Fall 2023

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
09/01/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
09/15/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Jarred Grant Electronic band reconstruction across the insulator-metal transition in colossal magnetoresistive EuCd2P2 arXiv: 2308.16844
09/29/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Lauren Kim Electronic nematicity without charge density waves in a titanium-based Kagome metal Nature Phys. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02176-3
10/06/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Sabin Gautam A facile direct device transfer of monolayer MoS2 towards improvement in transistor performances arXiv:2309.08205
10/13/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Piumi Samarawickrama Concurrent Ferromagnetism and superconductivity in Fe(Te,Se) van der Waals Josephson Junction arXiv:2303.00966
10/27/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Raz Rivlis Calculations of the effects of Thermal Spin Fluctuations on Skyrmion Stability arXiv: 2310.03169
12/01/2023 (Fri) at 3:10 pm PS 231 Jefferson Carter Physical Properties Measurements of EuAl4 Phys. Rev. B 106, 094421 (2022)

Fall 2022

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
08/22/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
09/12/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Lauren Kim Structure Evolution of Graphitic Surface upon Oxidation: Insights by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy JACS Au 2, 723-730 (2022)
09/19/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Noah Cowper Production of Entangled Photons Using Quantum Dots Sci. Adv. 7, eabe8905 (2021)
10/03/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Piumi Samarawickrama Record High Tc Element Superconductivity Achieved in Titanium Nature Commun. 13, 5411 (2022)
10/10/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 James Quenon Perovskite Solar Cells and CO2 doping Nature 594, 51 (2021)
10/17/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Michael Lindman Determination of the acoustic phonon deformation potentials in diamond Phys. Rev. B 106, 045205 (2022)
10/24/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 John Drain High-temperature superconductivity in monolayer Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Nature 575, 156 (2019)
10/31/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Jeff Carter Significant Thermal Hall Effect in Na2Co2TeO6 Phys. Rev. B 106, L081116 (2022)
11/07/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Shivam Tuning Thermoelectricity in a Bi2Se3 Topological Insulator via Varied Film Thickness New J. Phys. 18, 015008 (2016)
11/14/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 David King Effect of geometrical and dimensional confinement on topological spin textures in Cu2OSeO3 J. Phys. Chem. C 126, 11855 (2022)
11/28/2022 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Dinesh Baral Noncentrosymmetric Characteristics of Defects on WTe2 Phys. Rev. B 106, 075428 (2022)

Spring 2022

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
01/27/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
02/10/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link William Scougale Strain and Junction Electronic Effects in Coherent WS2/WSe2 Heterostructures Nano Lett. 21, 2363-2369 (2021)
02/17/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Raz Q. Rivlis Weyl fermions in Semimetals Phys. Rev. B 97, 195157 (2018)
02/24/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Jarred Grant Controlling Spin Transport with Electric Fields APL Mater. 10, 011102 (2022)
03/03/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Zhuangen Fu Thermodynamic evidence for a field-angle-dependent Majorana gap in a Kitaev spin liquid Nature Physics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01488-6
03/10/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Narendra Shrestha Evidence for Magnetic Skyrmions at the Interface of Ferromagnet/Topological-Insulator Heterostructures Nano Lett. 19, 6144-6151 (2019)
03/24/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Noah Cowper Controlling two-photon emission from superluminal and accelerating index perturbations Nature Phys. 18, 67 (2022)
04/07/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Arun Kumay Antisymmetric magnetoresistance in Van der Waals Fe3GeTe2/graphite/Fe3GeTe2 trilayer heterostructures Science Adv. 5, eaaw0409 (2019)
04/14/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Sabin Gautam Orientation-dependent superconductivity at two types of wrinkles in LiFeAs Nature Commun. 12, 6312 (2021)
04/21/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Jefferson Carter Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Strontium Titanate Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105901 (2020)
04/28/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link Ahmad N. Suhaimi (Cancelled) Six-junction III¡VV solar cells with 47.1% conversion efficiency under 143 Suns concentration Nature Energy 5, 326 (2020)
05/05/2022 (Thur) at 4:10 pm ZOOM link David King Magnon Landau Levels in a Skyrmion Lattice Science 375, 1025 (2022)

