Engineering Physics @ UW–Madison
Quantum Materials • Experimental Physics • Nanoscale Devices
UW-Madison | Undergraduate Researcher
Prepared 2M-WS₂ and Td-WTe₂ samples using exfoliation and stacking in a glovebox environment. Conducted low-temperature transport measurements and topological characterizations using dry-transfer methods and wire bonding to low temperature probes.
Columbia University | Research Assistant
Conducted research on defect and twist engineering in hexagonal boron nitride to create electrostatic gating architectures. Utilized Conductive AFM techniques to inject free charges into carbon substitution impurities in hBN.
Computational Physics | Python & SciPy
Developed a localized 1D self-consistent field (SCF) solver in Python to simulate the suppression of ferroelectric hysteresis by metallic screening. Implemented a highly optimized tridiagonal eigenvalue solver and Anderson mixing algorithms to solve coupled Schrödinger and Poisson equations.
Drag the slider to increase the charge carrier density ($N_e$) and observe the collapse of the ferroelectric hysteresis loop. Note the collapse of hysteresis when the density is 2, as the electron shell fills.
Instrumentation & Hardware | Arduino & SolidWorks
Designed and managed the construction of an airtight, submersible detector to characterize the luminous intensity of a nuclear fission reactor pool. Wrote Arduino scripts to capture and log memory outputs, allowing for precise calculations to estimate the operational efficiency and wattage of the reactor based on theoretical luminosity models.
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