Descriptions, Facilities, Funding, Collaborators
Nanoscale Materials, Physics and Devices
- Synthetic graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
- Quantum transport and Dirac fermion physics in graphene
- Graphene based radiation detection
- Surface physics and chemistry on graphene
- Thermal transport in graphene
Supported by: NSF, NIST, DTRA, DHS
B) Topological Insulators
1. Development of topological insulator and related materials
(List of bulk crystals grown at Purdue's Semiconductor Crystal Growth facilities using Bridgman method)
2. Novel "topological physics" such as topological excitonic condensation, quantum-Hall-like topological state, novel particle excitations (Majorana/Weyl fermions etc.)
3. Topological device applications in transistors, spintronics and thermoelectrics
Supported by: DARPA, Intel
Quantum Physics and Engineering with Atoms and Molecules
A) Bose-Einstein Condensation
Supported by: DOD (ARO)
B) Polar molecules and quantum information
Supported by: NSF, DOD.
