I am a Pappalardo Fellow in Physics at MIT.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle, leveraging my experimental skills complemented by a suite of theoretical tools.
Research Interests
I study emergent phenomena in novel quantum materials focusing on the following systems:
Diverse methods are used to approach the physics in these platforms, including:
Novel device fabrication techniques for 2D materials
Many exotic 2D materials are extremely air-sensitive. We developed advanced fabrication techniques such as ultraclean backgate with a metal electrode on demand, stencil mask, anhydrous wet process, and van der Waals transfer in an inert environment.
Electronic transport
Basically (but not limited to!) measuring the resistivity of a material or a nanodevice. With the help of Jiunhaw Chu lab, we build an ultralow noise amplification system for measuring small resistance, such as superconductors and quantum Hall systems. The current noise level is 100 times lower than the room temperature lock-in amplifier with the same filter(24dB) and time constant(0.3s).
Optics
Baby-level, stationary optics with the reflection geometry, such as Raman/PL spectroscopy, MOKE/RMCD, and differential reflectance in cryogenic temperature and magnetic field.
Fiber optics
I am now researching and developing a new dilution fridge platform for optoelectronics, together with efforts from Arthur Barnard’s lab. We are also ambitious to perform a scanning probe microscopy with a novel vibration isolation stage.
- Some novel things in my mind, such as transient transport, scanning probe microscope, etc.
I theorize physics in nanodevices only with toy models, including continuum model, exact diagonalization, real-space transport simulation, finite element method and FDTD.
I used to share my understanding and knowledge in Q&A website Zhihu. I got more than 40k followers and ‘likes’.
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