Prof. Harley Johnson has Research Opening in Theory/Computation of 2D Materials

8/12/2018 1:00:49 AM

Lance Cooper

Prof. Harley Johnson in Mechanical Science & Engineering and the MRL has an opening for a PhD student in theory/computation applied to 2D materials. His group studies mechanics and physics of electronic materials, with an emphasis on discovery of fundamental mechanisms by which defects and disorder affect electronic and mechanical behavior. More information about his group and his recent work is available here: https://mechanical.illinois.edu/directory/faculty/htj.

The new project, funded by the National Science Foundation, explores periodic commensurability/incommensurability relationships, or Moiré patterns, in stacked 2D materials. Moiré patterns are responsible for a variety of interesting physics in graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and other 2D materials, including exotic electronic transport properties and interesting tribological characteristics in these systems. This theory/computation project complements several other new activities in the Johnson research group on interfaces in 2D materials, including the work summarized here: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/571376.