Suresh and Miles are the first two FINO Lab Ph.D. graduates! Both defended their dissertations over the last week and did a great job. Miles’ dissertation is entitled “Synthesis and Characterization of Mn-based Spinels Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy.” He has written two first author papers and has another in preparation on Mn spinels for…Continue Reading Congratulations to Miles Blanchet and Suresh Thapa!
Our collaborative paper with Prof. Byron Farnum’s group in the Department of Chemistry has been published in ACS Catalysis. In this work, Miles Blanchet from FINO Lab grew a series of MnFe2O4 and Fe3O4 samples by MBE on Nb-doped SrTiO3 and performed in situ XPS measurements. Alex Bredar from Prof. Farnum’s group performed cyclic voltammetry…Continue Reading Paper on MnFe2O4 Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts Published in ACS Catalysis
Our collaborative paper with Dr. Eren Suyolcu of Cornell University and Prof. Gennady Logvenov of Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research is out today in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A. In this work, Eren performed in situ experiments examining the surface reconstructions of Sr-doped La2CuO4 films grown by MBE. Using reflection…Continue Reading Collaborative Paper on (La,Sr)2CuO4 Surface Reconstructions Published in Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A
Our collaborative work with Prof. Byron Farnum’s group is out today in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. This work was co-led by Andricus Burton in the Farnum group and Rajendra Paudel in FINO Lab and examines the role of film thickness on catalytic performance of LaFeO3 catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction. It draws…Continue Reading LaFeO3 Thin Film OER Catalysis Study Published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Our group’s review article in the Journal of Materials Research has been chosen as the winner of the Early Career Scholar in Materials Science Prize by the journal editors with the Materials Research Society! This paper was the result of hard work by graduate students Suresh Thapa, Rajendra Paudel, Miles Blanchet, and Patrick Gemperline, who…Continue Reading Paper in Journal of Materials Research Chosen for Early Career Scholar Prize
Congrats to Suresh Thapa for winning the Alabama EPSCOR Graduate Research Scholars fellowship! Our lab is funded by an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator grant that was the first award made with support from the Defense EPSCOR program. Through that award, Suresh is now the first graduate student in Alabama history to receive the GRSP…Continue Reading Suresh Thapa Wins Alabama EPSCOR Graduate Research Fellowship
Our collaborative paper with Oak Ridge National Lab has been published in APL Materials. This work focuses on the synthesis of topological parkerite films by MBE and is the first excursion of the FINO Lab into chalcogenide materials. Patrick Gemperline and Tami Isaacs-Smith performed Rutherford backscattering measurements on these samples to confirm film stoichiometry in…Continue Reading Paper on Pd3Bi2Se2 Epitaxial Films Published in APL Materials
Suresh’s paper on in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of SrTiO3 films grown by hybrid MBE has been published in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A as an Editor’s Pick! This is the first (but not last) paper to report in situ studies of films grown by the novel hybrid MBE method that…Continue Reading Paper on In Situ XPS of SrTiO3 Films Published in JVSTA
Our collaborative paper led by Dr. Tiffany Kaspar of Pacific Northwest National Lab has been published in the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter! Rajendra Paudel in our group and Tami Isaacs-Smith in the Auburn accelerator lab performed Rutherford back scattering analysis on the films to support the work. These interesting spinel oxides are good candidates…Continue Reading Collaborative Paper on Fe2TiO4 Thin Films Published
The lab got good news on a new research project, as Dr. Comes was awarded an NSF CAREER award from the Division of Materials Research. The 5 year grant provides $650k in research funding to pursue studies of oxide interfaces and superlattices in 4d and 5d systems grown by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy. You can…Continue Reading Dr. Comes Wins NSF CAREER Award