Fall 2021

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
08/26/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
09/02/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Zhuangen Fu Quantum spin liquid in 1T-TaSe2 Nature Physics (2021). doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01321-0
09/16/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Lauren Kim Tunable Strongly Coupled Superconductivity in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene Nature 590, 249 (2021)
09/30/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link William (Buck) Scougale STM Tip Folding: A Novel Technique Toward Nano-Devices Carbon 165, 169 (2020)
10/07/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Andrei Zadorozhnyi Temperature stability of Skyrmion lattice in Fe/Ir(111) monolayer Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 077202 (2014)
10/14/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Dinesh Baral Inducing skyrmions in ultrathin Fe films by hydrogen exposure Nature Commun. 9, 1571 (2018)
10/21/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Piumi Samarawickrama Quantum Oscillations in 2D Insulators Induced by Graphite Gates arXiv:2107.10430
10/28/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Noah Cowper Achieving Ultimate Noise Tolerance in Quantum Communication Phys. Rev. Appl. 15, 024027 (2021)
11/04/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Isaiah De La Torre Operando Imaging of All-Electric Spin Texture Manipulation in Ferroelectric and Multiferroic Rashba Semiconductors Phys. Rev. X 8, 021067 (2018)
11/18/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Arun Kumay Superconductivity in Ti4O7 and γ-Ti3O5 Films Scientific Reports 7, 12544 (2017)
12/02/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Jefferson Carter Interfacial thermal transport in spin caloritronic material systems Phys. Rev. Materials 5, 114403 (2021)
12/09/2021 (Thur) at 11:00 am ZOOM link Sabin Gautam Atomically precise, custom-design origami graphene nanostructures Science 365, 1036 (2019)

Spring 2021

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
01/28/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
02/11/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Zhuangen Fu Printable two-dimensional superconductor monolayer Nature Materials 20, 181-187 (2021)
02/18/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Nathan Magno Ripple Formation on MoS2 and Possible Research Applications Nanotechnology 26, 105705 (2015)
02/25/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Piumi Samarawickrama Landau quantization and highly mobile fermions in an insulator Nature 589, 225-229 (2021)
03/04/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Isaiah De La Torre Electrically switchable Rashba-type Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and skyrmion in two-dimensional magnetoelectric multiferroics Phys. Rev. B 102, 220409(R) (2020)
03/11/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link David King Topological transitions between skyrmion and hedgehog states in MnSi(1-x)Gex Nature Communications 10, 1059 (2019)
03/25/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Narendra Shrestha Magnetization switching using topological surface states Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw3415 (2019)
04/08/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Bijay DC Thermoelectric performance of Spin Seebeck effect in Fe3O4/Pt thin film APL Materials 4, 104802 (2016)
04/15/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Noah Cowper Subluminal group velocity of structured photons Scientific Reports 9, 18332 (2019)
04/22/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Ahmad (Afiq) Suhaimi Improved performance of quantum dot-sensitized solar cells by full-spectrum utilization Supperlattices and Microstructures 148, 106730 (2020)
04/29/2021 (Thur) at 1:10 pm ZOOM link Jefferson Carter Observation of Spin Seebeck Effect in an Insulator Nature Materials 9, 894 (2010)

