Postdoctoral Researcher
Home Faculty Advisor: Professor Michael Crommie, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Host Faculty Advisor: Professor Stephan Hofmann, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Hsin-Zon completed his BA and PhD in Physics at UC Berkeley in 2012 and 2017 respectively. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Crommie group in the Department of Physics, UC Berkeley. His research has been focussed on making and studying a range of low dimensional materials, including molecular nanostructures, graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides.
This project will combine electron microscopy and local probe microscopy to characterize the synthesis process and post-growth atomic structure. Hofmann group at the University of Cambridge have unique expertise on growth dynamics and electron microscopy. Hsin-Zon will work closely with the Cambridge team to investigate novel synthesis and patterning of 2D material heterostructures, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) using gas injection equipped scanning electron microscope and image seeding and subsequent propagation of the growth.