Philip Kim

Philip Kim has been a pioneer and leader in the experimental study of carbon nanotubes and of graphene and other two-dimensional molecular materials, including graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides. He was one of the earliest workers to isolate graphene layers and to study their properties. His observation of the integer quantized Hall effect, with Stormer and other coworkers, demonstrated the peculiar relativistic band structure of graphene, and its Berry phase. Kim and coworkers pioneered the use of boron-nitride substrates for highest-quality graphene electronics, and they opened up a new class of materials based on Moiré patterns formed from a pair of misaligned layers.