Spring 2020

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
02/14/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 231 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
02/21/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 231 Linze Du Quantum materials: Doped Co and S in FeSe single crystal npj Quantum Materials 5, 8 (2020)
02/28/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 231 Andrei Zadorozhnyi Anisotropic magnetoresistance driven by surface spin-orbit scattering J. Appl. Phys. 115, 17C703 (2014)
03/13/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 231 Xin Tian The optical electronic application of Graphene-Semiconductor heterojuction on emerging photovoltaics Nano Lett. 17, 4381-4389 (2017)
03/27/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 231 Piumi Samarawickrama Canceled due to the extended Spring Break (coronavirus) TBA
04/03/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link William Scougale Stretchable and High-Performance Supercapacitors with Crumpled Graphene Papers Sci. Rep. 4, 6492 (2015)
04/10/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link Narendra Shrestha Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Metallic Bilayer Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 097201 (2016)
04/17/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link Dinesh Dulal Graphene Magnetism Controlled by Using Hydrogen Atom Science 352, 437 (2016)
04/24/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link Uppalaiah Erugu Study of magnetic domain dynamics in MnP using ac magnetometry J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 84, 104707 (2015)
05/01/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link Josh Walker Terahertz generation and Carbon Nanotubes Nano Lett. ASAP (2020). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b05082
05/08/2020 (Fri) at 2:10 pm ZOOM Link Christoffer Masi Spin-Electricity Conversion Induced by Spin Injection into Topological Insulators Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 196601 (2014)

Fall 2019

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
09/09/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
09/23/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 David King Mechanical Adaptation of Honeybee Swarms Nature Physics 14, 1193-1198 (2018)
09/30/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Aaron Wang Artificial neural network applicaiton in identifying quantum phase transitions Nature Physics 15, 917-920 (2019)
10/07/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Noah Cowper Experimental quantum secure direct communication with single photons Light: Sci. & Appl. 5, e16144 (2016)
10/14/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Nathan Magno The Fourier Spectrum of a Singing Wine Glass Am. J. Phys. 87, 829 (2019)
10/21/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Robert Neilsen Muli-function Logic Gates for Spintronics Nano Lett. 18, 1180 (2018)
10/28/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Uchenna Ubeh The Improved Perovskite Solar cell Nature Energy 2, 17009 (2017)
11/04/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Subash Kattel Confined water inside carbon nanotubes Nature Nanotech. 12, 267 (2017)
11/11/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Bijay DC Synthesis of graphene oxide from the Agro-waste Nanomaterials 5, 826 (2015)
11/18/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Jefferson Carter Observed Edelstein Effect in Type-II Weyl Semimetal arXiv: 1910.06225 (2019)
11/25/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Vivek Jain (RESCHEDULED DUE TO UW CLOSURE)Epitaxially Self-Assembled Alkane Layers for Graphene Electronics Adv. Mater. 29, 1603925 (2017)
12/02/2019 (Mon) at 2:10 pm PS 231 Vivek Jain Epitaxially Self-Assembled Alkane Layers for Graphene Electronics Adv. Mater. 29, 1603925 (2017)
12/02/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Rabindra Dulal Spatially Resolved Imaging on Photocarrier Generations and Band Alignments at Perovskite/PbI2 Heterointerfaces of Perovskite Solar Cells by Light-Modulated Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Nano Lett. 17, 1154 (2017)
12/09/2019 (Mon) at 4:10 pm PS 231 Uppalaiah Erugu Lifetime of metastable skyrmions in Cu2OSeO3: an χac study Phys. Rev. B 100, 014425 (2019)

