Group Members
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Principal Investigator:
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Oleg Shpyrko Assistant Professor, Department of Physics University of California San Diego
Ph.D. Physics, Harvard University, 2004
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Postdoctoral fellow(s):
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Graduate Students:
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Ash Tripathi, Graduate Student B.S. Electrical Engineering, U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2005 M.S. Physics, UC San Diego 2007 Research Topic: Novel coherent x-ray imaging techniques, ptychographic iterative engine, lens-less imaging. Nanodiffraction studies of metal-insulator transition. |
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Yeling Dai, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, The University of Science and Technology of China, 2006 Research Topic: Dynamics of nanoconfined materials, Liquid Surface Scattering. |
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Sebastian Dietze, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, U Texas Austin 2008 Research Topic: Magnetic nanostructures. |
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Moses Marsh, Graduate Student B.S. Physics, Univ. of California Santa Barbara 2009 Research Topic:TBD |
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Jong Woo Kim, MSE Graduate Student 2009-present M. Sc. Seoul National University Research Topic: TBD |
Undergraduate Students:
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Michael Folkerts
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. |
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Sam Stanwyck
Research Topic: Dynamics of Jammed Systems. Light Scattering. |
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LLuvia Rodriguez |
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Anashe Bandari |
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Magnus Heinz |
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Veronica Burnett
Research Topic: Morphological instabilities in polymer nanostructures. |
Group Alumni:
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Loic Jacot Descombes, visiting student, Nov 2008-April 2009 Masters Student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
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Sarah Garcia, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 |
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Andrew McLeod, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 Current Whereabouts: Scotland, via UCSD exchange program. |
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Kevin Duggento, undergraduate student, 2008-2009 |
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Dr. Jyoti Mohanty, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2009
Currently a Scientist at Technical University Berlin. |
Collaborators:
- Dmitri Basov (UCSD)
- Eric Fullerton (UCSD)
- Ivan Schuller (UCSD)
- Sunny Sinha (UCSD)
- Brian Maple (UCSD)
- Peter Pershan (Harvard)
- Eric Isaacs (U. Chicago, Argonne National Lab)
- Kyle Alvine (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
- Moshe Deutsch (Bar Ilan U., Israel)
- Tom Rosenbaum (U Chicago)
- Patrick Huber (Saarland U., Germany)
- Ben Ocko (Brookhaven)
- Masa Fukuto (Brookhaven)
- Oleg Gang (Brookhaven)
- Elaine DiMasi (Brookhaven)
- Gabe Aeppli (UC London)
- Thomas Russell (UMass)
- Steve Kevan (U. Oregon)
- Sujoy Roy (ALS, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
- John Mitchell (Argonne)
- Alec Sandy, Michael Sprung, Suresh Narayanan (Sector 8, APS, Argonne)
- Jeff Elam and Michael Pellin (MSD&ES, Argonne)
- Xiao Min Lin (CNM, Argonne)
- Martin Holt and Jorg Maser (X-ray Nanoprobe, CNM, Argonne)
- Binhua Lin, Mati Meron (CARS, U. Chicago)
- Ivan Kuzmenko, Thomas Gog (Sector 9, APS, Argonne)
- Zahir Islam, Jonathan Lang (Sector 4, APS, Argonne)
- Ross Harder, Ian McNulty, Zhonghou Cai (APS, Argonne)
- Paul Zschack (APS, Argonne)
- Alexei Grigoriev, Paul Evans (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
Our group currently has several openings at postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate student level.
Contact Oleg Shpyrko for more information
Examples of Research Directions:
- Nanoscale Dynamics using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
- Coherent X-ray Microscopy
- Nanoconfined liquids
- Atomic Structure of Liquid-Solid and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces
- Mesoscale phase separation in electronic and magnetic materials
- Search for Novel Superconducting Materials
- Metallic Glasses and Liquids
List of relevant references:
O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Direct measurement of antiferromagnetic domain fluctuations" Nature 447, 68 (2007)
R. Jaramillo et al., "Microscopic and Macroscopic Signatures of Antiferromagnetic Domains" Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 117206 (2007) O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Surface Crystallization in a Liquid AuSi Alloy" Science 313, 77 (2006)
K. J. Alvine, O. G. Shpyrko et al., "Capillary filling of anodized alumina nanopore arrays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 175503 (2006)
E. D. Isaacs, "Microscopy: X-ray nanovision", Nature 442, 35 (2006)
