Prof. Pinshane Huang in Materials Science Has A Research Opening

The Huang Lab in Materials Science and Engineering has an opening for a graduate student. Our lab uses aberration-corrected electron microscopy and spectroscopy to understand and design nanomaterials at the level of single atoms. Open projects include the development of methods for 3D reconstruction of materials and molecules at atomic resolution and probing electronic and optical properties of materials at the nanometer scale. Skills learned will include experimental high resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, data analysis in Matlab/Python, image reconstruction algorithms, and modeling of optical and electronic transitions.

For more information, visit our website at http://huanglab.matse.illinois.edu/ or e-mail Pinshane at pyhuang@illinois.edu. Representative publications are below:

Huang, P. Y., et al. (2013). "Imaging atomic rearrangements in two-dimensional silica glass: Watching silica’s dance." Science 342(6155): 224-227.

Huang, P. Y., et al. (2011). "Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts." Nature 469(7330): 389-392.

Blees, M. K., et al. (2015). "Graphene kirigami." Nature 524: 204-207.

Levendorf, M. P., et al. (2012). "Graphene and boron nitride lateral heterostructures for atomically thin circuitry." Nature 488(7413): 627-632.

Tsen, A. W., et al. (2012). "Tailoring electrical transport across grain boundaries in polycrystalline graphene." Science 336(6085): 1143-1146.