Spring 2019

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
01/31/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
02/07/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Josh Walker Direct Characterization of Ultrafast Energy- Time Entangled Photon Pairs Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053601 (2018)
02/14/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Linze Du Structure of Copper - Cobalt Surface Alloys in Equilibrium with Carbon Monoxide Gas J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 6575 (2018)
02/21/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Buck Scougale Adsorption of arsenic(III) and arsenic(V) by cupric oxide nanoparticles J. Colloid Interface Sci.336, 406 (2009)
02/28/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Dinesh Baral Electrical control of 2D magnetism in bilayer CrI3 Nature Nanotech. 13, 544 (2018)
03/07/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Zhuangen Fu Current-driven magnetization switching in a van der Waals ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2 arXiv: 1902.05794
03/14/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 David King Cancelled Mechanical Adaptation of Honeybee Swarms Nature Physics 14, 1193 (2018)
03/28/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Uppalaiah Erugu Rescheduled Giant Magnetoimpedence in the reentrant spin glass Fe90Zr10 alloy Appl.Phys. Lett. 109, 102404 (2016)
04/01/2019 (Mon) at 1:10 pm PS 446 Uppalaiah Erugu Giant Magnetoimpedence in the reentrant spin glass Fe90Zr10 alloy Appl.Phys. Lett. 109, 102404 (2016)
04/04/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Narendra Shrestha High-Mobility Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Gases at EuO/KTaO3 Interfaces Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116803 (2018)
04/11/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Henry Wladkowski Contact-free conductivity using THz techniques Nanotechnology 30, 215702 (2019)
04/18/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Andrei Zadorozhnyi General theory of the topological Hall effect in systems with chiral spin textures Phys. Rev. B 98, 195439 (2018)
04/25/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Xin Tian The photon-triggered nanowire transistor Nature Nanotech. 12, 963 (2017)
05/02/2019 (Thu) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Piumi Samarawickrama Electrically tunable low-density superconductivity in a monolayer topological insulator Science 362, 926 (2018)

Fall 2018

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
08/30/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 TeYu Chien Rules of the class NA
09/06/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Linze Du (Cancelled)Structure of Copper-Cobalt Surface Alloys in Equilibrium with Carbon Monoxide Gas J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 6575 (2018)
09/13/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Zhuangen Fu Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Spin-Filter van der Waals Heterostructures Science 360, 1214 (2018)
09/20/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Noah L. Cowper Design of Broadband Absorber using 2-D Materials for Thermo-Photovoltaic Cell Application Opt. Commun. 413, 39 (2018)
09/27/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Uppalaiah Erugu Preparation of Magnetic Nanoparticles by Pulsed Laser Ablation of Iron in Liquids ChemPhysChem 18, 1155 (2017)
10/04/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 David King Energy Storage via Topological Spin Textures Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127701 (2018)
10/11/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Josh Heiner Free Space Communication using Optical Vortices Photonic Research 4, B14 (2016)
10/18/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Narendra Shrestha Tunnel Magnetoresistance with Atomically Thin Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride Barriers Nano Research 8, 1357 (2015)
10/25/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Robert D. Neilsen Skyrmion Nano-Oscillations New Journal of Physics 18, 075011 (2016)
11/01/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Aaron Wang Evidence for Majorana Bound State Science 362, 333 (2018)
11/08/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Xin Tian The Electronic Properties of Silicene Field-Effect Transistor Nature Nanotechnology 10, 227 (2015)
11/15/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Rabindra Dulal Promoting Morphology with a Favorable Density of States Using Diiodooctane to Improve Organic Photovoltaic Device Efficiency and Charge Carrier Lifetimes ACS Energy Letters 2, 1556 (2017)
11/29/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Piumi Samarawickrama Gate induced Superconductivity in a Monolayer Topological Insulator Science, DOI:10.1126/science.aar4426 (2018)

Spring 2018

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
02/08/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Uppalaiah Erugu Magnetic excitations of skyrmions in Cu2OSeO3 Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 037603 (2012)
02/15/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Linze Du Unraveling charge state of supported Au single atoms during CO oxidation J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 554 (2018)
02/22/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Joann Hilman Piezoelectric Nano-Wires Nanotechnology 26, 344001 (2015)
03/01/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Henry Wladkowski Predicting Extinction through Habitat Fragmentation Phys. Rev. E 94, 042404 (2016)
04/05/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Anri Karanovich Discovery of a Weyl Fermion Semimetal and Topological Fermi Arcs Science 349, 613 (2015)
04/12/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Dinesh Baral Contact passivation to make perovskite solar cell stable and efficient Science 355, 722 (2017)
04/26/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Shashank Ram Nandyala Enhanced mobility CsPbI3 quantum dot arrays for record-efficiency, high-voltage photovoltaic cells Science Adv. 3, eaao4204 (2017)
05/03/2018 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 221 Subash Kattel Interference-Enhanced Infrared-to-Visible Upconversion in Solid-State Thin Films Sensitized by Colloidal Nanocrystals Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 211101 (2017)

