2D Materials: Novel Materials and Structures

Presentations

• 2D Molecular Crystals for Quantum Solids

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: [1] T. Chowdhury, F. Mujid, Z. Naqvi, A. Ray, C. Liang, D. A. Muller, N. Guisinger, and J. Park, "Spectra-orthogonal optical anisotropy in wafer-scale molecular crystal monolayers", Nano Letters, 25, 5853-5859 (2025).
  [2] T. Chowdhury, A. Champagne, P. Knüppel, Z. Naqvi, A. Ray, M. Gao, D. A. Muller, N. Guisinger, K. F. Mak, J. B. Neaton, and J. Park, "Emergent Above-Gap Photoluminescence in Molecularly Engineered Hybrid Bilayer Crystals", arXiv:2502.13460, in press, ACS Nano.
  [3] M. Gao, H. Hong, S. Fan, T. Chowdhury, Z. Naqvi, J. Ge, C. Liang, H. Yu, N. Guisinger, Y. Qiu, D. Kim, S. Vaikuntanathan, C. Liu, and J. Park, "Room-Temperature Charge Localization in Ion-Coupled Bilayer Transistors", in press, Science, 390, 356-360 (2025).
  

  Presenters

  • Jiwoong Park

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Jiwoong Park

    • University of Chicago

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• van der Waals Nanoreactors - Part I: Concept and Realization

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhaoyi (Joy) Zheng

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Zhaoyi (Joy) Zheng

    • Princeton University

  • Haosen Guan

    • Princeton University

  • Ryan McTigue

    • Princeton University

  • Wenlin Han

    • Princeton University

  • Danrui Ni

  • Guangming Cheng

  • Yanyu Jia

    • Princeton University

  • Ipsita Das

    • Princeton University

  • Yue Tang

    • Princeton University

  • Ayelet Uzan-Narvolansky

  • Lihan Shi

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Nan Yao

  • Robert Cava

    • Princeton University

  • Sanfeng Wu

    • Princeton University

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• van der Waals Nanoreactors - Part II: Engineering Palladium-based Superconductors

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Ryan McTigue

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Ryan McTigue

    • Princeton University

  • Zhaoyi (Joy) Zheng

    • Princeton University

  • Matthew Benton

    • Princeton University

  • Haosen Guan

    • Princeton University

  • Yanyu Jia

    • Princeton University

  • Sanfeng Wu

    • Princeton University

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• van der Waals Nanoreactors - Part III: Mechanochemical Synthesis and Nanowriting of Atomically Thin Metals

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Haosen Guan

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Haosen Guan

    • Princeton University

  • shuai zhang

  • Robert Carpick

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Yanyu Jia

    • Princeton University

  • Zhaoyi (Joy) Zheng

    • Princeton University

  • Guangming Cheng

  • Nan Yao

  • Sanfeng Wu

    • Princeton University

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• van der Waals Nanoreactors - IV: Engineering Superconducting in  Moiré Systems.

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Wenlin Han

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Wenlin Han

    • Princeton University

  • Haosen Guan

    • Princeton University

  • Ipsita Das

    • Princeton University

  • Ayelet Uzan

    • Princeton University

  • Yanyu Jia

    • Princeton University

  • Yue Tang

    • Princeton University

  • Zhaoyi (Joy) Zheng

    • Princeton University

  • Lihan Shi

  • Ryan McTigue

    • Princeton University

  • Sanfeng Wu

    • Princeton University

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• Electric-Field-Tunable Magnetoexcitons in Xenes-Based van der Waals Heterostructures

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Publication: J. Appl. Phys. 138 (2025); doi: 10.1063/5.0281960

  Presenters

  • Anastasia Spiridonova

    • New York City College of Technology

  Authors

  • Anastasia Spiridonova

    • New York City College of Technology

  • Roman Kezerashvili

    • The Graduate Center, City University of New York

  • Klaus Ziegler

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• Reversible Straining of van der Waals Nanoribbons

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Kylie Thompson

    • Columbia University

  Authors

  • Kylie Thompson

    • Columbia University

  • Siddharth Singh

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Aravind Devarakonda

    • Columbia University

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• Engineering Moiré Physics in Complex Oxide–TMD Heterostructures

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: 1. Rahul et al. Crafting Moiré Superlattices in Twisted Complex Oxide–Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures, Nature Communications (Revision Submitted)

  Presenters

  • Rahul Rahul

    • National Cheng Kung University, R.O.C.

  Authors

  • Rahul Rahul

    • National Cheng Kung University, R.O.C.

  • Puneet Kaur Puneet Kaur

    • National Cheng Kung University, R.O.C.

  • Yi-Chun Chen

    • National Cheng Kung University, R.O.C.

  • Chun-Gang Duan

  • Wei-Ting Hsu

  • Chih-Wei Luo

    • National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

  • Jan-Chi Yang

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• Exciton hybridization and optical anisotropy in twin-stacked magnetic CrSBr bilayer

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: [1] Sun et al, arXiv:2506.10080
  [2] Ke, Shaidu, Neaton, in prep

  Presenters

  • Sijia Ke

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Sijia Ke

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Yusuf Shaidu

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Jeffrey Neaton

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Multi-moiré torsional force microscopy as a tool to understand strain

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Benjamin Alexander

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Benjamin Alexander

    • Stanford University

  • Steven Tran

    • Stanford University

  • Rupini Kamat

    • Stanford University

  • Jan-Lucas Uslu

  • Chaitrali Duse

    • Stanford University

  • Mihir Pendharkar

    • Stanford University

  • Kenji Watanabe

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • Takashi Taniguchi

    • National Institute for Materials Science

  • David Goldhaber-Gordon

    • Stanford University

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• Many-body phenomena driven by valley and orbital isospins in bilayer graphene

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 19, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 19, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Publication: K. Huang, A.C. Balram, H. Fu, C. Guo, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J.K. Jain, & J. Zhu, "Hetero-Orbital Two-Component Fractional Quantum Hall States in Bilayer Graphene". Physical Review X 15 (3), 031023 (2025) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/kfn2-qggs. And unpublished

  Presenters

  • Jun Zhu

    • Pennsylvania State University

  Authors

  • Jun Zhu

    • Pennsylvania State University

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