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Novel Materials and Heterostructures Laboratory
Our research is in the area of Experimental Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, focused on growth and physical properties of novel electronic and magnetic materials. Advances in experimental and theoretical techniques allow us to grow and investigate materials with unprecedented detail and accuracy. In our lab we pay attention to every aspect of materials research, namely growth, physical property investigation, theory, and device applications. The overarching goal is to discover novel materials and heterostructures and realize their application potential.
Experimental methods employed are growth of thin-film and bulk materials; structural, magnetic and physical property investigation methods (X-ray reflectivity and diffraction, magnetometry, scanning probe microscopy, transport); and optical spectroscopy. We also spend sufficient effort designing new materials using first-principles calculations, and collaborate heavily with theorists.
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Current Projects
- Design and fabrication of new high spin-polarization inverse-Heusler materials.
- Design, fabrication and characterization of magnetoresistance devices (AMR, GMR, TMR).
- Physical properties of electronic and magnonic topological insulators
- Magneto-transport properties of TI-based heterostructures.
Select Recent Publications
- Analyzing optical properties of large-area 2D Matertials (Nanotechnology 2019)
- Computational investigation of inverse Heusler compounds (PRB 2018)
- Large-area TMD materials using hybrid PVD-CVD methods(MRS Comm 2018)
- Transport properties of Bi2Se3 films using magnetron sputtering (JAP 2018)
- Optical blue shift in few-layer Topological Insulator (APL 2017)