Our work in recent years is largely focused on an interesting class of two-dimensional crystals such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, boron nitrides, black phoshorus and their heterostructures. We revealed their basic electronic and optical properties, and their opportunities for novel electronics, optoelectronics, nanophotonics and plasmonics. Please refer to Publications and Google Scholar for more information about our research activities.

We are highly cross-disciplinary and have worked with many excellent experimental and theory groups across disciplines. We are always looking for new and interesting problems and welcome new collaborations. We acknowledge funding from NSF, DARPA, SRC, 3M, and UMN.

Highly motivated undergraduate students are welcome to participate in our research activities. Research Assistant and Postdoctoral positions, and support for Visiting Scholar, are available from time to time, please check with us.