The OSU Nanotech West Laboratory (NTW) has installed and completed qualification of a new Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system in the NTW cleanroom that is now available for general use. Purchased by the Ohio Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC), the Picosun SUNALE™ R-150B ALD system provides a new synthesis capability for conformal thin film coatings of a …
OSU Wins NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) Award, Establishes the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM)
Ohio State’s first NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), has been officially awarded effective September 1, 2008! This award is a major achievement for Ohio State’s materials community since the presence of a MRSEC on campus places OSU in a select group of universities generally acknowledged across the U.S. as the leading …
IMR Materials Week: September 10-12, 2008
Our first annual IMR Materials Week will showcase state-of-the-art research in materials at OSU from scientific discovery to engineering applications. This three-day event is offered free of charge to the materials community.
2008 IMRG Awards Announcement
Three new research projects and six renewals were awarded by the IMR in July 2008, for a total investment of $382,500. 2008 New IMRG Research Projects Experimental and Computational Study of ALD-grown Dielectrics on III-Nitrides Lead: Siddharth Rajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Applicant: Wolfgang Windl, Materials Science and Engineering Multi-Scale Characterization of Battery Materials for …
Ohio State Wins Ohio Research Scholars Program Award in Technology
The Ohio Department of Development has announced that The Ohio State University will receive an Ohio Research Scholars Program award totaling over $18 million to fund its proposal, Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials. The award funds two endowed Ohio Research Scholars positions for The Ohio State University, a Nanoscale Materials Microscopist and a Molecular Chemist; one Ohio Research Scholar at University …
IMR Welcomes New Member of Technical Staff – Denis Pelekhov
Dr. Denis Pelekhov has joined the Institute for Materials Research as a Research Scientist, effective May 1, 2008. Denis holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics and conducted research at Los Alamos National Laboratory for over four years before joining The Ohio State University in 2002. Many members of our campus materials community already know Denis as the manager of the …
ECOMM Provides Access to FIB/SEM for OSU Researchers
The Center for Electronic/Magnetic Nanoscale Composite Multifunctional Materials (ENCOMM) offers the IMR community access to a newly acquired FEI Helios NanoLab 600 Focused Ion Beam Mill/Scanning Electron Microscope (FIB/SEM) purchased with funds awarded through the Advanced Materials Targeted Investments in Excellence (TIE) program. The FIB has been commissioned and is available for use. Its capabilities include ion milling, high-resolution SEM, …
IMR Submits Advanced Materials Proposal to ODOD Ohio Research Scholars Program
On February 4, the Institute for Materials Research submitted a full proposal to the Ohio Department of Development Technology Division in response to its RFP for an Ohio Research Scholars Program (ORSP) in Advanced Materials. The proposal, “Technology-Enabling and Emergent Materials,” requested a total of $35 million from the state to help fund eight endowed research scholar faculty positions. If …
IMR Facility Grant Awards, February 2008
Photomodulation of Carbon Nanosponges Lead: Vish Subramaniam, Mechanical Engineering; Co-Applicant: R. Sooryakumar, Physics Fabrication of Essential Experimental Components for Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy (MRFM) Lead: Chris Hammel, Physics Enhance Program on Spintronic Phenomena in Organic-based Materials Lead: Arthur Epstein, Physics; Co-Applicants: Deniz Duman and Mark Murphey, Graduate Students Preparation and Characterization of Ultrasharp Tips for sub-10nm Resolution Optical Microscopy and …
IMR Welcomes Newest Member of Technical Staff – John Carlin
IMR is pleased to welcome its second IMR Member of Technical Staff, Research Scientist Dr. John Carlin, to our community. John is no stranger to OSU as he is a 2001 PhD graduate who performed research on III-V compound semiconductor epitaxy and device processing during his graduate school days. From 2001-2004 he was a project manager and researcher at Amberwave …