Jangyup’s going away banquet at Golden Harbor (12/12/2019)
Jangyup is leaving to start his own lab as a Senior Scientist at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Thank you for all your effort!
We miss you Jangyup!
Category: News
News article about bending few-layer graphene
The news article highlight our work on bending few-layer graphene has been published in U of I news!
The news is available here : Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets
The original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-019-0529-7
Professor Arend van der Zande listed to world’s most influential researcher!
Our PI, professor Arend M. van der Zande, has been named to 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list, a global listing of scientists who produced the past decade’s most influential papers, compiled by the Web of Science group, a Clarivate Analytics company.
https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/804690
Group party with escape room!
Since the spring semester was over, van der Zande group got the group party with escape room. Although most of the members had not experienced the escape room, we successfully solve the problems to save the world!
ME 370 final project: Walking robots
We taught the mechanical design class this semester, ME370. We created a new class project where students have to build walking robots. At the end of the semester, they had to have a race out on Bardeen quad. Check out the results!
New 2D materials Furnace installed
We have just installed a new metal organic chemical
vapor deposition furnace from PlanarTECH inside the MNTL cleanroom. We helped PlanarTECH design the MOCVD system so that we can simultaneously test growth of new experimental 2D materials, vary the chemistry during growth to produce alloys and heterostructures, and reliably grow wafer scale monolayers. We are excited to start using the system this summer, and see what it is capable of!
vapor deposition furnace from PlanarTECH inside the MNTL cleanroom. We helped PlanarTECH design the MOCVD system so that we can simultaneously test growth of new experimental 2D materials, vary the chemistry during growth to produce alloys and heterostructures, and reliably grow wafer scale monolayers. We are excited to start using the system this summer, and see what it is capable of!The MNTL has a highlight about this system: http://mntl.illinois.edu/news/article/16487
Video of invited talk from AVS annual meeting
Follow the link to see Arend talk about some recent research:
The video is from an invited talk Arend gave at the American vacuum Society International Symposium.
New undergrad researchers!
We welcome three new undergrads for the spring semester to help us finish building the lab: Henley He, Daniel Benkeser, and Jai Karnick. Welcome!
Move in Day
Today we got to move in to our new measurement lab! Time to do Science!