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INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCHFISCAL YEAR 2017 ANNUAL REPORT

Table of Contents

ABOUT IMR

1IMR Overview

2Fiscal Year 2017

Figures

PROGRAMS AND CENTERS

4Materials and

Manufacturing for Sustainability

6Materials Innovation

Lab

8Global Partnerships

10Ohio Manufacturing

Institute

12Manufacturing Partnerships

14Center for Emergent

Materials

182017 OSU Materials

Research Seed Grant Program

20IMR Facility Grants

CORE MATERIALS FACILITIES

22Nanotech West

Laboratory

24Center for Electron

Microscopy and Analysis

26NanoSystems

Laboratory

28Semiconductor

Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory

COMMUNITY EVENTS

30Materials Week

33Distinguished Lecture Series

34IMR-Supported Workshops and

Seminars

FINANCIALS &FUTURE PLANS

36Financial Overview

37IMR Strategy

STAFF AND MEMBERS

38IMR Members

40IMR Staff

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INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH | ABOUT IMR

The Ohio State University’s Institute for Materials Research (IMR) is a campus-wide, multidisciplinary institute that promotes and coordinates research activities and infrastructure related to the science and engineering of materials throughout The Ohio State University. Established in

2006, IMR is a unit of the University’s Office of Research, and is also supported by the College of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Provost. More than 230 Ohio State faculty members from 32 academic departments and nine colleges are IMR members. The institute manages extensive internal programs to support its faculty and students through seed grant funding, conference and workshop development, proposal development for major block proposals, and outreach efforts including industrial and international cooperative agreements. IMR also operates and/or supports a broad collection of shared core research facilities which allow Ohio State’s materials community to carry out state-of-the-art research while providing world-class educational experience to students through the use of these facilities. The Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) program is a university-wide initiative coordinated by IMR supporting Ohio State’s goal to become pre-eminent in the field of advanced materials and technologies for sustainability. M&MS is building on Ohio State’s existing interdisciplinary strengths in materials, world-class facilities and nationally-recognized centers of excellence, and exploiting industrial consortia and existing strategic investments to enable a paradigm of discovery-to-deploy.

For more information: imr.osu.edu

IMR SUPPORTS OHIO STATE’S MATERIALS COMMUNITY THROUGH:

• Strategic leadership

• Intercollege coordination

• Multi-university relations

• Management of major research facilities

• Seed funding and facility access funding

• Promotion of industry partnerships

• Infrastructure support and development

• Development and administration of major research programs and centers

• Scientific educational programs and annual conference

• Faculty recruitment

INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH | OSU MATERIALS COMMUNIT Y

Fiscal Year 2017 Figures

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230OSU Faculty Members

In 9Colleges

From

32Departments

1. Source: Google Scholar 2. Technology Commercialization Office, The Ohio State University

15Publications per

IMR Member Average 1 87

Patents Filed 2

17PatentsIssued 2

118Invention

Disclosures 2

3. Office of Sponsored Programs, The Ohio State University


1. Source: Google Scholar 2. Technology Commercialization Office, The Ohio State University

IMR MEMBERS’ EXTERNAL FUNDING:

Sponsored projects with awarded budgets over

$404.1 million, of which3

$95.6 million were new projects3

Expenditures of

$72.1 million, on sponsored projects 3

INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH | PROGRAMS AND CENTERS

Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability


INVESTMENTS ARE OCCURRING IN THREE CLUSTER AREAS SPANNING FROM SCIENCE TO MANUFACTURING

• Energy harvesting, storage and systems

• High-performance materials and structures

• Materials for sustainable information processing

These three primary clusters are supported by targeted investment in strategic assets, including a focus on business, policy, and awareness, all of which will connect within the Materials Innovation Lab, serving as an innovation collaboration model translating knowledge and assets to solve problems in industry with regional, national and global partners. Our partnerships with Indian materials researchers strengthened, resulting in the funding of two Global Partnership Grants between The Ohio State University and IIT-Bombay and the development of additional joint workshops, research grants, and collaborations.

M&MS has stimulated new engagements with over 30 companies, including the relocation of a startup, developed official interactions and programs with non-U.S. universities and companies, and sponsored an Industry Challenge Grant, receiving matching funds from Exxon Mobil.

The Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) program enables Ohio State faculty, students and staff to focus on translational innovation and research in technology, science

and manufacturing as they apply to future energy systems and sustainability from the nano-scale to the macro-scale.

