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12/17/2024: Dmitry gave a seminar at Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Thank you Dr. Veronika Sunko and Dr. Archana Raja for hosting!

12/16/2024: Grant won the KU Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA). Congratulations!

12/05/2024: Dmitry gave an invited talk at the WINDS 2024 workshop in Hawaii. Dmitry is very grateful to the organizers for such an opportunity!

11/22/2024: Salman and Vivek presented their findings at the KU Condensed Matter Physics Seminar. Congratulations!

11/07/2024: Congratulations to the ORNL team led by Michael and Jiaqiang on publishing their work on the novel AFM van der Waals metal MnRhBi3. Please have a look here!

11/04/2024: Dmitry gave a colloquium at the Department of Physics, Colorado State University. Thank you to Prof. Yulia Maximenko for the invitation and hosting!

10/31/2024: Julian presented a poster on probing magnetic states in layered 2D magnets at the SACNAS National Diversity in STEM conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Congratulations to Julian and his mentors in our laboratory!

08/22/2024: Our lab has been awarded DOE EPSCoR funding to study high-critical temperature 2D magnets, please see here for more information. Congratulations to every group member!

08/19/2024: Congratulations to Jordan (UW) and Geoff (UW -> UMBC) for their publication on picosecond ultrasonics in MnBi2Te4 in Nano Letters! Check here for more details. 

08/14/2024: Dmitry gave a seminar at the National University of Singapore Department of Physics. Thank you to Prof. Ahmet Avsar for the kind invitation and hosting! See here for more information.

08/01/2024: Dmitry now has a courtesy appointment with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @KU. All undergraduate/graduate students from Engineering are welcome to reach out to Dmitry to discuss possible research projects. 

08/01/2024: Four of our undergraduate students: Abishai, Alex, Darel, and Grant gave talks on their research at the Undergraduate Summer Symposium hosted by the Physics & Astronomy Department @KU. Congratulations!

07/25/2024: Julian gave a talk about Magnetic Tunnel Junctions at the McNair symposium. Congratulations to Julian and his mentors at DO lab: Alex, Grant, and Salman! 

07/20/2024: Two out of ten Undergraduate Research Awards at KU are received by the undergraduate researchers from our laboratory this summer. Congratulations! 

05/20/2024: Darel Pates joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Darel will work on a blend of experimental and theory projects. Welcome!

05/03/2024: Dmitry received the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. Thanks to all the students who took Dmitry's courses and voted on his behalf. 

05/03/2024: Undergraduate researchers from our laboratory have been recognized with several awards this year. We are very happy about their achievements!

Alex Guardiola received the Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) for the Summer 2024; 

Julian Gutierrez holds the McNair Scholarship Award; 

Jared Madsen received the Undergraduate Research Award (UGRA) for the Spring 2024; 

Abishai Mathai received the Gene E Feaster Scholarship Award, the Jayhawk Undergraduate Summer Training (JUST) Award and UGRA Award; 

Grant Saggars received an honorable mention in the JUST Award competition.

04/29/2024: Dmitry gave a seminar at ORNL. Thanks to Andrew, Michael, and Jiaqiang for their kind invitation! Dmitry also visited the MSE department of UT Knoxville. Thank you to Prof. David Mandrus for the invitation and hosting. 

04/22/2024 - 04/26/2024: Dmitry co-organized the symposium QT02: Low-Dimensional Magnetic Quantum Materials at MRS Spring 2024 together with Dr. Kelly Luo (USC), Dr. Andrew May (ORNL), and Dr. Zhong Lin (Binghamton). We thank MRS and all the speakers and attendees for a fantastic meeting! Also, see KU P&A news.

04/13/2024: Salman gave a talk at PALOOZA about probing magnetism with magnetic tunnel junction devices. Congratulations!

02/29/2024: Hyunje Kim joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

02/21/2024: Dmitry gave a talk at the Condensed Matter Seminar at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Thank you Prof. Andrew Meng for the kind invitation!

02/15/2024: Dmitry presented a seminar at Missouri State University, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Materials Science. Thank you Prof. Tiglet Besara for the kind invitation!

01/29/2024: Dmitry gave a talk at Quantum Matter Seminar at Ohio State University. Thank you Prof. Roland Kawakami for the kind invitation and hosting!

01/23/2024: Julian Gutierrez joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Julian is also a recipient of the McNair Scholarship award. Welcome!

