News

» NanoDays 2019 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on March 30.

» The Nebraska MRSEC Review 2019 was held on March 20 here at UNL.

» Christos Argyropoulos receives an Early Career Award from the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program (Jan. 2019). Congratulations!

» MRSEC researchers ID promising key to performance of next-gen electronics (Nov. 2018)

» Xiaoshan Xu receives an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (Sept. 2018). Congratulations!

» Nebraska MRSEC is pleased to announce that it has formed a partnership with Tuskegee University. The new initiative is funded by the NSF's Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) program and seeks to broaden participation and increase diversity in materials research and education. (Aug. 2018)

» The 10th WoPhyS "Standing out on the Shoulders of Giants" conference was held on Oct. 11-13, 2018 here in Lincoln.

» MRSEC summer program in Nebraska Today. (July 2018)

» NanoDays 2018 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on April 7.

» Alexei Gruverman receives IEEE Ferroelectrics Recognition Award 2017. Congratulations!

» The 9th WoPhyS "SCI WARS: Join the Rebellion" Conference was held here at the University of Nebraska. (Nov. 2017)

» Sidy Ndao's NanoThermalMechanical device was featured on the phys.org website. (Apr. 2017)

» Image from Zeng group featured on Adv. Energy Materials's cover page. (Apr. 2017)

» The 2nd Science Slam was held April 10, 2017.

» Our Annual MRSEC Review and Symposium was held on March 21-22, 2017.

» NanoDays 2017 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on March 25.

» MRSEC joint publication was selected from the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter as one of the Highlights of 2016. Congratulations Peter and Axel! (Feb. 2017).

» Alexander Sinitskii and a team of researchers from the University of Nebraska and Drexel University featured on the cover of Advanced Electronic Materials (Jan 2017).

» Peter Dowben becomes Editor for the journal "Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie", the first scientific journal in the field of physical chemistry (Jan 2017).

» Nebraska MRSEC students Iori and Zhara featured in the articale highlighting National Science Foundation's MRSEC program (Jan. 2017).

» Image from Zeng group featured on Nanoscale Horizon's cover page (Dec. 2016).

» WoPhyS 2016 was held on Oct. 27 - 29, 2016 here at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln!

» MRSEC joint publication published in PRL was featured on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln front page: "Discovery bolsters emerging form of digital memory (June 2016).

» Alexei Gruverman has been elected an International Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (June 2016).

» Xia Hong receives an Early Career Award< from the U.S. Department of Energy (May 2016).

» Image from article “Enhanced Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions due to the Reversible Metallization of the Barrier, Physical Review Letter 116, 197602 (2016) by Xiaohui Liu, J. D. Burton, and Evgeny Tsymbal featured on PRL's cover page (May 2016).

» Peter Dowben is named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (Apr. 2016).

» NanoDays 2016 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on April 2.

» Jian Zhang and Stephen Morin have received a CAREER Award - congratulations! (March 2016)

» Nebraska MRSEC Review and Industry Workshop was held on March 24-25, 2016 here at the University of Nebraska.

» University of Nebraska's first-ever Science Slam was held March 16, 2016, 11:30am-1:00pm in the Nebraska Union.

» Christian Binek has been elected as executive committee member-at-large of the American Physical Society Topical Group on Magnetism and its Application (GMAG). (Feb. 2016)

» Congratulations to Anil (third from left, Xia Hong group) who became an AIP GMAG student award finalist as was recognized at the MMM-Intermag-2016 meeting last week! (Jan. 2016)
Anil award

» MRSEC is featured in the 2014-2016 University of Nebraska's Research Report! (Nov. 2015)

» Jocelyn Bosley receives Raytheon Math Hero Award;(Oct. 2015). Congratulations Jocelyn!

» Nebraska MRSEC's Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences was held here at the University of Nebraska from Oct. 15-17.

» Chang-Beom Eom, Alexei Gruverman, and Evgeny Tsymbal defied conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric nanomaterial as reported in their Science paper (Sept. 2015).

» The University of Nebraska wins $3.5M NSF grant for nanoscience center (NSF release) (Sept. 2015).

» Xiaoshan Xu receives an NSF career award to boost nanomaterials research (Sept. 2015).

