Kyusang Lee, an assistant professor who joined UVA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with a joint appointment in materials science and engineering a year ago, has already won his first National Science Foundation collaborative research award. Together with Jeehwan Kim of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he will study nanomanufacturing of wafer-scale 2D materials.
The two principal investigators proposed a novel Layer Resolved Splitting (LRS) process that enables manufacturing of wafer-scale heterogeneously integrated two-dimensional atomic layer material building blocks by precisely controlling the exfoliation and transfer of a wide variety of 2D materials.
This project opens exciting new opportunities and pathways in 2D materials research by providing a reliable platform to manufacture single layer-resolved wafer-scale 2D heterostructures.