Fanhao Meng is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Science & Technology at UC Berkeley, working under the supervision of Prof. Jie Yao. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University in China, where he worked on memristive behaviors in layered materials. His current research is focused on emergent ferroic orders in two-dimensional materials.
Research
Over the past decade, the discovery of intrinsic magnetic and/or ferroelectric order in two-dimensional van der Waals materials has opened new possibilities for nanoelectronics and spintronics. Fanhao’s research involves the detection and manipulation of charge and spin degree of freedom in such materials and their heterostructures, mainly through optical characterizations. His recent work focuses on the ferroelectric and ferroelastic states in group-IV monochalcogenides, aiming for state-of-the-art memory and logic applications.
