Graphene Research
Two-Dimensional Mapping of Energy Transfer in Graphene/MoS2 Photodetectors
January 2014 - June 2016
Internationally awarded research
In high school, I pursued a university-level research project on single atom thick crystals and their applications to nanotechnology. This was, by far, the largest self-starting effort I’ve ever undertaken, since it required commuting to a lab two hours each way every day for two summers. My research was awarded at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) two years in a row.
Our findings
My research not only developed a model for how these new crystals behave, but also discovered a new method of making them more resistant to environmental effects! These findings were the result of thousands of hours of lab work, and I presented my research in numerous competitions and tech talks.
LabVIEW Work
To complete my research, I had to teach myself LabVIEW, a programming language dedicated to controlling test equipment. I wrote a complex, multi-level program to control our optics equipment and create a two dimensional map of the crystal’s properties.