IRG 2: Elastic Layered Quantum Materials

Creating and studying layered quantum materials with optical, magnetic, topological and superconducting properties that can be sensitively tuned by quasi-static or dynamic elastic strain.

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Arthur Barnard

Materials Science and EngineeringPhysicsIRG 2Research Faculty

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Ting Cao

Materials Science and EngineeringAI CoreIRG 2Research Faculty

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David Cobden

Shared Facilities Chair
PhysicsIRG 2Shared Facilities Leadership

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Serena Eley

Electrical EngineeringIRG 2Research Faculty

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Juan Carlos Idrobo

Materials Science and EngineeringIRG 1IRG 2Research Faculty

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Mo Li

Electrical EngineeringPhysicsIRG 2Research Faculty

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Alexandra Velian

ChemistryIRG 2IRG 2 Co-LeadIRG Leaders

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Di Xiao

Materials Science and EngineeringIRG 2Research Faculty

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Xiaodong Xu

Materials Science and EngineeringPhysicsIRG 2Research Faculty

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Jihui Yang

Materials Science and EngineeringIRG 2Research Faculty

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Matthew Yankowitz

PhysicsIRG 2Research Faculty

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Jiun-Haw Chu

PhysicsIRG 2IRG 2 Co-LeadIRG Leaders

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Recent Publications

1. Proximity-Induced Exchange Interaction: A New Pathway for Quantum Sensing Using Spin Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

   Shen, Lingnan; Xiao, Di; Cao, Ting

   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024, 16, 4359-4366DMR-2308979, IRG 2, Shared Facilities, Year 2Di Xiao, Ting Cao

2. Quadrupling the depairing current density in the iron-based superconductor SmFeAsO_1-xH_x

   Miura, Masashi; Eley, Serena; Iida, Kazumasa; Hanzawa, Kota; Matsumoto, Jumpei; Hiramatsu, Hidenori; Ogimoto, Yuki; Suzuki, Takumi; Kobayashi, Tomoki; Ozaki, Toshinori; Kurokawa, Hodaka; Sekiya, Naoto; Yoshida, Ryuji; Kato, Takeharu; Okada, Tatsunori; Okazaki, Hiroyuki; Yamaki, Tetsuya; Haenisch, Jens; Awaji, Satoshi; Maeda, Atsutaka; Maiorov, Boris; Hosono, Hideo

   Nature Materials, 2024, 23, 1370-1378DMR-2308979, IRG 2, Year 2Serena Eley

3. Band alignments, conduction band edges and intralayer bandgap renormalisation in MoSe₂/WSe₂ heterobilayers

   Graham, A. J.; Nguyen, P., V; Park, H.; Nunn, J.; Kandyba, V; Cattelan, M.; Giampietri, A.; Barinov, A.; Xu, X.; Cobden, D. H.; Wilson, N. R.

   2D Materials, 2024, 4, 45021DMR-2308979, IRG 2, Shared FacilitiesDavid Cobden, Xiaodong Xu

4. Conduction Band Replicas in a 2D Moire Semiconductor Heterobilayer

   Graham, Abigail J.; Park, Heonjoon; Nguyen, Paul V.; Nunn, James; Kandyba, Viktor; Cattelan, Mattia; Giampietri, Alessio; Barinov, Alexei; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Andreev, Anton; Rudner, Mark; Xu, Xiaodong; Wilson, Neil R.; Cobden, David H.

   Nano Letters, 2024, 17, 5117-5124DMR-2308979, IRG 2, Shared Facilities, Year 2David Cobden, Xiaodong Xu

5. Continuously tunable uniaxial strain control of van der Waals heterostructure devices

   Liu, Zhaoyu; Ma, Xuetao; Cenker, John; Cai, Jiaqi; Fei, Zaiyao; Malinowski, Paul; Mutch, Joshua; Zhao, Yuzhou; Hwangbo, Kyle; Lin, Zhong; Manna, Arnab; Yang, Jihui; Cobden, David; Xu, Xiaodong; Yankowitz, Matthew; Chu, Jiun-Haw

   Journal of Applied Physics, 2024, 20, 204306DMR-2308979, IRG 2, Year 2Jihui Yang, David Cobden, Jiun-Haw Chu, Matthew Yankowitz, Xiaodong Xu