Fall 2017

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
09/07/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Dr. Davona Douglass Intellectual Property Overview N/A
09/14/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Dr. Joseph R. Murphy Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Study of Mn2+-Doped CdSe/CdS Core/Multishell Colloidal Quantum Wells Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 242406 (2016)
09/21/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Xin Tian Field Emission of Electrons from Single LaB6 Nanowires Adv. Mater. 18, 87 (2006)
09/28/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Uppalaiah Erugu Formation of a topological non-Fermi liquid phase in MnSi Nature 497, 231 (2013)
10/05/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Artem Pimachev Defect-induced p-electron ferromagnetism Sci. Rep. 5, 8999 (2015)
10/12/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 David King Nonlinear Acoustics and Mach Stem Formation in Measurements of Acoustic Shocks J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138, EL522 (2015)
10/19/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Josh Heiner RESCHEDULED: Electron Spin Qubit in Silicon using Rabi Oscillations Nature 489, 541 (2012)
10/26/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Robert Nielsen Skyrmionics: Skrymions as Information Sci. Rep. 5, 9400 (2015)
11/02/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Ying-Hao Chien Wavelength Scaling of Terahertz Generation from Laser-Induced Plasma Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 253901 (2013)
11/09/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Rabindra Dulal Dependence of the Device Performance of Polymer Solar Cells on the Insertion of Metal Nanoparticle Layers at the Electron-collecting Electrodes Electrochem. 85, 272 (2017)
11/16/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Aaron Wang Two-Dimensional Jeff = 1/2 Antiferromagnetic Insulator Unraveled from Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Artificial Perovskite Iridate Superlattices Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 027204 (2017)
11/30/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Narendra Shrestha Synthesis of CVD - Graphene on rapidly heated copper foils Nanoscale 6, 4728 (2014)
12/07/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Josh Heiner Electron Spin Qubit in Silicon using Rabi Oscillations Nature 489, 541 (2012)

Spring 2017

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
01/26/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 TeYu Chien Setting up the stage
02/09/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Uppalaiah Erugu Surface effects on Magnetic nanoparticles J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 422, 7 (2017)
02/16/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Henry Wladkowski Reflections on Metallic Hydrogen Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1579 (2017)
02/23/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Uma Poudyal RESCHEDULED, Nanotechnology for water desalination Nature Nanotechnol. 10, 459 (2015)
03/02/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Subash Kattel Picosecond Spin Seebeck Effect Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 057201 (2017)
03/09/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Linze Du Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O1-xFx]FeAs (x = 0.05-0.12) with TC = 26 K J. Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 3296 (2008)
03/23/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Gurudutt Chandrashekar Size Dependent Deformation in Polymers Polymer Testing 53, 227 (2016)
03/30/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Gaurab Rimal Independent diffusion of heat and electrons in metallic VO2 Science 355, 371 (2017)
04/06/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am CR 115 Andrew Yost A Microscopic Understanding of Solar Cell Materials Using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy NA
04/13/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Robert Nielsen (RESCHEDULED DUE TO FIRE ALARM) Super-Conductive Spintronics Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 5, 180 (2014)
04/20/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Uma Poudyal Nanotechnology for water desalination Nature Nanotechnol. 10, 459 (2015)
04/27/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Robert Nielsen Super-Conductive Spintronics Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 5, 180 (2014)
05/04/2017 (Thu) at 11:00 am PS 234 Rabindra Dulal Growth of Graphene from Food, Insects, and Waste ACS Nano 5, 7601 (2011)