01/03/2024: Our lab received the New Faculty Research and Development Award to study twisted 2D materials. Congratulations!

12/18/2023: Vivek Jain joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!

12/12/2023: Jared received the Undergraduate Research Award! Congratulations!!!

11/17/2023: Salman gave a talk at the Applied Physics Seminar at the University of Kansas about imaging of moiré materials. Congratulations!

09/08/2023: Grant Saggars and Braden Troyer joined our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Grant and Braden!

06/29/2023: Salman Ahsanullah joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome, Salman!

06/13/2023: Alex Guardiola joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Alex!

06/02/2023: Geena Vargas joins our group for the summer as REU student. Welcome, Geena!

05/26/2023: Chibueze Paul Onyenegecha joins our group as a graduate student. Chibueze won a Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship. Congratulations and welcome!

05/11/2023: Dmitry gave a talk at JITCP Seminar. Thank you Prof. Wang Yao for the invitation!

04/19/2023: Dmitry gave a talk at Wichita State University (WSU). Thank you Prof. Kapil Ambal for the invitation!

04/14/2023: Abishai Mathai and Jared Madsen join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Abishai and Jared!

04/13/2023: Dmitry gave a talk at MRS Spring Meeting about the topological current divider in MnBi2Te4 (results obtained together with Jiaqi Cai, UW).

04/05/2023: Dmitry gave a talk at Quantum Materials Seminar at UC Berkeley. Thank you Prof. James Analytis for the invitation!

03/30/2023: Our laboratory received KU Research GO funding to study the electric field effect in 2D magnets. Congratulations! 

03/06/2023: Dmitry gave two talks at the APS March Meeting 2023: topological current divider in MnBi2Te4 (results obtained together with Jiaqi Cai, UW) and (In,Sn)Bi2Te4 superconductivity (results obtained in collaboration with Jack Barlow, UW).

02/20/2023: Dmitry gave a talk on 2D quantum materials in front of the Society of Physics Students, KU Chapter. Thank you to Keaton Donaghue for organizing and for the invitation!

01/20/2023: Joaquin Vargas Reyes and Perse Shipley join our lab for an undergraduate engineering project within PHSX 601 class. They will be working with Dmitry on the van der Waals heterostructure assembly. Welcome, Joaquin and Perse!

01/15/2023: Ben Phillips joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Ben!

12/07/2022: Jordan Fonseca and Geoff Diederich from the University of Washington published their research article on second harmonic generation in MnBi2Te4 in Nano Letters, check it here. Congratulations!

11/16/2022: Dmitry gave a Dymers seminar at the KU Chemistry Department. Thank you Prof. Cindy Berrie for the invitation! 

11/01/2022: Dmitry starts his group at the University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy.

10/20/2022:Dmitry gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Quantum Materials and Technologies (ICQMT 2022), you can watch it online here. Thank you Prof. Ahmet Avsar for the invitation!

10/10/2022: Our work on the topological current divider is published in Nature Communications, take a look here! Congratulations to Jiaqi Cai and to the rest of the Xu lab at the University of Washington!

09/19/2022: Dmitry gave an invited seminar on applications of topological magnets at the Center for Memory and Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. Thank you Prof. Eric Fullerton for the invitation!

09/16/2022: Dmitry gave an invited talk at the Online Spintronics Seminar Series (OSSS), you can watch it online here. Thank you Prof. Xin Fan (U Denver) and Prof. Kirill Belashchenko (University of Nebraska) for the invitation!

09/09/2022: Dmitry gave a virtual ProQM seminar at Physics Department, Columbia University. Thank you Prof. Dmitri Basov for hosting!

06/28/2022: Dmitry spoke about his research in front of KU REU students. Thank you Prof. Hartwin Peelaers for organizing!

06/11/2022: Dmitry co-chaired and co-organized GRS 2022 Two Dimensional Electronics Beyond Graphene together with Prof. Zhong Lin from Binghampton University. Congratulations to all attendees for an incredible meeting!

04/18/2022: Dmitry gave an invited talk at the University of Washington MSE Seminar Series 2022. Thank you, Prof. Ting Cao and Prof. Navid Zobeiry for the invitation!

03/29/2022: Our work on the electric field control of antiferromagnetic Chern insulator is published in Nature Communications, take a look here! Congratulations to Jiaqi Cai and to the rest of the Xu lab at the University of Washington!