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| » The Nebraska Research Initiative supports the proposal to establish a MRSEC shared facility. The new facility will comprise molecular beam epitaxy, scanning probe microscopy, and x-ray photoemission/electron spectroscopy in one instrument. | |
| » Xi He has been recognized as winner of the 2011 MRS Spring Meeting Student Award "Silver". Xi He is the first Nebraska student receiving this prestigious award. (Apr. 2011) | |
| » MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Apr. 2011). | |
» J.D. Burton and Evgeny Tsymbal’s work on electrically controlled spin-valve effect made the front web page of Phys. Rev. Lett. with the synopsis of this article being featured by the PRL editor (Apr. 2011). |
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| » Shireen Adenwalla is elected as Secretary/Treasurer of GMAG (Mar. 2011). | |
| » Collaborative research paper by S. Ducharme, A. Gruverman, and J. Huang published by Nature Mat. (Feb. 2011). | |
| » Collaborative research paper by K. Belashchenko, C. Binek, and P. Dowben published in PRL (Feb. 2011). | |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal and group members were involved in research on complex oxide heterostructures that was published in Science and Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (Feb. 2011). | |
| » The book "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials", edited by Sergei V. Kalinin and Alexei Gruverman, was recently published by Springer (Jan. 2011). | |
| » The "Handbook of Spin Transport and Magnetism" edited by Evgeny Tsymbal and Igor Žutić will soon be published by Taylor & Francis (Jan. 2011). | |
| » Xi He has been selected for the 2011 UNL Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (Dec. 2010). | |
| » Ralph Skomski is named fellow of the American Physical Society (Dec. 2010). | |
» The Nebraska MRSEC Review and Symposium was held on October 18-19, 2010. |
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| » Nebraska MRSEC received SRC/NSF Supplement Grant: Study and Control of Intrinsic Magnetization at the Boundary of a Magnetoelectric for Electrically Switchable Magnetic Nanostructures (Oct. 2010). (Press release SRC, ECN News) | |
| » MRSEC faculty members contributed to the second Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at UNL (Oct. 2010). |  |
| » Spintronics breakthrough documented by UNL MRSEC team (June 2010). See NSF Discovery web page. | |
| » Alexei Gruverman received Outstanding Achievement Award at ISIF 2010 (June 2010). | |
» J.D. Burton received the 2010 Outstanding Postdoc Award by the UNL Office of Postdoctoral Studies (April 2010). |
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| » Evgeny Tsymbal’s research was featured in an invited article at AZoM.com under a section “Materials Thought Leaders Series” (March 2010). | |
| » The paper “Nanomagnetics” by Ralph Skomski was selected as one of the top 20 most cited JPCM Topical Review articles and the JPCM special issue “Half-Metallic Ferromagnets” edited by Peter Dowben as one of the top 20 special issues (Nov. 2009). | |
| » MRSEC faculty members contributed to the first Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at UNL (Oct. 2009). |  |
| » The Nebraska MRSEC Review and Symposium was held on Oct. 1-2, 2009. | |
| » MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Sept. 2009). | |
| » Nebraska MRSEC video featured on NSF's Science 360 News (Sept. 2009). | |
| » MRSEC summer teachers Steve Wignall and Nick Reding are one of the first people to see the world's first all-electric production car (July 2009). |  |
| » 2008 REU summer student Aaron Cochran has been chosen as a 2007-2008 Co-op Meritorious Achievement Award recipient at the University of Wisconsin-Stout! (May 2009) Thank you to his mentor Prof. Shield! | |
| » Two MRSEC grad students (Zhen Li and Xi He) received Best Poster Award at the UNL Research Fair (April 2009). | |
| » Image from Binek group featured on Nanotechnology's cover page (March 2009). | |
| » Image from PRL paper 102, 106803 (2009), Karolina Janicka et. al featured on PRL's cover page (March 2009). | |
| » Jeff Shield and six MRSEC faculty receive NSF-REU grant (Feb. 2009). | |
| » Eva Franke-Schubert receives NSF CAREER Award (Jan. 2009). | |
| » Nebraska MRSEC receives an $8.1M grant from NSF to support research in nanomagnetism through 2014 (Sept. 2008). | |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal is named fellow of the American Physical Society (Oct. 2008). | |
| » MRSEC hosted a visit by industrial liaisons from NRI (Oct. 2008). | |
| » Teachers develop lessons and activities (RET program Summer 2008). | |
| » Kirill Belashchenko receives Cottrell Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (July 2008). | |
