Andy’s paper on the Discovery of Axis Dependent Conduction Polarity in NaSnAs, a 0.6 eV band gap semiconductor is out.

Congratulations to Mike Scudder who won a Presidential Fellowship!

Happy New Year and a special welcome to the new group members Olivia Davis, Cullen Irvine, Ryan Nelson, and Archibald Williams!

Congratulations to Ben for winning an honorable mention in the undergraduate poster award competition at Ohio Inorganic Weekend.

Our group’s work on discovering Goniopolar behavior in NaSn2As2 is published in Nature Materials. Briefly, most electronic materials are thought of as either metallic, or semiconducting that is doped to give a particular p-type or n-type conduction behavior. However, layered materials have different orbitals holding the structure together in-plane vs. cross-plane. Here we discover that these layered materials can simultaneously exhibit n-type behavior in-plane vs. p-type behavior cross-plane. This “crystallographic angle-dependence” of conduction polarity we denote as “Goniopolarity”

See press;

https://news.osu.edu/researchers-discover-new-material-to-help-power-electronics/

Prof. Josh Goldberger, Prof. Wolfgang Windl in Materials Science, and Prof. Jos Heremans in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering  have been selected for the 2019 Lumley Interdisciplinary Research Award.

Mike Scudder wins a first place poster award at the Hayes Graduate Forum.  Congratulations!

1/2/2019  Happy New Year and a special welcome to the new group members, Andrew Ochs, Karl Koster, and Sammy Kraguljac!

Mike Scudder wins a third place poster award as part of the Evans Lecture Dow Graduate Student Poster Session! Way to go, Mike!

Dan Weber is awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).