The Edmonds research lab at Monash University is working on growing and characterising new electronic materials that will one day replace conventional silicon based electronics.
In certain materials known as 2-D topological insulators, electrons can be transported without dissipation along the edges of the material. Our aim is to grow these novel materials atom by atom (often only a single atomic layer thick) and then study the electronic properties utilising a variety of experimental techniques such as Angle-resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy (ARPES) and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM), as well as low-temperature magneto-transport.
