CIQM Retreat 2016: Research Project Ideas from Brainstorming Sessions
Color Center Diamond
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
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1. Grow and characterize Si and Ge color centers in diamond as new qubits.
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Erin Strickland
Amber Wingfield James Griffin Gary Harris Bob Westervelt Amirhassan Shams Ansari |
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2. Control depth of NV centers by delta-doping during CVD growth.
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Erin Strickland
Amber WIngfield James Griffin Gary Harris Bob Westervelt Amirhassan Shams Ansari |
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3. Delta dope C-13 atoms during CVD growth of diamond to act as nuclear spin memory sites.
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Amber Wingfield
James Griffin Gary Harris Bob Westervelt Amirhassan Shams Ansari |
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4. Grow and characterize superconducting B-doped diamond, Tc and Hc.
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Hechen Ren
Delroy Green Breyonna Pinkney Maoz Ovadia Bob Westervelt Tabia Muhammad Amirhassan Shams Ansari Bertrand Halperin |
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5. Stacked structures of ultrathin layers of NV diamond layers, TMD materials and graphene
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Amirhassan Shams Ansari
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6. Interface of graphene on diamond - theory and expt. characterization of contacts on semiconducting diamond.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Paul Sabila Delroy Green Breyonna Pinkney Jordan Stroman Adewale Adepoju David Bell Bob Westervelt |
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7. Develop diamond supercapacitors.
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Tewa Kpulun
Delroy Green Breyonna Pinkney Thomas Searles Scott Johnson |
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8. Growth of diamene
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Tina Brower-Thomas
Scott Johnson Bertrand Halperin |
New Materials / Topological Insulators
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
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9. New TI Materials - external stimulae such as time dependent electric fields
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Hechen Ren
Thomas Searles Joe Checkelsky Shiang Fang |
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10. New TI Materials - TIs on carbon nanotubes
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Thomas Searles
Joe Checkelsky David Bell Shiang Fang Bertrand Halperin |
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11. New TI Materials - TI of doped diamond.
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12. New TI Materials - real insulating TI
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Hechen Ren
Tito Huber Joe Checkelsky Scott Johnson Bob Westervelt Shiang Fang Bertrand Halperin |
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13. Strong coupling between TI and superconductor
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Hiroke Isobe
Maoz Ovadia Shiang Fang |
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14. Stacked graphene / TI interface, including effects of xtal lattice rotation
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Paul Sabila
Tito Huber Scott Johnson Shiang Fang Tina Brower-Thomas |
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15. Quantum Anomalous Hall effect - test 'dissipationless' current in single edge state
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Maoz Ovadia
Bob Westervelt |
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16. Test transition from 3D TI to 2D TI as layer made ultrathin - changes in band structure.
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Tito Huber
Scott Johnson Shiang Fang |
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17. Magnetic imaging of topological edge states via scanned NV-center magnetometers.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Erin Strickland Bob Westervelt Shiang Fang |
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18. Couple NV centers to surface TI to write and read NV spin state?
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Hechen Ren
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19. Grow and test predicted TIs based on transition metal di-chalcogenides.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Paul Sabila Shiang Fang |
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20. Bilayer graphene based TIs.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Erin Strickland Paul Sabila Bob Westervelt Shiang Fang |
Graphene and van der Waals Materials
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
Project Title Participating Students, Postdocs and Faculty
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21. Ferromagnetic (FM) /Superconductor (SC) 2D layers with tunable coupling via electrical 'knob'
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Frank Zhao David Bell Donhee Ham Shiang Fang |
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22. SC/FM - I - SC/FM Josephson Junction
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Hiroke Isobe Frank Zhao Donhee Ham Bertrand Halperin |
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23. Pores in 2D materials - BN and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
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Pratibha Dev
David Bell Bob Westervelt |
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24. Use nanopore 2D materials as a filter to adsorb particular molecules on a graphene below
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Bekuechukwu Uzondu
Pratibha Dev |
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25. Use strain patterns in stacked 2D materials to change electrical / chemical activity of the interface
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Paul Sabila
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26. Use 2D patterns from heterostructure interfaces for emergent behavior – excitons
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Tomas Palacios Shiang Fang Bertrand Halperin |
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27. Nanoribbons from TMD to improve edge quality and reduce diffuse scattering - catalysts - TI behavior - stitching two layers together
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28. Linking 2 layers in predetermined pattern using adatoms on 1 layer.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Eric Heller Yuan Yang Fikriye Idil (K) Kaya Shiang Fang |
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29. NV centers at/near diamond surface to interface with vdW layer above
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30. 2D material doping
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Erin Strickland
Eric Heller Yuan Yang Fikriye Idil (K) Kaya Pratibha Dev Kwabena Bediako David Bell Donhee Ham Tomas Palacios |
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31. Raman characterization of stacked layers
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Bekuechukwu Uzondu Tewa Kpulun Erin Strickland Paul Sabila Tito Huber Eric Heller Yuan Yang Fikriye Idil (K) Kaya Thomas Searles Tina Brower-Thomas |
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32. stacked heterostructures based on III-V knowledge
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Hechen Ren
Bob Westervelt |
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33. UV photoconductors from diamond that are solar blind
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Amirhassan Shams Ansari
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34. CVD growth of graphene/diamond/graphene heterostructures by varying source substrate distance
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Bekuechukwu Uzondu
Erin Strickland Amber Wingfield Thomas Searles Tina Brower-Thomas Amirhassan Shams Ansari |
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35. NV centers in SiC
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Erin Strickland
Jordan Stroman Gary Harris Thomas Searles Pratibka Dev David Bell Amirhassan Shams Ansari |
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36. Magnetic field imaging by NV centers in a flat ultrathin diamond layer.
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37. Bi2Se3 is a vdW layered material. Peel and assemble layers into new structures.
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38. Use theory to decide if vdW materials can be scotch taped?
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
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39. TI contacts to vdW materials via surface currents.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Bob Westervelt Bertrand Halperin |
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40. Ways to flip spins in one TI valley to another double layers - coupling by light?
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Changmin Lee Joe Checkelsky Shiang Fang |
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41. Use multilayers of TIs for thermoelectric applications
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Hechen Ren
Paul Sabila Maoz Ovadia Tito Huber |
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42. Use BN as a dielectric for TI's, e.g. to protect gates.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren |
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43. Couple SC layer to 3D TI to make Majorana fermions
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Hechen Ren
Hiroke Isobe Shiang Fang |
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44. Put TMD ferromagnet on TI to study interaction.
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Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
Hechen Ren Bob Westervelt Shiang Fang |
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45. Put TMD antiferromagnet on TI to study interaction.
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Hechen Ren
Shiang Fang |
