Dr. John C. Thomas
Post Doctoral Scholar, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Current research delves into understanding material properties at the nanoscale with photo-coupled microscopy in ultrastable environments. Point defects in single layer transition metal dichalcogenides (SL-TMDs) can be used to advantage in spin valley splitting, tunable band gap engineering, and target sites for quantum emission. Multi-modal scanning probe microscopy is well-adept at parsing atomic level information with high fidelity.
John Thomas is a post doctoral scholar working within the Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures Facility, which is part of the Molecular Foundry, at Berkeley Lab. John earned a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015 with a focus on ambient and low temperature scanning probe microscopy. After gaining experience in process engineering at Intel Corporation and software development at Veritomyx, Inc, John joined Berkeley Lab in early 2020.