News

November 7, 2024

Congratulations to the ORNL team led by Michael and Jiaqiang on publishing their work on novel AFM metal MnRhBi3. Please have a look here!

November 4, 2024

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

October 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!

August 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!

August 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. 

August 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.

August 1, 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. 

August 1, 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!

July 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! 

June 20, 2024

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

May 20, 2024

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

May 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. 

May 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.

April 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. 

April 22-26, 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.

April 13, 2024

Salman gave a talk at PALOOZA about probing magnetism with magnetic tunnel junction devices. Congratulations!

february 29, 2024

Hyunje Kim joins our group as undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

february 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!

february 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!

January 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!

January 23, 2024

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

January 03, 2024

Our lab received the New Faculty Research and Development Award to study twisted 2D materials. Congratulations!

December 18, 2023

Vivek Jain joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!

December 12, 2023

Jared received the Undergraduate Research Award! Congratulations!!!

November 17, 2023

Salman gave a talk at the Applied Physics Seminar at the University of Kansas about imaging of moiré materials. Congratulations!

September 8, 2023

Grant Saggars and Braden Troyer joined our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Grant and Braden!

June 29, 2023

Salman Ahsanullah joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome, Salman!

June 13, 2023

Alex Guardiola joins our group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Alex!

June 2, 2023

Geena Vargas joins our group for the summer as REU student. Welcome, Geena!

May 26, 2023

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

May 11, 2023

Dmitry gave a talk at JITCP Seminar. Thank you Prof. Wang Yao for the invitation!

April 19, 2023

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

April 14, 2023

Abishai Mathai and Jared Madsen join our group as undergraduate researchers. Welcome, Abishai and Jared!

April 13, 2023

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

April 5, 2023

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

March 30, 2023

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

March 6-10, 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).

February 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!

January 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!

January 15, 2023

Ben Phillips joins our lab as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Ben!

December 7, 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!

November 16, 2022

Dmitry gave a Dymers seminar at the KU Chemistry Department. Thank you Prof. Cindy Berrie for the invitation! 

November 1, 2022

Dmitry starts his group at the University of Kansas, Department of Physics and Astronomy.

October 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!

October 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!

september 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!

september 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!

september 09, 2022

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

 June 28, 2022

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

 June 11-12, 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!

 April 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!

March 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!