RESEARCH AREA

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, as a potential candidate for beyond Silicon, possess unique properties that are highly suitable for the development of next-generation electronic and optoelectronic applications. These unique characteristics include their high mechanical strength, high electron mobility, and tunable electronic band structure.
In our efforts to push the boundaries of semiconductor device fabrication, we intend to focuse of the following areas:

• Development of dry/wet transfer technique for sub-micrometer scale alignment of van der Waals heterostructure

• Fabrication of uniform/non-uniform strain platform to modulate the electrical/optical properties of 2D materials.

2D van der Waals materials, through a combination of different materials and device scheme, have the potential to create next-generation functional devices that cannot be achieved through traditional semiconductor technologies.  
Our group aims to implement the following next-generation electronic devices and integrated circuit designs:

• Development of neuromorphic devices (synapse and neural devices) for building next-generation AI semiconductor platform.

• Study on programmable reconfigurable logic device/circuit based on van der Waals platform.

Optical quantum computing is one of the next-generation computing technologies that utilizes optical information encoded in quantum states. In particular, recent developments have shown promise in the ability to generate, transmit, and detect the valley degree of freedom, which is a specific type of optical information.
Our group aims to implement the following photonic applications for building optical quantum computing:

• Development of valleytronic devices by harnessing pseudo-magnetic fields in strained graphene.

• Implementation of ultra-high-sensitive photodetectors (e.g., hybrid structure, avalanche photodetector) based on van der Waals heterostructure.