Laboratory for Complex Materials and Devices

Lab Facilities

Thin Film Materials Synthesis

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Bulk Materials (Powder and Single Crystal) Synthesis

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Device Fabrication and Transport Measurements

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Not so Lab Facilities

Latest News

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!

Recent Publications

H. Chen, N. Wang, H. Liu, H. Wang, J. Ravichandran, "Charge-density-wave resistive switching and voltage oscillations in ternary chalcogenide BaTiS₃", Advanced Electronic Materials, 202300461 (2023)

H. Chen, B. Zhao, J. Mutch, G. Y. Jung, G. Ren, S. Shabani, E. Seewald, S. Niu, J. Wu, N. Wang, M. Surendran, S. Singh, J. Luo, S. Ohtomo, G. Goh, B. C. Chakoumakos, S. J. Teat, B. Melot, H. Wang, A. N. Pasupathy, R. Mishra, J. -H. Chu, J. Ravichandran, "Charge-Density-Wave Order And Electronic Phase Transitions in a Dilute d-Band Semiconductor", Advanced Materials, 2303283 (2023).

H. Mei, G. Ren, B. Zhao, J. Salman, G. Y. Jung, H. Chen, S. Singh, A. S. Thind, J. Cavin, J. A. Hachtel, M. Chi, S. Niu, G. Joe, C. Wan, N. Settineri, S. J. Teat, B. C. Chakoumakos, J. Ravichandran, R. Mishra, M. A. Kats, "Colossal Optical Anisotropy from Atomic-scale Modulations", Advanced Materials, 2303588 (2023).

H. Chen, A. Avishai, and J. Ravichandran, “A Polymeric Planarization Strategy for Versatile Multiterminal Electrical Transport Studies on Small, Bulk Crystals”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 4, 5550–5557 (2022).

M. Surendran, B. Zhao, G. Ren, S. Singh, A. Avishai, H. Chen, J-K. Han, M. Kawasaki, R. Mishra and J. Ravichandran, “Quasi-epitaxial growth of BaTiS₃ films”, Journal of Materials Research, 37, 3481–3490 (2022).