2018
October 2018: Congratulations to Alex Kane!
Congratulations to Alex Kane for being awarded the Richard D. and Kate Faulkner Fellowship from the Office of Graduate Studies at UC Davis for the academic year 2018-2019! This fellowship was awarded in recognition of his outstanding academic record and promise of productive scholarship.
October 2018: American Vacuum Society 65th International Symposium and Exposition
Prof. Takamura will present an invited talk entitled “Engineering the Magnetic Properties of Complex Oxide Heterostructures” at the AVS 65th International Symposium and Exposition in Long Beach, CA. The talk is scheduled for 9:40 am on Friday, October 26th, 2018. More information on the Symposium can be found here.
October 2018: 2018 ALS Users’ Meeting
Prof. Takamura presented a talk entitled “Interfacial magnetism in complex oxide bilayers” in the workshop on Spin and Electronic Order in Functional Materials at the 2018 ALS Users’ Meeting held Oct. 2-4th, 2018. I-Ting presented a poster entitled “Phase transitions and magnetic domain coexistence of Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 thin films” during the poster session and graduate student poster slam. The Users’ Meeting information can be found here.
September 2018: New Department of Materials Science and Engineering Website
Take a look at the new Department of Materials Science and Engineering website. Watch a short video of Prof. Takamura describing the research thrust area of “Materials Processing“.
September 2018: Energy Frontiers Research Center
The U.S. Department of Energy announced the formation of new Energy Frontiers Research Centers. One of the newly funded centers includes the Quantum-Materials for Energy Efficient Neuromorphic-Computing (Q-MEEN-C) Center lead out of UC San Diego by Prof. Ivan Schuller. The Takamura Research Group will participate in the Charge theme to investigate new quantum materials for energy-efficient and fault-tolerant computing that is inspired by and work like the brain.
August 2018: Congratulations to I-Ting Chiu!
Congratulations to I-Ting Chiu for being awarded the Ernest E. Hill Memorial Graduate Fellowship for the academic year 2018-2019 from the Office of Graduate Studies at UC Davis! This award also received Matching Support from the Graduate Student Fellowship Matching Initiative, and is intended to provide funds for research and travel expenses.
August 2018: Advanced Light Source/Center for X-ray Optics Seminar
Prof. Takamura will present a talk as part of the Advanced Light Source/Center for X-ray Optics Seminar Series at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on Wednesday, August 1st, 2018 from 3-4 pm. The talk is entitled “Probing and Engineering the Magnetic Properties of Complex Oxide Heterostructures”.
July 2018: The gang is all together again
July 2018: International Conference on Magnetism 2018
Alex Kane, Rajesh Chopdekar, and Prof. Takamura will present their work at the International Conference on Magnetism (ICM) 2018 in San Francisco, CA. Rajesh will present a poster in Session F11: Spin Ices and Magnetic Nanoparticles II on Monday, July 16th from 5:00-6:30pm. Prof. Takamura will present an invited talk in session V4: Thin Film and Hybrid Nanostructures II on Friday, July 20th from 8:30-9:00am. Alex Kane will give an oral presentation in session Z6: Exchange Bias and Exchange Springs IV on Friday, July 20th from 4:30-4:45pm. The conference website can be found here.
May 2018:
Congratulations to Nolan Ahlm for passing his PhD preliminary exam!
May 2018: New Video for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis
Check out the new video for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Prof. Takamura and I-Ting Chiu make an appearance along with our pulsed laser deposition system!
March 2018:
Congratulations to I-Ting Chiu for passing her PhD qualifying exam!
February 2018: Michael Lee’s Exit Seminar
Michael Lee will present his exit seminar entitled “Designing Magnetic Spin Textures in Complex Oxide Thin Films” to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering on Friday, February 9th, 2018 at 3:15pm in Kemper 1003. The abstract of his talk can be found here.
January 2018:
Congratulation to Rajesh Chopdekar for being hired at the Advanced Lightsource as beamline scientist in charge of the PEEM3 Microscope. Best of luck and we look forward to continuing to be able to work with you!
January 2018: ALS Magnetism and Spintronics Cross-Cutting Review and Workshop
Prof. Takamura, Rajesh Chopdekar, and Michael Lee participated in the ALS Magnetism and Spintronics Cross-Cutting Review and Workshop held at the ALS on January 23 and 24th, 2018. Prof. Takamura’s talk was entitled “Spin engineering in complex oxide heterostructures”, Michael’s poster was entitled “Control of spin textures in complex oxide microstructures”, and Rajesh’s talk was entitled “Real-space visualization of thermally active artificial spin ice systems”.
Sunset during the poster sessions at the workshop
January 2018: 2018 International Workshop on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Films and Coatings
Prof. Takamura participated in the 2018 International Workshop on Advanced Synthesis and Processing Technology for Films and Coatings held at Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan, China. She gave a talk entitled “Engineering Functional Properties in Complex Oxide Heterostructures”.
Group photo of workshop participants
Guan Gong Transformer at the tourist park honoring the ancient battle of the three kingdoms at Red Cliffs, Chibi, China
January 2018: Nolan Ahlm Joins the TRG
Welcome to Nolan!
January 2018: 2018 Conference on Electronic and Advanced Materials
Rajesh Chopdekar will be presenting an invited talk entitled “Room temperature strain and charge-mediated magnetoelectric effects in multiferroic complex oxide heterostructures” on January 18th, 2018 from 10:00-10:30am in Session S8 Multifunctional nanocomposites at the 2018 Conference on Electronic and Advanced Materials.