This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Directorate (CFDA 47.041) provides $376,022 to New York University for research establishing principles to fabricate van der Waals heterostructures with clean interfaces. The three-year award beginning September 2022 supports developing new strategies for assembling two-dimensional materials into heterostructures suitable for quantum electronics. Researchers will study polymer contaminant interactions with and mobilization between 2D layers, and employ elastomeric stamps to mechanically remove mobilized residues for macroscopic clean heterostructures. Outcomes aim to fill knowledge gaps limiting manufacturing of heterostructures exhibiting exciting quantum properties. The funding also supports related graduate and undergraduate education broadening participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
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