08-2020 |
Alyssa Simpson (undergraduate) made a video presentation "Novel van der Waals Hetersostrutures for High Performance Nanoelectronics" for UNL Summer 2020 symposium, as a part of her UCARE project. Check it out here. |
04-2020 |
Dawei Li recently published a paper "Polar Coupling Enabled Nonlinear Optical Filtering at MoS2/Ferroelectric Heterointerfaces" in Nature Communications, which is featured in Nebraska Today. Read about it here. |
03-2019 |
Michael Bengston featured as former intern in a video of Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR). Check it out here. |
06-2018 |
Le Zhang received his Ph.D. degrees from UNL in December. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang! |
05-2018 |
Ethan Gubbels (undergraduate), Patty Niemoth (RET teacher) and Arnavaz Adenwalla (high school student) joined the group for summer research. |
05-2018 |
Carson received funding from UCARE to do summer research in the group. |
05-2018 |
Michael Bengston recieved the Energy Sciences Research Summer internship. |
03-2018 |
Spencer Prockish gave a talk at the APS March meeting. |
12-2017 |
Two graduate students: Anil and Zhiyong received their Ph.D. degrees from UNL in December. Congratulations, Dr. Rajapitamuhuni and Dr. Xiao! |
11-2017 |
Asheley Hollland delivered an invited student talk at the Wophys conference. |
09-2017 |
Le Zhang received the Graduate Travel Award Program (GTAP) awardfor attending the 24th International Workshop on Oxide Electronics (iWOE 24), September 24-27, 2017, Chicago, Illinois, USA. |
08-2017 |
Ashley Clegg, a high school student, along with Myles Neloms and Harrison Rivers, REU students from North Carolina A&T, presented their research at the 2017 UNL research fair. |
06-2017 |
Zhiyong Xiao recently published a paper "Ferroelectric-Domain-Patterning-Controlled Schottky Junction State in Monolayer MoS2" in Physical Review Letters, which is featured in Nebraska Today. Read about it here. |
05-2017 |
Michael Bengston, an undergraduate student at UNL, joins the group. |
02-2017 |
Spencer Prockish presents his research on hybrid perovskite solar cells at UNL's Red Talk,WoPhyS, and Research at the Capitol. |
06-2016 |
Dr. Jingfeng Song joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. |
05-2016 |
Spencer Prockish received funding from UCARE to continue research on perovskite solar cells. |
05-2016 |
Anil Rajapitamahuni recently published a paper "Giant Enhancement of Magnetic Anisotropy in Ultrathin Manganite Films via Nanoscale 1D Periodic Depth Modulation" in Physical Review Letters, which is featured in Nebraska Today. Read about it here. |
05-2016 |
Dr. Xia Hong recieved the Early Career Award from the DOE's office of science |
03-2016 |
Josh Gerdes, an incoming undergraduate, Ashley Holland, a undergraduate student, and AJ Benker, a high school teacher, all join the group for the 2016 summer. |
03-2016 |
Anil Rajapitamahuni is selected as a finalist for the best student presentation at the 2016 Joint MMM-Intermag Conference |
02-2016 |
Spencer Prockish, a undergraduate student, recieved the Energy Sciences Research Summer internship. |
08-2015 |
REU student, Daniel Vega, presented his research at the UNL Fall 2015 Research Fair. |
07-2015 |
Courtney Matulka made a video about reasearch in the lab staring Josh Gerdes and Zhiyong Xiao. Check it out here. |
05-2015 |
High school teachers, Scott Burns and Courtney Matulka, begin to conduct summer research in the group. |
06-2014 |
Two undergraduate students, Peter Kosch and Jarold McWilliams, joined the group in the summer of 2014. |
05-2014 |
Nolan Derives, a senior student at EE, graduated this summer and become an electrical designer at Northern Natural Gas. He had been working in the lab since his sophomore year on structure characterizations of epitaxial oxide thin films. |
05-2014 |
Jennifer Hamblin, a undergraduate student, won the Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Research for her research on PFM studies of domain thermal stability in ferroelectric polymer thin films. |
04-2014
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The video UNL produced about the research project funded by NSF Career was featured on NSF's Science 360 News Service. More information can be found here. |
09-2013 |
Zhiyong Xiao, a graduate student, won the outstanding poster presentation in the 57th midwest solid state conference. More information can be found here. |