• Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
  • Affiliated Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Yuxuan Cosmi Lin

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • M.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Microelectronics, Tsinghua University

Research Interests

    • Nanomaterials and devices for non-conventional computing architectures
    • Electronic, optical, mechanical, and electrochemical sensors and integrated microsystems
    • Atomically precise material design and synthesis
    • Artificial Intelligence for microscopic/spectroscopic characterization and metrology
    • Heterogeneous integration and co-design of multifunctional materials, devices, and systems

Awards & Honors

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, IOP Publishing – 2020
  • Featured Talk Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Microsystems Technology Laboratories Annual Research Conference (MARC) – 2016
  • Featured Talk Award, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Microsystems Technology Laboratories Annual Research Conference (MARC) – 2014
  • EMC Scholarship for Comprehensive Excellence, Tsinghua University, China – 2011
  • Undergraduate Research and Entrepreneurship Fellowship, China – 2020

Selected Publications

  • Shen, PC., Lin, Y., Su, C. et al. "Healing of donor defect states in monolayer molybdenum disulfide using oxygen-incorporated chemical vapour deposition", Nat. Electron. 5, 28-36 (2022).
  • Lin, Y., Shen, PC., Su, C. et al. "Contact engineering for high performance N-type 2D semiconductor transistors", 2021 IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, December 2021
  • Z. Mutlu, Y. Lin, G. B. Barin, et al. "Short-channel double-gate FETs with atomically precise graphene nanoribbons", 2021 IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, December 2021
  • Y. Guo, Y. Lin, K. Xie, et al. "Designing artificial two dimensional landscapes via atomic layer substitution", PNAS 118, e2106124118 (2021).
  • Shen, PC., Su, C., Lin, Y.et al. "Ultralow contact resistance between semimetal and monolayer semiconductors", Nature, 593, 211-217 (2021).
  • Y. Sun, Y. Lin, A. Zubair, et al. "Graphene/WSe2 heterojunction synaptic phototransistor with both electrically and optically tunable plasticity", 2D Mater. 8, 035034 (2021)