News
2022
08/25 – Vincent wins the Viterbi CURVE Fellowship. Congratulations!
08/15 – Welcome Claire and Raymond!
08/10 – We had our first annual review of our MURI program.
07/06 – Jayakanth presented our group’s work on in situ Auger electron spectroscopy for thin film oxide growth during the TSST webinar. Thanks Rik for the invitation to present in this webinar along with Jian Liu (UTK) and R. Ramesh (UC Berkeley)!
06/29 – Mythili and Harish present our work at Electronic Materials Conference 2022, Columbus OH. Good show both of you!
06/02 – Yang successfully defends his thesis. He will be the third PhD student to graduate from the lab. Congratulations Yang!
05/8-13 – We had a strong showing from our group at MRS Spring Meeting this year. Mythili and Huandong presented talks, Boyang, Shantanu and Harish presented posters, and Jayakanth presented in an invited talk. Great work everyone!
04/14 – Boyang passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations Boyang!
04/12 – Miranda and Vincent win the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for the Summer 2022. Congratulations!
04/05 – Mythili passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations Mythili!
03/31 – Mythili wins one of Oral presentation awards in the Annual Mork Family Department Symposium. Miranda and Peggy win one of the two undergraduate poster awards; Harish and Vincent present posters too. Good show all of you!
03/14 – Huandong presented his work on electronic phase transitions in BaTiS3 at APS March meeting 2022, Chicago.
03/02 – Jayakanth has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure. Congratulations!
03/01 – Shanyuan has just started his new position as Assistant Professor in Nanjing University, China. Congratulations and good luck!
02/23 – News release on Mythili’s recent prize at the European MRS Conference Presentation is available here.
2021
12/17 – Our lab receives DURIP funding on “Growth and In Situ Characterization of Thin Films of Vapor Pressure Mismatched Perovskite Chalcogenides”. A related news release from USC Viterbi can be found here
12/07 – Jayakanth has just been appointed as the Philip and Cayley MacDonald Early Career Chair in the Viterbi School of Engineering. Congratulations!
12/06 – Huandong presented his work on freestanding relaxor ferroelectric BCZT film at MRS Fall virtual meeting 2021.
11/30 – Boyang presented his work on optical properties of Quasi-1D systems at MRS Fall 2021, Boston.
11/01 – Our lab is selected to receive a DoD DURIP award from AFOSR (PM: Dr. Ken Goretta)! This award will support our chalcogenide synthesis efforts.
09/23 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Seminar Series, University of Minnesota. Thanks Chris for the kind invitation!
10/05 – Mythili wins the “Oxford PV Prize for Best Contributed Talk on Photovoltaics” for her presentation at the Fall European MRS Meeting. Congratulations Mythili!
09/23 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Materials Science Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thanks Mikhail for the kind invitation!
09/20-21 – Mythili presented an oral presentation at the European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting. Jayakanth also presented an invited talk in the same meeting. Thanks Prashun for the kind invitation!
09/09 – Jayakanth presented an online invited talk at the Hsinchu Online Oxide Forum. Thanks Eddie for the kind invitation.
07/28 – Our lab receives support from NSF Ceramics Program (Program Officer: Dr. Lynette Madsen). This is a collaborative project with Dr. Rohan Mishra from Washington University at St. Louis.
07/20 – Our lab receives support from 2021 DoD-MURI program (ARO Program Manager: Dr. Pani Varanasi). This is a multi-university project with investigators from MIT, Columbia, Washington University, University of Washington besides USC.
05/20 – Jayakanth presented an online invited talk at the Inorganic Materials Chapter’s Tech forum, 3M. Thanks Dipankar for the kind invitation.
04/22 – Jayakanth presented an online invited talk at Materials Research Society Spring Meeting.
04/21 – Jayakanth presented an online invited talk at the Materials Research Lecture Series, Caltech. Thanks Austin for the invitation!
