Yay!

A nice result from the collaboration of Zhaodong (Lai group) and Emma (Wang group) in PRL: using microwave impedance microscopy in probing -- and visualizing spatially -- the correlated states in WS2/WSe2 moiré superlattice. bit.ly/31XYHIA

Congrats Halleh!

Our work by Kyunghoon, Iqbal, Salman, et al. in using microwave impedance microscopy for imaging moiré lattices is now out in Science Advances! It was a joy to work with the talented scientists at UC Berkeley, Molecular Foundry, University of Seoul, and IOP CAS. bit.ly/2LhDsMs

Wenyu, Sihan, et al. (Feng Wang's group Berkeley Physics & Berkeley Lab) reported nature on the realization of Fizeau drag in an electronic system, by observing the Doppler effect of plasmon polaritons in a graphene device with a current flow rdcu.be/cm4PJ

Please join me in congratulating CMQT PI Mark Hersam on being elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society. The full list of new fellows can be found here: cen.acs.org/acs-news/2021-… Congratulations, Mark! American Chemical Society CMQT - Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction Northwestern Chemistry Weinberg College at Northwestern

In a work Nature Communications, Sheng, SeokJae, Sihan et al. demonstrate the presence of plasmon modes in a mixed-dimensional heterostructure of carbon nanotube/hBN/graphene that can be modulated by electrostatic gating go.nature.com/3kdvXW9

Via the collaboration of Lanzara & Wang labs (Berkeley Physics/Berkeley Lab), and scientists at AdvancedLightSource & Synchrotron SOLEIL, Conrad et al. use ARPES and optical spectroscopy to probe the localization of quasiparticle in aligned WS2/WSe2 heterobilayers bit.ly/3lhG37D

ARPES measurements by Nick (Lanzara group) on graphene devices with in-operando electrostatic gating showed asymmetry between hole and electron doping behavior, which is suggestive of electronic correlation behavior tinyurl.com/2k7vjvsm

A theory-experiment collaboration from Mit (Louie group), Emma, and Zuocheng (Wang group) Berkeley Physics and Berkeley Lab in nature reporting on the charge-transfer character of one of the intralayer moiré excitons in WS2/WSe2 superlattice tinyurl.com/bdz5tuuj

Excited to be a part of this program!

A recent Nano Letters paper from Nick (Lanzara group Berkeley Lab and Berkeley Physics) reported on the doping-induced electronic band renormalization in twisted bilayer graphene, as observed via ARPES with in-situ electrostatic gating pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Happy to share that I’ve been selected as a CAS Future Leader 2025! Grateful for this honor and thankful to my mentor, Prof. Mark Hersam, whose support made this possible. Excited to connect with fellow scientists in this program.

Iqbal studies chemically tailored 2D materials and molecule-based magnets for quantum technology applications. Learn more about Iqbal Bakti Utama and the 2025 #CASFutureLeaders before they arrive in Columbus next week. ow.ly/JMxM50WqN1e