Xu Group

11/15/2023 Paper on strain-induced phase transition published at ACS Nano ! Another collaboration with Dr. Susan Fullerton-Shirey at UPitt

10/9/2023 Dr. Xu gives an invited talk in the IEEE Nano Symposium at the University at Buffalo

8/7/2023 The group getting trained on the newly installed Bruker Atomic Force Microscope, which will be hosted inside the glovebox

8/2/2023 Cori and Jake present their work at the 2023 RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium

8/2023 Han decides to continue his research at the Xu group and work towards his MS in Physics

Welcome back Han!

7/17/2023 Dr. Xu nominated by the School of Physic and Astronomy students to receive the 2023 SPS Faculty Awards as “Dr. Electricity”!

Thank you SPS and all SoPA students!

6/29/2023 Nithil presents his research at the 65th Materials Research Society Electronic Materials Conference (EMC 2023) at UC Santa Barbara

6/1/2023 Claire starts her internship at GE-Hitachi, congratulations Claire!

5/18/2023 Wyatt, Cori, and Jacob present their work at the 10th Graphene and Beyond Workshop at Penn State University

5/15/2023 Caleb completed his research and will start his position at Northrop Grumman as “Transformational Physicist”.

Congratulations Caleb!

5/11/2023 The Xu group celebrates another successful semester

5/1/2023 Jacob wins the 2023 RIT Physics Faculty & Alumni Endowed Scholarship Award ($3000)

Congratulations Jacob!

4/5/2023 Wyatt present his work at the 2023 Graduate Education Week and Showcase

4/3/2023 Cori is awarded the COS Emerson Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship for a 2nd time! ($5000)

Congratulations Cori!

3/16/2023 Paper published at ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces! Another collaboration with Dr. Susan Fullerton-Shirey’s group at UPitt, lead by Shubham Awate

12/25/2022 The group celebrates the end of 2022 at OG Dumpling House

11/12/2022 The 2+3 Bay glovebox is finally installed!

10/12/2022 Dr. Xu awarded the RIT COS Dean’s Research Initiation Grant

9/26/2022 Claire presents her work to RIT President Dr. Munson at the Fram Signature Event

9/21/2022 Nithil, Caleb, and Dr. Xu attend the IEEE Nano Symposium at the University at Buffalo

A reunion with Dr. Alan Seabaugh from Notre Dame and Dr. Huamin Li from UB

8/9/2022 The group getting trained on the new Keysight Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer

7/28/2022 Claire and Cori present their work at the 2022 RIT Undergraduate Research Symposium

7/25/2022 Dr. Xu attends the AAPT Physics and Astronomy New Faculty Workshop

7/15/2022 The group takes a break from summer research to some xiaolongbao

6/23/2022 SoPA faculty retreat

6/8/2022 Claire teaches transistors to the group, every schematic is hand drawn!

5/18/2022 Nithil, Wyatt, and Dr. Xu attends the 9th Graphene and Beyond Workshop at Penn State

It’s a fun travel together with Dr. Puchades group at RIT!

5/18/2022 Reunion with Dr. Susan Fullerton-Shirey’s group from UPitt

Everyone is so happy, especially Wyatt!

5/15/2022 Claire receives the Inclusive Excellence Student Fellowship to conduct research on 2D crystal characterizations in the summer.

Congratulations Claire, and welcome to the team!

5/1/2022 Wyatt joins the Xu group to work towards his MS in Materials Science and Engineering

Welcome Wyatt!

5/1/2022 Cori is awarded the COS Emerson Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work on finite element modeling of ion transport in a polymer electrolyte

Congratulations Cori!

4/7/2022 Nithil gets training on the newly installed Lakeshore Cryogenic Probe Station

1/26/2022 Lab space cleaned out and lab benches arrived

12/8/2022 Paper published at ACS Nano! This is a collaboration with Dr. Zheng Sun at East China Normal University, Dr. Susan Fullerton-Shirey at UPitt, and Dr. David Snoke at UPitt

11/2021 Dr. Xu receives new funding from National Science Foundation on ion-locking for hardware security

Read more about the project in the press release from UPitt

8/2021 Nithil and Dr. Xu officially joins RIT!