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We were very busy receiving/meeting several interesting visitors and collaborators this month, including Ray Karam (HTSI), Dr. Mike Osofsky (Towson (formerly ONR)), Dr. Christine McHugh  (engineering consultant), Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidas (Northwestern),  Drs. Leo and Julie Christodoulou (MMI-consultants), Prof. Keehon Kang (Seoul National Universi…

We are very happy to have Prof. Bilge Yildiz on sabbatical with us for 1 year. This is joint with Prof. Clare Grey’s group, in the Department of Chemistry.

Judith was pleased to do her usual visiting faculty time in Los Alamos, working with Dr. Aiping Chen.

It has been great to host Prof Tuhin Maity in our group and Giuliana Di Martino’s group in June and July 2023 to continue our collaborative work together in magnetoelectrics. We are grateful for a Royal Society collaborative grant.

Dr Markus Hellenbrand was invited to talk about our recent publication on resistive switching in the science podcast Quantum Photonics club. A lay explanation of the backgrounds and results lead to a lively discussion with the 30-40 attendants.

Several group members attended the final workshop of the Materials for Neuromorphic Computing EU project, and Dr Markus Hellenbrand gave an invited talk at the event.Photo by Michael Wilkinson.

Just one day after the good news about the postdoc prize, Dr Markus Hellenbrand's paper on interfacial resistive switching in hafnium oxide devices is now available online, open access here, Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adg1946. The publication was featured in the University of Cambridge press release, which can be viewed here.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Markus Hellenbrand from our group won this year’s Armourers and Brasiers postdoc award for outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and outreach. Congratulations for this prestigious award for truly outstanding work in all three of these areas!The Armourers & Brasiers’ Company is a 700-year-old livery co…

Prof. Myung Soo Lee joins the group from SK Hynix as a visitor for 1 year.Prof. Tuhin Maity and PhD student Manisha Bansal join the DMG group from ISER Thiruvanathapuram in India. Manisha is going to be visiting the group for the next 6 months.More information on their research and the group Visitors here. 

Last week, the early stage researchers of the BeMAGIC ITN hosted their conference, 'Beyond Magnetoelectric Materials' in Turin, Italy. The General Chair of the conference was Muireann de h-Óra, a PhD student in Driscoll group. There were talks from across the field of magnetoelectrics. Among the speakers was visiting professor Shinbuhm Lee who spok…

9/6/23:  Judith was very happy to connect Trinity College’s Librarian Dr Nicolas Bell with Joanna Symonowic in Dr Giuliana Di Martino’s group to do Raman microscopy to identify the jewel used on an an ancient book in the Trinity library. It is the Book of Hours and is now believed to have belonged to Thomas Cromwell, Chief Minister to King Henry VI…

5-8 June 2023: Judith had a great time meeting new colleagues and delivering a plenary at EM-Nano 2023 in Kanazawa, Japan.

31/5/23: Judith and visiting Prof. Shinbuhm Lee had a great visit to SuNam, Korea, followed by a wonderful dinner with many great friends and colleagues old (from  Stanford, Sunam, Los Alamos, Cambridge) and new (soon to visit us in Cambridge!).

30/5/23:  Judith and visiting Prof. Shinbuhm Lee had a great visit to SAIT, Samsung, Korea. Pictured are Dukhyun`Choe, Judith and Shinbuhm.

18 May 2023.  Many congratulations to Tahmida Huq upon passing her PhD viva (with minor corrections). Tahmida’s thesis was on: "Developing next-generation, non-toxic, inorganic materials for photovoltaics and thin-film transistors”. More specifically, she worked on the PV materials BiOI, which we she showed (with collaborators) to be an excellent i…