Instructors: Kibum Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Daewon Ha, Samsung Electronics; Qing Cao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Benjamin Groven, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC); Pascal Ruffieux, Empa–Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology; Gabriela Borin Barin, Empa–Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

In the past few years, there have been tremendous scientific advances and technological development in the field of low-dimensional materials and heterostructures. The unique capability of constructing materials and design their properties to the limit of the atomic scale has enabled intriguing new physics and chemistry, which has brought out-of-box strategies of solving a serious of the most vital problems in microelectronics and information technology. This tutorial aims to overview the most recent research activities among the academia and the semiconductor industry in 1D and 2D materials and their heterostructures and provide both the fundamental and practical perspectives of the this field.

This tutorial will cover the following topics:

• Large-scale synthesis, assembly and fabrication technologies for carbon nanotubes, 2D materials and heterostructures
• Advanced atomic-resolution characterization techniques for low-dimensional materials
• Semiconductor device physics and advanced electronic device technologies based on 1D and 2D semiconductors
• Industrial-scale manufacturing and commercialization of low-dimensional materials

The learning objects of this tutorial are:

• Obtain the fundamental knowledge of synthesis, fabrication technologies, and electronic devices of 1D/2D semiconductors and their heterostructures.
• Learn the cutting-edge research and development activities from both the academic and the industrial perspectives

Tutorial Schedule