Graduate Student
Home Faculty Advisor: Professor Alex Zettl, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Host Faculty Advisor: Professor Ulrich Keyser, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge
Matt studied Physics at the University of Florida and received his BSc in 2013. He then moved to the Zettl group at UC Berkeley where he is studying towards a Ph.D. His research is on chemical synthesis and direct-write nanostructuring of the two-dimensional (2D) materials, graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN).
In this project, he will bring his expertise on creating structural devices using 2D materials and work with the Keyser group and Dr. Hannah Stern to work on two projects to couple h-BN defects and pores to the outside world. The first will be to perform DNA translocation experiments on nanopores made with atomic precision. The second will be to perform correlated microscopy studies of quantum emission from h-BN defects that will be first imaged with HR-TEM at Berkeley and then bring them to Cambridge to correlate the atomic structure with the local fluorescence.