With the goal to become pre-eminent in the field of advanced materials and technologies for sustainability, our program connects, creates, and delivers value to solve the world’s most pressing problems in the 21st century. M&MS builds on the foundation of discovery in the Institute for Materials Research, hiring faculty to advance materials discoveries, developing strategic industrial and global relationships, and accelerating the research process to enable a paradigm of discovery-to-deployment at Ohio State.


K ARI ROTH JOINS IMR AS SENIOR TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATOR, MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Kari Roth joined joined IMR in August, 2017 as a Senior Technology Integrator with the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) program, part of the university’s Discovery Themes initiative. An experienced engineer and technical program manager with a strong industry background, Roth will lead projects and manage client relationships within our materials innovation framework.

ARDESHIR CONTRACTOR, EXECUTIVE IN RESIDENCE

Effective June 1, Ohio State alumnus Ardeshir Contractor (MS ’86, mechanical engineering) became an Executive in Residence with the Institute for Materials

Research. In this role, Mr. Contractor works closely with IMR and university leaders and faculty to help shape an integrated strategy to access emerging global markets, augment research activities, and implement new and innovative technology/ business innovation constructs.

GREG AMES, VISITING INNOVATOR

Last fall, Greg Ames began working with us as a Visiting Innovator, providing consultation on strategy and innovation practices. IMR members and staff will find Ames supporting us in different ways

in this role, such as facilitating brainstorming sessions with industry parnters.

CLUSTER HIRING LEADS TO EIGHT NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

The strength of our faculty is central to the success of our materials community. The M&MS program is advancing a new vision for innovation through investments in select faculty dedicated to the value of interdisciplinary research. Strategic recruitment has focused on three discovery areas: energy harvesting, storage and systems; high-performance materials and

structures; and low-energy information systems. Eight new faculty will join The Ohio State University’s materials community during the 2017-2018 academic year through the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability focus area. These eight professors join nine others hired in 2016-2017 – for a total of seventeen new faculty positions within the M&MS cohort to date.

Anant Agarwal Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Christian Blanco Assistant Professor (of operations manage-ment) Fisher College of Business

Vicky Doan-Nguyen Assistant Professor, Materials Science Engineering

Pelagia-Iren Gouma Orton Jr. Chair in Ceramic Engineering, Professor, Materials Science Engineering

Erin McKie Assistant Professor, Management Sciences (Fisher College of Business)

Alok Sutradhar Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Shiyu Zhang Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry

Hongping Zhao Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering



PLOTTING A PATH TO INNOVATION

Last fall, Jay Sayre, Assistant Vice President at Ohio State and IMR’s director of Materials Innovation, in collaboration with Paul Reeder, Executive Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), completed renovation of 2,500 square feet in the Nanotech West Laboratory on Kinnear Road. The new Materials Innovation Lab, a central component of the Materials & Manufacturing for Sustainability discovery theme, exemplifies an operational model that allows people and ideas to collide, while fostering collaboration to maximize innovation. Think few walls, lots of group work areas and energetic colors. Sayre wanted to build an innovative, interactive feature that would welcome guests and engage undergrads in the process lab. Sayre and his colleagues at Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) and the CIE encouraged CDME’s bright undergrads to form teams over the summer of 2016 and pitch their ideas to IMR’s leadership. The trio of second-year students — Tyler Bair (ECE), Andrew Merz (MSE) and Phillip Merz (MAE) — knew their design idea had to match the new space’s cool factor. Featuring a large-scale plotter attached to the wall, their design allows users to program an image to be drawn on an erasable surface in mere minutes. The students also created an app that can convert any image to a drawing on the wall. Some supporters have hinted that the group should commercialize the design, with the possibility of building another plotter elsewhere on campus.

The Materials Innovation Lab has always been central to the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability program plan, and this year IMR staff made it a reality.

Simply put, our vision is to make innovation as strong as research, and the Materials Innovation Lab is the place where we make this happen. It is designed to allow people to collide while fostering their collaboration to maximize impact. It is a place where partners have access to the university and engage with both students and faculty. Building from the foundation of interdisciplinary materials research at Ohio State, we aspire to evolve the university’s culture and land-grant mission of advancing the well-being of the people of our community through the creation and dissemination of knowledge to include the translation of this knowledge and assets to solve the world’s most pressing problems in the 21st century. The Materials Innovation Lab is the interface that connects, creates, and delivers impactful value derived from interdisciplinary research to meet the needs in the market through collaboration and strategic partnerships.

