Strain engineered barium strontium titanate for tunable thin film resonators
Congratulations Jialan, Liang and Tulsi
Commencement 2014 – fun afternoon with (Dr.) Jialan Zhang, (Dr.) Liang Dong, and Ms. Tulsi Patel. Congratulations!
Dr. (Mr.) Liang Dong, PhD Thesis: First Principles Study of Band Offsets and Band Bending of InxGa1-xN/GaN and Zn1-xBexO/ZnO Heterostructures and Quantum Wells
Dr. (Ms.) Jialan Zhang, PhD Thesis: Electrothermal Properties of Perovskite Ferroelectric Films
Ms. Tulsi Patel, MS Thesis: Structural Properties of Titanium Dioxide Films for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications
SPA with Jialan and Liang
Liang and his family
Tulsi and her family
M. Tumerkan Kesim awarded GE Fellowship for Innovation.
Congratulations Tumerkan. Continue reading here:
http://www.mse.engr.uconn.edu/mse-graduate-students-awarded-ge-fellowships-for-innovation.php
Congratulations to Fu-Chang and Hsiu-Iun!
Fu-Chang and Hsiu-Iun welcome their son Nate Hao-Cheng Sun, born Jan. 30, 2014.
Two invited talks at the EMA 2014
HK with N. M. Sbrockey et al., “Voltage Tunable Microwave Resonators Fabricated with MOCVD deposited BaxSr1-xTiO3 Films,” Electronic Materials and Applications 2014, Symposium on Multiferroic Materials and Multilayer Ferroic Heterostructures: Properties and Applications, Orlando, FL (Jan. 2014).
“Modeling Electrothermal Properties of Polarizable Dielectric Materials,” Electronic Materials and Applications 2014, Symposium on Computational Design of Electronic Materials, Orlando, FL (Jan. 2014).
SPA presents an invited talk at the University of Texas at Arlington
on “Electrothermal properties of polarizable dielectrics”.
SPA organizing symposium at EMA 2014 on Multiferroic Materials
MTK and SPA publish two papers in Appl. Phys. Lett. with alumni JZ and IBM
I. B. Misirlioglu, M. T. Kesim, and S. P. Alpay, “Strong Dependence of Dielectric Properties on Electrical Boundary Conditions and Interfaces in Ferroelectric Superlattices,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 022906 (2014)
M. T. Kesim, M. W. Cole, J. Zhang, I. B. Misirlioglu, and S. P. Alpay, “Tailoring Dielectric Properties of Ferroelectric-Dielectric Multilayers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 022901 (2014)
Dr. Pamir Alpay Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
MSE Professor and Department Head Dr. S. Pamir Alpay was recently elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for his work on functional/smart materials.
Well-done, Boss!
New paper in J. Appl. Phys.
Title: Pyroelectric response of lead zirconate titanate thin films on silicon: Effect of thermal stresses