News & Events

Recent and Upcoming Events

Optical Phase Change Materials Special Issue

September 2017/in Events /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

June 2017/in Events /by Shriram Ramanathan

www.aps.org

with J. J. Yang

Dynamics at solid-liquid interfaces: 2017 MRS Symposium

December 2016/in Events /by Shriram Ramanathan

www.mrs.org

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

APL Materials: Ion Transport in Complex Systems

April 2016/in Events /by Shriram Ramanathan

Thematic issue to appear in Spring 2017 in the journal APL Materials

Discussion on Electron Correlations, Sorrento

August 2015/in Events /by admin

Functional Oxides, Focus Issue, PSS-RRL

March 2014/in Events /by admin

Focus Issue Functional Oxides

The Next Transistor: Information Processing Beyond CMOS, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Workshop, Cambridge, MA

September 2013/in Events /by admin

Seminars & Workshops

Oxides and 2D Interfaces Workshop, Cambridge, MA

August 2012/in Events /by admin

Mott MURI Review & Oxide Interfaces Meeting

Indo-US Frontiers of Excellence Workshop on Photovoltaic Science and Technologies, Bombay

January 2012/in Events /by admin

Recent Group News

Optica selects Kats et al VO2 paper as 2021 Highlight!

November 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Sea slugs inspire AI research

October 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Sandip Mondal appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering in IIT Mumbai. Congrats!

August 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

SLAC highlights Sood et al VO2 paper

July 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

June 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Chengzi Huang joins R&D staff at ASM, Phoenix. Congratulations!

April 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

April 2021/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Congrats to Chengzi Huang for successful PhD defense.

December 2020/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

November 2020/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Correlated semiconductors feature appears in ACS magazine

May 2020/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

You Zhou appointed Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at University of Maryland. Congrats!

April 2020/in News, Uncategorized /by Shriram Ramanathan

Kats et al paper on radiation control is in the news

April 2020/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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!

September 2019/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

September 2019/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Yifei Sun appointed faculty member in School of Energy, Xiamen University. Congrats!

August 2019/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

MRS Bulletin Podcast on Jerome Lin’s VO2 neuron paper

March 2019/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Jerome Lin’s VO2 paper selected by Emerging Technology, MIT Technology Review as Best of Physics arxiv (9/8, 2018)

November 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

MRS video on materials for neuro-X

July 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Derek Schwanz successfully defends his PhD dissertation. Congrats!

June 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

May 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

March 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Realization of artificial ancestral intelligence

January 2018/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Quantum crystals can learn and forget

December 2017/in News, Uncategorized /by Shriram Ramanathan

http://nautil.us/blog/this-crystal-mimics-learning-and-forgetting

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

December 2017/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Xiaofei Guan to join Shanghai Tech University as Assistant Professor in School of Physical Science and Technology. Congrats!

June 2017/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

June 2017/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Our collaborative artificial neuron IEDM paper is discussed in EE Times

May 2017/in News, Uncategorized /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Feng Yan appointed Assistant Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at University of Alabama. Congrats!

February 2017/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Changhyun Ko to join Sook-Myung Women’s University as Assistant Professor of Applied Physics. Congrats!

August 2016/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

June 2016/in News, Uncategorized /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

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

Suhare Adam successfully defends her PhD dissertation. She will join the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Congrats!

May 2016/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

Kats et al VO2 paper is in the news

January 2016/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

NSF workshop report on Energy Efficient Computing is released!

October 2015/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

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

Jikun Chen appointed as Associate Professor at University of Science and Technology (Beijing, China). Congrats!

September 2015/in News /by Shriram Ramanathan

van Overmeere to join the Research Staff of Palo Alto Research Center. Congrats!

June 2015/in News /by admin

Congratulations to You Zhou for successfully defending his PhD disseration

May 2015/in News /by admin

Sunghwan Lee to join the Mechanical Engineering Department, Baylor University as Assistant Professor. Congrats!

April 2015/in News /by admin

Sieu Ha et al neural circuits paper is discussed in Inside Science article and Physics magazine.

December 2014/in News /by admin

E-MRS 2010 Spring Meeting

Mimicking the Brain

Congratulations to Jai Sim for successfully defending his PhD dissertation

November 2014/in News /by admin

Shi and Zhou’s nickelate switch is discussed in ‘Edging towards silicon-free transistors’

October 2014/in News /by admin

Edging towards silicon-free transistors

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

July 2014/in News /by admin

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

July 2014/in News /by admin

Franklin Wong joins the Technical Staff at Nanometrics. Congrats!

July 2014/in News /by admin

ARPA-E awards a grant to advance the frontiers of solid oxide fuel cell devices.

June 2014/in News /by admin

ARPA-E | Changing What’s Possible

Jian Shi to join the RPI Materials Science and Engineering department as Assistant Professor. Congrats!

June 2014/in News /by admin

Raf Jaramillo to join the MIT Materials Science and Engineering department as Assistant Professor. Congrats!

June 2014/in News /by admin

Sieu Ha to join the Research Staff of Hughes Research Laboratories. Congrats!

June 2014/in News /by admin

Congratulations to Kian Kerman for successfully defending his PhD dissertation!

April 2014/in News /by admin

Raf’s paper discussed in Metals behaving badly

March 2014/in News /by admin

Physicists propose explanation for metals behaving badly

B.Viswanath to join the Indian Institute of Technology (Mandi) Materials Science and Engineering faculty! Congrats.

March 2014/in News /by admin

The Office of Science highlights a recent collaborative study on oxide breakdown.

February 2014/in News /by admin

New Perspective on a Corrosive Problem

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

November 2013/in News /by admin

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)

October 2013/in News /by admin

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

September 2013/in News /by admin

Franklin Wong to give Invited Talk at SPIE Photonics conference on VO2 studies. Congrats!

August 2013/in News /by admin

You Zhou’s work makes cover of Critical Reviews journal issue

August 2013/in News /by admin

Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences

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

June 2013/in News /by admin

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!

June 2013/in News /by admin

Kian Kerman to give Invited Talk at American Chemical Society annual meeting. Congrats!

June 2013/in News /by admin

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

June 2013/in News /by admin

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

You Zhou receives the Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award. Congrats!

April 2013/in News /by admin

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

March 2013/in News /by admin

Metal oxide chips show promise

Suhare Adam wins an IBM PhD Fellowship! Congrats.

January 2013/in News /by admin

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

January 2013/in News /by admin