
Pedro Alpuim
Group Leader
2D Materials and Devices
Pedro Alpuim is group leader in 2D Materials and Devices at INL. He works in CVD and 2D materials device fabrication, with an emphasis on biosensors. In particular, he develops graphene devices to detect biomarkers for medicine and environmental monitoring. 2D materials-based optoelectronic and plasmonic devices for sensing, single-photon emission, and THz spectroscopy are also within his research interests. P. Alpuim is a professor in the Physics Department of the University of Minho (UM), where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on the physics of electronic devices, nanotechnology, and clean-room fabrication.
He received a PhD degree in Materials Engineering from IST Lisbon in 2003, working in amorphous silicon thin-film devices for flexible electronics, and an MSc in Physics from the UM. He installed a thin-film laboratory at UM where he focused on the fabrication of thin-film silicon solar cells, piezoresistive sensor arrays for health care, and thermoelectric junctions of telluride compounds for micro-cooling and energy scavenging. He published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has h-index=24.
Selected Publications
- João Santos, Matteo Moschetta, João Rodrigues, Pedro Alpuim and Andrea Capasso
Interactions Between 2D Materials and Living Matter: A Review on Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Coatings
Front. Bioeng. Biotechnol. 9:612669 (2021)
- Patricia D Cabral, Telma Domingues, George Machado Jr., Alexandre Chicharo, Fatima Cerqueira, Elisabete Fernandes, Emilia Athayde, Pedro Alpuim, Jerome Borme
Clean-Room Lithographical Processes for the Fabrication of Graphene Biosensors
Materials 13(24) (2020) 5728 (25pp)
- Rui Campos, Jérôme Borme, Joana Rafaela Guerreiro, George Luiz Machado Jr, Maria Fátima Cerqueira, Dmitri Y Petrovykh, and Pedro Alpuim
Attomolar label-free detection of DNA hybridization with electrolyte-gated graphene field-effect transistors
ACS Sensors 4 (2019) 286-293
- Ricardo R. M. Adão, Rui Campos, Edite Figueiras, Pedro Alpuim and Jana Berit Nieder
Graphene setting the stage: Tracking DNA hybridization with nanoscale resolution
2D Materials 6 (4) (2019) 045056
- Elisabete Fernandes, Patrícia D. Cabral, Rui Campos, George Machado, M. Fátima Cerqueira, Cláudia Sousa, Paulo P. Freitas, Jérôme Borme, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Pedro Alpuim
Functionalization of single-layer graphene for immunoassays
Applied Surface Science 480 (2019) 709-716