Recent and Upcoming Events

Optical Phase Change Materials Special Issue

Submissions entertained for thematic issue on Optical Phase Change Materials in the journal Optical Materials Express.
https://www.osapublishing.org/ome/journal/ome/feature_announce/opcm2017.cfm

Materials for Post-Moore Computing: 2018 APS Focus Topic

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with J. J. Yang

Dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces: 2017 MRS Symposium

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(with T. Z. Ward, K. H. Bevan, A. M. Tremblay)

Discussion on Electron Correlations, Sorrento

Recent Group News

Ravi Bisht to join R&D staff of Silicon Labs Austria. Congrats!

Nature Photonics publishes Commentary on our VO2 paper!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-023-01355-1

Haoming Yu to join R&D staff of ASML in California. Congrats!

Congrats to Haoming Yu on successful PhD defense!

Mondal et al paper highlighted in Advanced Science News

https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/replicating-learning-in-electronic-devices/

Congrats to Michael Park for successful PhD defense !

Chengyang Zhang successfully defends MS thesis. Congrats!

Qi Wang to join R&D staff of ASML in the Bay Area! Congrats.

Congrats to Qi Wang for successful PhD defense.

Science publishes commentary on recent AI paper

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn6196

Nature Materials publishes commentary on our AI paper

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-022-01216-2

Chengzi Huang joins R&D staff at Intel Corporation in Phoenix. Congratulations!

Popular Mechanics publishes commentary on our recent paper!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a38560856/teaching-quantum-materials-how-to-remember/

IEEE Spectrum highlights Zhang et al study

https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-computing-ai-device

Hai-Tian appointed professor at Beihang University. Congrats!

Physics World selects Z. Zhang et al paper as Materials Highlight of 2021!

Optica selects Kats et al VO2 paper as 2021 Highlight!

https://www.optica-opn.org/home/articles/volume_32/december_2021/extras/ultrathin_broadband_reflective_optical_limiters/

Sea slugs inspire AI research

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2021/Q3/taking-lessons-from-a-sea-slug,-study-points-to-better-hardware-for-artificial-intelligence.html

SLAC highlights Sood et al VO2 paper

https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2021-07-15-scientists-take-first-snapshots-ultrafast-switching-quantum-electronic-device.aspx

Kats et al VO2 paper makes the cover

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Zhen Zhang appointed faculty member in Xian Jiaotong University. Congrats!

Congrats to Chengzi Huang for successful PhD defense.

Argonne highlights Y. Sun et al paper on quantum electronic sensors

https://www.anl.gov/article/new-material-senses-neurotransmitters-in-the-brain

Correlated semiconductors feature appears in ACS magazine

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acscentsci.0c00572

Kats et al paper on radiation control is in the news

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/sensors-electronic-warfare/roper-cites-research-work-coating-cloak-ir-signatures

Welcome new graduate student Haoming Yu from Peking University to our group!

Welcome new post-doc Sandip Mondal from IISc Physics to our group!

MRS Bulletin Podcast on Jerome Lin’s VO2 neuron paper

https://mrsbulletin.buzzsprout.com/244633/991064-episode-5-artificial-neuron-made-from-vo2

MRS video on materials for neuro-X

Derek Schwanz successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congrats!

Hai-Tian Zhang is awarded the Lillian Gilbreth Fellowship. Congrats!

Fan Zuo to join Indiana State University as Assistant Professor. Congrats!

Realization of artificial ancestral intelligence

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/recreated-sixth-sense-that-sharks-have_uk_5a38e863e4b0860bf4aad4e4

You Zhou a winner of ‘ Forbes 30 under 30’ in Science category. Congrats!

https://www.forbes.com/profile/you-zhou/

Jun Jiang to join technical staff of ASML in Bay Area. Congrats!

Our collaborative artificial neuron IEDM paper is discussed in EE Times

http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&_mc=RSS_EET_EDT&piddl_msgpage=2&doc_id=1331105&page_number=2

News and Views piece by Drs. Zhou and Shao on our recent paper appears in Nature Energy

Hydrogen induced insulation, by Zhou and Shao in Nat. Energy.

http://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201678

Kats et al VO2 paper is in the news

http://phys.org/news/2016-01-tunable-materials-advanced-optics.html

NSF workshop report on Energy Efficient Computing is released!

https://www.src.org/newsroom/press-release/2015/784/

Congratulations to You Zhou for successfully defending his PhD disseration

Congratulations to Jai Sim for successfully defending his PhD dissertation

Jian Shi’s transistor inspires an Intel Science Fair winning project!

Kian Kerman joins the Technical Staff at Quantum Scape. Congrats!

Franklin Wong joins the Technical Staff at Nanometrics. Congrats!

Shi and Ha et al oxide transistor paper is disussed in technical magazines: (R&D Magazine, EE Times, Gizmag, Materials Today)

Synaptic transistor learns while it computes

Synaptic transistor learns as it switches

Harvard scientists develop a transistor that learns

Brain-inspired transistor stimulates learning process

Kats et al VO2 Metamaterial paper is in the news (Photonics, Pysics World, Science News, MRS)

Coating Provides ‘IR Camouflage’

Natural metamaterial looks cooler when heated

Material looks cool while heating up

Vanadium Oxide Metamaterial Structure Appears to Cool as it Heats

Kats et al Vanadium dioxide perfect absorber paper is selected as one of ‘The Best of Papers of 2012’ published in Applied Physics Letters

Undergrad Siya Xuza meets with United States President Obama and the First Lady to discuss clean energy technologies for the developing world (link)

Remarks by the First Lady at Connecting Continents Event

Group alum Quentin van Overmeere to receive the Electrochemical Society Morris Cohen Award and Antonella Karlson Prize from Belgium science society. Congrats!

Viswanath’s VO2 cantilever actuation paper in Nanoscale selected as ‘HOT Article’

Direct in situ observation of structural transition driven actuation in VO2 utilizing electron transparent cantilevers

Nature reports on our group’s studies on correlated oxide electronics that could potentially enable energy-efficient transistors

Metal oxide chips show promise

Suhare Adam wins an IBM PhD Fellowship! Congrats.

Welcome new post-doctoral fellow Jian Shi from Univ Wisc-Mad MSE Department