Fall 2016

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
09/27/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Uppalaiah Erugu Role of Magnetic Polarons in Ferromagnetic GdN Phys. Rev. B 87, 035202 (2013)
10/04/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Artem Pimachev From Weak to Strong Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in ZnO J. Mater. Chem. C 1, 6807 (2013)
10/11/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Xin Tian Charge Transport in Coupled Quantum Dot Solid Nano Lett. 12, 2631 (2012)
10/18/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Henry Wladkowski LIGO: The Optics Behind the Gravitational Waves Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016)
10/25/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Josh Heiner Using a Grating Cavity to Measure the Diameter of an Optical Nanofiber Opt. Lett. 40, 4122 (2015)
11/01/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Subash Kattel Strong Light-Matter Coupling: Formation of Cavity Polaritons Nature Photon. 9, 30 (2015)
11/08/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Aaron Wang Tuning Magnetic Anisotropy of SrRuO3 by Engineering Oxygen Coordination Environment Nature Mater. 15, 432 (2016)
11/15/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Andrew Yost Protein Folding: Coming to an Understanding Science 335, 981 (2012)
11/29/2016 (Tue) at 11:00 am CR 142 Ying-Hao Chien Dynamical Franz-Keldysh Effect in Diamond Science 353, 916 (2016)

Spring 2016

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
01/27/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Prof. TeYu Chien Get it started NA
02/17/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Gaurab Rimal Ferromagnetic Nanodomains in Be Codoped InFeAs Phys. Rev. B 93, 035203 (2016)
02/23/2016 (Tue) at 4:10pm CR 215 Dr. Mark Stiles Spin Current: The Torque Wrench of Spintronics NA
03/02/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Henry Wladkowski Honeycombs in the nanoscale? Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 055501 (2016)
03/09/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Ying-Hao Chien High-harmonic generation in solids and its application in spectroscopy Nature 521, 498 (2015)
03/23/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Andrew Yost 2D Materials: A new member aka borophene Science 350, 1513 (2015)
03/30/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Shitao Wang High Temperature Superconductivity in Single-Layer FeSe Film on Doped SrTiO3 Nature Mater. 14, 285 (2015)
04/08/2016 (Fri) at 4:00 pm ENZI STEM Building Room 195 Prof. E. Ward Plummer Emerging Functionality in Complex Oxides Driven by Sparial Confinement NA
04/13/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Subash Kattel Absorption and Magnetic Circular Dichroism Analysis of Giant Zeeman Splitting J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 3076 (2015)
04/20/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Uppalaiah Erugu Quantized topological Hall effect in Skyrmion crystal Phys. Rev. B 92, 115417 (2015)
04/27/2016 (Wed) at 11:00 am CR 137 Francis S. Maloney Reducing long-lived minor actinide waste from fission reactors using thorium Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, doi:10.1016/j.ijhydene.2016.02.141

Fall 2015

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
09/04/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 237 Prof. TeYu Chien Get it started NA
09/11/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 237 Dr. Qilin Dai Boosting Power Conversion Efficiencies of Quantum-Dot-Sensitized Solar Cells Beyond 8% by Recombination Control J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 5602 (2015)
09/18/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Prof. Bill Rice Revealing Giant Internal Magnetic Fields due to Spin Fluctuations in Magnetically-Doped Colloidal Nanocrystals NA
09/25/2015 (Fri) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Prof. Guang-Lin Zhao (Southern University, Baton Rouge) The Puzzle of Anolamous Isotope Effect in High and Low Tc Superconductors NA
10/02/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Dr. Keshab Sapkota Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley¡VQueisser limit Nature Photon. 7, 306 (2013)
10/09/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Robert Nielsen Self-Limiting Lithiation in Silicon Nanowires ACS Nano 7, 1495 (2013)
10/16/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Uma Poudyal Comparison of Bandgap of CdS Deposited by SILAR and CBD Methods J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 1611 (2013)
10/23/2015 (Fri) at 4:10 pm PS 234 Prof. Ludwig Schultz (Institute of Metallic Materials, IFW Dresden and TU Dresden) Interaction of Ferromagnetic and Superconducting Permanent Magnets - Superconducting Levitation NA
10/30/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Xin Tian The Benefits of Co-Solvents in Organic Solar Cell Processing on Modifying the Morphology Nature Commun. 6, 6229 (2015)
11/03/2015 (Tue) at TBA TBA Prof. Beth Stadler (University of Minnesota) Magnetic Nanowires: Revolutionizing Hard Drives, RAM, and Cancer Treatment NA
11/13/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Ying-Hao Chien Quasi-Ballistic Thermal Transport from Nanoscale Interfaces Observed using Ultrafast Coherent Soft X-ray Beams Nature Mater. 9, 26 (2010)
11/20/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Uppalaiah Erugu Tailoring the topology of an artificial magnetic skyrmion Nature Communications 5, 4704 (2014)
11/27/2015 (Fri) NA NA Thanksgiving Break NA
12/04/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Soumya Manna Design and Analysis of RF Transmitter and Receiver with Carbon Nanotube Antenna Nano Commun. Networks 1, 160 (2010)
12/11/2015 (Fri) at 2:10 pm PS 234 Sabit Horoz Vacancy Induced Ferromagnetism in ZnS Nanoparticles Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 052502 (2011)

