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Intel Awards John T. Heron and lab with Outstanding Researcher Award!

July 31, 2025 By Avery-Ryan Ansbro

Once a year, Intel presents an award acknowledging work that makes “a significant impact on future technology” and “celebrates exceptional achievements made through Intel sponcered research.” John T. Heron is among the 10 researchers who have recieved this distinguished award.

“The research team demonstrated ultrafast switching of La-doped BiFeO3 ferroelectric capacitors, developed novel metrologies to measure polarization dynamics at nanoscale, demonstrated modeling frameworks to understand the effect of key physical processes such as domain nucleation, growth, and circuit limits on the switching process, and determined a new regime of energy-delay scaling behavior relevant for computing technologies. Furthermore, the researchers developed novel materials critical for accelerating magneto-electric spin-orbit (MESO) device development to deliver target specifications, such as high entropy perovskite oxides with large spin Hall efficiency and resistivity as well as double perovskite ferromagnet layers epitaxially compatible with La-doped BiFeO3.”

Congratulations to both John and the remainder of the research teach who supported this achievement! Read more on Intel’s website if you are interested about this achievement.

Filed Under: Awards Tagged With: award, high entropy, intel, John T. Heron, magnetism, MESO

Peter has been selected as the 2021 MSE recipient of the Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement

March 16, 2021 By Matt Webb

The award recognizes the outstanding graduate student in each degree program. Prize criteria include a student’s active participation in research, leadership and academic performance (GPA). 

Congratulations Peter!

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Sieun receives the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!

March 16, 2021 By Matt Webb

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who are actively working on dissertation research and writing. It seeks to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

Congratulations Sieun!

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Peter wins the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship!

April 1, 2020 By John Heron

The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship supports outstanding doctoral students who are actively working on dissertation research and writing. It seeks to support students working on dissertations that are unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

Peter’s research thrust is to find new materials and design devices that can mitigate heating from electronics, saving a tremendous amount of energy in the long run. To this end, his research explores the frontiers of materials synthesis to engineer new, sustainable, non-volatile devices with unprecedented performance. His research centers around discovering new ferroic states in disorder-driven materials. This includes synthesis and characterization of new, magnetic, entropy-stabilized oxides and device implementation and optimization of existing composite multiferroic systems. Through these projects he has experience with many aspects of materials design, ranging from material deposition and basic characterization to nanolithography and coupled electronic measurements.

See the press release here: https://mse.engin.umich.edu/about/news/three-mse-students-win-rackham-predoctoral-awards

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Peter wins the Materials Research Society graduate student silver award!

December 10, 2019 By John Heron

As well as being chosen to give a technical talk, Peter was selected to compete in the final round of the MRS graduate student awards at the MRS 2019 fall meeting and won silver!

Peter’s talk was titled “Epitaxially Engineered, Enhanced Magnetostriction in a Strain-Driven Composite Multiferroic”

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  • Intel Awards John T. Heron and lab with Outstanding Researcher Award! July 31, 2025
  • New Publication! “Investigating Vibrational Modes in High Entropy Oxides using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy” July 31, 2025
  • New Publication! “Endotaxial Stabilization of 2D 1T-TaS2 Charge Density Waves via In-Situ Electrical Current Biasing” July 31, 2025

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Intel Awards John T. Heron and lab with Outstanding Researcher Award!

July 31, 2025 By Avery-Ryan Ansbro

New Publication! “Investigating Vibrational Modes in High Entropy Oxides using Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy”

July 31, 2025 By Avery-Ryan Ansbro

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