Vision

Innovative technologies have always emerged from new materials and the physical phenomena they host. We believe the next generation of technologies — computers, communications, sensors, and applications not yet imagined — will emerge from the same place: an atomic-scale understanding of the structure and electronic properties of quantum materials, and the ability to control them and impart functionality once understood.

What We Do

Our research laboratory combines atomic-scale imaging with nanoscale device fabrication to understand and control quantum materials.

We use scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS) to image the atomic, electronic, and magnetic structure of low-dimensional quantum matter (twisted 2D materials, moiré superlattices, topological insulators, correlated and magnetic phases) — and we build nanoscale devices from these ultrathin materials to translate what we learn into working functionality. By correlating real-space structure with local electronic and magnetic properties, and testing that understanding in devices, we work toward the atomic-scale control needed for the next generation of technologies.

We train undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral researchers for careers at the intersection of science, engineering, and technology.