Research Areas

The target areas of intervention of the NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials are:

• Atomically thin, wafer size, crystal growth, and characterization: Raman, AFM, TEM, STM, magneto transport, angle resolved photoemission (ARPES), optics.
• Flexible electronics and strain engineering of atomically thin materials.
• Mechanics of atomically thin film transfer.
• Nano-scale patterning and new device development.
• Three-dimensional architectures based on atomically thin films (atomic multi-layers, see figure).
• Composite materials where accumulated stress could be monitored by contactless, non-invasive, optical methods.
• Spintronics and valleytronics in two-dimensional materials.
• Atomically thin electrodes for photovoltaic or OLED applications.
• Atomically thin gas barriers and electrodes for energy/charge transfer and storage (water splitting, fuel cells, etc).
• Solution-processed atomically thin substrates for bio applications and catalysis.
• Atomically thin films as optical components in fiber lasers (mode locking, polarizers etc).
• Atomically thin film platforms for bio-sensing and stem cell growth.
• Atomically thin film platforms for sol-gel, organic, and electro-chemistry.
• Graphene-ferroelectric memories (G-FeRAM), graphene spin torque transistors (G-STT).
• Computational modeling of new atomically thin materials and complex architectures.