Research

Condensed matter physics has advanced rapidly in recent decades, driven by the development of increasingly precise nanofabrication techniques. Today, it is possible to produce and characterize structures with dimensions of just a few nanometers — i.e., at scales only slightly larger than the atomic scale.

More recently, a new class of two-dimensional systems based on exfoliable materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has gained prominence. Transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit very rich electronic properties — from insulators to metals and even superconductors — and can be isolated as monolayers and stacked into van der Waals heterostructures. This enables exploration of quantum confinement, symmetry effects, and strong spin–orbit coupling.

Among the most active topics in this area is spin-related electronic transport, which underpins so-called spintronics. The central idea is to use not only the electron's charge, but also its spin degree of freedom to generate, manipulate, and detect currents and magnetic states. Our research investigates a variety of mechanisms for converting between spin and charge currents — including Hall-type effects (such as spin Hall, orbital Hall, and valley Hall) and the Rashba–Edelstein effect at interfaces.