UPDATE: HAS Professors, Staff, and Students Open Door for Potential HAS-Physics Collaboration: Behind the Scenes Tour with UA Physics Labs
HAS Professors Andrew Bennett, Xiquan Dong, Yang Song, Baike Xi, and Xubin Zeng, staff member Tim Corley, and a group of HAS students representing the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences recently had the unique opportunity to visit the UA Physics Laboratories of Tai Kong, John Schaibley, and Weigang Wang for the purpose of seeking potential opportunities for research collaboration. These labs are currently engaged in research related to semiconductors and condensed matter physics.
The behind the scenes tour of these labs was arranged by HAS professors and their physics colleagues to spark conversations that might lead to novel and creative research projects between the HAS and Physics departments. Their fields of study include:
Assistant Professor Tai Kong ¤ Work is focused on the design, synthesis and characterization of materials with novel magnetic and electronic properties, for the purposes of bettering our understanding and control of emergent electronic behavior in quantum materials through the use detailed structural, thermodynamic and transport measurements, and the study the physical properties of these new materials, such as low-dimensional magnetism, topological materials, strongly correlated phenomena and superconductivity.
Associate Professor John Schaibley ¤ Work is focused on the discovery and understanding of novel electronic, optical and spin effects in low dimensional solid state systems, and their applications to technology with current emphasis on optoelectronic and spin physics of 2D material semiconductor systems, specifically monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), and 2D heterostructure devices; this work uses the unique properties of disparate materials (TMDC, graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, FeSe, NbSe2, and organic semiconductors) layered together, to study the physics of atomically sharp material junctions.
Professor and Distinguished Scholar Weigang Wang ¤ Work is focused on transport of charge and spin at nanoscales, leading to new applications such as nonvolatile magnetic memories and logic units. They also specialize in new materials, new structures, and new device concepts for the next generation of spintronic applications, as well as the fabrication of nanostructures, by means of large scale self-assembly or photo/electron-beam lithography, and the subsequent magnetic, biological and/or energy applications.
All who attended would like to formally invite all HAS faculty, staff, and students to join this new conversation to identify new areas of mutual research collaboration!
Please contact Xubin Zeng with your comments, thoughts, and ideas.