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We were happy to host Prof. Kelvin Zhang from Xiamen University today, he was in the group 10 years ago! Discussions were had with Seb Dixon on gallium oxide. We are always happy to chat about different materials and potential applications.

12th & 13th August: Judith was pleased to visit Sunam for a meeting with our KIAT funded project, along with several Korean partners.  She also had a meeting with her past and future Korean research collaborators and students

July 29th & 30th: Judith was pleased to co-organise the International workshop on neuromorphic computing at Los Alamos National Lab.

7th & 9th - Judith had a great time visiting ex -group members in Hong Kong (Ady Suwardi hosting at CUHK, along with Weiwei Li,, Rui Wu and Chao Yun)

The group went out after work for a punt along the backs from Darwin College down to St. Johns and back, enjoying some nice weather and conversation to see off the students who joined us for the summer, Qaisara and Nicholas. 

This paper, recently published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, demonstrates the unique resistive switching properties of YBCO thin films with different Cu contents in excess of stoichiometry, grown at room temperature. The tuneability and versatility of switching established in these films advocates for the potential of such materials to be …

Yesterday the annual postgraduate presentations took place in which Isabella, Yuri, Ingon and Jiahao gave talks on their first two years of work in their PhD's, Michael J gave a poster presentation also. Ziyi, who recently passed his Viva Voce with no corrections, was awarded the inaugural Ron and Davida Broom Outstanding Thesis Award and joined us…

Some of the group attended the Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society in Strasbourg (25-29 June). Yixuan, Manisha and Markus each gave invited talks in Symposium M: "Emergent Ferroelectric Thin Films". Overall it was a very fun week full of interesting discussion and great to catch up with friends and collaborators!

28 April 2026: We wish farewell to Yixuan Liu and wish him well at Tsinghua University, Beijing

Last week, the first Summer School for the MASAUTO doctoral network was held in Cambridge. With Seminars and Skills Classes held in the Ray Dolby Centre, tours of our labs in Materials Science & Metallurgy, Electrical Engineering and Physics as well as a lovely dinner in the Alhusen Room in Trinity College. A stand out moment for a lot of the Docto…

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"Our work on high performance, precision tuned Hafnia memristors is receiving broad attention"Please read this article in SciTechDaily

Markus Hellenbrand, Assistant Research Professor, published his paper "Achieving High ON State Current through Ferroelectric Polarization-Dependent Interfacial Resistance Switching in Undoped Orthorhombic HfO2 Films" in Advanced Functional Materials. This work, done in collaboration with the group of José P.B. Silva, University of Minho, will be in…

We had a fun group dinner at Kimchili to say bye to Bennie, Ziyi and Yixuan.We are so grateful for all their hard work and help to everyone. We will miss them a lot but will be in touch.