Physics Department, University of Antwerp, Antewerpen, Belgium. May 7th – 28th de 2017. Researcher: Dr Etienne Goovaerts.
2. Research internship: ‘‘Nanomagnetic system characterization by vibrating simple magnetometry’’. Laboratorio de Materiales Nanoestructurados de la Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú. June 12th – July 11th 2016. Researcher: Dr Abel Gutarra.
3. Research internship:‘‘Fabrication and study of electronic devices based on oxides nanostructures’’. Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etudes de Matériaux – ESPCI and THALES/CNRS, Palaiseau, France. June 11th – July 4th, 2015. Researcher: Javier Briático/Nicolas Bergeal.
4. Research internship: ‘‘Experimental study of tunneling in superconducting- and magnetic- based materials’’. Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etudes de Matériaux –ESPCI, Paris, France. September 16th – September 26th, 2013. Researcher: Jérôme Lesueur/Alexandre Zimmers.
5. Research internship: ‘‘Formation and specialization in new techniques related to the scanning probe microscopy’’. THALES/CNRS, Palaiseau, France. October 4th – November 1st, 2012. Researcher: Javier Briático/Karim Bouzehouane.
6. Research internship: ‘‘Experimental study of tunneling in superconducting- and magnetic- based materials’’. Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etudes de Matériaux –ESPCI, Paris, France. October 23rd – November 27th, 2011. Researcher: Jérôme Lesueur/Nicolas Bergeal.
7. Research internship: ‘‘Development of microtemplates for the fabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions.’’. Magnetic Resonance Laboratory, Bariloche Atomic Center – San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. February 22nd – March 27th, 2010. Researcher: Martín Sirena.
8. Research internship: ‘‘Implementation of a Vibrating Sample Magnetometer’’. Laboratorio de Magnetismo y Materiales Avanzados de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Manizales, Colombia. November 2nd – 6th, 2009. Researcher: Andrés Rosales Rivera

Experimental techniques

• Thin film fabrication (Sputtering)
• DC Magnetometry (Kerr Magnetometry, Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, SQUID, AGFM)
• Scanning Probe Microscopy (AFM, C-AFM, MFM)
• Microfabrication techniques: Optical lithography, Reactive Ion Etching.
• Electronic Transport in thin films: 4-probe method
• Analog and digital Electronics