BOSMAN Michel

Appointments

– Associate Professor at NUS, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
– Faculty Member of ISEP (NGS), the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering
– Senior Scientist (joint position) at IMRE, the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering

Research Interests

We visualize materials at the atomic scale using advanced electron microscopes. Our aim is to contribute to the advancement of microelectronics, nano-optics, and green energy. We do this by combining thin film growth, nanofabrication, and aberration-corrected STEM (scanning transmission electron microscopy). Fabricating and observing invisibly small structures and devices will inspire students who are interested to work at the boundary between pure science and real-world applications. Experimentally- and theoretically-inclined PhD applicants aiming for an ISEP/NGS or A*STAR Graduate Scholarship (AGS) are always welcome to contact me. Find the light—and substance—at the atomic scale!

Selected Publications:

1. Y. Yu et al. Germanium-telluride-based thermoelectrics Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering (2024) https://doi.org/10.1038/s44287-023-00013-6
2. J.-Y. Chung et al. Atomic-Scale Characterization of Extended Defects in Wurtzite GaN Heterostructures ACS Applied Nano Materials (2023) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c01893
3. Z. Dong et al. Nanoscale mapping of optically inaccessible bound-states-in-the-continuum Light: Science & Applications (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-021-00707-2
4. Y. Yu et al. Tunable quantum gaps to decouple carrier and phonon transport leading to high-performance thermoelectrics Nature Communications (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33330-9
5. C.S. Lau et al. Gate‐Defined Quantum Confinement in CVD 2D WS₂ Advanced Materials (2021) https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202103907
6. L. Loh et al. Substitutional Doping in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Nano Research (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3013-4
7. Y. Li et al. Anomalous Resistive Switching in Memristors Based on Two-Dimensional PdSe₂ using Heterophase Grain Boundaries Nature Electronics (2021) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-021-00573-1
8. H.T.B. Do et al. Electron Dynamics in Plasmons Nanoscale (2021) https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR07025D
9. M. Zhao et al. Electrostatically Tunable Near-Infrared Plasmonic Resonances in Solution-Processed Atomically Thin NbSe₂ Advanced Materials (2021) https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202101950
10. Z. Fan et al. Heterophase fcc-2H-fcc Gold Nanorods Nature communications (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17068-w

Teaching

1. MST5002 – Materials Characterization (until 2021)
2. MLE4212 – Advanced Structural Materials
3. MLE5216 – Introduction to Microscopy for Materials Research