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"A nanovolcano array": CMP research from ISU and Ames Laboratory Scientists featured in Physics Today

Recent research of Ames Lab Scientist and ISU Professor Rana Biswas together with colleagues from Engineering Departments on nanostructures has been featured in this month's Physics Today - May 2018 - volume 5, page 72- in the section Back Scatter on the last page of the issue.

The title of the feature is " A nanovolcano array". It can also be viewed online at https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3930 Read more about "A nanovolcano array": CMP research from ISU and Ames Laboratory Scientists featured in Physics Today

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Missing link to novel superconductivity revealed

Scientists at Ames Laboratory have discovered a state of magnetism that may be the missing link to understanding the relationship between magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. The research, recently published in npj Nature Quantum Materials, provides tantalizing new possibilities for attaining superconducting states in iron-based materials. Read more about Missing link to novel superconductivity revealed

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Ames Laboratory, UConn discover superconductor with bounce

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has discovered extreme “bounce,” or super-elastic shape-memory properties in a material that could be applied for use as an actuator in the harshest of conditions, such as outer space, and might be the first in a whole new class of shape memory materials. Read more about Ames Laboratory, UConn discover superconductor with bounce

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Bazinga! Canfield group grows new ternary compound BaZnGa, inspired by "Big Bang Theory".

The catchphrase "Bazinga!" - a zinger commonly uttered by Dr. Sheldon Cooper, a fictional theoretical physicist on the famous TV show "The Big Bang Theory" - has inspired the creation of a novel ternary compound BaZnGa by Paul C. Read more about Bazinga! Canfield group grows new ternary compound BaZnGa, inspired by "Big Bang Theory".

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Canfield awarded James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society

Iowa State University physicist Paul Canfield, who develops new materials with novel properties, has received a five-year, $1.7 million Moore Materials Synthesis Investigators award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation of Palo Alto, Calif.

Canfield and his research team will use the funds to further their work in the discovery of new electronic and magnetic compounds – often in single-crystal form – and the study of their electrical, magnetic and thermal properties. These scientific discoveries can lead to new technologies or products that improve the lives of people around the world.

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Tringides receives the 2017 Theodore E. Madey Award from the American Vacuum Society

Michael C. Tringides received the 2017 Theodore E. Madey Award from the American Vacuum Society for his excellence in internationally collaborative research.

Tringides, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Ames Laboratory and a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University explores how atoms move on surfaces. The process is essential in making nanotechnologies, such as computer transistors of much smaller size.
According to Tringides, a computer’s speed depends on how far the electrons have to go across transistors. Current computer transistors may have hundreds of atoms along a linear dimension. Tringides hopes his work will be used to reduce that to only two or three.

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CMP group researchers win W.M. Keck Foundation grant to develop nanoscope

Jigang Wang, Zhe Fei, Paul C. Canfield and Costas Soukoulis are working to build a powerful instrument capable of exploring and tuning materials in ways that could help solve the world’s energy, information processing and data storage needs.

The researchers call their proposed instrument an extreme quantum terahertz nanoscope.

The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles – one of the country’s largest philanthropic organizations – recently awarded a three-year, $1.3 million grant to support construction, commissioning and initial use of the nanoscope. The project will be known as the W.M. Keck Initiative in Ultrafast Quantum Microscopy of Emergent Orders.

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NSF and DOE honors for Rebecca Flint

Flint, who is also a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Ames Laboratory associate, will receive a $500,000 grant for her research in stabilizing “spin liquids.” A spin liquid is a state of matter with properties that remain unorganized even at low temperatures. “We live in one universe with one set of rules for protons and electrons,” Flint said, who also earned a $750,000 Early Career Award from the DOE this month. “I want to find whole new little universes.”

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