Expertise
Energy and charge transfer in 2D materials and quantum dots
Ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy, pump probe methods, single nanostructure spectroscopy methods, data analysis of ultrafast experiments
confocal optical microscopy including fluorescence, Raman and scattering dark field.
2D materials, nanocrystals, synthesis and assembly methods
ultrafast optical methods development

Research Activities
-energy and charge transfer at nanoscale, interfacial phenomena in heterostructures based on quantum dots, nanowires, 2D materials, conductive polymers
-physics of devices based on nanoscale semiconductors including 2D materials
-ultrafast mehods development for nanoscale investigations at room and low temperature

Research Highlights
Nanohybrid Structure Improves Efficiency of Light-Harvesting
Mircea Cotlet Named One of Battelle’s “Inventors of the Year”
Detecting light in a different dimension (2018)
Understanding light-induced generation of currents in atomically thin semiconductors (2018)

Awards & Recognition
Battelle Inventor for 2019
Brookhaven Science and Technology Award 2020