» Jinsong Huang is leading the University of Nebraska portion of a multi-university solar panel project funded by the NSF (Aug. 2015).

» Evgeny Tsymbal and Tula Paudel were involved in research explaining magnetic threshold of ultra-thin materials which was published in Science (Aug. 2015).

» Our MRSEC now has a Youtube science video blog (July 2015)!

» Alexander Sinitskii has earned an NSF career award to investigate graphene’s properties (June 2015).

» Alexey Kovalev receives an Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (May 2015).

» Nebraska MRSEC receives a $9.6M grant from NSF to support nanotechnology research through 2020 (April 2015).
Video of MRSEC announcement.

» The Nebraska MRSEC Kick-Off Meeting was held on April 15th at the Nebraska Union Auditorium.

» NanoDays 2015 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on March 28!

» MRSEC and Alexei Gruverman are featured on the BTN - Big Ten LiveBIG campaign (Feb. 2015)

» Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences was held on Nov. 6-8, 2014, here at the University of Nebraska. The theme of this year’s conference was “Nano Rising”.(Nov. 2014)

» Xia Hong is featured on NSF Science 360 about her research in improving nanostructures (April 2014).

» Alexei Gruverman is named a fellow of the American Physical Society for pioneering contribution to the development of piezoresponse force microscopy for ferroelectric and piezoelectric heterostructures. (Jan. 2014).

» NanoDays 2014 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on Apr.5!

» The book "Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: Basics and Applications", edited by Vladimir Fridkin and Stephen Ducharme, was recently published by Springer (Jan. 2014).

» David Sellmyer is named fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his distinguished contributions to the physics of magnetic materials and nanostructures and director of NCMN. (Nov. 2013)

» The Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences (WoPhyS13) was held on Oct. 24-26, 2013, here at the University of Nebraska. The theme of this year’s conference was Nano Trek”.

» The University of Nebraska will lead a $7M research collaboration involving six universities and an industry consortium to develop a new generation of electronic devices. 6 MRSEC scientists are the core of the team.

» Christian Binek's APS Physics Viewpoint "Controlling Magnetism with a Flip of a Switch" was published in Physics 6, 13 (Feb. 2013).

» An international team of scientists, including Nebraska MRSEC physicists Evgeny Tsymbal, Alexei Gruverman, and J. D. Burton, has discovered a new approach to realize giant resistive switching, as reported in Nature Materials and featured in the University of Nebraska press release (Febr. 2013).

» NanoDays 2013 was held at Gateway Shopping Mall on April 6!

» David J. Sellmyer has been quoted by C&EN article "Powerful Pull To New Magnets" (Jan. 2013).

» Haidong Lu (Gruverman group) won the University of Nebraska 2013 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (Jan. 2013).

» Juan Colón Santana (Dowben group) won the University of Nebraska 2013 Lowe R. and Mavis M. Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award (Jan. 2013).

» Jinsong Huang wins NSF career award to build a better solar cell (Dec. 2012).

» Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center is featured on NSF Science 360 News Service (Dec. 2012).

» Image from Sellmyer group featured on Magnetic Technology International - Showcase 2012 - cover page (Nov. 2012).

» Ning Wu (Dowben group) won the 2012 postdoctoral award of the American Vacuum Society - Magnetic Interfaces & Nanostructures (Nov. 2012).

» WoPHY 2012 - "The Nanoworld is Not Enough" - was held on Oct. 18-20 at the University of Nebraska.

» Evgeny Tsymbal co-edited a book "Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures which is published by Oxford University Press. The book is written by world-recognized scientists working in the field of complex oxides (Sept. 2012).

» Image from Dowben group featured on physica status solidi b cover page - collaborative research with MRSEC summer visitors from UPR (Aug. 2012).

» Xiao Cheng Zeng becomes Associate Editor for the journal "Nanoscale" of the Royal Society of Chemistry (May 2012).

» MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (May 2012).

» The Nebraska MRSEC Site Visit was held on May 21-22, 2012.

» David Sellmyer is the recipient of the Louise Pound-George Howard Distinguished Career Award 2012 (Apr. 2012).

» Xia Hong receives NSF CAREER Award (Apr. 2012).

» NanoDays 2012 - March 24 - Westfield Shopping Mall

» Our Nebraska MRSEC Review and Industry Workshop was held on March 22-23, 2012.

