A single atomically-thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride shows that thinner is better with regards to radio-frequency switching applications. This work is now published and is based on our earlier discovery of atomristors.

Fruitful collaboration between UT-Austin (lead grad student, Myungsoo Kim) and CNRS in Lille led by Emiliano Pallecchi and Henri Happy.

Title: Analog switches made from boron nitride monolayers for application in 5G and terahertz communication systems. Nature Electronics May 2018. ->PDF.

A blog post in Nature can be read here.

News Media coverage:

Live TV interview on the public importance

Public Radio interview and Texas Standard transcript

NPR on KUT 

IEEE Spectrum News

UT-Austin Press Release

UK Daily Mail

PhysicsWorld

Army Press Release

Federal News Network

Nature News

Yahoo 

Redditt Commentary

The combination of 2D materials and Silicon arguably represents the biggest application of these materials in advancing commercial semiconductor applications.

As such, a review article on the progress, opportunities and challenges for graphene/2D materials integration on Silicon for heterogeneous 3D nanotechnology was commissioned and is now available at Nature journal.

This is a balanced review featuring academia and industry leaders in the area of 2D materials and Silicon technology.

The article link is below.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1573-9

Our work on 2D memory has resulted in the thinnest non-volatile memory device. A record for device applications of nanomaterials.

Congrats to Xiaohan Wu and Ruijing Ge who did much of the experimental work and our international collaborators at Peking and Taiwan.

Advanced Materials, 2019.

See news article on PhysicsWorld

Congrats to our former postdoctoral scholar, Dr. Shideh Ameri who is an Assistant Professor at Queens University, Canada, effective September 2018.

Shideh did pioneering work on graphene electronic tattoos for mobile health and human-machine control. Her work has been widely covered by the media including the BBC.

Our recent work on the discovery of universal memory effect in 2D monolayer atomic sheets is now published in nanoletters (PDF). It has been selected as ACS Editor’s Choice and hence available freely for everyone. Congrats to Ruijing and Xiaohan, Prof. Jack Lee, Peking University collaborators and the entire team for their hard work on this discovery research.

Several news reports have been released.

UT News Release

IEEE Spectrum

Nature Nanotechnology

Chemistry & Engineering News (C&EN)

Nanowerk News

Science Policy News

Our invited short perspective educational article on research based learning is on Nature Nano. An article about research as an ideal platform for learning, discovery the ultimate motivator, and failure is not only a frequent option but is a great teacher.

Graphene electronic tattoo sensors have been realized. congrats to postdoc scholar Shideh Ameri who led the work in collaboration with Nanshu Lu’s group.

Also widely reported in the news, and is featured on BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-41669803/how-a-graphene-tattoo-could-monitor-your-health

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/graphene-temporary-tattoo

http://dailytexanonline.com/2017/10/19/ut-researchers-develop-e-tattoo-health-devices

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-graphene-electronic-tattoos-skin.html

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/graphene-health-tracking-tattoo/

http://www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=47610.php

http://www.printedelectronicsworld.com/articles/11492/graphene-electronic-tattoo-sensors

http://cen.chempics.org/tagged/university-of-texas 

Through the hard work of many students, the support of many colleagues, the love of family and friends, and the Grace of God; Prof. Akinwande has been selected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, awarded to less than 0.5% of physicists.

Citation: For contributions to the physical study and development of scalable uniform monolayer graphene synthesis on wafer-scale substrates, and the realization of GHz flexible and wearable two-dimensional devices, circuits and systems.

Two papers have been accepted for presentation at IEDM 2017. IEDM is the premier conference for the latest advances in device technology and applications.

-Paper on graphene-cmos integration for sensors

-Paper on flexible paper electronics based on 2D materials (selected as a technical highlight of the conference) and featured by NEWs Media

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/2d-materials-push-paper-electronics-towards-the-internet-of-things 

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/web/2017/12/High-performance-flexible-electronics-printed.html

Prof. Akinwande was honored to give’s SPIE Plenary talk on graphene science, device and technology at the annual conference in San Diego. This is the largest optical/photonics meeting in America.

The talk was covered by SPIE News.

News and Views article on printed functional atomic inks featured in the April issue of Nature Nanotechnology. This article is on the research led Cinzia Casiraghi at Manchester.

Prof. Akinwande has been selected as an Inaugural Gordon Moore Inventor Fellow.

https://www.moore.org/article-detail?newsUrlName=gordon-and-betty-moore-foundation-announces-inaugural-moore-inventor-fellows 

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/gordon-moores-foundation-funds-first-of-50-fellows-in-34-million-plan

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/11/11/professor-awarded-moore-inventor-fellowship

Our invited perspective article on 2D Xenes and 2D topological insulator materials has been published in nature materials.