Department of Energy Early Career Award

Cottrell Scholar

American Physical Society

Electrical probes of the non-Abelian spin liquid in Kitaev materials

Direct measurement of ferroelectric polarization in a tunable semimetal

Charged bosons made of fermions in bilayer structures with strong metallic screening

Quantum Spin Hall Edge States and Interlayer Coupling in Twisted Bilayer WTe2

Tunneling spectroscopy of two-dimensional materials based on via contacts

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Benjamin Hunt's research centers around condensed-matter physics, particularly in the way electrons behave when subjected to extreme conditions such as ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields. He is currently investigating the physics of low-dimensional structures, especially "van der Waals heterostructures" of two-dimensional crystals (the most familiar of which is graphene), which are built in the lab and then fashioned into mesoscopic devices using nanofabrication techniques, as well as a variety of methods for probing these mesoscopic devices, such as electronic transport, capacitance, tunneling spectroscopy and shot noise.

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Hunt Lab

“Ising Superconductivity and Proximity Induced Pairing in Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides”

“Proximity Induced Superconducting Gap in the Quantum Spin Hall Edge State of Monolayer WTe2"

"Novel Superconductors in Two-Dimensional Materials"

“Comprehensive Undergraduate Nanoscience Lab”

“Novel Superconductors in Two-Dimensional Materials and Heterostructures”

Associate Professor, Physics, Mellon College of Science

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