News:
Group News:
- May 2018 Our paper on dislocation dynamics in layered oxide cathode materials during battery charging is published in Nature Energy.
- January 2016 Our paper on atomic avalanche imaging of hydrogen storage palladium nanoparticles is published in Nature Communications.
- October 8, 2015 Leandra Boucheron published her PhD Thesis! Leandra will be starting in Jan 2016 as Professor at University of New Mexico!
- October 6, 2015 Our paper on "Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism" is published in PNAS.
- September, 2015 Dr. Roopali Kukreja wins 2015 Klein Award!
- June 19, 2015 Operando Nanoscale Imaging of dislocation dynamics in Li-Ion battery materials work is published in Science. See this News Story at UCSD website.
- June 3, 2015 Andrew Ulvestad Defends his PhD Thesis (after less than 3 years of research in our group!).
Andrew will be starting as Director's Postdoctoral Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.
- June 3, 2015 Andrew Ulvestad wins 2015 Inamori Award!
- April 6, 2015 Sebastian Dietze Defends his PhD Thesis!
- Feb 3, 2015 Jacob Stanley Defends his PhD Thesis!
Jacob will be starting as a postdoc in Prof. Heather Lewandowski group in University Colorado Boulder.
- Jan 23, 2015 Jong Woo Kim Defends his PhD Thesis!
Jong Woo will be starting as postdoctoral fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.
- May, 2014 Our paper on Lens-Less Imaging of Ionic Diffusion in Operating batteries is featured on APS website
- May, 2014 Leandra Boucheron wins Best Poster Award at 2014 APS Users Meeting!
- Jan, 2014 Dr. Andrej Singer wins the Award of the Association of the Friends and Sponsors of DESY for best PhD Thesis!
- Jan, 2014 Dr. Edwin Fohtung leaves the group - Edwin is now LANSCE Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico in a joint position with Los Alamos National Lab.
- Sept 13, 2013 Yeling Dai Defends her PhD Thesis!
Yeling will be starting as postdoc at UC Berkeley.
- May 11, 2012 Antiferromagnetic Domain Wall Engineering paper is published in APL
- Jan 3, 2012 Gurleen Bal receives Dean's Excellence Award and Norm Taylor Award.
- Nov 30, 2011 GIXOS and XR studies of Langmuir films papers are published in JAP and JAP.
- Aug 18, 2011 Our research group is featured in San Diego Channel 5 News at 10 Report.
- Aug 8, 2011 Ptychography imaging of GdFe magnetic domains paper is published in PNAS. PR appears in UCSD News, Popular Science Magazine, MSNBC, Fox News, MRS Science News, Photonics Online and other sources.
- May 4, 2011 Samuel Stanwyck receiving the 2010-2011 John Holmes Malmberg Prize. Sam is enrolled in PhD program at Stanford.
- May 4, 2011 Charles Neill receiving the 2010-2011 Shang-Keng Ma Award. Charles is enrolled in PhD program at UC Santa Barbara.
- April 25, 2011 Veronica Burnett becomes AIP's Intern of the Year for 2010-2011 in Roger Revelle College. An article is written about her achievement on the USRA website.
- March 21-25, 2011 Edwin Fohtung, Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, and Sebastian Dietze give contributed talks at APS March meeting
- November 8, 2010 Postdoc Edwin Fohtung joins the group.
- October 25, 2010 Undergraduate Researchers Sam Stanwyck, Charles Neill and Andrew McLeod among five physics recepients 2010 Dean's Excellence Award.
- September 28, 2010 Manuscript "Self-consistent interpretation of the 2D structure of the liquid AuSi surface: Bending rigidity and the Debye-Waller effect" is accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
- September 19, 2010 Sebastian Dietze attends MML-2010 conference in Berkeley.
- September 15, 2010 Mike Folkerts joins UCSD Physics PhD program
- July 16, 2010 Yeling Dai is the winner of the best poster award at SXNS-11. Congrats, Yeling!
- July 14, 2010 Graduate Student Yeling Dai attends SXNS-11, The Eleventh International Conference on Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering in Chicago, IL, and makes a contributed presentation.
