The OSU Women in Physics Blog, “A Day in the Life,” is featuring a story about the recent CEM Industry trips to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Ford written by students Megan Harberts and Anne Benajmin. Read about their experiences here.
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New Graduate Course Offering on Epitaxial Heterostructures
A new course on epitaxial heterostructures will be offered this fall by Prof. Roberto Myers as a special graduate elective aimed at graduate students working on thin films or heterostructures.
The course is listed as: MATSCEN 7194 – 0010 Group Studies in Materials Science and Engineering. The course description and topics are listed below.
Description: This course reviews the science and techniques behind thin film growth and engineering for combining different materials, altering chemical composition at the nanometer scale, while controlling defects and strain. Specific inorganic materials to be discussed include III-V compounds, oxides, and metals. This course will be attended by MSE and ECE students, Chemistry, and Physics in the areas of functional materials, solid state electronics, and photonics. The fundamentals of epitaxial crystal growth will be explained. Students will gain an understanding of the kinetics, thermodynamics, and technology involved in epitaxial heterostructures and self-assembled nanostructures.
CEM publication one of most read recent ACS Nano articles
A CEM Proto-IRG team of researchers has recently published a paper titled Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene in ACS Nano. The paper is one of the journal’s most downloaded papers in the last month and in the last year. CEM members Dr. Shawna Hollen, Dr. Jay Gupta, Dr. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Dr. Wolfgang Windl, and Dr. Joshua Goldberger are authors of the paper.
More information on the paper can be found here.
NSF Challenges STEM Graduate Students to Submit Innovative Ideas to Improve Graduate Education
The National Science Foundation is calling for currently-enrolled graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields to share their unique perspectives on graduate education. Entries are solicited for ideas with the potential to improve graduate education and professional development, and can be submitted at the 2013 Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge website by April 15, 2013. Winners will receive prizes from $1,000 to $3,000, as well as national recognition for their ideas.
More information on the NSF website.
CEM Gingerbread Competition
Four labs were represented in the CEM Gingerbread Science Competition held on December 19th, 2012. Teams from the NanoSystems Lab, as well as Hammel, Johnston-Halperin and Gupta labs created representations of the work conducted in their labs entirely from edible materials. The Hammel lab team won the competition with their representation of an attocube tower and cantilever, movable graphene sample, oscilloscope, and cryogenic dewar.
The final creations of the teams can be seen at the NSL Kiosk on the 2nd floor south bridgeway in the Physics Research Building.
