CCNY-Columbia NSF MRSEC

Center for Precision Assembly of Superstratic and Superatomic Solids (PAS³)

♦ New approaches pioneered by CCNY-Columbia team
♦ Multi-functional materials from superstratic and superatomic building blocks
♦ Materials Genome: rapid, multifunctional, and designed

Overview

NSF MRSEC Center for Precision Assembly of Superstratic and Superatomic Solids (PAS³) is a joint center led by the City College of New York and Columbia University, with Harvard University, Barnard College, and the University of the Virgin Islands as additional partners. It encompasses two IRGs around the theme of building higher dimensional materials from lower dimensional structures with unprecedented levels of control. Both IRGs are built around techniques pioneered by the team, and bring together researchers with diverse capabilities, strong accomplishments, and a record of collaboration. The unified center promotes formation of the interdisciplinary teams, supports shared experimental tools, implements a multi-faceted program of education and human resources development, and maintains focused efforts to improve diversity. The MRSEC leverages the proximity of Columbia, CCNY, and Barnard for intercampus cooperation. Brookhaven National Laboratory, IBM, DuPont, and other partners provide research partnerships and educational opportunities. Synergy among the two IRG teams includes the common emphasis on materials assembly with precise control, and is enhanced by co-advising of MRSEC Fellows and common educational activities.

Intellectual merit

KrusinLab is a member of IRG1 (Heterostructures of van der Waals Materials) team which combines two-dimensional van der Waals materials into pristine layered heterostructures. The team has demonstrated successful collaboration to develop proof-of-concept heterostructures with unprecedented size, perfection, and complexity. This IRG focuses on three research thrusts: (1) Expanding the class of available materials, particularly using synthetic methods that produce large-area films; (2) Measuring and controlling the properties of atomically thin vdW materials in a protected, ultralow-disorder environment; and (3) Creating new interfaces that exhibit emergent electronic phenomena.

PAS³ team members

There are two independent research groups (IRG) in PAS³.

Co-directors of IRG1:
James Hone -- Columbia University, Mechanical Engineering,
Lia Krusin -- CCNY-CUNY, Physics.


James Hone Columbia Mech. Egineering	Lia Krusin-Elbaum CCNY Physics

Wayne Archibald UVI	Cory Dean CCNY/Columbia	Tony Heinz Columbia/Stanford	Irving Herman Columbia	Philip Kim Harvard	Chris Marianetti Columbia

Stephen O'Brien CCNY	Vadim Oganesyan CUNY	Abhay Pasupathy Columbia	Maria Tamargo CCNY	Latha Venkataraman Columbia