Members

Principal Investigator

Yong P. Chen (CV)

Associate Professor of Physics (faculty web page)

Associate Professor Courtesy of Electrical and Computer Engineering (faculty web page)

Offices: Physics 74, Birck 2262 Phone: (765) 494-0947
Email: yongchen@purdue.edu

Postdocs and Research Scientists



	Dr. Tian Shen PhD, Purdue University 2009 Office: (off campus @ NIST) Email: shent@purdue.edu Project: Graphene transport & metrology

	Dr. Jifa Tian PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008) Phone: Email: tian5@purdue.edu Project:1) Graphene devices and STM; 2) Topological insulator charge and spin transport

	Dr. Tailung Wu PhD, SUNY Buffalo (2011) Office: B87 Phone: (765) 496-3059 Email: wu386@purdue.edu Project: Topological insulators

Graduate Students

Helin Cao [Physics G6] (CV)

MSc, Univ of Sci and Tech of China 2006

Phone: (765) 496-3059
cao2@purdue.edu

Project: Epitaxial graphene; Quantum transport

Isaac Childres [Physics G5]

BSc. Univ. Oklahoma USA 2005

Phone: (765) 494-5517
ichildre@purdue.edu

Project: graphene sensors; optical properties of graphene

Sourav Dutta [Physics G6] (CV)

MSc, S N Bose Centre, India 2007

sdutta@purdue.edu

Project: Quantum information with molecules

Jiuning Hu [ECE G5] (CV)

MSc. Tsinghua Univ China 2008

hu49@purdue.edu

Project: Thermal and electronic transport in graphene nanostructures

Luis A. Jauregui [ECE G5]

Bsc, National Univ. Engineering, Peru 2006

(951)973-1261

jauregui@purdue.edu

Project: Nanodevices of graphene and nanowires

Nirajan Mandal [Physics G3]

Project: optics

Abraham Olson [Physics G5]

NDSEG Fellow; NSF Fellow

BSc. Univ of Portland 2007

olsonaj@purdue.edu

Project: BEC; quantum computing

Jack Chung [Physics G2]

(BSc., MSc. information)

tchung@purdue.edu

Project: Graphene

Wonjun Park [ECE G2]

(BSc., MSc. information)

park249@purdue.edu

Project: Graphene

Robert Niffenegger [Physics G5]

BSc. Michigan Tech. University 2008

rniffene@purdue.edu

Project: BEC,Quantum Computing

Alumni:

Dr. Liyuan Zhang

PhD, Georgia Tech (2007)

Postdoctoral Research Associate (11/2007-07/2008)

Current Affiliation:Professor at Renming University, China

Dr. Romaneh Jalilian

PhD, University of Louisville (2008)

Postdoctoral Research Associate (01/2009-01/2010)

Current Affliliation:Naugle Needles LLC

Dr. Ping Wang

PhD, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2007

Postdoctoral Research Associate (03/2008-12/2010)

Current Affliliation:Chemistry Dept., Purdue University

Dr. Amol Patil

PhD, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Project: Graphene radiation detectors

Current Affiliation: Canberra

Graduate Students:

Gabriel Lopez [MSEE'2010]

Project: graphene nanosensors

now at Sandia Nat. Lab, CA

Undergraduate Students/Interns:

over 30 Purdue and non-Purdue undergraduate students have performed research in QMD Lab.

Many of them have gone on to graduate school in places such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cornell, Purdue, etc. and have won NSF and NDSEG fellowships.

Robert Gustafson (Physics)

Alex Cimaroli (Physics)

John Doyle (Physics)

Conrad Hawkins (Physics)

David Blasing (Physics REU from Wheaton College)

Meng Jiao (Physics & Chemistry)

Sarah Alexander (Chemical Engineering)

Krithika Chandra (ECE)

Janam Jhaveri (ECE)

Stephene Wolf (ECE & Physics)

Qianmin Zhang (ME)

Joel Sleppy (REU summer student from Washington University at St. Louis, 2009)

Shian Lee (AAE undergrad, SURF intern, Spring 2009)

Stephene Schiffli (ECE undergrad, SURF intern, Spring 2009)

Elaine Li (ME undergrad, SURF intern, Spring 2009)

Abhisheyk Gaur (CE undergrad, DURI intern, Spring 2009)

Ankur Misra (ECE undergrad, DURI intern, Spring 2009)

Tejas Kulkarni (ECE undergrad, DURI intern, Fall 2008)

Audrey Goral (REU summer student from Calif. State Univ. Fresno, 2008)

Rahul Singh (SURF summer student from Nanyang Technological Univ Singapore, 2008)

Ken Pesyna (ECE undergraduate, DURI intern, spring 2008)

Alex Whiteman (AAE undergraduat, DURI intern, spring 2008)

Todsadol Rungswang (AAE/Physics undergaduate, DURI intern, spring 2008)

Tamanaco Francisque (Physics Undergraduate, Fall 2007)