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Andrew Bennett-Jackson Receives PhD

Andrew Bennett-Jackson Receives PhD

July 20, 2022BY Lyn Lord

We celebrate the successful defense of Andrew Bennett-Jackson on June 15, 2022.  ABJ has now joined the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins U

Journal of Materials Chemistry C Publication

Journal of Materials Chemistry C Publication

October 25, 2021BY Lyn Lord

The October 2021 issue of Journal of Materials Chemistry C features an image of work carried out by Drexel University, Penn State University, and t

Andrew Bennett-Jackson Completes Internship

Andrew Bennett-Jackson Completes Internship

September 30, 2021BY Lyn Lord

Anthony Bennett-Jackson has completed a three-month internship at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Columbia, MD. Anthony

Aleksandr Plokhikh Accepts Position with Lam

Aleksandr Plokhikh Accepts Position with Lam

September 27, 2021BY Lyn Lord

Alexsandr Plokhikh has accepted a position with Lam Research Corporation in Fremont, CA, after successfully defending his PhD dissertation. Founded

Open Positions

February 19, 2021BY Mmladmin

We are currently recruiting postdoctoral scientists and entering PhD students (either BA/BS or post-MS) now or later in 2021 to join a new internat

Not So Inseparable After All

Not So Inseparable After All

February 7, 2019BY Lyn Lord

The drift- and diffusion-governing behaviors of photo-generated oppositely-charged carriers near surfaces of and interfaces within semiconducting a

Once a Performance Barrier…

Once a Performance Barrier…

February 1, 2019BY Admin

Naturally occurring boundaries, separating atoms with different directions of relative displacement that create dipoles within a material, could ac

Dr. Hawley Starting Tenure-track Faculty Position

Dr. Hawley Starting Tenure-track Faculty Position

August 20, 2018BY Admin

We congratulate alumnus Dr. Christopher J. Hawley, who will started a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor of Physics at Lafayette

Xiao Graduates

June 20, 2018BY Admin

Geoffrey Xiao received his B.S in Materials Science & Engineering, minoring in Computer science and Mathematics, and is co-author of three pape

Podpirka starts staff position at JHU APL

October 1, 2017BY Admin

Postdoctoral scientist and EERE DoE Fellow Dr Adrian Podpirka has been appointed to the technical staff at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Phy

Gu receives PhD

August 20, 2017BY Admin

Zongquan Gu has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Ferroelectric domain engineering in thin films and its applications” with committee members P

Solar energy conversion breakthrough with help from a ferroelectrics pioneer

Solar energy conversion breakthrough with help from a ferroelectrics pioneer

August 9, 2016BY Mmladmin

Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that cou

Welcoming new group members in 2016

June 22, 2016BY Mmladmin

We welcome graduate students Andrew Bennett-Jackson (MSE), Anthony Ruffino (Physics) and Alexandria Will-Cole (MSE) to the group! We also welcome D

Gu awarded sponsored extended visit to Japan

June 22, 2016BY Mmladmin

PhD Candidate Zongquan Gu has been selected to participate in the National Institute for Communications Technologies (NICT) supported program in Ja

Hawley, McGuckin and Akbashev defend

February 6, 2016BY Mmladmin

Terrence McGuckin defended his PhD thesis “Exploring the Electronic Landscape at Interfaces and Junctions in Semiconductor Nanowire Devices w

Congratulations to Dr. Guannan Chen and to Dr. Mohammad Islam!

August 14, 2014BY Mmladmin

We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Mohammad A. Islam, Research Assistant Professor of Materials Science & Engineering has been appointed

MML Group Members Receive Awards at the 2014 Spring MRS

May 12, 2014BY Mmladmin

MML group members and PhD candidates Guannan Chen and Andrew R Akbashev were honored with selection for awards at the 2014 Spring MRS Meeting in Sa

Visible light-absorbing ferroelectrics for solar energy conversion

November 10, 2013BY Coeadmin

Our paper on a new visible-light-absorbing semiconducting ferroelectric oxide perovskite materials family having compositionally tunable band gap h

Low-energy route to epitaxial complex oxides

September 25, 2013BY Mmladmin

In a new paper in Nano Letters from the group co-authored by Andrew Akbashev and Guannan Chen we report an atomic layer deposition-based route for

Older News

January 8, 2013BY Coeadmin

2013 August: Guannan Chen is the lead author on a new paper, with collaborators from Lehigh Univ., Univ. of Alabama, the CNR and University of Sale