Spring 2015

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
1/29/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Tikaram Neupane "Computational methods: DFT on materials" J. Chem. Phys. 136, 150901 (2012)
2/5/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Francis S. Maloney "Exploring Spin Transport Devices; Spin Torque Transfer Using Graphene" Nano Lett. 13, 5177 (2013)
2/12/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Ravi Neupane "Elemental Fingerprinting of Materials with Sensitivity at the Atomic Limit" Nano Lett. 14, 6499 (2014)
2/19/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am TBA TBA Canceled TBA
2/26/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Shane Alison Canceled TBA
3/5/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Gaurab Rimal "Ferromagnetism and Impurity Band in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor" Phys. Rev. B 89, 121301(R) (2014)
3/12/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Joshua Heiner "Efficient Channeling of Fluorescence Photons from Single Quantum Dots into Guided Modes of Optical Nanofiber" Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 063602 (2012)
3/26/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Subash Kattel "Quantum Confinement Effect in GeO2 Nanoparticles" Nano Lett. 14, 1005 (2014)
4/2/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Artem Pimachev "Interaction Between the d-shells in the Transition Metals" Phys. Rev. 82, 403 (1951)
4/9/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Henry V. Wladkowski "Graphene's Elemental Cousins" Small 11, 640 (2015)
4/16/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Shitao Wang "Field-Tunable Spin-Density-Wave Phases in Sr3Ru2O7" Nature Mater. 14, 373 (2015)
4/23/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Vitaly Proshchenko "Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy" ACS Nano 7, 11094 (2013)
4/30/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Baichhabi Raj Yakami "Electron Transfer in Quantum-Dot-Sensitized ZnO Nanowires: Ultrafast Time-Resolved Absorption and Terahertz Study" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 12110 (2012)
5/7/2015 (Thu) at 11:00 am AS 401 Sabit Horoz "Light Emitting Diodes with a GaN/InGaN Multiquantum Wells (QWs)" Nano Lett. 13, 4317 (2013)

