Welcome to Our Group’s webpage
We are experimental group. We study thin films, heterostructures, and multifunctional oxides with emergent magnetic, electric, and interfacial behavior. Our work spans synthesis, low-temperature magnetic & electrical characterization, magnetoelectric phenomena, and structure-property relationships relevant to quantum materials research. Applications of these materials in a variety of devices require fine tuning of their physical properties. Artificially engineered multilayered, nanocomposites, and heterostructured films of such materials are of great interest due to their novel properties, which cannot otherwise be achieved in homogeneous single-phase materials. We collaborate with theoreticians and researchers from DOE national labs to fully understand the properties of the materials.
Please look at the facilities and publications from our group.
Our research group is located in the new 'SCIENCE 1' building, a home for Institute of Materials Science: Rooms 1075 & 1076.



Recent news from our group
- May 2026-Jake graduated!Congratulations Jacob Pfund for successfully defending your PhD thesis!! Best of luck for your new job Dr. Jacob Pfund!
- March 2026: New publicationNew publication from our group: Electronic Coherence Evolution at the Nearly Commensurate–Incommensurate CDW Boundary of 1T-TaS2, T. Yilmaz, Yi S. Ng, Jain, X. Tong, T. Wongpinij, P. Photongkam, A. Rajapitamahuni, A. K. Kundu, Jin-Cheng Zheng, and E. Vescovo, Physical Review Materials, 10 (2026) 034007. https://doi.org/10.1103/jzns-js96
- January 2026Dr. Luigi Frunzio (Yale University) visited the lab and gave ECE colloquium today. We are working on a collaborative proposal together.

Dr. Jain
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Contact: 196A Auditorium Road, U-3046,
Department of Physics
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3046
OR
Institute of Materials Science
25 King Hill Road, Unit 3136
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-3136
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