Quantum Matter/Materials Science Research Lecture

***Refreshments at 3:45pm in 108 East Bridge

Abstract:

Oxide quantum materials exhibit almost every physical state known including photoconductivity, metallic conductivity, (high-temperature) superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, ferroelectricity, and ferromagnetism. Combined with the ability to epitaxially integrate these materials with silicon, they are leading candidates for applications spanning from photocatalysts to data storage. Here I will show how thin film epitaxy can be used to selectively stabilize materials which are not stable in the bulk form and realize novel ground states. I will show our results designing a new nickelate superconductor using atomically-precise thin film synthesis.

More about the Speaker:

Julia Mundy is the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. She received an AB/AM in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University. Following her Ph.D. studies, she spent a year at the US Department of Education as the APS/AIP STEM Education Fellow. After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, she returned to Harvard University where she began as an assistant professor in 2018. Prof. Mundy's research program combines atomically-precise oxide molecular-beam epitaxy with picoscale electron microscopy imaging to design, synthesize and probe new quantum materials. She is a recipient of the APS George E. Valley, Jr. Prize for exceptional contributions by an early career physicist, NSF CAREER Award and DOE Early Career Award. She has been named a Moore Fellow in Materials Synthesis, a Packard Fellow and a Moore Inventor Fellow.