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2022 MRSEC REU Symposium

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Illinois MRSEC
Location
190 Engineering Sciences Building
Date
Aug 4, 2022   10:00 am  
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Originating Calendar
I-MRSEC Big Events

Format:  Each presenter will give a 10-minute presentation, followed by 2 minutes for questions from the audience. Please hold questions until the end of each talk.

Session 1:  10:00-11:40am

10:00

Opening Remarks

10:05

Amber Simon – “Measurement of spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance exhibited by noncollinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn”

Mentors: Prof. Axel Hoffmann, Dr. Myoung-Woo Yoo

10:18

Zina Medina-Barreto – “Thermal-Magnetic Oscillator in FeRh”

Mentors: Prof. Axel Hoffmann, Robin Klause

10:31

Rebecca Banner – “Single-Crystal Growth Optimization of Metallic Antiferromagnet, Mn2Au”

Mentors: Prof. Daniel Shoemaker, Mebatsion Gebre

10:44

Andrew Baumgartner – “Flux Growth of Anti-ferromagnetic Binary Oxides”

Mentors: Prof. Daniel Shoemaker, Zachary Riedel

10:57

Jackie Zheng – “Ellipsometry for Simultaneous Strain and Stoichiometry Changes in Functional Oxide Thin Films”

Mentors: Prof. Nicola Perry, Lawrence Anderson

11:10

Emmanuel Barias – “The Characterization of Thin Polymer Films”

Mentors: Prof. Nenad Miljkovic, Ishrat Zarin

11:23

Colin Fried – “A Macroscopic Investigation of Wettability Characteristics for Modified Heat Exchanger Surfaces”

Mentors: Prof. Nenad Miljkovic, Dalia Ghaddar

  

Lunch Break

 

Session 2: 1:30-3:00pm

The first three researchers in this session are supported through the NSF Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program

1:30

Ethiopine Choping – “First-Principles Study of Photoelastic Effect in Zinc Blende Gallium Phosphide”

Mentors:  Prof. Andre Schleife, Prof. Elif Ertekin, Junehu Park, Cindy Wong, Yifan Yao, Yi-Ting Lee

1:43

Grady Clopton – “First-Principles study on Polarization Dependent Optical Properties of Transition Metal Doped 𝛽−πΊπ‘Ž2𝑂3

Mentors: Prof. Elif Ertekin, Prof. Andre Schleife, Cindy Wong, Channyung Lee

1:56

Antonio Moore – “Strain Induced Phase Transition of MoTe2

Mentors: Prof. Arend van der Zande, Shahriar Nahid, Hyunchul Kim

2:09

Amyra Black – “P-Doping WSe2 with Oxygen Plasma”

Mentors: Prof. Arend van der Zande, Siyuan Huang, Kelly Hwang

2:22

Maya Kesan - Fabrication of MoS2 Monolayers and Twisted Bilayers

Mentors: Prof. Pinshane Huang, Dr. Yichao Zhang

2:35

Caleb Williams - "Studies on Strained Graphene Via Raman Spectroscopy"

Mentors: Prof. Nadya Mason, Dr. Onur Tosun, Haiyu Dong, Preetha Sarkar

2:48

Sarah Veres – "Deformation of Nanographene on Gold Nanoparticle Substrates"

Mentors: Prof. Catherine Murphy, Dr. Matt Gole, Nathan Forney, Amos Shiau

3:01

Closing Remarks

 

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