Director

Michael Fuhrer, FLEET Director, Monash University

CI Prof Michael Fuhrer has pioneered the study of the electronic properties of 2D materials, making the first quantitative measurements of the resistivity of graphene due to charged impurities, defects, and phonons, demonstrating the intrinsic conductivity of graphene at room temperature is higher than any other material. He demonstrated the first atomically thin MoS₂ transistors, and made the first measurements of the minimum conductivity and electron-phonon scattering in topological insulator Bi₂Se₃. Prof Fuhrer works within FLEET Research Theme 1, Topological dissipationless systems, to synthesise and study new ultra-thin topological Dirac semimetals and two-dimensional topological insulators with large bandgaps.

In Theme 2, he fabricates 2D heterostructures as exciton/polariton platforms, and in Theme 3 he studies graphene devices for ultrafast optical experiments to induce a topological states.