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Congratulations to Victor Ogunjimi for winning the International Cryogenic Materials Conference Best Student Paper Award for his paper:  

V. Ogunjimi, M. A. Sebastian, D Zhang, B Gautam, J Jian, J Huang, Y Zhang, T Haugan, H Wang, J.Z. Wu, “Interface Engineering for Enhanced Magnetic Vortex Pinning by 1D-BZO APCs in a Wide Angular Range”,  IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 1241, page 012022 (2022). DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/1241/1/012022

Congratulations to Ryan Goul for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation with honor on November 2022.

Congratulations to Victor Ogunjimi for successfully defending his PhD Dissertation in August 2022.

Congratulations to Victor Ogunjimi for winning the United Kingdom Institution of Physics Superconductor Science and Technology  2021 Jan Evetts SUST Award for his paper: 

V. Ogunjimi, Mary Ann Sebastian, Di Zhang, Bibek Gautam, Jie Jian, Jijie Huang, Yifan Zhang, Timothy Haugan, Haiyan Wang, and Judy Wu, “Enhancing Magnetic Pinning by BaZrO3 Nanorods Forming Coherent Interface by Strain-Directed Ca-doping in YBa2Cu3O7-x Nanocomposite Films”, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 34, 104002 (2021) DOI: 10.1088/1361-6668/ac1fd3

Samar Ghopry has joined faculty at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia after successfully defending her PhD dissertation in July 2021.

Brent Cook has joined Intel after successfully defended his PhD dissertation in March 2021.

Mohammed Alamri has joined faculty at University of Umm Al-Qura, Saudi Arabia after successfully defending his PhD dissertation in March 2021.

Bibek Gautam has joined Intel after successfully defending his PhD dissertation in June 2019, congratulations!

Jagaran Acharya has joined Intel after successfully defending his PhD dissertation in November 2019, congratulations!

Jamie Wilt has joined Intel after successfully defending her PhD dissertation with honor in November 2017, congratulations!

Monday, May 8, 2017

We are pleased to announce that Brent Cook passed his Master’s Exam on May 5, 2017. Congratulations Brent and good luck the rest of the way!

Visiting student Guangliang Hu returned to Xi’an Jiaotong University to complete his Ph.D., we wish you the best, Guangliang!

Congratulations to Bibek Gautam for passing his comprehensive exam to become a Ph.D. candidate in Physics. The title of his comprehensive paper is: “Controllable Self-Assembly of Nanostructured Artificial Pinning Centers (APCs) in High Temperature Superconductor Epitaxial Thin Films”.

Friday, April 28, 2017

American Chemical Society Midwest Regional Conference, Manhattan, KS: Dr. Judy Wu (invited), Dr. Maogang Gong, Dr. Qingfeng Liu, Graduate students Brent Cook and Ryan Goul presented their recent work in the symposium “Novel Electrode Materials and Architectures for Energy and Sensing Applications”.

Paul Harrison defended his MS in Physics successfully with honor. His thesis title is. The title of his thesis is: “Recent Progress in Interfacing Graphene Field Effect Transistors with​ Ferroelectrics”.

Congratulations to Jemellah Alrashedi for completing her MS in Physics “WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURE FOR UV LASER AND PHOTOCONDUCTOR”.

Congratulations to Jagaran Acharya for passing his comprehensive exam to become a PhD candidate in Physics. The title of his comprehensive paper is: "Exploring Epitaxial Magnetic Tunnel Junctions with ALD tunnel barrier and in-situ study of tunnel barrier properties”.

Congratulations to Ali Kadhim for successfully defended his MS in Physics. His thesis title is “Investigation of the Effects of CdCl 2 Treatment on CdTe Thin- film Solar Cells of Variable Thickness Fabricated Using Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition."

Alaa El-mebir defended successfully his MS thesis with honors. The title of his thesis is: “Effect of In Situ Thermal Annealing Process on Structural, Optical and Electrical Properties of CdS\CdTe Thin-Film Solar Cells Fabricated by Pulsed Laser Deposition”, congratulations!

Gary Malek for successfully defended his PhD dissertation on “Conformal Coating of Three-Dimensional Nanostructures via Atomic Layer Deposition for Development of Advanced Energy Storage Devices and Plasmonic Transparent Conductors”, congratulations!