My current Ph.D. title is “2D sheets in a 3D world” meaning I get to do EELS on a whole bunch of different 2D defects/features in materials.
I am involved in a US-Ireland project on Ferroelectric domain walls, which involves materials such as lead titanate, lead germinate, a copper chlorine boracite, lithium niobate and lanthanum aluminium oxide. We have been studying the behavior and electronic characteristics of these domain walls at atomic resolution and under electric fields/heating in-situ in the SEM and TEM.
Other than that, I have worked on ultra-low energy ion implanted graphene, MoS2 and MoSe2 and I am currently investigating MBE grown group iii-nitrides with 2Ds as the active region in KAUST.