Quantum Engineered Materials

Exploration of atomically-thin (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials (graphene, h-BN, MoS2, WSe2, etc) and their heterostructures; Intercalated vdW materials; Dirac and Weyl semimetals; Ferromagnetic and anti-ferromagnetic materials; Topological insulators; Mott insulators; Moiré engineered materials, etc., for applications in nanoelectronic, photonic, and quantum computing devices.

Selected Publications

• 2-D Layered Materials for Next-Generation Electronics: Opportunities and Challenges

Wei Cao, Junkai Jiang, Xuejun Xie, Arnab Pal, Jae-Hwan Chu, Jiahao Kang and Kaustav Banerjee
IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 65, No. 10, pp. 4109-4121, Oct. 2018.
Invited in Special Issue on 2-D Materials for Electronic, Optoelectronic, and Sensor Devices

• On-Chip Intercalated-Graphene Inductors for Next-Generation Radio Frequency Electronics

Jiahao Kang, Yuji Matsumoto, Xiang Li, Junkai Jiang, Xuejun Xie, Keisuke Kawamoto, Munehiro Kenmoku, Jae Hwan Chu, Wei Liu, Junfa Mao, Kazuyoshi Ueno and Kaustav Banerjee
Nature Electronics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 46-51, 2018.
Read Media Coverage by Forbes

• Designing Artificial 2D Crystals with Site and Size Controlled Quantum Dots

Xuejun Xie, Jiahao Kang, Wei Cao, Jae Hwan Chu, Yongji Gong, Pulickel M. Ajayan and Kaustav Banerjee
Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 7, No. 9965, 2017.
Read Media Coverage by Phys.org and Science Daily        Among Scientific Report's Top 100 in Materials Science

• Two-Dimensional Van der Waals Materials

Pulickel Ajayan, Philip Kim and Kaustav Banerjee
Physics Today, Vol. 69, No. 9, pp. 38-44, 2016.
Read Media Coverage by College of Engineering and ECE Department

• Electrical Contacts to Two-dimensional Semiconductors

Adrien Allain, Jiahao Kang, Kaustav Banerjee and Andras Kis
Nature Materials, Vol. 14, pp. 1195–1205, 2015.
Read Media Coverage by ECE Department