Undergraduate Research V

Presentations

• Binding mechanism of Ni and Cu on layered semiconductors

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Caden Sadler

    • University of Northern Iowa

  Authors

  • Caden Sadler

    • University of Northern Iowa

  • Ty Porter

    • University of Northern Iowa

  • Tim Kidd

    • University of Northern Iowa

  • Paul Shand

    • University of Northern Iowa

  • Andrew Stollenwerk

  • Pavel Lukashev

    • University of Northern Iowa

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• Monitoring WSe₂ Monolayer Growth in Real Time Using In Situ Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Olivia Fairlamb

    • Kenyon College

  Authors

  • Olivia Fairlamb

    • Kenyon College

  • Andrew Graves

    • The Pennsylvania State University

  • Joan Redwing

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Frank Peiris

    • Kenyon Coll

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• Extracting the optical properties of PtSe2 thin films using Mueller Matrix Spectroscopic Ellipsometry

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Owen Peterson

    • Kenyon College

  Authors

  • Owen Peterson

    • Kenyon College

  • Frank Peiris

    • Kenyon Coll

  • Qihua Zhang

  • Stephanie Law

    • Penn State

  • Maria Hilse

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• Fabrication and Characterization of Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures for Electronic Applications

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • James Switzer

    • Slippery Rock University

  Authors

  • James Switzer

    • Slippery Rock University

  • Sagar Bhandari

    • Slippery Rock University

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• Fabrication and Magnetoresistance Characterization of Twisted CrSBr in Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: Cham, et al. Science 389, 479-482 (2025); Chen, et al. Nature 632, 1045-1051 (2024)

  Presenters

  • Isaac Mottern

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Isaac Mottern

    • University of Southern California

  • Andrew Koerner

    • University of Southern California

  • Ethan Berg

    • University of Southern California

  • Derek Bergner

    • University of Southern California

  • Thow Min Jerald Cham

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Ni Ni

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Joshua Goldberger

    • The Ohio State University

  • Xavier Roy

    • Columbia University

  • Yunqiu (Kelly) Luo

    • University of Southern California

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• Quantum Hall Effect on Commercial Graphene Devices: Toward Scalable Quantum Technology Applications

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Gaeun Kim

    • Ewha Womans University

  Authors

  • Gaeun Kim

    • Ewha Womans University

  • Chaewon Min

  • Seohyun Lee

  • Yoojoo Yun

  • Jeongmin Park

    • Sungkyunkwan University

  • Dongseok Suh

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• Optical and AFM Spectroscopy Studies of the Crystal Structure of Quasi-2D Van der Waals Crystals

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Laura Ni

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Laura Ni

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Morgaine Mandigo-Stoba

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Andrew Nguyen

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Huy Nguyen

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Hok Pui Mak

  • José Lopez

  • Christopher Gutierrez

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Superconducting Circuits for Probing Moiré Materials

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Srushti Selot

    • Rutgers University New Brunswick

  Authors

  • Srushti Selot

    • Rutgers University New Brunswick

  • Phanibhusan Mahapatra

    • Rutgers University

  • Pratyankara Narasimhan

    • Rutgers University

  • Ahmed Shaikh

    • Rutgers New Brunswick

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Eva Andrei

    • Rutgers University

  • Srivatsan Chakram Sundar

    • Rutgers University

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• Gate-Induced Structural Switching in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: [1] Han, T. et al. Superconductivity and quantized anomalous Hall effect in multilayer graphene. Nature 626, 759-764 (2024). URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09169-7. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group.
  
  [2] Zhou, H. et al. Superconductivity in rhombohedral trilayer graphene. Nature 598, 434-438 (2021). URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03926-0. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group.
  
  [3] Zhou, H. et al. Half- and quarter-metals in rhombohedral trilayer graphene Nature 598, 429-433 (2021). URL https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03938-w. Publisher: Nature Publishing Group.
  
  [4] Li, H. et al. Global Control of Stacking-Order Phase Transition by Doping and Electric Field in Few-Layer Graphene. Nano Letters 20, 3106-3112 (2020). URL https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05092. Publisher: American Chemical Society.
  
  [5] Brandon, D. et al. Nonvolatile Switching of Magnetism via Gate-Induced Sliding in Tetralayer Graphene (2025). URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00220. ArXiv:2510.00220 [cond-mat].

  Presenters

  • Peter Golemis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Peter Golemis

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Daniel Brandon

    • Cornell University

  • Tixuan Tan

    • Stanford University

  • Yiwen Ai

  • Akshat Gandhi

  • Lujin Min

    • Pennsylvania State University

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Kenji Yasuda

    • Cornell University

  • Trithep Devakul

    • Stanford University

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• Tailoring Excitonic Excitations in a Strained Quasi-1D Moiré Superlattice

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Xiangyi Du

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Xiangyi Du

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Steffi Woo

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Yanxing Li

    • Princeton University

  • Yiyuan Luo

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Lily Guo

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Pengjie Wang

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Chih-Kang Shih

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Fractional Quantum Hall Physics in Rapidly Rotating Fermi Gases and Excitonic Systems

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Brooke Vos

    • Augusta University

  Authors

  • Brooke Vos

    • Augusta University

  • Theja De Silva

    • Augusta University

  • Asanka Amarasinghe

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• Optothermal Properties of Van der Waals Heterostructures Supported by Machine Learning

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Planning to submit a paper in the near future

  Presenters

  • Nathan Webb

    • San Diego State University

  Authors

  • Nathan Webb

    • San Diego State University

  • Antonio Cobarrubia

    • San Diego State University

  • Sanjay Behura

  • C. Abinash Bhuyan

  • Nicholas Schottle

  • Ryan Palmares

    • San Diego State University

  • Vincent Juliano

  • Mansour Mortazavi

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• Field-tunable correlated states in H-stacked twisted MoS₂.

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yanrong Yu

    • University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Yanrong Yu

    • University of Texas at Austin

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• Two superconducting gaps with quasiparticle-lifetime broadening in single-crystal V₃Si revealed by field and temperature dependence of NMR spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/T₁ of ⁵¹V

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Daniel Smith

    • University of South Alabama

  Authors

  • Albert Gapud

    • University of South Alabama

  • Daniel Smith

    • University of South Alabama

  • Arneil Reyes

    • Florida State University

  • Rong Cong

    • National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

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