04/13 – Jayakanth presented an online invited talk at the Virtual Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, organized by TIFR Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad. Thanks Karthik for the invitation!
03/09 – Tom successfully defends his thesis. He will be the second PhD student to graduate from the lab. Congratulations Tom!
02/26 – Mythili wins one of the two poster awards in the Annual Mork Family Department Symposium. Huandong presents a talk; Boyang, Harish and Shantanu present posters too. Good show all of you!
01/19-22 – Mythili, Boyang and Huandong present their research at the American Ceramic Society’s Conference on Electronic Materials and Applications 2021. Good show guys! Jayakanth also presented an invited talk in the same conference.
01/12 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for the Spring 2021. Congrats Austin!
2020
12/21 – Jayakanth receives Orange County Engineering Council’s Outstanding Engineering Merit Award.
11/27-12/2 – Jayakanth presented a “virtual” invited talk at the MRS Fall/Spring Combined Meeting.
11/27 – New Article: B. Sun, S. Niu, R. P. Hermann, J. Moon, N. Shulumba, K. L. Page, B. Zhao, A. S. Thind, K. Mahalingam, J. Milam-Guerrero, R. Haiges, M. Mecklenburg, B. C. Melot, Y-D. Jho, B. M. Howe, R. Mishra, A. Alatas, B. Winn, M. E. Manley, J. Ravichandran, A. Minnich, “High-frequency atomic tunneling yields ultralow and glass-like thermal conductivity in chalcogenide single crystals”, Nature Communications.
10/29 – Jayakanth presented the graduate seminar in the Materials Science Program at Oregon State University (via Zoom). Thanks Megumi for the invitation!
10/5 – Jayakanth presented a colloquium at the Department of Physics, University of Washington via Zoom. Thanks Arka for the invitation!
7/30 – Our joint proposal with Profs. Sri Narayan, Brent Melot and Shaama Sharada’s groups was selected for funding from the USC Provost’s New Strategic Directions for Research Award. We are grateful to receive this support!
6/24 – Our joint proposal with Prof. Han Wang’s group was selected for funding from the Technology Advancement Grants of USC Stevens. Thanks USC Stevens for the support!
6/15 – We are delighted to welcome two high school students to join our lab over the summer through the SHINE program. Welcome Maanasi and Athalia!
5/22 – Jayakanth presented a seminar on our Quasi-1D chalcogenides work at the MHI NanoTech Seminar Series. Thanks Han for the kind invitation!
5/19 – Ruby won the WiSE Undergraduate Researcher Grant. Congrats Ruby!
4/20 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for the summer. Congrats Austin!
3/02 – Tom wins the Best Oral Presentation Award in the Department’s Symposium. Congrats Tom! Mythili, Huandong, and Boyang present posters in the symposium. Good show guys!
2/26 – Jayakanth was presented with the TMS Young Leaders Professional Development Award. A related news release by USC can be found here
2/25 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the 2020 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition (TMS 2020) at San Diego, CA.
1/24 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Conference on Electronic Materials and Applications 2020 (EMA 2020) at Orlando, FL.
1/13 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Spring 2020. This is the fourth time he is winning this fellowship. Congratulations Austin!
2019
12/13 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at The 11th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Devices, Jeju, South Korea.
12/2-4 – Jayakanth and colleagues organized a symposium on Thermoelectrics at MRS Fall Meeting, Boston.
12/2 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting at Boston on the Chalcogenide work.
11/28 – New Article: S. Niu, B. Zhao, K. Ye, E. Bianco, J. Zhou, M. E. McConney, C. Settens, R. Haiges, R. Jaramillo, J. Ravichandran, “Crystal growth of perovskite chalcogenide BaZrS3 and Ruddlesden-Popper phase Ba3Zr2S7“, Journal of Materials Research.
11/04 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Materials Department, UC Santa Barbara. Thanks Susanne for the invitation!
10/30 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar Series, Department of Physics, UC Irvine. Thanks Luis for the invitation!
