News

Dr. Xu present at NSF 2D Crystal Consortium annual meeting.

Nithil, Wyatt, Han, and Joniel present their work the 11th Graphene and Beyond Workshop at Penn State University

Celebrate another successful semester, 3 student research achievement award winners!

Cori will be heading to Virginia Tech and Jacob will be joining Northrop Grumman.

Xu group members keep winning awards! Congratulations to Wyatt on winning the prestigious Graduate Achievement Award in Materials Science and Engineering, and a big shoutout to Steve for earning the 2024 Student Achievement Award in Physics and Astronomy. So proud of both of you!

Congratulations to Cori for being named as a School of Physics and Astronomy Research Scholar for the graduating class of 2024! Great job Cori!

Collaborative paper on KOH wet etch surface passivation for III-nitride micropillars published at iScience! Our first collaboration with Dr. Jing Zhang’s group at RIT

Congratulations to Steve for receiving the Emerson Undergraduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Joniel for receiving an NSF scholarship to conduct research on 2D materials preparation and characterization!

And congratulations to Claire for receiving a U.S. Department of Education scholarship to support her research in the group through graduation, and preparing her for graduate school!

Nithil, Wyatt, and Han getting trained on the Zeiss Scanning Electron Microscope at the Integrated Nanosystems Center at University of Rochester

Hold my falafel! Xu Group celebrates the end of 2023 with Mediterranean food

Paper on strain-induced phase transition published at ACS Nano! Another collaboration with Dr. Susan Fullerton-Shirey at UPitt

Dr. Xu gives an invited talk in the IEEE Nano Symposium at the University at Buffalo

The group getting trained on the newly installed Bruker Atomic Force Microscope, which will be hosted inside the glovebox

Han decides to continue his research at the Xu group and work towards his MS in Physics

Welcome back Han!

Dr. Xu was nominated by the School of Physics and Astronomy students to receive the 2023 SPS Faculty Awards as “Dr. Electricity”!

Thank you, SPS and all SoPA students!

Claire starts her internship at GE-Hitachi, congratulations Claire!

Caleb completed his research and will start his position at Northrop Grumman as “Transformational Physicist”.

Congratulations Caleb!