UCLA MRS Chapter Interview with Professor A.A. Balandin
Science fiction and materials science - from quantum wires to one-dimensional quantum materials and charge-density waves. Read the full interview HERE.
The UCLA POEM Laboratory Welcomes New Students
The dedicated work of all research group members allowed us to establish our laboratories in the UCLA Department of Materials Science and Engineering in a short time and start recruiting graduate and undergraduate students. The Ph.D. students Jonas Brown and Jordan Teeter represented our group at the Fall 2023 URP Research Fair. The Undergraduate Research Program (URP) is a new initiative from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science to develop first-in-class research...
Professor Balandin’s Materials Science Research Lecture at Caltech Noise Spectroscopy – What Can Electronic Noise Tell Us about the Materials?
In 2025, we will mark the 100th anniversary of J.B. Johnson's accidental discovery of 1/f noise in experiments designed to test Schottky's theory of shot noise in vacuum tubes (f is frequency). Since this first observation, the fluctuation processes, with the spectra close to 1/f dependence, have been observed in physics, technology, biology, astrophysics, geophysics, economics, language, and music. Despite its long history and technological importance, low-frequency noise remains the subject...
July 2023 – Professor Balandin Delivered a Plenary Conference Opening Talk at Phonons Conference
July 2023 – Professor Balandin delivered a plenary conference opening talk at the number one phonons conference in the world - Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter - PHONONS XVII in Paris, France (2023). The talk was entitled Thermal Conductivity of Graphene - Twists and Turns in Understanding Phonon Transport in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Materials." It covered the theory and experiment of heat conduction in graphene, as well as applications of graphene in thermal management. If you...
Professor Balandin gave an opening talk at the Conference “1/f Noise from Condensed Matter Physics to Quantum Technologies”
Professor Balandin gave an opening talk and two lectures on the history and fundamentals of 1/f noise, and recent developments in the noise field, which included 1/f noise in graphene, low-dimensional materials, and noise in charge-density-wave quantum materials. The workshop on the “1/f Noise from Condensed Matter Physics to Quantum Technologies” was part of the International School of Nonequilibrium Phenomena organized by the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture...
Zahra Barani receives the Dissertation Year Program Fellowship and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Zahra Barani, a graduate student research assistant and PhD student at the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Center (POEM) has received the 2022/2023 Dissertation Year Program (DYP) fellowship for the Summer 2022. Zahra’s dissertation focuses on the properties and applications of exotic quantum quasi-1D van der Waals materials in polymer-based composites for electromagnetic interference shielding management of electronics. The results of her research have been published in the prestigious...
Fariborz Kargar and Zahra Barani reported at the Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems on Big Island, Hawaii, USA
Dr. Fariborz Kargar delivered a talk on “Enhanced Light‐Matter Interactions in Shape‐Engineered Silicon Phononic – Photonic Superlattice Structures” and Doctoral Candidate Zahra Barani presented on “One‐Dimensional van der Waals Quantum Materials as Efficient Fillers for Multifunctional Composites – Applications in Electromagnetic Shielding” at the Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices and Systems, which was help on Big Island, Hawaii, USA. The details of the research can be found in the...
Two Postdoctoral Positions are Available in Balandin Group
We are looking for two postdoctoral researchers to work with us on a new Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) project "One-Dimensional Quantum Materials". The project is interdisciplinary, with $3M single-PI DOD funding for 2021/26, and many opportunities to collaborate with the government labs. The VBFF project's topics are at the intersections of engineering, physics, material science, and chemistry, dealing with quasi-1D van der Waals materials and their composites. A qualified candidate...
Alexander Balandin named DoD Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow – Class of 2021
ECE Distinguished Professor Alexander Balandin has been awarded a 2021 Department of Defense (DoD) Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. The five-year, highly competitive fellowship is the DoD’s most prestigious single-investigator award with up to $3 million in funding and “supports new, out-of-the-box ideas where research creativity intersects with the unknown.” Balandin was selected to conduct research in one-dimensional quantum materials. His project aims to create a new comprehensive research...