XU DU
Professor
Physics and Astronomy
xu.du@stonybrook.edu | (631)-632-8019, Physics B-106
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Curriculum Vitae. (Last updated: 2024 Aug 15)
Biography
Xu Du is a Professor at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from University
of Florida in 2004. He was then a postdoc associate at Rutgers University from 2004-2009,
where he did research on the charge transport properties of graphene. He is continuing
his research on two-dimensional materials in his quantum transport lab at Stony Brook.
Research Statement
Scientific breakthroughs often benefit from the discoveries of novel materials. This
applies to two-dimensional (2d) materials study which flourished over the past decades,
starting from graphene , then expanding to a wide variety of other layered materials
and more recently, heterostructures. The ability to extract 2d atomic crystals from
their layered “mother” materials allows study of their properties during a 3D-to-2D
transition as well as the investigation of the proof-of-principle devices for applications.
The freedom of reassembling some these crystals to form heterostructures enable the
study of some of the long-standing condensed matter physics problems such as strongly
correlated electrons in solids. All these developments and possibilities drastically
broadens the research scope of 2d physics.
My research interest lies on understanding the quantum charge transport phenomena
in 2d atomic crystals. This includes study of their intrinsic magnetotransport properties,
the impact of extrinsic perturbations (such as disorder and mechanical strain) on
their electronic properties, and hybrid devices combining two-dimensional atomic crystals
and other material systems. Most recently, I invested significant effort in creating
novel quantum systems and meta-materials based on the electron gas in some of the
2d materials.
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