Arielle Csolkovits
Pronouns: she/her
Research Mentor(s): Chulwon Lee
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Physics / LSA
Program:
Authors: Arielle Csolkovits, Chulwon Lee
Session: Session 1: 9:00 am – 9:50 am
Poster: 71
Abstract
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising research candidates of light-matter interactions due to a strong exciton oscillator strength and atomically-thin dimensionality, exhibiting a range of characteristics which promote their desirable application in technological and photonics development. Despite several methods of successful TMD monolayer acquisition that have been introduced over the last several years, each process of monolayer exfoliation exhibits a set of shortcomings that produces varied results. In this study, we focused on monolayer exfoliation methods, properties of TMDs that prove their usefulness in the study of quantum optical phenomena, and introduced a new, robust method of TMD exfoliation to achieve high-quality monolayers of these materials with greater overall efficiency.
