Morgan Thinel

Postdoc @Harvard
PhD @Columbia

Scanning Probe Microscopy + Spectroscopy + Quantum Materials 🤓

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

What happens when a metal is thinned down to the 2D limit?
Today, in Physical Review Letters, we demonstrate Anderson localization in two-dimensional Pd5AlI2.
To learn more check out the Physics Synopsis about our work: https://t.co/dTW4YsoeIM

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

I'm happy to share that my paper on Anderson Localization was highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion by Physical Review Letters! https://t.co/ytLWFZ26cl

[Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett]

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy in two-dimensional metals shows reduced dimensionality enhances localization
Letter: https://t.co/IWMUXAwzJr
Synopsis: https://t.co/uv3ogqqYfA

[Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett]

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[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

I'm happy to share that my paper on Anderson Localization was highlighted as an Editors' Suggestion by Physical Review Letters! https://t.co/ytLWFZ26cl

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Nice overview by @ColumbiaQuantum of our work on frustrated hopping in Pd5AlI2!
https://t.co/xLIl4VnuRK

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

On July 15th, I defended my Ph.D. thesis in Chemical Physics entitled Quantum Localization in Metals. After 5 years working with the amazing people in the Chemistry/Physics departments @Columbia, I will be making the move to @Harvard for my postdoc at the end of this week!

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Attended my partner Afton Gustafson's seminar @nyuchemistry on optically active carbyne knots. Great to see her success calculating optical gyration tensors using DFT methods! 😍

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

I discovered a one-dimensional charge density wave in electron doped CrSBr using STM/S. My co-author Margo achieved the high level of doping necessary to cause this CDW through some nifty chemical intercalation. Great things happen when chemists and physicists work together!

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Excited to be co-first author on this Advanced Materials publication! https://t.co/MbykyGxy1o

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Excited to be co-first author on this Advanced Materials publication! https://t.co/MbykyGxy1o

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Amazing work, congratulations Handa-San! @XYZ_Columbia Many more exciting works using THz spectroscopy at the 2D limit should come from this new method discovered by Taketo.

[Taketo Handa @SQlimit]

Our paper came out last week! We report the observation of very efficient and broadband THz emission from 2D vdW ferroelectric NbOI2 and utilize it for on-chip near-field THz spectroscopy. Thanks a lot to my collaborators and colleagues🙏 THz goes 2D!

https://t.co/8140MHsiCA

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Lastly, we got to see some nice looking shapes! (The whole reason someone would do STM). When our BICs are close together they form molecular-orbital-like bonding and antibonding patterns in spectroscopic imaging!

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

In this work we used STM to find uniquely localized defect states can exist in a 2D metal with a topologically non-trivial flat band. These "electronic bound states in the continuum" are experimental evidence for "Compact Localized States".

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Submitted my first first author paper a couple of weeks ago! Here it is on arxiv. https://t.co/2Anf6xoXXy

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states which could be useful for quantum technologies, but have only been observed in optics and acoustics. Our work is the first characterization of localized electronic bound states in the continuum!

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Submitted my first first author paper a couple of weeks ago! Here it is on arxiv. https://t.co/2Anf6xoXXy

[Columbia Quantum Initiative @ColumbiaQuantum]

In the Lab | @PhysicsColumbia PhD student Jordan Pack talks about a new technique to study the electronic properties of quantum materials. https://t.co/TLNpYBtsci

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

New (rediscovered) 2D material alert! Check out this preprint by collaborators @PhysicsColumbia @ChemColumbia.
More #STM coming soon... 👀

[Alexandru B Georgescu @AlexandruBG]

New paper on arXiv! I'll get into it in more detail when it's published, but really awesome collaboration. Thank you @rpa_queiroz for pulling me in and @MorganThinel at @ColumbiaQuantum for this nice experiment-theory work: https://t.co/skM3e31op7

[Alexandru B Georgescu @AlexandruBG]

New paper on arXiv! I'll get into it in more detail when it's published, but really awesome collaboration. Thank you @rpa_queiroz for pulling me in and @MorganThinel at @ColumbiaQuantum for this nice experiment-theory work: https://t.co/skM3e31op7

[Columbia Engineering @CUSEAS]

Congratulations to postdoctoral research scientist @MechCU Chiara Trovatello, who has been awarded the L’Oreal Italy UNESCO For Women in Science prize.

The award is given to just six outstanding female researchers in STEM, providing support for their research in the last year of their postdoctoral program.

The prize will help advance Chiara’s quantum computing research in the James Shuck Lab. An experimental physicist, Chiara studies the optical properties of two-dimensional materials similar to graphene.

Her research is in the field of photonics, particularly lasers, and she uses ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics techniques to explore these new materials, which are revolutionizing optoelectronics and quantum communications.

Chiara is pictured in the center at the recent L'Oreal Italia for Women and Science event.

[Morgan Thinel @MorganThinel]

Arrived in #SanSebastian ahead of the upcoming #2DSPM conference. Of course I see #STM everywhere I go!