Research Areas: Carbon Materials
Materials Science & Engineering
Nanomaterials
Renewable Energy
Education Background: • 2001–2005 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
• 1997-2001 B.Sc., Physics, Towson University, USA
About:
Dr. Robinson is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University with a focus on the synthesis and properties of 2D materials. He is particularly focused on metal-organic chemical vapor deposition of 2D materials and developed confinement heteroepitaxy (CHet) of half-van der Waals materials. He co-founded the Center for Two-Dimensional and Layered Materials, and currently serves as Associate Director of the Center. In July 2015, he became Co-Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Atomically Thin Multifunctional Coatings (ATOMIC), and in 2016, he became the Director of User Programs for the NSF-funded 2D Crystal Consortium. Most recently, he established the onsemi Silicon Carbide Crystal Center (SiC3) and the Silicon Carbide Innovation Alliance (SCIA). He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer reviewed journal publications.
Research Interests:
• Semiconductors for Future Energy Security
• 2D Materials
• Silicon Carbide
• Carbon Materials
Memberships & Committees:
• Millennium Science Complex Safety Olympics, Materials Research Institute, Chairperson
• Materials Characterization Lab Leadership Team
• Nanofab Executive Committee
• MatSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee
Industry 2.0 Committee
Honors & Awards:
• Towson University Presidential Scholarship (1997-2001)
• Penn State Materials Science Dept. Robert Van Leichten Fellowship (2001)
• Penn State Materials Research Institute Graduate Fellowship (2001)
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (2002- 2005)
• National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-2007)
• Alan Berman Research Publication Award (2007)
• Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award (2012)
• Corning Faculty Fellow (2013-2016)
• Miller Faculty Fellowship (2013-2018)
• Oakridge Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2013)
• MatSE Student Choice Faculty of the Year Award (2014)
• G. Montgomery & Marion Hall Mitchell Award for Innovative Teaching (2015)
• NSF-CAREER Award (2015)
• College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Pump-up Award (2019)
• Penn State Faculty Scholar Award, Engineering, (2021)
Nisi, K., S. Subramanian, W. He, K. A. Ulman, H. El-Sherif, F. Sigger, M. Lassaunière, M. T. Wetherington, N. Briggs, J. Gray, A. W. Holleitner, N. Bassim, S. Y. Quek, J. A. Robinson, and U. Wurstbauer, (2021). Light-Matter Interaction in Quantum Confined 2D Polar Metals, Advanced Functional Materials, v. 31 (4), [2005977].
Rajabpour, S., A. Vera, W. He, B. N. Katz, R. J. Koch, M. Lassaunière, X. Chen, C. Li, K. Nisi, H. El-Sherif, M. T. Wetherington, C. Dong, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, A. C. T. van Duin, N. Bassim, J. Zhu, G.-C. Wang, U. Wurstbauer, E. Rotenberg, V. Crespi, S. Y. Quek, and J. A. Robinson, (2021). Tunable 2D Group-III Metal Alloys, Advanced Materials, v. 33 (44), [2104265].
Briggs, N., B. Bersch, Y. Wang, J. Jiang, R. J. Koch, N. Nayir, K. Wang, M. Kolmer, W. Ko, A. De La Fuente Duran, S. Subramanian, C. Dong, J. Shallenberger, M. Fu, Q. Zou, Y.-W. Chuang, Z. Gai, A.-P. Li, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, C.-Z. Chang, E. Rotenberg, J. Zhu, A. C. T. van Duin, V. Crespi , and J. A. Robinson, (2020). Atomically thin half-van der Waals metals enabled by confinement heteroepitaxy, Nature Materials, v. 19 (6), pp. 637-643.
Kozhakhmetov, A., R. Torsi, C. Y. Chen, and J. A. Robinson, (2020). Scalable Low-Temperature Synthesis of Two-Dimensional Materials beyond Graphene, Journal of Physics Materials, v. 4 (1), [012001].
Steves, M. A., Y. Wang, N. Briggs, T. Zhao, H. El-Sherif, B. M. Bersch, S. Subramanian, C. Dong, T. Bowen, A. De La Fuente Duran, K. Nisi, M. Lassaunière, U. Wurstbauer, N. D. Bassim, J. Fonseca, J. T. Robinson, V. H. Crespi, J. A. Robinson, and K. L. Knappenberger, (2020). Unexpected Near-Infrared to Visible Nonlinear Optical Properties from 2-D Polar Metals, Nano Letters, v. 20 (11), pp. 8312–8318.
Briggs, N., S. Subramanian, Z. Lin, X. Li, X. Zhang, K. Zhang, K. Xiao, D. Geohegan, R. Wallace, L.-Q. Chen, M. Terrones, A. Ebrahimi, S. Das, J. Redwing, C. Hinkle, K. Momeni, A.van Duin, V. Cresp, S. Kar, and J. A. Robinson, (2018). A roadmap for electronic grade 2D materials, 2D Materials, v. 6 (2), [022001].
Lin, Y.-C., B. Jariwala B. M. Bersch, K. Xu, Y. Nie, B. Wang, S. M. Eichfeld, X. Zhang, T. H. Choudhury, Y. Pan, R. Addou, C. M. Smyth, J. Li, K. Zhang, M. A. Haque, S. Fölsch, R. M. Feenstra, R. M. Wallace, K. Cho, S. K. Fullerton-Shirey, J. M. Redwing, and J. A. Robinson, (2018). Realizing Large-Scale, Electronic-Grade Two-Dimensional Semiconductors, ACS Nano, v. 12 (2), pp. 965–975.
Self-Trail, J. M., M. M. Robinson, T. J. Bralower, J. A. Sessa, E. Hajek, L. R. Kump, S. M. Trampush, D. A. Willard, L. E. Edwards, D. S. Powars, and G. A. Wandless, (2017). Shallow marine response to global climate change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Salisbury Embayment, USA, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 32 (7), pp. 710-728, DOI: 10.1002/2017PA003096.
Al Balushi, Z. Y., K. Wang, R. K. Ghosh, R. A. Vilá , S. M. Eichfeld, J. D. Caldwell, X. Qin, Y.-C. Lin, P. A .DeSario, G. Stone, S. Subramanian, D. F. Paul, R. M. Wallace, S. Datta, J. M. Redwing, and J. A. Robinson, (2016). Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation, Nature Materials, v. 15 (11), pp. 1166-1171.
Lin, Y.-C., R. K. Ghosh, R. Addou, N. Lu, S. M. Eichfeld, H. Zhu, M.-Y. Li, X. Peng, M. J. Kim, L.-J. Li, R. M. Wallace, S. Datta, and J. A. Robinson, (2015). Atomically thin resonant tunnel diodes built from synthetic van der Waals heterostructures, Nature Communications, v. 6, [7311].
