Over the past two decades, a rich library of van der Waals materials has been documented which includes a wide-gap insulator, various semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenides, III-VI layered semiconductors, phosphorene, and a number of conductors. The demonstration to synthetically nucleate or mechanically exfoliate individual crystallites from the bulk has opened up numerous possibilities to design prototypical devices given the emergent electronic, optical, thermal and strain-dependent properties two-dimensional layered materials possess. Such properties have led 2D layered materials to be considered as viable candidates for addressing imminent grand challenges, such as “Electronics Beyond Moore’s Law,” which, over the past six decades, has largely been dominated by Silicon. The strong light-matter interactions many of the 2D layered materials possess, are also opening up possibilities for their use in quantum photonics, including via defect-engineering, to modulate their light emission properties in the burgeoning field of quantum information sciences. The light-matter interactions in 2D layered materials are a central topic currently being explored within the Department of Energy (DOE), NNSA-MSIPP SEEP-IT Consortium which University of North Texas directs. Besides UNT, the SEEP-IT Consortium involves a collaboration of faculty, national labs scientists, researchers and students from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff (UA-PB), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) and Argonne National Laboratory.

The motivation for this workshop stems from an incentive to expand on these initial activities within SEEP-IT by hosting a regional workshop at SEEP-IT partner site, Argonne National Laboratory. The two-day workshop at Argonne will unite leading scientists, engineers, and students from diverse disciplines under one umbrella to foster fruitful discussions which will spawn new opportunities centered around advancing 2D layered materials towards quantum technologies and microelectronics more broadly. Our discussions will also include workforce development topics through broadening participation mechanisms in these important areas of national significance.

This workshop is by invitation only and workshop organizers have been in touch with the invited speakers directly.

We advise each invited speaker and invited participant register for the workshop by 10/25/2024 in order to participate in the meeting and discussions. Please see the registration tab of this site.  

Detailed agenda with invited speaker talk titles will be uploaded by the last week of October, once this information is received.

In the meantime, please consult the block agenda below which will be helpful in making travel arrangements, for arrival at Argonne on 12/9 for those traveling from outside the Chicago-area.