2D Materials for Smart Life

I will highlight the prospects of two-dimensional (2D) materials for innovating energy-efficient transistors, sensors, and passive devices targeted for next-generation electronics needed to support the emerging paradigm of the Internet of Things. More specifically, I will bring forward a few applications uniquely enabled by 2D materials and their heterostructures that have been demonstrated in my lab for realizing ultra-energy-efficient electronics. This will include the world’s first on-chip intercalated-graphene inductor that exploits a low-dimensional material property to overcome a fundamental scalability challenge in all inductors and opens up a new pathway for designing ultra-compact wireless communication systems, a 2D-channel band-to-band tunneling transistor that overcomes a fundamental power consumption challenge in all electronic devices since the invention of the first transistor, as well as a breakthrough interconnect technology based on doped-graphene-nanoribbons, which overcomes the fundamental limitations of conventional metals and provides an attractive pathway toward a low-power and highly reliable interconnect technology for next-generation integrated circuits. I will also bring forward a new class of ultra-sensitive and low-power sensors enabled by 2D materials, for ubiquitous sensing and connectivity to improve quality of life.