» Mathias Schubert is named a fellow of the American Physical Society for the development of generalized ellipsometry and the invention of the Optical Hall Effect (Nov. 2011).

» Juan Colon received the Leo M. Falicov Student Award which recognizes outstanding research performed by a graduate student in areas of interest to the Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division of AVS. (Nov. 2011) University of Nebraska press release

» MRSEC's "Materials Girls" Conference was a big success! (Oct. 2011)

» The Nebraska Research Initiative supports the proposal to establish a MRSEC shared facility. The new facility will comprise molecular beam epitaxy, scanning probe microscopy, and x-ray photoemission/electron spectroscopy in one instrument.

» Xi He has been recognized as winner of the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting Student Award "Silver". Xi He is the first Nebraska student receiving this prestigious award. (Apr. 2011)

» MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Apr. 2011).

» J.D. Burton and Evgeny Tsymbal’s work on electrically controlled spin-valve effect made the front web page of Phys. Rev. Lett. with the synopsis of this article being featured by the PRL editor (Apr. 2011).

» NanoDays 2011 - April 2 - Westfield Shopping Mall

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» Shireen Adenwalla is elected as Secretary/Treasurer of GMAG (Mar. 2011).

» Collaborative research paper by S. Ducharme, A. Gruverman, and J. Huang published by Nature Mat. (Feb. 2011).

» Collaborative research paper by K. Belashchenko, C. Binek, and P. Dowben ;published inPRL (Feb. 2011).

» Evgeny Tsymbal and group members were involved in research on complex oxide heterostructures that was published in Science and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (Feb. 2011).

» The book "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials", edited by Sergei V. Kalinin and Alexei Gruverman, was recently published by Springer (Jan. 2011).

» The "Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism" edited by Evgeny Tsymbal and Igor Žutić will soon be published by Taylor & Francis (Jan. 2011).

» Xi He has been selected for the 2011 University of Nebraska Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (Dec. 2010).

» Ralph Skomski is named fellow of the American Physical Society (Dec. 2010).

» The Nebraska MRSEC Review and Symposium was held on October 18-19, 2010.>

» Nebraska MRSEC received SRC/NSF Supplement Grant: Study and Control of Intrinsic Magnetization at the Boundary of a Magnetoelectric for Electrically Switchable Magnetic Nanostructures (Oct. 2010).

» MRSEC faculty members contributed to the second Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at the University of Nebraska (Oct. 2010).

» Spintronics breakthrough documented by the Nebraska MRSEC team (June 2010). See NSF Discovery web page.

» Alexei Gruverman received Outstanding Achievement Award at ISIF 2010 (June 2010).

» J.D. Burton received the 2010 Outstanding Postdoc Award by the University of Nebraska Office of Postdoctoral Studies (April 2010).

» Evgeny Tsymbal’s research was featured in an invited article at AZoM.com under a section “Materials Thought Leaders Series” (March 2010).

» The paper “Nanomagnetics by Ralph Skomski was selected as one of the top 20 most cited JPCM Topical Review articles and the JPCM special issue “Half-Metallic Ferromagnets” edited by Peter Dowben as one of the top 20 special issues (Nov. 2009).

» MRSEC faculty members contributed to the first Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at the University of Nebraska (Oct. 2009).

» The Nebraska MRSEC Review and Symposium was held on Oct. 1-2, 2009.

» MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Sept. 2009).

» Nebraska MRSEC video featured on NSF's Science 360 News (Sept. 2009).

» MRSEC summer teachers Steve Wignall and Nick Reding are one of the first people to see the world's first all-electric production car (July 2009).

» 2008 REU summer student Aaron Cochran has been chosen as a 2007-2008 Co-op Meritorious Achievement Award recipient at the University of Wisconsin-Stout! (May 2009) Thank you to his mentor Prof. Shield!

» Two MRSEC grad students (Zhen Li and Xi He) received Best Poster Award at the University of Nebraska Research Fair (April 2009).

» Image from Binek group featured on Nanotechnology's cover page (March 2009).

» Image from PRL paper 102, 106803 (2009), Karolina Janicka et. al featured on PRL's cover page (March 2009).

» Jeff Shield and six MRSEC faculty receive NSF-REU grant (Feb. 2009).

