The Institute for Materials Research and the Solid State Electronics and Photonics (SSEP) Seminar Series jointly present Oxide-based UV Photodetection Adrian Hierro, Associate Director, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Thursday, February 3, 2011 1:30 PM, 260 Dreese Laboratories This talk is part of a newly formed international partnership between the OSU Institute for Materials Research and the …
IMR Announces New International Collaboration with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
The Ohio State University Institute for Materials Research (IMR) recently formalized its international collaboration with Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), a top technological/engineering university in Spain, through the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding between OSU/IMR and the UPM President’s office (Rectorate). The purpose of the MOU is to enhance education and research in areas central to advanced materials and related technologies …
Rajan Group Research Featured in Semiconductor Today and Applied Physics Letters
Congratulations to Professor Siddharth Rajan and his research team for having their recent work on tunnel junctions featured in Semiconductor Today and published in Applied Physics Letters. This research on InGaN was funded in part by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) through an IMR Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grant and the Targeted Initiative in Excellence (TIE) Advanced Materials Initiative project. …
Faculty Spotlight – Dr. Katrina Cornish
This summer Katrina Cornish joined The Ohio State University faculty at OARDC-Wooster as an Endowed Chair in Bio-based Emergent Materials. This key position is one of three Ohio Research Scholars at OSU founded by an Ohio Department of Development Ohio Research Scholars Program award, Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials, with IMR Director Steven Ringel as the Principal Investigator. Dr. Cornish is …
2011 Ohio State University Business Plan Competition
The OSU Center for Entrepreneurship is accepting team registrations for its 2011 Ohio State University Business Plan Competition through January 14, 2011. This competition provides a unique opportunity for OSU materials students to explore commercialization of their research, with the opportunity to win start-up money. Past winners include materials-related projects from O2, Nanofiber Solutions, and Traycer Diagnostic Systems. This year’s …
New Ohio Research Scholar – Scott Gold – University of Dayton
The University of Dayton School of Engineering recently announced the hiring of Dr. Scott Gold as an Ohio Research Scholar in Multiscale Composites Processing. This Ohio Research Scholar position is funded by the Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials award from the Ohio Department of Development through the Ohio Third Frontier Program. This award created five new Ohio Research Scholars – three …
October 1: ENCOMM Presents Nobel Laureate Sir Anthony Leggett
Friday, October 1, 2010 4:00 PM, Room E100 Scott Laboratory, 201 West 19th Avenue Propects for Topological Quantum Computing Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Physics Nobel Prize and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics, Univesrity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hosted by ENCOMM, the Center for Electronic and Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials
2010 OSU Materials Week – Student Poster Session Award Winners
2010 OSU Materials Week was a great success, with over 330 participants representing OSU and 15 other universities, over a dozen industry collaborators, and several government labs. Many thanks to our Program Planning Committee, session coordinators, speakers, corporate sponsors, and participants for making this such a fun and informative conference. A highlight again this year was the student poster sessions, where …
OSU Research Teams Awarded MURI Projects
Congratulations to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor and IMR member Joseph Heremans on his recent MURI award from the Department of Defense. Dr. Heremans is the lead researcher of the awarded project Cryogenic Peltier Cooling, recently announced by the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program, which provides support for basic research of national defense interest performed in …
IMR Awards 2010 Interdisciplinary Materials Research Grants (IMRG)
IMR’s Research Enhancement Program provides different funding mechanisms to support novel research at The Ohio State Univeristy Seven research projects were awarded a second year by the IMR in June 2010, for a an additional $287,500 in direct research support from IMR. 2010 IMRG Research Projects: Multi-Scale Characterization of Battery Materials for Improved Performance Lead: Sudarsanam Suresh Babu, Industrial, Welding …