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Congrats Stephen for winning an Excellent Presentation Award for your presentation “Enhancing Fundamental Understanding of Structure-Property Relationships in Chalcogenide Perovskite Semiconductors with Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Dielectric Response, X-Ray…

A glad welcome to our new lab members, Dr. Wouter Mortelmans, Tsedey Ayele, and Katherine Guo. I’m very happy to have you join the team!

Our study of native oxide formation on transition metal dichalcogenides continues with this new molecular dynamics investigation of ZrS2. Congrats to Seong Soon and our wonderful collaborators!

Our paper on Defect Level Switching (DLS) devices has been published in Physical Review Applied – congrats to Allan and our terrific collaborators!

Welcome to our newest graduate student, Jiahao Dong! I’m very excited to have Jiahao join the group, to begin work on useful and surprising light-matter interactions in wide-band gap semiconductors.

Our paper on native oxidation of transition metal dichalcogenides just came out in Nano Letters. Congrats to Seong Soon, Akshay, and our many wonderful collaborators!

Our new review paper on refractive uses of layered materials for integrated photonics is now published in ACS Photonics! Congratulations to Akshay, Seong Soon, Yifei, and our fantastic collaborators at…

Our new paper “Discovery of highly polarizable semiconductors BaZrS3 and Ba3Z2S7″ just appeared in Physical Review Materials, where is it is a Rapid Communication and an Editors’ Suggestion”. Congrats to…

We’re happy to announce the launch of a new course on the edX platform: 3.012Tx Thermodynamics of Materials. This is our core undergraduate course in thermodynamics, adapted from 3.012 as…

Student in 3.046 Thermodynamic of Materials in the Spring 2020 term, sent away from campus because of covid-19, making the best of things by demonstrating thermoelasticity at home.