Congratulations Jacob Pfund for successfully defending your PhD thesis!! Best of luck for your new job Dr. Jacob Pfund!

New 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

Dr. Luigi Frunzio (Yale University) visited the lab and gave ECE colloquium today. We are working on a collaborative proposal together.

Dr. M. Jain is a part of UConn Quantum Alliance: https://today.uconn.edu/2025/11/uconn-quantum-alliance-shatters-disciplinary-silos/

Our paper in collaboration with Dr. M. Aindow’s group got accepted for publications in Thin Solid Films journal.

“A Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Orientation Relationships and Interfacial Reaction Products in GdFe₅Cr_0.5O₃ Films Grown on (001) SrTiO₃ Substrates by Solution Synthesis”, S. Rommel, J. Pfund, M. Jain and M. Aindow, Thin Solid Films, (2025) (accepted). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2025.140789

Jake’s paper got published in Physical Review B (Magnetic Anisotropy and Frustration in FeBO₃, J. Pfund, S. Jiang, W. Zhang, P. Shiv Halasyamani, M. A. Susner, V. Ortalan, M. Seehra, and Jain, Phys. Rev. B, (2025)). Congrats Jake!

MSE Graduate student Ovijit Das joined the JAFM group! Welcome Ovijit!

 

 

 Nicholas Thiel-Hudson finished his Honor’s thesis with me on magnetotransport properties in nanocomposite films and graduated from UConn with BS degree majoring in Physics and Music. Congratulations Nick!

Physics undergraduate student (University Scholar) Nicholas Thiel-Hudson, as well as graduate students Jacob Pfund and Zachary Ritchey presented their work at the MRS Fall 2024 meeting in Boston.

Dr. Jain gave an invited keynote talk at the ’21^st US-Japan Dielectric seminar’ in Kofu, Japan (10-13 the November).