2020-2021 Graduate Student Fellow
Previous Faculty Advisor: Professor Michael Crommie
Current Position: NLP Data Scientist, Magnifi
Franklin's work focused on the study of electronic properties in molecular nanostructures within a field-effect transistor configuration. As electronic devices continue to decrease in size, precise control over their structure becomes increasingly important to achieve consistent electronic behavior. Bottom-up synthesis from well-defined, rigid molecular building blocks offers a means to assemble atomically precise electronic materials. Franklin utilized scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to examine bottom-up synthesized molecular nanostructures, including covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and graphene nanoribbons grown within a graphene nanogap. His goal was to establish correlations between the local electronic and atomic structure and the global electronic transport properties of the material.