2D Materials: Scanning Probe Characterization

Presentations

• High resolution studies of quantum melting of field-induced Wigner crystals

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Yen-Chen Tsui

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Yen-Chen Tsui

    • Princeton University

  • Minhao He

    • Princeton University

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Michael P Zaletel

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Ali Yazdani

    • Princeton University

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• Purcell enhanced nano-spectroscopy of strain-localized dark exciton and defect states in WSe₂

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Publication: Whetten, B.G., Driskill, S., Hone, J.C., and Raschke, M.B. Multimodal nano-imaging and Stark tuning of bright, dark, charged, and localized excitons in WSe2. (In preparation).

  Presenters

  • Benjamin G Whetten

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Benjamin G Whetten

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Sean Driskill

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • James C Hone

    • Columbia University

  • Markus B Raschke

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Visible Cryogenic Near-field Imaging of Single Photon Emitters in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Structures

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Anna S Roche

    • University of Arizona

  Authors

  • Anna S Roche

    • University of Arizona

  • Nicholas V proscia

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Paul D Cunningham

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Kathleen M McCreary

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Hsun-Jen Chuang

    • United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • John R Schaibley

    • University of Arizona

  • Brian J LeRoy

    • University of Arizona

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• Strain-Engineered Correlated Phases and Band Flattening in Graphene via Stressor Arrays (Part 1)

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Joy Y Hsu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Joy Y Hsu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Rachel L Birchmier

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Dongyoung Yoon

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Arend van der Zande

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Vidya Madhavan

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Strain-Engineered Correlated Phases and Band Flattening in Graphene via Stressor Arrays (Part 2)

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Rachel L Birchmier

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Rachel L Birchmier

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Dongyoung Yoon

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • Joy Y Hsu

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Arend van der Zande

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Vidya Madhavan

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Layer-resolved microwave imaging of a van der Waals heterostructure

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Publication: L. W. Cao, C. Wu, L. Lyu, L. Cohen, N. Samuelson, Z. Yan, S. Pancholi, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. E. Parker, A. F. Young, and M. T. Allen. 3D microwave imaging of a van der Waals heterostructure. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18365

  Presenters

  • Monica Allen

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Monica Allen

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Visualizing asymmetric Coulomb blockade in nanoislands on a semiconductor

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Junho Bang

    • Yonsei University

  Authors

  • Junho Bang

    • Yonsei University

  • Byeongin Lee

    • Yonsei University

  • Hankyu Lee

    • Yonsei University

  • Jian-Feng Ge

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Doohee Cho

    • Yonsei University

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• Conductive Atomic Force Microscopy Imaging of Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Yanzi Lin

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  Authors

  • Yanzi Lin

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

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• Local electronic structure of single-layer Kagomé MOFs on carbon surfaces

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Ziyi Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Ziyi Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Rafal Zuzak

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Weichen Tang

    • Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Haowen Pang

    • Peking University
    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Andrew Sun

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Aining Hu

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yutang Qiao

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yuqiao Yan

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Steven G Louie

    • University of California, Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA; Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
    • Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Michael F Crommie

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Scanning Probe Microscopy Studies of Gate Tunable Bi₂Se₃/hBN Heterostructures

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Xincong Liu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  Authors

  • Xincong Liu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Swosti Choudhury

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Tianhui Zhu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Qirong Yao

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Aidan Lindhe-Johan

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • David Lederman

    • University of California, Santa Cruz
    • University of California Santa Cruz

  • Jairo Velasco Jr.

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

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• Imaging Electrostatically Confined Dirac Fermions in Elliptically Shaped Graphene Quantum Dot

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Tianhui Zhu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  Authors

  • Tianhui Zhu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Qirong Yao

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Anton Marius Graf

    • Harvard University

  • Xincong Liu

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Annette Zoe Samuels Asryan

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Yanzi Lin

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Jucheng Lin

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    • shanghai jiao tong university

  • Yicheng Zhuang

    • Peking Univ

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Joonas Keski-Rahkonen

    • Harvard University

  • Eric Johnson Heller

    • Harvard University

  • Jairo Velasco Jr.

    • University of California, Santa Cruz

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• Anomalous Impurity-Induced Charge Modulations in Black Phosphorus

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 17, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Byeongin Lee

    • Yonsei University

  Authors

  • Byeongin Lee

    • Yonsei University

  • Junho Bang

    • Yonsei University

  • João A Sobral

    • University of Stuttgart

  • Sayan Banerjee

    • University of Stuttgart

  • Young Woo Choi

    • Sogang University

  • Claudia Felser

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Mathias S Scheurer

    • University of Stuttgart

  • Jian-Feng Ge

    • Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids

  • Doohee Cho

    • Yonsei University

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• Imaging Correlated Electron States in Electrostatically Defined Quantum Dots

  ORAL

  March 17, 2026, 10:48 AM – March 17, 2026, 11:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Zhehao Ge

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Zhehao Ge

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Zehao He

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Conor Smith

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Qize Li

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yubo Yang

    • Hofstra University
    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Wenjie Zhou

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Salman Kahn

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science
    • International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science
    • Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute of Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  • Miguel A Morales

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Shiwei Zhang

    • Simons Foundation (Flatiron Institute)

  • Michael F Crommie

    • University of California, Berkeley

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