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Applied Physics Seminar: "Exploring and Engineering New Electron Behavior in Two-Dimensional Materials"

Eric Spanton, Assistant Professor of Physics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
12:00-1:00 PM
340 West Hall Map
Abstract:
The electronic properties of most everyday materials can be well understood in the single-particle picture, that of independent electrons interacting with their environment. When interactions between electrons are important, however, the collective and correlated behavior of electrons can be beautiful, complicated, counter-intuitive, and sometimes even useful. I will outline how we can engineer and search for new correlated electronic states starting from ‘Scotch tape exfoliation’ of atomically thin materials (such as graphene) as a basis for new types of devices. Then, I will discuss how my research group plans to use low-temperature electronic transport and spatially-resolved magnetic measurements to uniquely demonstrate the behavior of correlated electrons in 2D materials, highlighting some of my previous work on the fractional quantum Hall effect and superconductivity as concrete examples.
Building: West Hall
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Physics, Science
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Applied Physics