Michael S. FuhrerFAA is a US/Australian physicist recognised internationally[1][2] as a pioneer in atomically-thin (two-dimensional) materials, including graphene and novel topological materials, with expertise in fabrication and characterisation of their electronic and optical properties.[3]
After postdoctoral research at Berkeley in collaboration with Profs. Paul McEuen, Alex Zettl, Marvin Cohen, and Steven Louie, Fuhrer joined the University of Maryland, College Park as an Assistant Professor in 2000, from 2009-2012 was Professor of Physics, and from 2009-2013 he directed the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials at Maryland. He joined the School of Physics and Astronomy at Monash University, Melbourne Australia as a Professor in 2013. He was the founding Director of the Monash Centre for Atomically-Thin Materials (founded 2015).[6]
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,[7] and made the first measurements of the minimum conductivity and electron-phonon scattering in topological insulatorBi2Se3.[8] In 2017 he demonstrated that the topological material trisodium bismuthide (Na3Bi) can be manufactured to be as 'electronically smooth' as the highest-quality graphene-based alternative, while maintaining graphene's high electron mobility.[9]
Fuhrer has published over 200 papers cited over 34,000 times, for an h-index of 75.[2] Fifteen of Fuhrer's papers have been cited more than 500 times.
^Yamamoto, Mahito; Einstein, Theodore L.; Fuhrer, Michael S.; Cullen, William G. (20 November 2013). "Anisotropic Etching of Atomically Thin MoS2". The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 117 (48): 25643–25649. doi:10.1021/jp410893e.