10/24 – New Article: W. Li, S. Niu, B. Zhao, R. Haiges, J. Ravichandran, A. Janotti, “Band gap evolution in Ruddlesden-Popper phases”, Phys. Rev. Materials.
10/22 – Tom represented the group at 66th AVS Symposium at Columbus, OH. He gave a talk on his in situ Auger spectroscopy work. Well done Tom!
10/09 – New Article: R. Jaramillo, J. Ravichandran, “In Praise and in Search of Highly-Polarizable Semiconductors”, APL Materials.
10/02 – New Article: T. Orvis, M. Surendran, Y. Liu, A. Cunniff, J. Ravichandran, “In situ Auger electron spectroscopy of complex oxide surfaces grown by pulsed laser deposition”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A.
09/13 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Fall 2019. This is the third time he is winning this fellowship. Congratulations Austin!
08/15 – Harish and Shantanu will join our group as PhD students this Fall. Welcome!
08/13 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the SPIE Optics and Photonics Meeting at San Diego.
07/01 – Farewell to Shanyuan! He graduates as the first Ph.D. student from the group and will be starting his post-doc at Stanford next month. Good luck!
06/26 – New article: J. Wu, X. Cong, S. Niu, F. Liu, H. Zhao, Z. Du, J. Ravichandran, P-H. Tan, H. Wang, “Linear Dichroism Conversion in Quasi One-Dimensional Perovskite Chalcogenide”, Advanced Materials.
06/13 – Mythili and Boyang pass the screening exam. Congratulations Mythili and Boyang!
06/13 – Tom passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations Tom!
06/10 – Our lab receives support from Agilent. We are excited to work with them.
06/04 – New article: T. Orvis, M. Surendran, Y. Liu, S. Niu, S. Muramoto, A. J. Grutter, J. Ravichandran, “Electron Doping BaZrO3 via Topochemical Reduction”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
05/09 – Shanyuan wins the 2019 William F. Ballhaus, Jr. Prize for Excellence in Graduate Engineering Research for our Viterbi School of Engineering. Shanyuan gave an inspiring talk at the PhD Hooding ceremony representing the graduating PhD class of 2019. See the feature by the school here. Congratulations Shanyuan!
04/29 – Yang passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations Yang!
04/25 – Shanyuan wins the 2019 PhD Achievement Award given by the USC Graduate School. He will also lead the PhD column at the 2019 Commencement Ceremony on May 10, 2019. Congratulations Shanyuan!
04/19 – Yang wins the 2019 Best Research Assistant Award for Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Congratulations Yang!
03/28 – Jayakanth presented a colloquium in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia. Thanks Yohannes for the invitation!
03/26 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk in the Nano@Tech Seminar Series at Georgia Institute of Technology. Thanks Asif for the invitation!
03/07 – Shanyuan wins the “2018 Chinese government award for outstanding self financed students abroad”. Congratulations Shanyuan!
03/04 – Shanyuan represents our group by giving a talk at APS March meeting. He also collected three awards at the meeting. Good show Shanyuan!
02/26 – Our lab receives support to pursue our perovskite chalcogenide research, especially thin film growth from Army Research Office. Thank you Dr. Pani Varanasi for the support!
02/06 – Our center proposal to establish “Centre for Rational Engineering of Quantum Materials” with Indian Institute of Science, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, and Argonne National Lab has been approved by IUSSTF through the Indo-U.S. Virtual Networked Centers. Thanks Srimanta for leading the effort. Congratulations to all!
02/01 – Shanyuan successfully defends his thesis. He will be the first Ph.D. student to graduate from our group. Congratulations Shanyuan!
01/25 – Shanyuan wins the American Physical Society Travel Award for Excellence in Graduate Research from Forum on Graduate Student Affairs. Congratulations Shanyuan!
01/24 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at 2019 American Ceramic Society’s Electronic Materials and Applications Conference held at Orlando, FL.
