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 the Research link to the left.

  IRG 1 Nuggets - Low-Dimensional Interfaces

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

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  IRG 2 Nuggets - Multifunctional Magnetic Oxides

• Colossal magnon-phonon coupling in multiferroic materials
• Synthesis of single crystalline multiferroic BiFeO₃ films
• Controlled Growth of Multiferroic Thin Films
• The Magneto-Capacitance Effect and Electro-Magnons in Multiferroics
• Novel Multiferroic Thin Film Memory Devices
• 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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