2DCC Broader Impact Highlight

What Has Been Achieved: 2DCC’s web-based facility-wide data management system has captured the full history individual samples with over 11,000 materials synthesis samples and ove

What Has Been Achieved: 2DCC’s web-based facility-wide data management system has captured the full history individual samples with over 5000 materials synthesis samples and over 6000 ex-situ characterizations (e.g., AFM, STM, TEM, XRD, XPS, among many others).  This extensive  and growing database forms the impetus for new, creative research through the data request mechanism whereas remote user

What Has Been Achieved: A custom designed multi-module system for synthesis and optical characterization of 2D layered chalcogenides is available in the 2DCC Thin Films facility (MOCVD2).  The system includes a cold wall metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) reactor for deposition of wafer-scale transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers and heterostructures that is connected through a robot transfer stage to a glovebox that houses a confocal Raman/photolu

In the summer of 2022, the 2DCC hosted 10 undergraduate students through the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site titled “REU: Scalable Nanomanufacturing of Complex Materials,” all of which were onsite. The REU site is jointly organized by 2DCC and the Penn State Nanofabrication facility.

Florida International University (FIU)/2DCC PREM IMPAQT focuses on advancing the synthesis and processing of 2D materials and 2D layered chalcogenides for fundamental studies and applications in quantum communication and sensing. Specific highlights for 2022-2023 include:

2DCC Theory/Simulation Facility trained an FIU PREM graduate student to do DFT calculations leading to a manuscript which was submitted for publication.

The 2DCC completed its 6th year of sponsorship of the Graphene and Beyond Workshop in 2022.  Including the virtual activity in 2021 due to the pandemic, the six workshops have included >1000 individuals from academia, government and industry across all career levels have attended.  The 2DCC has broadened participation by sponsoring travel and registration for dozens of users and potential users particularly from MSI

What Has Been Achieved:

A geospatial tool that enables users to identify minority-serving, primarily undergraduate, and non-R1 institutions in specific geographical areas, selecting for research activity in areas of interest, to enhance visibility and accessibility.

Importance of Achievement:

This tool is designed to broaden participation and strengthen trans-disciplinary community connections through travel extension and is also designed in a manner that can potentially serve additional use cases.

What Has Been Achieved:

This work successfully fabricated nano-scale crossed junctions composed of two vdW nanowires: p-type Ta2Pt3Se8 (TPtS) and n-type Ta2Pd3Se8 (TPdS) and revealed its unique electronic and optoelectronic properties.

Importance of the Achievement: 

This work not only reveals a route to build a nanoscale crossed junction between two quasi-1D vdW materials, but also shed light on the electrical transport and photocurrent generation mechanisms for the nanoscale crossed junctions.

What Has Been Achieved:

2DCC’s web-based facility-wide data management system has captured the full history individual samples with over 5000 materials synthesis samples and over 6000 ex-situ characterizations (e.g., AFM, STM, TEM, XRD, XPS, among many others).  This extensive  and growing database forms the impetus for new, creative research through the data request mechanism whereas remote users can open new lines of experimental or data science inquiry through packaging of certain synthesis and/or characterization data.