About the Fellowship

A new targeted fellowship opportunity has been established for outstanding first and second year graduate students to explore dissimilar materials integration as it applies to nanostructure synthesis in the solid state. The successful student will have demonstrated academic excellence and research experience in general areas of photonics, materials or nanostructures.

Within the Integrated Nanomaterials Laboratory at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) UCLA, we realize that one of the most important areas in device engineering today is dissimilar materials integration enabled by new capabilities to both observe and control heterointerfaces spanning the nano-mesoscopic scale. In the solid state, high quality lattice-mismatched systems, relaxed or strained, provide a basis for device and systems engineering requiring bulk, nanostructure, ferromagnetics, oxides. This emerging area of research requires careful studies which combine materials science with nanostructure physics and chemistry - involving the atomic bonding tendencies, defect energetics, surface adatom chemistry, microscopy. These techniques are guided by mathematical modeling. Device applications include solar and thermal energy harvesting, MWIR emitters and single photon or electron devices.

The successful fellowship recipients will have complete access to all CNSI facilities along with a global network of collaborations facilitated by the Huffaker group at UCLA. Please refer to our web-site for more information on equipment, collaborators, specific projects.

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