01/22 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Spring 2019. Congratulations Austin!
01/21 – Shanyuan wins American Physical Society Ovshinsky Student Travel Award. Congratulations Shanyuan!
01/09 – Shanyuan was selected for a American Physical Society Division of Condensed Matter Physics Honorable Mention Travel Award. Congratulations Shanyuan!
01/04 – A figure from Yang’s paper was selected for the cover of recent Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A issue. The cover art can be found here. Congratulations Yang!
2018
12/31 – New Article: Y. Liu, Z. Wang, A. S. Thind, T. Orvis, D. Sarkar, R. Kapadia, A. Y. Borisevich, R. Mishra, A. I. Khan, J. Ravichandran, “Epitaxial growth and Dielectric Characterization of Atomically Smooth 0.5Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3–0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 thin films”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A.
12/03 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar Series, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley. Thanks Ramesh for the invitation!
11/29-30 – Shanyuan presents a contributed talk and a poster at MRS Fall meeting, Boston, MA. Good show Shanyuan!
11/21 – New Article: G. Singh-Bhalla, P. B. Rossen, G. K. Palsson, M. Mecklenburg, T. Orvis, S. Das, Y-L. Tang, S. J. Suresha, D. Yi, A. Dasgupta, D. Doennig, V. G. Ruiz, A. K. Yadav, M. Trassin, J. T. Heron, C. S. Fadley, R. Pentcheva, J. Ravichandran, R. Ramesh, “Unexpected Termination Switching and Polarity Compensation in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures”, Physical Review Materials.
11/15 – New Article: S. Niu, J. Milam-Guerrero, Y. Zhou, K. Ye, B. Zhao, B. C. Melot, J. Ravichandran,“Thermal Stability Study of Transition Metal Perovskite Sulfides”, Journal of Materials Research.
11/10 – Shanyuan, Tom, Yang, and Boyang participated in our department’s annual graduate student symposium. Shanyuan gave an oral presentation and won the outstanding oral presentation (First prize). Tom, Yang, and Boyang made poster presentations. Tom won one of the three poster awards. Congratulations guys!
10/24-25 – Shanyuan, Yang, and Boyang gave oral presentations at AVS 65th International Symposium at Long Beach. Good show guys!
10/16 – Shanyuan wins the Distinguished Student Award from American Physical Society Forum on International Physics. His award will be presented during the APS FIP reception at the 2019 APS March Meeting at Boston. Congratulations Shanyuan!
10/1 – New Article: Y. Liu, S. Niu, T. Orvis, H. Zhang, H. Wang, J. Ravichandran, “Epitaxial Growth and Electrical Properties of VO2 on LSAT (111) substrate”, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A.
09/13 – Austin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Fall 2018. Congratulations Austin!
08/11 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the 21st International Conference on Ternary and Multinary Compounds held at Boulder, Colorado.
07/30 – New Article: S. Niu, H. Zhao, Y. Zhou, H. Huyan, B. Zhao, J. Wu, S. B. Cronin, H. Wang, J. Ravichandran, “Mid-wave and Long-wave IR Linear Dichroism in a Hexagonal Perovskite Chalcogenide”, Chemistry of Materials.
07/17 – New Article: S. Niu, D. Sarkar, K. Williams, Y. Zhou, Y. Li, E. Bianco, H. Huyan, S. B. Cronin, M. E. McConney, R. Haiges, R. Jaramillo, D. J. Singh, W. A. Tisdale, R. Kapadia, J. Ravichandran, “Optimal Bandgap in a Ruddlesden-Popper Chalcogenide for Single-junction Solar Cells”, Chemistry of Materials.
07/13 – Jayakanth presented a colloquium at Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Thanks Srimanta for the invitation!
07/11 – Jayakanth presented a invited talk at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, India. Thanks Kanishka for the invitation!
