Balandin Group at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Samueli School of Applied Sciences and Engineering, UCLA, February 2024.

The Brillouin – Mandelstam Light Scattering Spectroscopy Facility at California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. Graduate students Dylan Wright, Erick Guzman, and Xuke Fu watching how Research Engineer Dr. Fariborz Kargar is aligning the optical system. Professor Alexander Balandin is the Director of the spectroscopy facility developed with the NSF funding.

Graduate students Maedeh Taheri and Jonas Brown are working with Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Subhajit Ghosh on developing Low-Frequency Noise Spectroscopy methods for investigating materials properties.  Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA.  

Graduate students Tekwam Geremew and Zahra Ebrahim Nataj use the glove box to exfoliate van der Waals materials and micro-manipulate them to create heterostructures. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA.   

Graduate students Jonas Brown and Maedeh Taheri measure the thermal conductivity and specific heat of the materials. Graduate student Tekwam Geremew prepares composite materials with van der Waals fillers in the fume hood. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA.   

Research Engineer Dr. Fariborz Kargar is installing new equipment in Professor Alexander Balandin’s UCLA Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (UCLA POEM) Laboratory. Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. Subhajit Ghosh is explaining to graduate student Zahra Ebrahim Nataj how to use the transfer system for van der Waals materials. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA. 

Graduate student Dylan Wright is conducting spectroscopy of acoustic phonons in ultra-wideband gap semiconductors in The Brillouin – Mandelstam Light Scattering Spectroscopy Facility directed by Professor Alexander Balandin. The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA.