Michael Randle

Speaker background: During his PhD study in  the University at Buffalo in New York, Michael focused on electrical  transport in 2D and quasi-1D materials.  Specifically, he studied transport signatures of charge density waves  in Titanium Trisulfide (TiS3), a quasi-1D transition metal  trichalcogenide that can be studied in atomically-thin form as a van der  Waals material. After graduating, he moved to Japan to  work in the group of Ishibashi-sensei at RIKEN, in which he continued  to work on 2D materials in the context of Josephson junction transport  in the quantum spin-hall insulator Tungsten Ditelluride (WTe2). He is  now working as a postdoctoral researcher at NTT  Basic Research Laboratories in Atsugi, Kanagawa on Weyl semimetal  magnetotransport in alloys of Germanium Tin (GeSn) that are lightly  doped with carbon. Today’s talk will be split into two parts and focus on ongoing work in the electrical  transport of both TiS3 and GeSn.