News
June 2019
- Ron Broner and Avery Haubert from UCSB joined CMR Team for their PREM 2019 Summer Internship. Welcome onboard.
May 2019
- Juan Gomez successfully defended his PhD dissertation. Congratulation Dr. Gomez! He will be joining Blue Origin.
- Cristian Orozco successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations Cristian!
- CMR hosted Dr. Uwe Schulz from DLR for an exciting talk on Thermal Barrier Coatings and the work being undertaken at DLR.
- Elisa Rivera has been selected for a summer internship at UCSB. She will be working at UCSB for 08 weeks. Congrats!
- Anil and Kishore’s paper on Fabrication, characterization and optimization of high conductivity and high quality nanocrystalline molybdenum thin films was published in Journal of Materials Science & Technology. Congrats!
April 2019
- CMR added another capability to its facilities by acquiring a full range Ellipsometer – SEMILAB SE-2000. It will strengthen the critical analysis part of the research
March 2019
- Vishal and Dr. Bandi’s paper on Interplay between Solubility Limit, Structure, and Optical Properties of Tungsten-Doped Ga2O3 Compounds Synthesized by a Two-Step Calcination Process was published in ACS Inorganic Chemistry. Congrats!
- Vishal’s paper on Electronic Structure of Tungsten-Doped β-Ga2O3 Compounds was successfully published in the special issue of ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology. Congratulations!
- CMR hosted collaborators and scientists from Europe for a workshop filled with exciting talks.
- CMR participated in TMS 2019 at San Antonio, Texas:
- Swadipta Roy; Mallesham Bandi; Vaithiyalingam Shutthanandan; Suntharampillai Thevuthasan; Ramana C.V. “Iron Doped Gallium Oxide (Ga2-xFexO3): Structure, Chemistry and Dielectric Properties” (Oral Presentation).
- Anil Krishna Battu; Cristian Orozco; Ramana C.V. “Effect of Refractory Metal Incorporation on Structure and Properties of ß-Ga2O3: A Case Study of Molybdenum Incorporated ß-Ga2O3 Films” (Oral Presentation).
- Anil Krishna Battu; Vishal Zade; Ramana C.V. “Structural, Optical and Electrical Property Evaluation of RFS puttered Molybdenum Thin Films” (Oral Presentation).
- Vishal Zade; Mallesham Bandi; Ramana C.V. “Effect of Tungsten Doping on the Structure and Electronic Properties of Gallium Oxide” (Oral Presentation).
- Ramana Chintalapalle “Fabrication and Characterization of Oxide Thin Films for Energy Related Applications”.
February 2019
- Vishal successfully defended his PhD proposal. He has progressed to candidacy. Congrats!
- CMR successfully hosted the NSF PREM Annual Meeting. PIs from participating institutions and NSF Directors attended a 02-day event.
- Our collaborative work with DLR-Germany was published in Journal of the European Ceramic Society titled Estimation of CMAS infiltration depth in EB-PVD TBCs: A new constraint model supported with experimental approach. Congrats!
- Another collaborative work with our talented team from India titled Particle Size, Morphology, and Chemical Composition Controlled CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles with Tunable Magnetic Properties via Oleic Acid Based Solvothermal Synthesis for Application in Electronic Devices was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Congrats!
January 2019
- Professor Ramana published an invited book chapter in Gallium Oxide: Technology, Devices and Applications. Congratulations!