Research Areas

• Materials under Extreme Environments

Extreme environments (e.g. high P, high/low T, and high magnetic field) provide a new opportunity to explore materials with desirable properties, and also permit a deeper understanding of a wide range of phenomena. This is an emerging field which holds great promise for the discovery of novel materials for potential technological applications. Our group focuses on a number of important systems including transition-metal oxides, transition-metal dichalcogenides, organic-inorganic halide perovskites, and carbon nanomaterials.

•        Transition-metal oxides (TiO2, ZnO, SnO2, etc.)

•        Transition-metal dichalcogenides (MoS2, MoSe2, etc.)

•        Organic-inorganic hybrid materials (halide perovskites)

•        Carbon nanomaterials (graphene, CNTs, etc.)

• Multifunctional thin films

•        Design and fabrication of oxide homo- and hetero-structures

•        Interfacial engineering to develop novel films with emergent functionalities