2023

December 2023: Matthew Frame and Izoah Snowden join the TRG

Welcome to Matthew Frame and Izoah Snowden!

November 2023: Hudson Shih is chosen as the Inaugural Recipient of the Amiya Mukherjee Memorial Fellowship

Congratulations to Hudson Shih for being selected as the inaugural recipient of the Amiya Mukherjee Memorial Fellowship. This fellowship was created last year with a generous gift from Bob and Carolyn Caligiuri to honor the legacy of Prof. Emeritus Amiya Mukherjee who is known as the father of the UC Davis Materials Science and Engineering program, and inspired many generations of engineers to pursue the field.

November 2023: Professor Takamura visits the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Prof. Takamura will visit Prof. Heman Bhuyan from the Faculty of Physics at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to establish research collaborations between our two groups. She will present a talk entitled “Adventures with Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures and Nanostructures” on Thursday, Nov. 23rd.

November 2023: 2023 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference

Ishman Nihal, Mingzhen Feng, and Prof. Takamura gave oral presentations at the 2023 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in Dallas, TX. Ishman presented a talk entitled “Spin-flop Coupling at La_0.5Sr_0.5FeO₃/La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Interfaces”, while Mingzhen’s talk is entitled “Tuning In-plane Magnetic Anisotropy and Exchange Bias in Epitaxial Complex Oxide Heterostructures”, both in session AE – Complex oxides (Bulk, Films and Heterostructures) on Tuesday morning. Prof. Takamura’s talk is entitled “Tailoring Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Spin Textures in Nanostructured Complex Oxides” which will be part of the symposium FA, Imaging Magnetic Textures at the Nanoscale on Thursday afternoon. The full program can be found here.

October 2023: Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Research Symposium

Congratulations to the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Graduate Student Organization for organizing a wonderful Research Symposium!

Oral Presentation Awards:
1st = Niko Hansen
2nd = Dayne Sasaki
3rd = Meghna Jha

Poster Presentation Awards:
1st = Joaquin Mogollon Santiana
2nd = Toulik Maitra
3rd = Pallavi D. Sambre

September 2023: Workshop on Electronic/Photonic Materials and Devices at UC Davis

The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is happy to host a Workshop on Electronic/Photonic Materials and Devices with generous funding through Dean Corsi’s Next Level Research Vision. This workshop is intended to open dialog between researchers in the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Physics, as well as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for fruitful research collaborations. The agenda for the workshop can be found here.

September 2023: Chemical & Materials Departmental Graduate Seminar at San Jose State University

Prof. Takamura will present a talk entitled “Tailoring Magnetic Spin Textures in Complex Oxide Nanostructures” to the Chemical & Materials Departmental Graduate Seminar at San Jose State University on Friday, September 1st.

August 2023: The 5 W’s of Grant Writing: Basic Research

The Materials Research Society Early Career Professionals Subcommittee will be presenting a webinar on the “The 5 W’s of Grant Writing: Basic Research” on Wednesday, August 2nd from 11:00am – 12:30pm EDT. The event is free to attend, though preregistration is required. The purpose of the webinar is to demystify the grant writing process and equip you with the essential knowledge and tools for success.

Hosts:

Hanu Arava, Argonne National Laboratory

Speakers:

Claudia Mewes, Department of Energy
Robert Meulenberg, National Science Foundation
Yayoi Takamura, University of California, Davis
Cristiano Nisoli, Los Alamos National Laboratory

July 2023: Congratulations to Mingzhen Feng

Mingzhen Feng presented her Ph.D. exit seminar entitled “Interfacial Magnetic Phenomena & Topotactic Phase Transformations in Perovskite Oxide Thin Films” to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. She will start at Applied Materials in September. Congratulations!

The group celebrated with a dinner at Paesano’s.

June 2023: 6th International Workshop on Complex Oxides

Prof. Takamura was invited to participate in the 6th International Workshop on Complex Oxides held in Spetses, Greece from June 12-16th, 2023. She presented a talk entitled “Magnetic Interactions in Complex Oxide Heterostructures: Adventures with Cobaltite Heterostructures”.

June 2023: IEEE MagSoc Summer School

Ishmam Nihal was selected to participate in the 2023 IEEE Magnetics Society Summer School held in Carovigno-Bari, Italy from June 11 – 16th, 2023. He presented a poster entitled “Spin-flop coupling in La_0.5Sr_0.5FeO₃/La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃: A pathway to antiferromagnetic spintronics”.

May 2023: College of Engineering Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to all the awardees from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering who were recognized at the College of Engineering awards ceremony. From left to right: Susan Gentry, Marina Leite, Isabella L.M. Costa (Excellence in Graduate Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), Peifen Lyu (Excellence in Graduate Student Research), Ishmam Nihal (Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award), Lillian Delp (Outstanding Senior Award), Scott McCormack (Outstanding Teaching Award), and Yayoi Takamura.

May 2023: Saying Farewell to Our Dear Friend Ricardo Castro

It is with great sadness that we say farewell to our dear friend Ricardo (Ricky) Castro and his family. We wish them the best of luck on their new adventure at Lehigh University.

March 2023: Prof. Takayuki Kojima visits the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis

As part of the Young Leader Program between TMS and the Japan Institute of Metals and Materials, Prof. Takayuki Kojima visited the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis on March 17, 2023. He presented his talk entitled “Catalytic properties of Heusler alloys and usefulness of metallurgical synthesis for investigating intermetallic catalysts” and visited the Takamura Research Group.

March 2023: Graduate Student Spotlight: Mingzhen Feng

Mingzhen was featured in a special focus article for International Women’s Day by the UC Davis College of Engineering. Check out her profile here. All the other profiles can be accessed here.

Winter 2023: Visiting Student Yunting Wang Interacts with the Takamura Research Group

Yunting Wang from National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan spent three months at UC Davis to work with the Takamura Research Group. Her visit was sponsored by the Taiwanese Ministry of Education.

January 2023: Flexon Workshop at the Advanced Light Source

Profs. Takamura and Kukreja will be participating in the FLuctuation and EXcitation of Orders in the Nanoscale (FLEXON) Workshop at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on January 26-27th, 2023. The objective of the workshop is to foster collaboration and pave ways for outreach to new users who might be interested in complementary scattering and imaging techniques to study quantum materials using the proposed FLEXON beamline.

January 2023: Welcome to the Takamura Research Group

Asrafuzzaman and Tanaya Sahoo joined the Takamura Research group!