News

Yong attended 2009 DARPA MTO symposium in silicon valley (03/02-03/04) and gave a poster presentation on our research. Our work has attracted interests from several companies working on electronics or optoelectronics.  

We have demonstrated excellent electronic properties in a new class of large size "conducting paper" ---- wafer-scale CVD-synthesized graphene thin films that can find numerous applications. This work is performed by a Purdue-UHouston collaboration that also involved researchers from RPI and U-Missouri. 

H. Cao et al., Large scale graphene films grown on metals and transferred to insulators for electronic applications, submitted (2009)

We got our first MOT (magneto-optical trap) of  87Rb atoms. 

Saturday
Nov 15, 2008: Several QMD members (Ping, Qianli, Sourav and Yong) with
Prof. Dan Elliott’s students drove to Argonne National Lab near
Chicago, IL to attend the 3^rd Midwestern Cold Atom
Workshop.  I gave a 30-minute
talk titled “Controlling interactions in cold atoms and molecules”.  Lots of good work from other groups in
the region (U Chicago, UIUC, OSU, Wisconsin)

Liyuan (former postdoc, now at Brookhaven), Helin and Isaac will travel to NHMFL this week to perform various magnetotransport studies on exfoliated and epitaxial graphene samples.  They will use the 18 Tesla, 0.3K-70K system in Tallahassee. 

A collaboration between researchers from UH, RPI and Missouri and QMD showed that graphene segregated from metal surface can be transferred to insulators while maintaining high quality. This may offer a new route to synthesize large scale graphene-based electronic materials for device applications. 

Lishan Weng, Liyuan Zhang, Yong P. Chen, and Leonid P.

For project titled "Graphene Based Sensors for Detecting Special Nuclear Materials"

Read NSF Press Release here

This is a new website for Yong P. Chen's Quantum Matter & Devices Lab.