Understanding and utilizing non-volatile properties of materials
Congratulations to Nguyen Vu, who was awarded the Chia-Lun Lo fellowship! The Chia-Lun Lo fellowship is awarded to exemplary international graduate students at the University of Michigan. The award is quite selective with only ~ 25 awards given per year campus wide.
Congratulations to Davide, a joint Heron and Goldman student, for winning second place at the 2016 American Vacuum Society (AVS) conference in Nashville, Tennessee! Davide’s poster was titled “Quantum Enoki Mushrooms”. Davide also contributed to the conference with an oral presentation. He presented work on the synthesis of indium tin oxide nanowires by pulsed laser deposition.
Useful Programs: http://mybinder.org:/repo/meisep/ferroelectronicsprograms
The Stoner-Wohlfarth Model describes the hysteresis of single domain ferromagnets when an electric field is applied at some angle θ from the easy axis. An interactive python code to quantitatively simulate this hysteresis is available from the depository above.
The reciprocal lattice of a crystal represents the Fourier transform of real space lattice and is used to calculate the expected diffraction pattern from X-ray or neutron diffraction. Operations in real space and reciprocal space have an inverse relationship (increasing length in real space decreases it in reciprocal space) which can oftentimes be difficult to visualize. An interactive python code comparing real space and reciprocal space for arbitrary angles and lengths is available at the depository above.
Recent work on new room temperature multiferroics is highlighted by Nature and the University of Michigan!
Our collaborative work with UC Berkeley and Cornell University was recently highlighted in Nature: News and Views by Manfred Fiebig and by the University of Michigan! The highlights are in regards to the work recently published in Nature (“Atomically engineered ferroic layers yield a room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic”).
Fiebig’s article is titled, “Condensed-matter physics: Multitasking materials from atomic templates”.
The article written by the University of Michigan is titled, “ ‘Atomic sandwiches’ could make computers 100x greener”.
The lab has received new deposition and characterization equipment courtesy of IMRA America! Donated to our lab was:
We are already putting these new facilities to use with the growth of oxide nanowires and chalcogenide thin films. We are still setting up the other equipment but are excited by all of the new possibilities. Thanks IMRA!