In our lab, we study the electronic and optical properties of novel atomically thin materials. Often novel physical phenomena arise when the dimensionality is reduced. For example, electrons in two-dimensions can exhibit a fractional charge. Using light as the main tool, we perform experiments to investigate the physics of low-dimensional materials with a goal towards control and manipulation of charge carriers and their internal degrees of freedom such as charge, spin and pseudo- spin. Some of the techniques used in our lab are nanoscale fabrication, magneto- optical spectroscopy, photon correlations, and electrical transport.
