Capping off 2018, the group’s paper “Fundamental principles for calculating charged defect ionization energies in ultrathin two-dimensional materials” has been published in Physical Review Materials! Congratulations to Tyler, Feng, and Prof. Ping! Defects in two-dimensional …
Year: 2018
Congratulations Tyler on advancing to PhD Candidacy
Congratulations to Tyler upon advancing to PhD candidacy after a successful oral exam. Keep up the good work!
Mechanistic insights of enhanced spin polaron conduction in CuO through atomic doping
Our recent work on “Mechanistic insights of enhanced spin polaron conduction in CuO through atomic doping” has been accepted in npj Computational Materials! Congratulations to Tyler, Feng, and Prof. Ping! The formation of a “spin polaron” …
Point of Anchor: Impacts on Interfacial Charge Transfer of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Our recent work on “Point of Anchor: Impacts on Interfacial Charge Transfer of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles” by Bingzhang Lu, Feng Wu in collaboration with Prof. Shaowei Chen’s group was published in the Journal of the American …
Spin-optotronic Properties of Organometal Halide Perovskites
Our recent review article on “Spin-optotronic Properties of Organometal Halide Perovskites” by Prof. Ping with Prof. Jin Zhong Zhang was published as a cover article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! Spin is an intrinsic …
Combining Landau-Zener Theory and Kinetic Monte Carlo Sampling for Small Polaron Mobility of Doped BiVO4 from First-principles
Congratulations Feng and Prof. Ping on there new publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A! In this work we established a first-principles framework for polaron hopping mobility in anisotropic and doped metal oxides, by …
Quantum information science
The Ping Group made the UCSC news for its research in quantum information science! At UC Santa Cruz, materials scientists are working to develop novel materials that can serve as the foundation for quantum information …
Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at LLNL
Tyler Smart’s poster presentation title “Electron Transport and Atomic Doping in Cobalt Oxide” received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the 2018 Summer Student Poster Symposium at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Congratulations Tyler!
NSF Award on Materials Theory Research
Our proposal on “First-Principles Design of Charged Defects for Two-dimensional Quantum Technologies” has been funded by NSF/DMR-CMMT (Condensed Matter and Materials Theory) Summary: This award supports theoretical and computational research to develop computational methods and …
2018 Hellman Fellow
Prof. Yuan Ping was awarded a 2018 Hellman fellowship! Congratulations! Established at UCSC in 2011, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity …