Ece Aytan, Graduate Student Researcher and PhD student in Professor A.A. Balandin’ Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center received the Best Research Poster – Research Cooperation Award at the 3rd Annual SHINES EFRC Symposium conducted this month at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines hotel in La Jolla, California. The Spins and Heat in Nanoscale Electronic Systems (SHINES) is an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) funded with $12 million grant from the US Department of Energy. Ece Aytan was the first author of the poster entitled Spin – Phonon Coupling in NiO. Nickel Oxide (NiO) is a promising antiferromagnetic material for spintronic device applications. The five winning posters presented by graduate students have been selected by the members of the external Scientific Advisory Board and all participating co-PIs of the center. The research presented in Ece Aytan’s poster resulted from cooperation among research groups of Professors Alexander Balandin (ECE), Roger Lake (ECE) and Jing Shi (Physics and Astronomy). Other contributing co-authors included Graduate Student Researcher Bishwajit Debnath and Postdoctoral Researcher Fariborz Kargar, both from ECE Department. The SHINES Center combines co-PIs from seven institutions – UC Riverside (lead organization), UCLA, UC Irvine, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado State University, Arizona State University, and University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Jing Shi, Department of Physics and Astronomy, serves as the Center Director while Prof. Alexander Balandin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, serves as an Associate Director. Read More…
