2025
October 2025: 2025 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference
Prof. Takamura will present an invited talk at the 2025 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in West Palm Beach, FL. The talk is entitled “Tailoring magnetic spin textures in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-based micromagnets” and will be delivered at 10:45 am on Wednesday, Oct. 29 in the session on Magnetoelectrics and Multiferroics II.
October 2025: UC Davis Lab Safety Award
The Takamura Research Group was recognized for our longstanding efforts for lab safety with the 2025 Grand Prize for Lab Safety from UC Davis Safety Services. In addition, we were excited to share the honor with Bill Doering who was awarded a Safety Star for his contributions to safety for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
October 2025: IEEE Magnetics Society – Swedish Chapter
Prof. Takamura and Prof. Guenter Reiss presented their IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer talks at the first symposium hosted by the Swedish Chapter of the IEEE Magnetics Society in Gothenburg, Sweden.
September 2025: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Research Symposium
Matthew Frame presented his work at the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Research Symposium at UC Davis. His talk was entitled “In Situ Characterization of Cobalt Nanoparticle Exsolution During Topotactic Transformations in Lanthanum-Strontium-Cobaltite Thin Films.
September 2025: Congratuations to Matthew
Congratulations to Matthew Frame for passing his Ph.D. qualifying exam!
August 2025: 2025 Molecular Foundry Users Meeting
Hudson Shih presented a poster of his work at the 2025 Molecular Foundry Users Meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The poster was entitled “Multi-Zone Axis Imaging of Topotactic Phase Transitions in Freestanding SrCoOx Membranes.”
July 2025: 2025 Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference
Hudson Shih presented his work at the 2025 Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference in Salt Lake City, UT. His talk was entitled “Imaging Topotactic Phase Transitions in Freestanding SrCoOx Membranes”.
June 2025: IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School
Prof. Takamura presented her IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer presentation at the IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School hosted by UC San Diego. Part of the program involved an afternoon of sea kayaking!
May 2025: Spin Galapagos: International Workshop on Spintronics 2025
Prof. Takamura presented an invited talk at Spin Galapagos: International Workshop on Spintronics 2025. Her talk was entitled “Tailoring magnetic spin textures in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-based micromagnets”.
Aprifl 2025: 2025 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
Matthew Frame and Ishmam Nihal presented their work at the 2025 Spring MRS Meeting in Seattle, WA. Matthew’s talk was entitled “In Situ Characterization of Cobalt Nanoparticle Exsolution During Topotactic Transformations in Lanthanum-Strontium-Cobaltite Thin Films” and Ishmam’s talk was entitled “Investigating Interfacial Exchange Interaction and Antiferromagnetic Moment Orientations in La0.5Sr0.5FeO3 / La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Bilayers”.
March 2025: 2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Prof. Takamura will present an invited talk entitled “Harnessing Interfacial Interactions in Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures” at the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Las Vegas. The talk will be delivered at 2pm on Thursday, March 26, 2025.
January 2025: IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer
Prof. Takamura has been selected as one of three Distinguished Lecturers from the IEEE Magnetics Society. As a Distinguished Lecturer, she will travel around the world for 2025-2027 delivering her talk entitled “Tailoring Magnetic Spin Textures in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-Based Micromagnets”.
January 2025: Q-MEEN-C work highlighted by the U.S. Department of Energy
A recent Q-MEEN-C publication led by the group of Prof. Andy Kent at New York University including work by Dayne Sasaki was highlighted by the U.S. Department of Energy. The paper is entitled “Voltage-induced magnetic domain evolution in a phase-change material”, Applied Physics Letters, 125, 262406 (2024). You can read the highlight here.
January 2025: 2025 Joint Intermag/MMM Conference
Prof. Takamura will present an oral presentation entitled “Tailoring Spin Textures in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3-based Micromagnets” at the 2025 Joint Intermag/MMM Conference in New Orleans, LA. The talk is scheduled for January 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM.
January 2025: The Molecular Foundry Calendar
Hudson’s image was selected as the cover page as well as the October image for the 2025 Molecular Foundry Calendar.
The description reads:
“Sunset in the Atomic Alps”, by Hudson Shih, Seung Sae Hong, and Yayoi Takamura from UC Davis. This image won first place in the 2024 NanoArt Image contest.
Atomic terrace steps on the (001) facet of a single-crystal membrane of strontium cobalt oxide (Sr2Co2O5). These steps arise due to a small angle of miscut relative to the facet ( <0.5 ° ). If the miscut angle were exactly 0 degrees, no steps would be present! These single crystal oxide membranes provide an ideal material platform for plan-view transmission electron microscope (TEM) imaging at the National Center for Electron Microscopy because they have millimeter lateral dimensions, but nanometer scale thicknesses. With TEM of Sr2Co2O5 membranes, oxygen ion diffusion can be observed within the crystal lattice.
January 2025: Welcome to the Takamura Research Group
Steve Ho joined the Takamura Research Group as a PhD candidate. Welcome!