07/03 – We are happy to welcome Pilar Bayani, a high school teacher, and Melody Haynes, a middle school teacher to our lab through the National Science Foundation – Research Experience for Teachers program administered by Dr. Gisele Ragusa.
06/28 – Jayakanth presented a invited talk at the Institute for Materials Research and Engineering, A*STAR, Singapore. Thanks Kedar for the invitation!
06/18 – New Article: S. Niu, G. Joe, H. Zhao, Y. Zhou, T. Orvis, H. Huyan, J. Salman, K. Mahalingam, B. Urwin, J. Wu, Y. Liu, T. E. Tiwald, S. B. Cronin, B. M. Howe, M. Mecklenburg, R. Haiges, D. J. Singh, H. Wang, M. A. Kats, J. Ravichandran,”Giant optical anisotropy in a quasi-1D crystal”, Nature Photonics.
06/18 – We are happy to welcome Oscar Chou and Derick Tseng, two high school students, who will spend the summer with us through the SHINE Program
06/12 – Jayakanth presented a invited talk at the symposium on “Materials Genome towards Exascale” at Spetses, Greece. Thanks Priya, Rajiv and Tim for the invitation!
05/09 – Our paper on optical anisotropy of perovskite chalcogenides is accepted to Nature Photonics. Congratulations especially to Shanyuan, who is a lead author!
04/25 – Kevin is one of the ten winners of the Discovery Scholar Prize. This is a USC wide competition for all the undergraduates. As a Discovery Scholar Prize Winner, Kevin will be personally recognized at Commencement ceremonies and have his name engraved on the Wall of Scholars in Leavey Library. Congratulations Kevin!
04/16 – New Article: J. P. Feser and J. Ravichandran, “More Power to Pyroelectrics”, Nature Materials – News and Views.
03/07 – Shanyuan, Tom and Yang present talks at APS March Meeting! Good show guys!
01/17 – Jayakanth and collaborators organized a symposium entitled “Complex oxide and chalcogenide semiconductors: Research and applications” as a part of the American Ceramics Society (ACerS) conference – EAM 2018 held at Orlando, FL between January 17-19, 2018.
01/11 – Jayakanth presented a seminar as a part of the Ming Hsieh Institute Nano Materials and Devices Seminar Series of Department of Electrical Engineering – Electrophysics at USC. Thanks Han for the invitation!
01/11 – Kevin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Spring 2018. This is the fifth time he has won this fellowship. Congratulations Kevin!
2017
12/21 – New Article: S-Y. Zhao, G. Elbaz, D. Bediako, C. Yu, D. Efetov, Y. Guo, J. Ravichandran, K-A. Min, S. Hong, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, L. Brus, X. Roy, P. Kim,”Controlled Electrochemical Intercalation of Graphene/h-BN van der Waals Heterostructures”, Nano Letters.
12/19 – New Article: S. Ghosh, S. Niu, M. Yankova, M. Mecklenburg, S. M. King, J. Ravichandran, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, and P. Setlow, “Analysis of killing of growing cells and dormant spores of Bacillus species by black silicon nanopillars”, Scientific Reports.
11/29 – Jayakanth presented a colloquium at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Boston University. Thanks Chuanhua for the invitation!
11/13 – Jayakanth presented a colloquium at the Institute of Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo. Thanks Wei for the invitation!
10/16 – New Article: K. Luo, S. Niu, D. Shah, A. Lonkar, Y. Liu, and J. Ravichandran, “Prediction of Perovskite and Other Ternary Oxide Multilayers as Mirrors for Soft X-rays”, Materials Research Bulletin.
09/13 – Kevin wins the Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship for Fall 2017. This is the fourth time he has won this fellowship. Congrats Kevin!
08/22 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at IMRC 2017, Cancun Mexico.
08/17 – Jayakanth presented an invited seminar at Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton OH. Thanks Brandon for the invitation.
07/31 – Shanyuan presented a poster at ICT 2017, Pasadena.
