2018 Research Highlights

The Millennium Science Complex hosts user facilities including the Nanofabrication Lab, the Materials Characterization Lab, and the Materials Computation Center.

Coffee rings form during the evaporation of colloidal suspensions.

The availability of high-quality semiconductors in fiber form could be transformative in the vision of all-fiber optoelectronics.

Transparent conductors are materials that are transparent in the visible spectrum and electrically conducting.

The complex interplay of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom supports exotic physical phenomena.

A dielectric mirror comprised of a cross-shaped amorphous silicon nanoresonator array was designed to achieve 99.8% reflectivity and zero reflection phase at the wavelength of 0.99 μm.

The discovery of the quantum Hall (QH) effect led to the realization of a topological electronic state with dissipationless currents circulating in one direction along the edge of a two dimensional