MRSEC Research Nuggets

The UMD-MRSEC has recently been renewed for its third consecutive round of funding. Nuggets under this new award will be posted here as they become available.

Nuggets from the previous award of MRSEC funding are available in the MRSEC II Nuggets Archive.

Nearly all research nuggets posted here are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format, which requires Acrobat Reader to view. To download the free Acrobat Reader, please click the logo below.

• IRG 1 Nuggets - Low-Dimensional Interfaces
• IRG 2 Nuggets - Multifunctional Magnetic Oxides
• Education Outreach

For more information about the IRGs, including their research goals and highlights, personnel, and publications, please see Research.

  IRG 1 Nuggets - Low-Dimensional Interfaces

• Noise at the Nanoscale
• Electrons in Graphene can Travel 100 Times Faster than in Silicon
• Molecular Nano-Ring Beats Like a Chime
• New Electronic Material Fits In Where It’s Placed
• Metal Electrodes Fluctuate under Molecular Bonds
• Directed Self Organization of Step Bunches on Patterned Vicinal Si(111)
• Mismatched Molecules Generate Chiral “Pinwheels”
• Capturing Atomic Spirals
• See nuggets from the previous MRSEC award - MRSEC II IRG2

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  IRG 2 Nuggets - Multifunctional Magnetic Oxides

• Electromagnons in Multiferroics
• Giant Magneto-Elastic Coupling in hexagonal Y(Lu)MnO₃
• Novel Multiferroic Thin Film Memory Devices
• The Magneto-Capacitance Effect and Electro-Magnons in Multiferroics
• Controlled Growth of Multiferroic Thin Films
• Synthesis of single crystalline multiferroic BiFeO₃ films
• Colossal magnon-phonon coupling in multiferroic materials
• See nuggets from the previous MRSEC award - MRSEC II IRG3

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  Education Outreach

• UMD-MRSEC Summer Camps
• Pre-Engineering Program: Collaboration Between the University of Maryland MRSEC and Charles Herbert Flowers High School, PGCPS

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