Hui Zhao is an Associate Professor in Physics at University of Kansas. He obtained his Ph.D. from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2000. After postdoctoral research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and University of Iowa, he joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Kansas in 2007. His expertise is on laser spectroscopy of semiconductors.
Scientists have developed a way to engineer new forms of matter by stacking different types of layers, each only one atom thick, on top of one another.