News

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.

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

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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

I am happy to extend an enthusiastic welcome to postdoc Zhenjing Liu, and an enthusiastic (but belated) welcome to postdoc Varun Kamboj. We’re happy to have you join us!

Yifei’s paper on making highly-metastable TMD alloy films now appears in JVST A as an Editor’s Pick – congrats all!