- June, 2010 Graduate student Leandra Boucheron joins the group. Welcome, Leandra!
- June 8, 2010 Graduate Student Ash Tripathi attends Coherence-2010, International Workshop on Phase Retrieval and Coherent Scattering Coherence in Rostock, Germany; Ash is also invited to give talks at University College London, UK and Technical University Berlin, Germany. Congrats, Ash!
- June 1, 2010 Undergraduate Student Sam Stanwyck receives a prestigious DOE's Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship SULI at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Congrats to Sam!
- April 2010 Undergraduate Student Michael Folkerts selected as 2009-2010 receipient of UCSD McNair Scholar award. Congrats, Mike!
- March 15-19, 2010 Ash Tripathi, Yeling Dai, Sebastian Dietze, Michael Folkerts and Sam Stanwyck give contributed talks at APS March meeting
- March, 2010 Graduate Students Jong Woo Kim and Moses Marsh join the group. Welcome!
- March 1, 2010 Oleg receives NSF CAREER Award
- November 3, 2009 Michael Folkerts receives Dean's Excellence Award. Congrats, Mike!
- June 5, 2009: Open Postdoc position: X-ray Nanodiffraction and discovery of Novel Superconductors
- May 4, 2009: Oleg is named a Hellman Fellow
- March 31, 2009: Loic defends his Masters Thesis (PDF)!
- March 20, 2009: Two more papers published: Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2, and Liquid Surface Structure of Bi and Sn
- January 2009: Kevin Duggento, Andrew McLeod join our group
- November 2008: Loic Jacot-Descombes, Sarah Garcia, Mike Folkerts join our group
- July 2008: Group Wiki added (Older Dokuwiki)
- May 2008: Oleg receives Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award
- April 2008: UCSD Condensed Matter Physics ranked top 10 in U.S.
- January 2008: Dr. Jyoti Mohanty joins our group as postdoctoral fellow
- December 2007: Crystalline Phases of AuSi alloy paper published Phys. Rev. B
- September 2007: High-Pressure Chromium work is published in PRL
- May 2007: Speckle study of antiferromagnetic domain wall dynamics published in Nature
- March 2007: Hall Effect & Microscopy of antiferromagnetic domains published in PRL
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Research in the News:
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2007 Advanced Photon Source Annual Science Report (PDF) Arising from "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" O. G. Shpyrko, E. D. Isaacs, J. M. Logan, Yejun Feng, G. Aeppli, R. Jaramillo, H. C. Kim, T. F. Rosenbaum, P. Zschack, M. Sprung, S. Narayanan and A. R. Sandy Nature 447, 68 (2007) |
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2007 Advanced Photon Source Annual Science Report (PDF) Arising from "Microscopic and Macroscopic Signatures of Antiferromagnetic Domains" R. Jaramillo, T. F. Rosenbaum, E. D. Isaacs, O. G. Shpyrko, P. G. Evans, G. Aeppli, Z. Cai, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117206 (2007) |
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Our research on surface freezing in binary AuSi alloy is highlighted in a Physics Today article "Nanowire pipette dispenses zeptoliter drops of liquid metal" PDF)(July 2007) |
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"X-ray holograms reveal secret magnetism", University of Chicago Press Release
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"Speckles expose magnet's noisy secrets", PhysicsWeb Article Arising from O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" Nature 447, 68 (2007) |
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"Different Roads Toward Quantum Criticality",
APS Press release (PDF) |
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"A Gold and Silicon Get-Together" APS Science report 2006 (PDF) |
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"Liquid alloy shows solid-like crystal structure at surface", Argonne News Arising from O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy"
Science 313, 77 (2006)
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"Demixing of metallic liquids seen for 1st time" Argonne News (PDF) Arising from O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Atomic-Scale Surface Demixing in a Eutectic Liquid BiSn Alloy" Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106103 (2005) |
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"Alloyed Fources Laid Bare" APS Science Report 2005 (PDF) Arising from O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Atomic-Scale Surface Demixing in a Eutectic Liquid BiSn Alloy" Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 106103 (2005)
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