Classification: Primary Faculty

Education: Ph.D., 2003, Harvard University

Fields of Study: Condensed Matter Physics

Research Interests: 

The LeRoy group studies low-dimensional materials using a combination of scanning probe microscopy and optical spectroscopy techniques. Current materials of interest are carbon nanotubes, graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides. These materials are studied using low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic force microscopy and Raman spectroscopy.

Honors and Awards: 

APS Fellow

NSF CAREER Award

Selected Publications: 

Zhang, Z., Wang, Y., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Ueno, K., Tutuc, E., LeRoy, B.J. Flat bands in twisted bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Nature Physics 16, 1093-1096 (2020)

Yankowitz, M., Ma, Q., Jarillo-Herrero, P., LeRoy, B.J. van der Waals heterostructures combining graphene and hexagonal boron nitride Nature Reviews Physics 1, 112-125 (2019).

Huang, S., Kim, K., Efimkin, D.K., Lovorn, T., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., MacDonald, A.H., Tutuc, E., LeRoy B.J. Topologically Protected Helical States in Minimally Twisted Bilayer Graphene Physical Review Letters 121, 037702 (2018).

Kim, K., DaSilva, A., Huang, S., Fallahazad, B., Larentis, S., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., LeRoy, B.J., MacDonald, A.H., Tutuc, E. Tunable moire bands and strong correlations in small-twist-angle bilayer graphene PNAS 114, 3364-3369 (2017).

Yankowitz, M., Xue, J., Cormode, D., Sanchez-Yamagishi, J.D., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Jarillo-Herrero, P., Jacquod, P., LeRoy, B.J. Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride Nature Physics 8, 382 (2012).