News

Wed, 03/20/2024

The Call for Papers for the 2024 Fall MRS in Boston is out now! Please consider submitting an abstract to Symposium EN01-Light-Harvesting Materials for Efficient and Stable Solar Fuels Production, that I'm co-organizing with terrific colleagues Ludmilla Steier (Oxford), Virgil Andrei (...

Thu, 03/14/2024

Our manuscript on electrons and phonons in chalcogenide and halide perovskites is now on the arXiv. Congrats to Kevin and the rest of a fantastic international team.

Thu, 03/14/2024

Our manuscript on making chalcogenide perovskite thin films with tunable composition and band gap is now on the arXiv. Congrats to Kevin, Ida, and the rest of the collaboration.

Mon, 01/22/2024

The call for abstracts for NAMBE 2024 is now out - abstracts due on March 5. See you in July!

Thu, 11/02/2023

We're delighted to welcome Dr. Olivia Schneble and Rishabh Kothari to the group! Olivia will start a new project on non-acqueous electrochemical thin film deposition, and Rishabh will work on making semiconductor/dielectric interfaces from layered materials.

Mon, 10/23/2023

I'm thrilled that our sophomore course 3.020 Thermodynamics of Materials is now available freely on Open Courseware! Thanks to the terrific team especially Shiba Nemat-Nasser and Jessica Sandland for making this happen.

Tue, 08/29/2023

Our newest paper on MBE growth of chalcogenide perovskite thin films - including alloys nearly all the way up to the pure selenide - has just been published. Congrats to Ida et al.!

Sun, 08/27/2023

I'm pleased to share plans for workshop "Electrons, holes, defects & phonons: Frontiers of theory and experiment", to be held at the Weizmann Institute on Jan 31 - Feb 1, 2024.

[Update - workshop has been postponed to January 2025]

Tue, 07/11/2023

A perspective paper on 2D materials, following the terrific Graphene & Beyond 2022 conference at Penn State, is available in ACS Nano. Congrats to Wouter for his contributions on TMD oxidation and SnSe anisotropy.

Tue, 06/27/2023

New paper on MoS2 oxidation mechanisms appearing today in Nano Letters - congrats to Kate and everyone else on a job well done.