PUSHING ATOMS BY PICOMETERS IN LOW DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS

Robert Hovden is an Associate Professor in Materials Science at the University of Michigan. He completed his B.S. in Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Cornell University. Utilizing advanced electron microscopy he unveils new understanding of how structure at the pico-, atomic- and nano-scale determines material properties at the macroscale—spanning a wide class of systems including twisted 2D materials, charge density waves, clean energy materials, and biominerals