News

Luis has been awarded a 2012 Intel PhD Fellowship! Luis was nominated for his research accomplishments and promise in a wide range of nanodevices involving graphene, nanowires etc. for nanoelectronics and other applications, and many other contributions to the nano research in QMD lab, leading to >20 first-authored or co-authored publications (including our 2011 cover article on Nature Materials).   

Sourav has won 2012 Dr. Warner Black Award for practical accomplishments in physics by a Purdue physics graduate student. 

Helin has been awarded 2012 Karl Lark-Horovitz Award for outstanding research achievements by a Purdue physics graduate student.  

Congratulations to Abe for being one of the graduate students selected worldwide to participate in the prestigious Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting this year, dedicated to physics  (http://www.lindau-nobel.org/2012_62nd_Lindau_Meeting.AxCMS), to be held in Germany.   

Helin Cao, Jifa Tian, Tian Shen, Irek Mitkowski, Shan Qiao and Yong P. Chen, “Bulk Quantum Hall Effect and Shubnikov-de Hass Oscillations in highly doped Bi2Se3: Evidence for Quintuple Layer Transport”, accepted by Physical Review Letters (2012) arXiv:1108.0204  Congratulations to Helin!  

We have been awarded a DARPA grant to lead a DARPA MESO program developing topological insulator based energy efficient and energy conversion devices based on the novel physics of topological surface states.  Participating institutions of our team include Purdue, Princeton, UT Austin, Univ. British Columbia and RTI International. 

Our first BEC was created on May 30, 2011. Our apparatus now regularly produces BEC of ~10,000 Rb-87 atoms at <100 nK.  We are looking forward to explore new physics in this coldest matter in the universe!    

Nature has lauched a new open-access interdisciplinary online-only journal "Scientific Reports": http://www.nature.com/srep/ Dr. Chen is an editorial board member in the area of physics. The journal is now open for submission.

"Quantum Hall Effect Seen by CVD graphene" http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/tech/42501  

http://dcmp.bc.edu/page.php?name=gallery

Press release: http://www.defense.gov/news/Fiscal%202010%20DURIP%20Winners%20List.pdf In collaboration with Prof. Dan S. Elliott. 

Helin Cao,  Qingkai Yu, Luis Jauregui, Jifa Tian, Wei Wu, Zhihong Liu, Romaneh Jalilian, Daniel K. Benjamin, Zhigang Jiang, Jiming Bao, Steven S. Pei and Yong P.

Thanks to two new furnaces donated by Purdue alum Dr. C. Day, we are now routinely synthesizing large-scale graphene in lab G57.  Kudos to Helin and Jack for making this happen, and hearty thanks to frequent technical advice from Qingkai ("Houston! We've had a problem...")

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/webapps/physics_news/story/107   http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2010a/100107NSFCareer.html

Our local newspaper interviewed Abe on his NSF Fellowship: http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200908300200/NEWS0501/908300359

Yong Chen gave a talk on graphene thermal circuits and logic, 7 other members all gave posters featuring our graphene research. Encountered tornado on the way back!

  This is the 55th year of this long-tradition conference. The 1st conference was held at Purdue in 1954! This year's conference featured spintronics, organic materials and carbon based electronics. The program is here: http://nano.physics.uiowa.edu/~mwss/ 

Gabriel, Isaac and Yong together with our collaborators Mike Foxe and Igor Jovanonic attended the ARI review meeting organized by NSF and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington DC from Apr 06-09.  The meeting highlighted all NSF/DHS funded projects on radiation detection and nuclear security.    Yong gave a talk on our GUARD (Graphene-based ultrasenstive advanced radiation detectors) program. Isaac, Gabe and Mike each gave a poster presentation.   

Abraham Olson, 1st year physics graduate student, has been awarded both an NSF Graduate Fellowship and a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship for his proposed research on quantum control and quantum computing with cold molecules in optical lattices. Congratulations!    

Jiuning gave a talk on his work of thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons; Yong gave a talk on the large scale CVD graphene, with more details in a poster Helin presented.