Materials Innovation Lab


TEACHING AND LEARNING

The Materials Innovation Lab is where students wanting real-world, experiential learning are connected with companies wanting better access to the university and undergraduates through externship opportunities. Externships, in this context, are a unique type of internship defined as on-campus partnerships between students, the university, and potential employers that formally integrate students’ academic study with work during a weekend INNOVATE-O-thon. These INNOVATE-O-thons are the result of a strong collaboration with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, industry partners, and the broader Ohio State community that allow students to participate in a unique, community-engaged learning environment where the focus is on talent, skills, and inclusiveness.

MANUFACTURING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: REMADE AND OSU

The Ohio State University is joining forces with more than 100 members of a nationwide coalition focused on reducing costly waste materials and emissions from manufacturing, thus creating clean-energy businesses — steps deemed critical in keeping U.S. manufacturing industries competitive. In early January, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Rochester Institute of Technology to lead the coalition through an industry-driven applied research institute known as REMADE. (“Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Reducing Embodied-energy and Decreasing Emissions in Materials Manufacturing”). The goal of the REMADE Institute is to reduce the cost of technology essential to reusing, recycling and remanufacturing materials such as metals, fibers, polymers and electronic waste, and to improve overall energy efficiency 50 percent by 2027, saving billions in energy costs. U.S. manufacturing accounts for nearly a third of the nation’s annual total energy use, with much of that energy embodied in the physical products made in manufacturing. The institute is supported by $70 million from the Department of Energy and $70 million in private cost-share commitments, including $2 million from Ohio State. The University’s contribution was shared by four colleges — Engineering; Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences; Public Health and Business — and two Discovery Themes programs — Sustainable and Resilient Economy (SRE), and Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS). Their shares were based on expected participation in consortium projects.

Working with an industry-led project, we were able to get hands-on experience and that is very rare to get as a first- or even second-year student. That really helps for resume building and just experience for the future.”

— David McGee, Second-Year Student, Industrial and systems engineering

The Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) Discovery Theme focus area and the Institute for Materials Research have established

a new Global Partnership Grants program to support international research collaborations between Ohio State researchers and global partners. Global Partnership Grants (GPGs) establish global impact in research and development, technology innovation and shared multinational education following the themes and goals defined by the M&MS program. GPGs require matching funds from the partner institution, and these awards encourage rich collaborations between research groups by hosting a graduate student from one university at the other’s campus for several months, allowing international research teams to work together in the lab daily to investigate materials-led solutions to global sustainability challenges.

The inaugural Global Partnership Grant award funds the research project “Development and Characterization of Gallium Oxide Transistors,” a collaboration between Siddharth Rajan, Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering departments at Ohio State, and Saurabh Lodha, an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at IIT-Bombay. This grant enables collaborative research on energy-efficient electronic devices based on a new semiconductor material, Gallium Oxide. This material has the highest electric breakdown strengths among known semiconductor materials, and can enable transistors with higher efficiency and power than possible from conventional Silicon. Electronics based on such transistors could enable a new class of ultra-efficient high voltage electrical systems for next-generation tech-nologies including electric cars, solar and wind farms, and data servers. The second Global Partnership Grant supports a new collaborative research effort toward the development of materials and device structures that will improve both the performance and manufacturability of future generations of high-efficiency solar cells. The specific target of this research project, “Advanced Passivation for Next-Generation Si-Based Tandem Solar Cells,” is related to the passivation of the rear (i.e. back-side) of silicon-based solar cells that are designed to be included as part of a new multi-material architecture that has been developed by Dr. Tyler Grassman, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his colleagues. Grassman is working with Professor Rajiv Dusane, Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, IIT Bombay, on this research effort. One of Prof. Dusane’s PhD students will spend several months at Ohio State in 2017, collaborating with a team of researchers involved with III-V/Si solar cell development projects. His work will focus on the development of a-Si passivation process steps — deposition, etching, metallization, annealing — that are compatible with the full range of III-V materials and process steps, as well as the characterization of fabricated test structures and devices.

IMR Global Partnership Grants Fund Ohio State/IIT-Bombay Research Collaborations



IMR WELCOMES TYNDALL RESEARCHERS TO COLUMBUS

The Institute for Materials Research recently welcomed several visitors from the Tyndall National Institute, a research center in the Republic of Ireland focused on electronics and photonics with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market. Tyndall scientists discussed their current research programs, toured Ohio State materials research facilities, and discussed opportunities for future research and development partnerships between Ohio State researchers and their Irish counterparts through the IMR and its Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability program. The Tyndall group included Dr. Kieran Drain, Tyndall Chief Executive Officer, and four Tyndall researchers – Paul Hurley, Brendan O’Flynn, Emanuele Pelucchi and Aidan Quinn.

