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Schieber

November 2023

Nathaniel Schreiber: APL Materials Excellence in Research Award 

2nd Prize: Nathaniel Schreiber and Ludi Miao for A Model Heterostructure with Engineered Berry Curvature

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Muller

September 2023

David Muller: The 2023 John Cowley Medal winner.   The Cowley Medal is the highest award of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy and is only awarded once every 4 years.  The medal is awarded in recognition of lifetime achievement to an international leader in the fields of diffraction physics or microscopy. 

Professor David Muller (PARADIM Director of Electron Microscopy facility) was awarded the The John M Cowley Medal. The award was established to honor the memory of John Maxwell Cowley, esteemed Regents’ Professor and Galvin Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. Cowley was a leader in the field of diffraction, microscopy and crystallography, and he was also the founder of the electron microscopy facility at Arizona State University. 

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June 2023:

PARADIM mourns the loss of Dr. Lena Kourkoutis

Lena F. Kourkoutis, M.S. ’06, Ph.D. ’09, (1979- June 25, 2023)

“Lena is among the persons I think of first when I speak of our faculty's commitment to excellence in all aspects of their work,” said Lynden Archer, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering.

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October 2022 :

PARADIM researcher Lena Kourkoutis was named a 2022 APS Fellow.

"For pioneering contributions to the development of atomic-resolution cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy as a quantitative tool for probing electronic phases in materials and processes at interfaces between solids and liquids."

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Berit

November 2022

Berit Goodge: APL Materials Excellence in Research Award

3rd Prize: Berit Goodge for Disentangling types of lattice disorder impacting superconductivity in Sr2RuO4 by quantitative local probes

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August 2022 :

PARADIM Graduate student Alumna Berit Goodge was named a 2022 Schmidt Science Fellow.

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May 2022 :

Holding the right material at the right angle, Cornell researchers have discovered a strategy to switch the magnetization in thin layers of a ferromagnet – a technique that could eventually lead to the development of more energy-efficient magnetic memory devices.

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April 2022 :

PARADIM REU alumna and current PARADIM user, Zubia Hasan has been awarded a P.D. Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

This fellowship is a merit-based fellowship exclusively for immigrants and children of immigrants who are pursuing graduate school in the United States.

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April 2022 :

A program designed to give undergraduate students an introductory summer research experience in materials discovery has been funded through a three-year, $621,000 grant from the National Science Foundation.

The grant renews the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program and leverages the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM) - a national user facility dedicated to accelerating the discovery of next-generation materials for electronics.

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  March 2022 : PARADIM Users from Cornell’s Center for Bright Beams, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, has developed a technique to create a single-crystal alkali antimonides photocathode, with an efficiency up to 10 times higher than its predecessors.Read More
 

October 2021 : PARADIM Co-Director, Darrell Schlom, honored with the 2021 American Vacuum Society John A. Thornton Memorial award and lecture. This award recognizes Professor Schlom for his pioneering contributions to the development of molecular-beam epitaxy for the growth of complex oxides and its judicious application to create oxides with unparalleled properties. Read More

  July 2021 : The Director of the PARADIM Electron Microscopy Facility, Professor David Muller awarded the Ernst Ruska Prize from The German Society for Electron Microscopy
 

May 2021 : The Highest Resolution Microscope, enabled by a new detector technology, reaches an ultimate resolution limit – the vibrations of atoms themselves

 

December 2020 : PARADIM User Project has been selected for the frontispiece in Advanced Materials for December 2020.  

Full Reference: A. Bhargava, R. Eppstein, J. Sun, M.A. Smeaton, H. Paik, L.F. Kourkoutis, D.G. Schlom, M. Caspary Toroker, and R.D. Robinson, “Breakdown of the Small-Polaron Hopping Model in Higher-Order Spinels,” Adv. Mater.32, 2004490 (2020).