Low-Dimensional Properties of Atomically-Thin Materials and
Systems
Douglas R. Strachan,
Dept Physics and Astronomy,
University of Kentucky
Atomically-thin materials represent the thinnest possible
components of future device applications with extreme reduction in
size scales. While tremendous progress has recently been made in
understanding the large-scale properties of atomically-thin
materials, the low-dimensional aspects, although critical to the
smallest device sizes, have received comparatively much less
attention. Within this important field of atomically-thin
materials, I will discuss our recent experimental investigations
of the synthesis, local mechanical and electrical properties
determined through various scanning probe microscopies, and
transport characteristics of these low-dimensional systems. These
experiments on atomically-thin materials focus on their edges,
ordered low-dimensional phases contained within them, integration
with lower-dimensional materials (such as 1D nanotubes), and the
electrical transport behavior at extremely confined scales -- work
which probes the ultimate limits of device-size scaling.
Some of our related publications
[1] ACS Nano, 5, 6403-6409 (2011)
[2] Physical Review B, 87, 035417 (2013)
[3] Applied Physics Letters, 105, 243109 (2014)
[4] Advanced Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201404060 (2014)