| » The paper “Correlation effects and electronic structure of Gd@C60,” by R. F. Sabirianov et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 19, 082201 (2007), was selected as one of the Top Papers 2007 (March 2008). | |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal is named a fellow of the UK Institute of Physics (March 2008). | |
| » Oxford University Press published book “Simple Models of Magnetism” by Ralph Skomski (March 2008). | |
| » John D. Burton received Presidential Fellowship, University of Nebraska 2007-2008. | |
| » Karolina Janicka received Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Graduate Fellowship 2007-2008. | |
| » The following students (all MRSEC!) received the Best Student Poster Awards at the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (Oct. 2007): - "The Origins of Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in Nanoscale Ferromagnetic Metal Break Junctions" by J. D. Burton (Physics, E. Tsymbal) - "Locally Probed Ferroelectricity of Ferroelectric Nanomesas by Piezoresponse Force Microscopy" by Jihee Kim (Physics, S. Ducharme) - "Magnetization Precession and Damping in Ni/Pt Bilayers" by Steven Michalski (Physics, R. Kirby) - "Temperature Dependent Dielectric Function of Al0.52In0.48P and Ga0.52In0.48P" by Eric Montgomery (Electr. Eng., M. Schubert) - "Scaling Behavior of the Exchange Bias Training Effect" by Srinivas Polisetty (Physics, Ch. Binek) - "Thermodynamics of Itinerant Magnets: A Simple Classical Model with Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations" by Alexsander Wysocki (Physics, K. Belashchenko). |
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| » University of Nebraska hosted the 54th Midwest Solid State Conference (Oct. 2007). | |
| » The Nebraska MRSEC Review was held on October 5, 2007. | |
| » Peter Dowben is named a fellow of the American Vacuum Society (Oct. 2007). | |
| » Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter published a special issue on “Half-Metallic Ferromagnets” edited by P. A. Dowben (August 2007). | |
| » Evgeny Tsymbal received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from College of Arts and Sciences (May 2007). | |
| » Nebraska MRSEC received NRI/NSF Supplement Grant: Multiferroic Interfaces: New Paradigms for Functional Switching (April 2007). | |
| » Christian Binek received Outstanding Young Scientist Award from Sigma Xi (April 2007). | |
| » A. Sokolov, C. Zhang, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. Redepenning, and B. Doudin’s Nature Nanotechnology paper “Quantized magnetoresistance in atomic-size contacts” was featured in Physics World, Materials Today, the Economist, TechWorld, by the Institute of Physics PhysicsWeb, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics (Feb. 2007). | |
| » Xiangxin Rui received Pierson Graduate Research Award 2007. | |
| » Lu Yuan received University-wide Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2007. | |
| » Danqin Feng received Fling Fellowship 2006-2007 and Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate Student Award 2007. | |
| » The paper 'Nanomagnetics' by R. Skomski, J. Phys: Condens. Matter 15, R841-896 (2003) was selected by SPIE as one of the top 50 papers ever published in the field of nanotechnology theory and modeling and included in a reprint volume (2006). | |
| » J. D. Burton received UNL College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award and Graduate Student Research Competition Prize at UNL Research Fair (2006). | |
| » Christian Binek and J. D. Burton received Best Poster Award at 53rd Midwest Solid State Conference, Kansas City 2006. | |
| » Peter Dowben received Excellence in Graduate Education Award and College of Engineering Multidisciplinary Research Award 2006. | |
| » Luis Rosa received GRC Carl Storm Underrepresented Minority Fellowship 2005 and UNL College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Research Assistant Award 2006. | |
| » David Sellmyer received University of Nebraska Sigma Xi Outstanding Scientist Award 2005-2006. | |
| » Danqin Feng received University of Nebraska Frank and Marie Wheeler Fellowship 2005-2006. | |
| » Anthony Caruso received Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award 2005. | |
| » Peter A. Dowben and Xiao Cheng Zeng were elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Oct. 2005). | |
| » Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, Steve Wignall (RET Participant) have Trophy Award Winner Paper at MRS Fall Meeting 2004. | |
| » Peter Dowben is named Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics (Nov. 2004). | |
| » Anthony Caruso received Sigma Xi Graduate Student Paper Award (2004) and Bukey Memorial Fellowship (2004-2005). | |
