November 2024: Return visit to Santiago, Chile

Prof. Takamura was excited to return to Sangtiago, Chile to visit Prof. Heman Bhuyan at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to continue our collaboration funded with a 2023-24 Seed Grant for International Activities from UC Davis Global Affairs. She presented a talk to the Faculty of Physics entitled “Adventures with Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures and Nanostructures” on Thursday, November 14, 2024.

November 2024: Texas Seminars

Prof. Takamura will travel to Texas A&M University on Nov. 6th, 2024 and University of North Texas on Nov. 8th, 2024 to deliver seminars entitled “Topotactic Transformations in Complex Oxide Thin Films”.

October 2024: 2024 CHMS Research Symposium

August 2024: East Coast Seminars

Prof. Takamura traveled to the east coast to deliver several invited talks at Northeastern University Burlington and Boston campuses, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and Cornell University. At Cornell, it was nice opportunity to visit her old alma mater and see all the changes to the Materials Science and Engineering Department and the overall campus.

August 2024: Advanced Light Source and Molecular Foundry Users’ Meetings

Prof. Takamura presented a highlight talk entitled “Opportunities for Correlative Microscopy in Complex Oxide Micromagnets” in the topical symposium on “Correlative Microscopy: Experiment, Processing, and Data Management.  Hudson Shih presented a poster during the poster session of the Molecular Foundry Users’ Meeting.

August 2024: TRG Alumni Get Together

July 2024: Partnership with National Lab Leverages New Computational Techniques

Read about a recent article published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces on work performed in collaboration with Drs. Hong Sun, Vincenzo Lordi, and Amti Samanta at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory entitled “Unraveling the Correlation between the Interface Structures and Tunable Magnetic Properties of La_1–xSr_xCoO_3−δ/La_1–xSr_xMnO_3−δ Bilayers Using Deep Learning Models”.

June 2024: Graduation 2024!

Congratulations to all the graduates from the UC Davis Materials Science and Engineering Department! A few pictures from the MFA and Ph.D. graduation ceremony, the Masters graduation ceremony, and the Sunday edition of the undergraduate graduation ceremony.

June 2024: College of Engineering Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to the award winners from the UC Davis Materials Science and Engineering Department at the annual UC Davis College of Engineering awards ceremony!

Outstanding Junior Faculty Award: Scott J. McCormack
Teaching Assistant Excellence Award: Hudson Shih
Excellence in Teaching Award: Susan Gentry
Outstanding Senior: Jared Ura
Department Citation: Hannah Darr
Department Citation: Zachary White

Not pictured: Jeffery Gibeling M.S. Thesis Award: Margaret Duncan

June 2024: Congratulations to Izoah and Matthew

Congratulations to Izoah Snowden and Matthew Frame for passing their Ph.D. preliminary examinations!

May 2024: UC Davis Global Affairs Seed Grant for International Activities

Prof. Takamura received a 2023-24 Seed Grant for International Activities from UC Davis Global Affairs to support her work with Prof. Heman Bhuyan from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. The seed grant will fund student/faculty exchanges between UC Davis and Chile to work on a project researching thin films of complex oxides like titanium dioxide and tantalum pentoxide for use in sustainable energy technologies, such as photovoltaic solar cells and batteries. A news story about the award can be found here.

May 2024: Congratulations to Tanaya Sahoo!

Congratulations to Tanaya Sahoo for being awarded the Ovshinsky Travel Award from the APS Division of Materials Physics to help fund her trip to Minneapolis, MN for the APS March Meeting.  A profile of Tanaya’s journey to UC Davis and her future plans can be read here.

April 2024: Congratulations to Hudson Shih!

Congratulations to Hudson Shih and Abigail Herring from the Leite group for being awarded the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research Award. This award will enable Hudson to complete a portion of his dissertation research at the National Center for Electron Microscopy which is part of the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. You can read short news story about the award here.

April 2024: Congratulations to Hudson Shih!

April 2024: Department of Physics, Georgetown University

March 2024: APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN

The Takamura Research Group will give multiple presentations at the APS March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. On Monday, March 4th, 2024, Nathan Tsui will present talk B21.00002 entitled “Determining Antiferromagnetic Moment Orientations from Domain Images by Pixel-by-Pixel Analysis” and Ishmam Nihal will present talk B21.00003 entitled “Spin-flop Coupling at La_0.5Sr_0.5FeO₃/La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Interfaces” as part of the session B21: Emergent Properties: Antiferromagnetism in Spintronic Devices. On Thursday, March 7, 2024, Tanaya Sahoo will present her talk entitled “Magnetic Domain Image Analysis of La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ Based ‘Donut’ Micromagnets” in the session on Chiral Spin Textures and Dynamics, Including Skyrmions V: Novel Spin Textures. Also on Thursday, Hudson Shih will present his talk W57.00010 entitled “Topotactic Phase Transformations in Freestanding Strontium Cobaltite Membranes”.

Finally, congratulations to Tanaya Sahoo for being awarded the Ovshinsky Travel Award from the APS Division of Materials Physics to help fund her trip to Minneapolis!

January 2024: TRG Group Bowling!