» Eva Franke-Schubert receives NSF CAREER Award (Jan. 2009).

» Nebraska MRSEC receives an $8.1M grant from NSF to support research in nanomagnetism through 2014 (Sept. 2008).

» Evgeny Tsymbal is named fellow of the American Physical Society (Oct. 2008).

» MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Oct. 2008).

» Teachers develop lessons and activities (RET program Summer 2008).

» Kirill Belashchenko receives Cottrell Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (July 2008).

» The paper “Correlation effects and electronic structure of Gd@C60,” by R. F. Sabirianov et al.,J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 082201 (2007), was selected as one of the Top Papers 2007 (March 2008).

» Evgeny Tsymbal is named a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics (March 2008).

» Oxford University Press published book “Simple Models of Magnetism” by Ralph Skomski (March 2008).

» John D. Burton received Presidential Fellowship, University of Nebraska 2007-2008.

» Karolina Janicka received Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Graduate Fellowship 2007-2008.

» The following students (all MRSEC!) received the Best Student Poster Awards at the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (Oct. 2007):
- "The Origins of Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Metal Break Junctions" by J. D. Burton (Physics, E. Tsymbal)
- "Locally Probed Ferroelectricity of Ferroelectric Nanomesas by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy" by Jihee Kim (Physics, S. Ducharme)
- "Magnetization Precession and Damping in Ni/Pt Bilayers" by Steven Michalski (Physics, R. Kirby)
- "Temperature Dependent Dielectric Function of Al0.52In0.48P and Ga0.52In0.48P" by Eric Montgomery (Electr. Eng., M. Schubert)
- "Scaling Behavior of the Exchange Bias Training Effect" by Srinivas Polisetty (Physics, Ch. Binek)
- "Thermodynamics of Itinerant Magnets: A Simple Classical Model with Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations" by Alexsander Wysocki (Physics, K. Belashchenko).

» University of Nebraska hosted the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (Oct. 2007).

» The Nebraska MRSEC Review was held on October 5, 2007.

» Peter Dowben is named a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (Oct. 2007).

» Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter published a special issue on "Half-Metallic Ferromagnets” edited by P. A. Dowben (August 2007).

» Evgeny Tsymbal received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from College of Arts and Sciences (May 2007).

» Nebraska MRSEC received NRI/NSF Supplement Grant: Multiferroic Interfaces: New Paradigms for Functional Switching (April 2007).

» Christian Binek received Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Sigma Xi (April 2007).

» A. Sokolov, C. Zhang, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. Redepenning, and B. Doudin’s Nature Nanotechnology paper “Quantized magnetoresistance in atomic-size contacts” was featured in Physics World, Materials Today, the Economist, TechWorld, by the Institute of Physics PhysicsWeb, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics (Feb. 2007).

» Xiangxin Rui received Pierson Graduate Research Award 2007.

» Lu Yuan received University-wide Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007.

» Danqin Feng received Fling Fellowship 2006-2007 and Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2007.

» The paper 'Nanomagnetics' by R. Skomski J. Phys: Condens. Matter 15, R841-896 (2003) was selected by SPIE as one of the top 50 papers ever published in the field of nanotechnology theory and modeling and included in a reprint volume (2006).

» J. D. Burton received the University of Nebraska College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award and Graduate Student Research Competition Prize at the University of Nebraska Research Fair (2006).

» Christian Binek and J. D. Burton received Best Poster Award at 53rd Midwest Solid State Conference, Kansas City 2006.

» Peter Dowben received Excellence in Graduate Education Award and College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Research Award 2006.

» Luis Rosa received GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship 2005 and the University of Nebraska College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Assistant Award 2006.

» David Sellmyer received University of Nebraska Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientist Award 2005-2006.

» Danqin Feng received University of Nebraska Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship 2005-2006.

» Anthony Caruso received Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2005.

» Peter A. Dowben and Xiao Cheng Zeng were elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Oct. 2005).

» Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Steve Wignall (RET Participant) have Trophy Award Winner Paper at MRS Fall Meeting 2004.

» Peter Dowben is named Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (Nov. 2004).

» Anthony Caruso received Sigma Xi Graduate Student Paper Award (2004) and Bukey Memorial Fellowship (2004-2005).