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Kin Fai Mak
Associate Professor
Clark Hall, Room 521
km627@cornell.edu
Educational Background
B.S., 2005, Physics and Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. PhD., 2010, Physics, Columbia University. Post-doctoral Fellow, Columbia University, 2010-2012. Post-doctoral Fellow, Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, 2012-2014. Assistant Professor, Physics, Pennsylvania State University, 2014-2018. Assistant Professor, Physics and Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2018-2019. Associate Professor, Physics and Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, 2019-present. Michelson Post-doctoral Prize, 2012. IUPAP Young Scientist Prize, 2013. DOE Early Career Award, 2015. AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2016. Packard Foundation Fellow, 2016. Macronix Prize, 2016. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 2017. ONR Young Investigator Award, 2018. PECASE, 2019.
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Overview
Spectroscopy; two-dimensional quantum materials and their heterostructures; Berry curvature effects in solids; two-dimensional superconductivity and exciton condensation; magnetism; strong correlation physics.
Departments/Programs
- Physics
Graduate Fields
- Physics
- Applied and Engineering Physics
Affiliations
- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics (LASSP)
Research
Our research group explores new physical phenomena in atomically thin materials and their heterostructures. We study a wide range of materials with very different properties, which include semiconductors, superconductors and magnets etc. We stack them together to form heteostructures, and make electronics and opto-mechanical devices based on this material platform. To explore new phenomena, we also develop new measurement and imaging techniques suitable for specific problems on hand. Our ultimate goal is to push the limit on what can be seen and done in this two-dimensional world.
Postdocs
Shengwei Jiang, Yanhao Tang, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Zefang Wang, Greg Stiehl, Chenhao Jin, Yang Xu, Tingxin Li, Liguo Ma
Graduate Students
Egon Sohn, Kaifei Kang, Lizhong Li, Zui Tao, Avi Shragai
Courses
Publications
Nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few-layer WTe2. Kaifei Kang, Tingxin Li, Egon Sohn, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Materials 18, 324-328 (2019).
Controlling magnetism in 2D CrI3 by electrostatic doping. Shengwei Jiang, Lizhong Li, Zefang Wang, Kin Fai Mak, & Jie Shan, Nature Nanotechnology 13, 549-553 (2018).
An unusual continuous paramagnetic-limited superconducting phase transition in 2D NbSe2. Egon Sohn, Xiaoxiang Xi, Wenyu He, Shengwei Jiang, Zefang Wang, Kaifei Kang, Ju-Hyun Park, Helmuth Berger, Laszlo Forró, Kam Tuen Law, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Materials 17, 504-508 (2018).
Electric-field switching of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. Shengwei Jiang, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Materials 17, 406-410 (2018).
Valley magnetoelectricity in single-layer MoS2. Jieun Lee, Zefang Wang, Hongchao Xie, Kin Fai Mak, & Jie Shan, Nature Materials 16, 887-891 (2017).
Valley- and spin-polarized Landau levels in monolayer WSe2. Zefang Wang, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Nanotechnology 12, 144-149 (2017).
Electrical control of the valley Hall effect in bilayer MoS2 transistors. Jieun Lee, Kin Fai Mak, & J. Shan, Nature Nanotechnology 11, 421-425 (2016).
Ising pairing in superconducting NbSe2 atomic layers. Xiaoxiang Xi, Zefang Wang, Weiwei Zhao, Ju-Hyun Park, Kam Tuen Law, Helmuth Berger, Laszlo Forró, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Physics 12, 139-143 (2016).
Strongly enhanced charge-density-wave order in monolayer NbSe2. Xiaoxiang Xi, Liang Zhao, Zefang Wang, Helmuth Berger, Laszlo Forró, Jie Shan, & Kin Fai Mak, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 765-769 (2015).
Tightly bound excitons in monolayer WSe2. Keliang He, Nardeep Kumar, Liang Zhao, Zefang Wang, Kin Fai Mak, Hui Zhao, & Jie Shan, Physical Review Letters 113, 026803 (2014).