07/25 – Jayakanth presented an invited seminar at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Thanks Sabah for the invitation.
06/28 – Yang passed the screening exam. Congratulations Yang!
06/22 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at ICMAT 2017, Singapore.
06/21 – Our SHINE students, Brian Huang and Shravan Hariharan, are featured in Viterbi news here.
06/19 – Two high school students, Brian Huang and Shravan Hariharan will join us for 8 weeks as a part of the SHINE program. Samantha Noriega will also join us as a high school intern as a part of our on going collaboration with Carson High School. Welcome Brian, Shravan and Samantha!
05/02 – New Article: “Qingfeng Lin, Debarghya Sarkar, Yuanjing Lin, Matthew Yeung, Louis Blankemeier, Jubin Hazra, Wei Wang, Shanyuan Niu, Jayakanth Ravichandran, Zhiyong Fan, and Rehan Kapadia, “Scalable Indium Phosphide Thin-Film Nanophotonics Platform for Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Devices”, ACS Nano.
04/29 – Kevin wins a poster award at the ACS Southern California Undergraduate Research Conference held at UCLA. Congratulations Kevin!
04/27 – Shanyuan wins the Link Energy Fellowship. Congratulations Shanyuan!
04/25 – Shanyuan wins the 2017 Best Research Assistant Award from Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He will be presented the award on the convocation day (May 11th). Congratulations Shanyuan!
04/20 – Shanyuan presents a poster on perovskite chalcogenides at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting at Phoenix. Good show Shanyuan!
04/12 – Kevin presented a poster on his work on using “Rietveld refinement of the structure of perovskite chalcogenides” at the annual USC undergraduate symposium. Well done Kevin!
03/31 – Kevin wins the prestigious Barry Goldwater Fellowship. More information on the fellowship is available at wikipedia here and the official press release from the foundation is here. Congratulations Kevin!
03/28 – Jayakanth presented an invited seminar as a part of the Condensed Matter Seminar Series of Physics department at University of Utah. Thanks Vikram for the invitation.
03/24 – Our CEMMA outreach event was profiled by our partner organization, The center for powerful public schools, here.
03/14 – Kevin will be attending the E3S REU program at UC Berkeley this summer. Congrats Kevin!
03/09 – Shanyuan passed the qualifying exam. Congratulations Shanyuan!
02/28 – More news articles on the Advanced Materials paper. Advanced Science News, the news and views website of Wiley publications, and Nanowerk feature our work. The link to the articles are here and here!
02/24 – We successfully organized our second outreach event to Carson High School students to educate and expose them to practical applications of electromagnetic interaction with matter. The students visited our group and Prof. Rehan Kapadia’s group for lab tours, besides the feature event of visiting CEMMA for the tour and demonstration of the materials characterization equipment. This event was organized in collaboration with USC VAST, CEMMA, Center for Powerful Public Schools and Carson High School. More information to follow soon.
02/09 – Our Advanced Materials article is featured in Viterbi News, USC News, and USC Employee Gateway (Facebook page). The links to the articles are here, here, and here respectively!
01/19 – William Zhou has been admitted to MIT and Stanford MSE Graduate programs. William was a summer intern in our lab this past summer. Congratulations William!
01/18 – Jayakanth and collaborators organized a symposium entitled “Interfacial Phenomena in Multifunctional Heterostructures: From Theory to Transport Processes” as a part of the American Ceramics Society (ACerS) conference – EMA 2017 held at Orlando, FL between January 18-20, 2017.
01/12 – Kevin and Kangmin win the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the Spring semester. This is the third time Kevin is winning this fellowship. Congrats to both Kevin and Kangmin!
2016
12/22 – New Article: “S. Niu, H. Huyan, Y. Liu, M. Yeung, K. Ye, L. Blankemeier, T. Orvis, D. Sarkar, D. J. Singh, R. Kapadia, and J. Ravichandran, “Band-Gap Control via Structural and Chemical Tuning of Transition Metal Perovskite Chalcogenides”, Advanced Materials.
