Our new Scienta Omicron VT-STM arrived today at our lab. It will be unpacked and up an running in comping weeks. This scanning tunneling microscope will support our research efforts in atomically precise fabrication of solid-state quantum devices.

Reza Moheimani and collaborators, John Randall and James Owen (Zyvex Labs), have won two Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) awards. These are: (i) The PhaseII-B project “High Speed Platform for Highly Parallel STM lithography and Hierarchical Assembly.” and (ii) The Phase II project “Atomically Precise Scanning Probe Based Analysis of Activated Dopants for 2D Micro Electronics”.

Congratulations to Dr. Nastaran Nikooienejad who successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN FOR HIGH-SPEED ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY”. Nastaran remains a member of the LDCN and is currently undertaking postdoctoral research.

Congratulations to Dr. Soleymaniha for joining Intel Corp. We wish him good luck in his new position.

Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Mahdavi who will be joining Panasonic-North America next week. We wish him success in his new position.

Reza Moheimani has been selected as the recipient of this year’s ASME DSCD Charles Stark Draper Innovative Practice Award. He will be presented with the award during the ASME Conference on Dynamic Systems and Control, Oct 5-7,2020.

The Center for Atomically Precise Fabrication of Solid-State Quantum Devices seminar series starts on Aug. 10, 2020. Visit the Center webpage for more information: https://centers.utdallas.edu/qdc/

We are hosting the Workshop on Atomically Precise Fabrication of Solid-State Quantum Devices on March 20-21, 2020. This workshop brings together some of the pioneers in the field to discuss new results and emerging trends in solid-state quantum devices for which fabrication with atomic precision is a necessity. More details here: https://engineering.utdallas.edu/quantum-workshop/

Congratulations to Dr. Bulut Coskun for commencing his career with the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.

Congratulations to Dr. Mohammad Maroufi who will be joining Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA in August. We wish Mohammad best of luck in his new career.