Jessica receives the UConn Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship! Congratulations!

The information of the doctoral dissertation fellowship is available at the link below.

https://grad.uconn.edu/financing/fellowships/dissertation

Seok-Woo gave an invited presentation at (virtual) UKC 2020.

US-Korea Conference (UKC) 2020: 12/14~12/17, 2020 (virtual)

• Seok-Woo Lee: “Low Temperature Failure Mechanism of [001] Niobium Micropillars”  (invited oral presentation)

 

Shuyang gave an oral presentation at the (virtual) MRS Fall 2020! The title of his presentation was “Giant Compressive Superelastic Deformation of a [001]-Oriented SrNi₂P₂ Micropillar via Double Lattice Collapse and Expansion”. This presentation discussed his discovery of extremely large superelastic deformation, ~18%, in SrNi2P2. This exceptionally large elastic strain is produced by lattice collapse and expansion in 1x3x1 and 1x1x1 structures which co-exist. Great Job, Shuyang!

Seok-Woo receives the Interdisciplinary Multi-Investigator Materials Proposal (IMMP, $20,000) award from the Institute of Materials Science, UConn.

The award will support his research project entitled “Cryogenic Nano-Electro-Magneto-Mechanical Measurement for Strain Engineering Study on Advanced Functional and Quantum materials”. In this project, Seok-Woo’s research group is going to measure the electrical and magnetic properties of high temperature superconductors under elastic deformation and to control their superconducting critical temperature as a function of strain. This innovation will be realized by merging two entirely different fields of science: nanomechanics and superconductivity. This project will be conducted with Dr. Ilya Sochnikov in Department of Physics.