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Our research focuses on two-dimensional (2D) material systems with unusual electromagnetic properties, with an emphasis on:

- Design of low-dimensional materials and their interfaces

- Emergent electromagnetic phases from correlated electrons

- Energy-efficient electronics based on artificially designed materials

News

September 2024  Jieyang published his first paper in the group. The paper demonstrated a new oxide thin film synthesis approach by incorporating an oxide membrane protective layer.

July 2024  Zack received a department citation award upon graduation. Check his story highlighted by the department.

April 2024  Hudson was selected for the Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship 2024-2025. Hudson will study atomic structures of complex oxide membranes using cutting-edge electron microscopes at the National Center for Electron Microscopy.

February 2024  College of Engineering photo shoot for the group!

January 2024  The group welcomes new members:
Izoah joined as a graduate student.

November 2023  Hudson became the first awardee of the Amiya Mukherjee Memorial Fellowship for materials science and engineering students. We appreciate the generous support from alumni Robert ’73 and Carolyn Caligiuri ’74.

November 2023  Farewell to Zoey and Jiyang. Best wishes!

September 2023  The group helped to organize the COE workshop on electronic/photonics materials and devices. The speakers and attendees are from 5 departments across the campus.

July 2023  The group welcomes Logan and Leah who are the high school summer researchers, as part of the UC Davis MESA program.

June 2023  The group welcomes new members:
Zack joined as an undergraduate student.
Jiyang joined us from Tohoku as a visiting graduate student for 6 months.

October/November 2022  Hudson received two awards:
His SrTiO3 membrane image was selected for the 2022 Ceramographic Exhibition of the American Ceramic Society.
He is also one of the four recipients of the 2022 Richard and Joy Dorf Engineering Fellowship from the UC Davis College of Engineering.

October 2022  The group welcomes new members:
Sidney joined as an undergraduate student.

August 2022  Farewell to David. Wish the best on his next chapter at Champaign.

June 2022  The group welcomes new members:
Thai joined as an undergraduate student.

January 2022  The group welcomes new members:
Huijue and Robert joined as graduate students.
Zoey joined as an undergraduate student.

November 2021  The group received the NSF CAREER award. We appreciate the generous support from the NSF.

October 2021  Farewell to Griffin, who graduated with a department citation award this summer. Check his story highlighted by the department.

January 2021  The group welcomes new members:
Jieyang and Hudson joined as graduate students.
Griffin and David joined as undergraduate students.

April 2020 Our paper on extreme strain engineering was highlighted by two articles:
SLAC National Lab news (for a general audience) written by Glennda Chui
Science perspective article (for scientists) written by Christianne Beekman

December 2019 An introductory interview was published on the UC Davis MSE webpage. (written by Noah Pflueger-Peters)