11/14 – New Article: “Thermoelectric and thermal transport properties of complex oxide thin films, heterostructures and superlattices, Journal of Materials Research. (Invited Review – Early Career Scholar in Materials Science)
11/12 – Shanyuan, Tom and Yang present posters at the annual departmental symposium. Shanyuan wins one of the four poster awards (see picture here, new article here, and album here). Congratulations Shanyuan!
10/03 – Kangmin joins our group. Welcome Kangmin!
09/28 – New Article: “Ambipolar Transport and Magneto-resistance Crossover in a Mott Insulator, Sr2IrO4”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
09/14 – Kevin was awarded Provost’s Fellowship for the fall semester. Congrats Kevin!
08/01 – Shengyuan joins our group. Welcome Shengyuan!
07/01 – Fausto joins our lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome Fausto!
06/30 – We received our first federal support from AFOSR (PM: Dr. Ken Goretta).
06/29 – Our lab is hosting two middle school teachers and two high school students over the summer as a part of the NSF RET program at USC and the SHINE program respectively! Thanks to Dr. Gisele Ragusa and Dr. Katie Mills for organizing these programs.
06/13 – Tom passed the screening exam. Congratulations Tom!
05/18 – Kunjesh joins our lab for the summer as a Viterbi India Fellow. Welcome Kunjesh!
05/17 – Chambers installed and working now!
04/27 – Laser installed and working now!
04/18 – Kevin wins the competitive Rose Hills fellowship to perform summer research in our lab! Congratulations Kevin!
04/13 – Kevin participates in annual USC undergraduate symposium. Good show Kevin!
04/12 – Huaixun joins our group. Welcome Hua!
04/01 – We organized a one day outreach event for high school students of Carson high in collaboration with USC VAST, Center for Powerful Public Schools, and CEMMA. This will be annual event targeting high schools to create awareness about career options in Materials Science and Engineering through demonstrations, talks etc.
03/23 – Chamber delivered!
03/16 – Laser delivered!
03/16 – Lab renovation is complete and we are ready to move in! Stay tuned for lab pictures.
02/22 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Conference on Energy Materials Nanotechnology Meeting on Thermoelectric Materials (EMN 2016) at Orlando, FL.
01/22 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at the Conference on Electronic Materials and Applications 2016 (EMA 2016) at Orlando, FL. The conference was organized by American Ceramics Society.
01/11 – Kevin wins the competitive USC Provost’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship. Congrats Kevin!
2015
11/18 – We have a news article published in the Viterbi Engineering School’s news section about the Graduate Symposium. You can find the news article and a picture of Shanyuan here.
11/06 – Shanyuan and Kaihang participate in our department’s Annual Graduate Symposium and present their research through posters. Shanyuan is one of the four poster award winners. Congratulations Shanyuan, great show!
08/28 – Dhyey joins our group. Welcome Dhyey!
08/28 – Hannah and Kevin join our group. Welcome Hannah and Kevin!
08/14 – Tom joins our group. Welcome Tom!
06/22 – Malcolm Pithawalla from Arcadia High School joins us for the summer. Welcome Malcolm!
05/16 – Yang joins our group. Welcome Yang!
05/08 – Jayakanth presented an invited seminar at UC Irvine, Thanks Allon for the invitation!
05/07 – Shiyang graduates with an MS; First person to graduate from the group. Good luck with your future endeavors!
04/16 – Kaihang joins our group. Welcome Kaihang!
03/06 – Jayakanth presented an invited talk at Caltech, Thanks Austin for the invitation!
02/23 – Jayakanth presented an invited seminar at UC San Diego, Thanks Prab for the invitation!
01/05 – Official launch of the group!
2014
12/15 – Shiyang joins our group. Welcome Shiyang!
10/15 – Shanyuan joins our group. Welcome Shanyuan!
10/30 – Website launched!