Fall 2014

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
9/05/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Dr. Qilin Dai "Improving Solar Cell Efficiency by Band Alignment Engineering" Science 345, 542 (2014)
9/12/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Subash Kattel "Light Absorption and Efficiency Enhancement Mechanism Using Hybrid Structures in Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells" J. Opt. 16, 075706 (2014)
9/19/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Tikaram Neupane "Dye-sensitized solar cells based on TiO2: Single layer and Double layer composite films" Appl. Surf. Sci. 309, 85 (2014)
9/26/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Ravi Neupane "Inverted Polymer Solar Cell and Improvement In Performance With Thermally Evaporated Nickel Oxide As An Anode Buffer Layer." Sol. Energy Mater. Sol. C. 98, 212 (2012).
10/03/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Scott Maloney "Exploring Recombination in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells: Inorganic Capping of CdSe Quantum Dots to Mediate Hole Transfer" J. Phys. Chem. C 118, 16463 (2014)
10/10/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Gaurab Rimal "Carrier-Dopant Exchange Interactions in Mn-doped PbS Colloidal Quantum Dots" Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 062410 (2012)
10/17/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Joshua Heiner "Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics on a Nanofiber Using a Composite Photonic Crystal Cavity" Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 143601 (2014)
10/24/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Shitao(Aaron) Wang "A high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas at the spinel/perovskite interface of γ-Al2O3/SrTiO3" Nature Commun. 4, 1371 (2013)
10/31/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Henry Wladkowski "Observation of Majorana fermions in ferromagnetic atomic chains on a superconductor" Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1259327
11/7/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Andrew Yost "In-situ observation and atomic resolution imaging of the ion irradiation induced amorphisation of graphene" Sci. Rep. 4, 6334 (2014)
11/14/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Vitaly Proshchenko CANCELED TBA
11/21/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Uma Poudyal "Study of Stability and Performance of Perovskite solar cell for different ratio of Halides" Nano Lett. 13, 1764 (2013)
12/05/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Uppalaiah Erugu "Heusler Half-Metals: Direct Observation of Half-Metallicity in Heusler alloy Co2MnSi" Nature Commun. 5, 3974 (2014)
12/12/2014 (Fri) at 2:00 pm CR 147 Sabit Horoz "Study of an Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of p-type Phosphorus Doped ZnO Nanostructures" RSC Adv. 2, 6222 (2012)

Spring 2014

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
1/30/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Tikaram Neupane "Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy: Interfacial band mapping in Polymer/Fullerence Hybrid Solar cell." Nano Lett. 13, 2387 (2013).
2/06/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Uma Poudyal "Perovskite Sensitizer and Rutile TiO2 Nanorod for High Efficiency Solar Cell" Nano Lett. 13, 2412 (2013)
2/20/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Andrew Yost "Monolayer and Bilayer Coverage of Pentacene on Cu(111) and on Graphene/SiC(0001)" Phys. Rev. B 84, 165436 (2011).
2/27/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Sabit Horoz "Mn doped Quantum dots synthesized by SILAR and their solar cell performance" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134, 2508 (2012)
3/06/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Pan Liu (CANCELLED)"Magnetoelectric coupling at the magnetic oxide interface" Nature Mater. 12, 397 (2013)
3/13/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Scott Maloney "Sulfide electrolytes and the reduction of surface states in quantum dots" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 11461 (2013).
3/27/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Subash Kattel "Effect of Photoluminescence downshifter in silicon solar cell" J. Appl. Phys. 111, 034303 (2012)
4/03/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Corin Chepko “Controlling thermoconductivity in crystalline SiGe using phonon-scattering nanodot barriers?/td> Nature Mater. 9, 491 (2010)
4/10/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Gaurab Rimal "Creating Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs from a Semiconductor Quantum Dot Using the Optical Stark Effect" Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 217402 (2009)
4/17/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Artem Pimachev "Physics of Quantum Dots in a Magnetic Field and applications" Physica B 212, 213 (1995)
4/24/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Vitaly Proshchenko "Spin-Polarizable Excitonic Luminescence in Colloidal Mn2+-Doped CdSe Quantum Dots" Nano Lett. 8, 1197 (2008)
5/01/2014 (Thur) at 11:00 am CR 142 Ravi Neupane "Role of additional PCBM layer between ZnO and photoactive layers in inverted bulk-heterojunction solar cells." Sci. Rep. 4, 4306 (2014)

Fall 2013

Time Place Speaker Title Guidance Paper
11/13/2013 (Wed) at 4:10 pm CR 149 Dr. Qilin Dai "Improving Quantum Dots Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency through Absorber" ACS Nano 7, 5215 (2013).
11/20/2013 (Wed) at 4:10 pm CR 149 Dr. Ying Yang "Perovskite Based Solar Cell" Nature Photonics 7, 486 (2013)

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