New Assistant Professor Frank Zhao is setting up his new lab in QMC to fabricate new materials, study their properties and investigate how they might be incorporated into new technologies. In particular, he is interested in thin 2D and exfoliated materials, as well as in their interfaces  -- read about his story and plans here.

The QMC research team including Paglione, Takeuchi and Rodriguez has been awarded a highly competitive grant from the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program to launch a bold new frontier in quantum materials science: High-Entropy Quantum Materials. See News Story for more details. 

The "resurrection" of superconductivity in uranium ditelluride at extremely high magnetic fields, initially identified by researchers at the University of Maryland Quantum Materials Center and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has captivated physicists worldwide. In UTe2, superconductivity vanishes below 10 Tesla, but surprisingly reemerges at field strengths exceeding 40 Tesla. Led by NIST NRC Fellow and QMC member Sylvia Lewin, measurements at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have revealed a three-dimensional superconducting halo that wraps around the hard b-axis of the crystal, as outlined Science. See news article for more information.

Congratulations to Nicholas Crombie, one of the Poster Winners. Nick is an enterprising researcher in QMC and an undergraduate student pursuing a dual degree in physics and mathematics. (read more)