Current and Past Collaborators
Alexi Arango is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Mount Holyoke College. The Arango Lab investigates solar cells that aim to be both highly efficient and less expensive.
Rafael Jaramillo is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Jaramillo Research Group’s projects address materials synthesis and properties, with an emphasis on making materials and demonstrating functionalities that are useful for microelectronics, integrated photonics, telecommunications, and photovoltaics.
Frances Ross is a Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at Massachussets Institute of Technology. The Microscopy@MIT Lab focuses on understanding and controlling materials growth at nanometer length scales using specialized microscopy techniques.
Jing Kong is the principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Nanomaterials and Electronics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), through the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials
Mark Tuominen is a Professor of Physics at UMass Amherst, and Co-Director of the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, investigating the manufacturing and physics of materials and devices with nanoscale features.
Mark Tuominen is a Professor of Physics at UMass Amherst, and Co-Director of the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing, investigating the manufacturing and physics of materials and devices with nanoscale features.
Megan Núñez is a Professor in the Physical and Natural Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Wellesley College. The Núñez Lab investigates biophysics of bacteria and nucleic acids.
Alejandro Briseno, Materials Research Institute, Penn State
Funding Agencies and Grants
Thank you to NSF and Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement
RUI: Time-Resolved Point Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy for Non-Traditional Semiconductors, National Science Foundation, September 2017 – August 2020
Sub-award from the Center for Integrated Quantum Materials at Harvard, National Science Foundation, October 2013 – September 2022
MRI: Acquisition of a multi chamber hybrid organic/inorganic thin film deposition system, National Science Foundation: Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems, October 2012 – September 2014
Collaborative Proposal: Physics of Ferromagnetic Nanostructures in a Circular Field, National Science Foundation, September 2012 – August 2015
CAREER: Local Charge, Polarization, and Transport of Nanocrystal Quantum Dot Solid State Structures using Scanning Probe Microscopy, National Science Foundation, May 2010 – April 2015
Collaborative Proposal: Physics of Ferromagnetic Nanorings in an External Azimuthal Field, National Science Foundation, September 2009 – August 2012
Sub-award from the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, National Science Foundation: Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers, September 2008 – August 2014
Sub-award from the Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, National Science Foundation: Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, April 2011 – March 2016
Imaging and Manipulation of Magnetic Nanostructres for Functional Nanosystems, National Science Foundation: Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Massachusetts, April 2008 – March 2011
Investigation and Control of Magnetic Nanorings using a Scanning Probe Microscope, Research Corporation, December 2008 – November 2010