Dr. Paul Hurley provided an overview of the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Programme

Breakout sessions in the areas of electronics and photonics, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and sensors allowed Tyndall and Ohio State researchers to focus for a few hours on their specific areas of interest, share their research activities and findings, and explore possible future collaborations. Tyndall visitors also toured five Ohio State core research facilities – Nanotech West Laboratory, the Spine Research Institute, Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory, NanoSystems Laboratory, and the Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis – to learn more about advanced materials research activities and capabilities taking place in our campus’s world class laboratories.

Chandan Joishi is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at IIT Bombay and has been on Ohio State’s Columbus campus since early November to conduct research related to the collaboration between Professors Siddharth Rajan at Ohio State and Saurabh Lodha at IITB. Joishi worked on the fabrication of highly efficient electronic devices at IMR’s Nanotech West Lab. Two projects are currently underway through this Global Partnership Grant, one centered at Nanotech West, the other in the Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL), with the potential for additional, related sub-projects in the future. Joishi explained that one of the collaborations particularly leverages the complementary instru-mentation and expertise of the two universities — Nanotech West’s vertical etch process and SEAL’s gallium oxide MBE facility offer capabilities not available at IIT Bombay, while IITB has a plasma process for atomic layer deposition that is currently not offered at Ohio State. For the current project, after samples are grown in SEAL’s MBE facility, they are sent to IIT Bombay and used to fabricate a device. That device is then returned to Columbus where it undergoes further analysis and testing.

Chandan Joishi, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. candidate at IIT Bombay, is working with Ohio State researchers through IMR’s first Global Partnership Grant.

Researchers from Ohio State and Tyndall National Institute take a break during their workshop




The mission of the Ohio Manufacturing Institute

(OMI) is to serve as an action-oriented public policy

arm for manufacturing within the state and nation,

reflecting a thoughtful and sustained response

to industry-led and vetted issues. We also engage as a

statewide facilitator that supports manufacturers – especially

small to medium-size firms within the supply chain – by

aligning industries, academic institutions, technology support

organizations and government toward common technical and

workforce solutions.

We have constructed roadmaps to determine industry needs by

manufacturing processes, outlined a detailed decision analysis to

evaluate existing entities on their ability to meet manufacturers’

innovation needs, and mapped a statewide advanced

manufacturing technical network structure to increase access to

resources and remove barriers between manufacturers and

supporting organizations.

HOW DOES OMI SERVE MANUFACTURING?

• Develops industry-vetted policy recommendations that support the manufacturing supply chain

• Removes barriers that help make technical resources more accessible to industry

• Offers insights into product innovation and commercialization to adopt from large and small manufacturers as well as entrepreneurs

• Supports access to best-practice workforce development resources, e.g., project-based student internships and predicts future skills that will be required

• Promotes manufacturers’ innovation stories to policy makers and the public through Manufacturing Tomorrow podcast series

FY2017 PROJECTS TO FIND ANSWERS TO MANUFACTURERS’ MOST VEXING CONCERNS, INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS:

• Under the Center for Design and Manufacturing EDA grant, we are retooling engineering technology education programming on a regional level for the Manufacturing 5.0 workforce. In addition to industry focus group participants and advisors, partners include Columbus State Community College, North Central State Community Colleges and Ohio State regional campuses

• Under the same grant, OMI is analyzing product innovation and commercialization best practices among original equipment managers, small- and medium-sized forms and entrepreneurs through visual models

• OMI is the lead for a statewide industry engagement team supporting the Ohio Innovation Exchange, a web portal designed to allow industry full access to research expertise, labs and equipment at universities

Ohio Manufacturing Institute

Kathryn Kelley, OMI Director, involved in outreach activities.

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• Through the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment Defense Manufacturing Assistance Program, OMI is principal investigator of a $2.24M program offering Ohio defense supply chain product development and commercialization diversification assistance to manufacturers and economic development tools to surrounding communities

◦ To date, 32 company and three community projects have been initiated

◦ Company projects include assessing operations management, market diversification strategies, marketing plans and Lean transformation.

• Engaging in the Lightweight Innovations for Tomorrow Accelerator Team and the Ohio Manufacturers’ Association Workgroup on Manufacturing Careers and the Ohio Means Internships & Co-ops to align education programs to top regional and national education and training resources

• As part of the Ohio Department of Higher Education Ohio Means Internships & Co-ops Program, OMI teamed up with IMR to expand their INNOVATE-O-thon events and classes at the Materials Innovation Lab. The program recruits students from Ohio State, Marion Technical College, Central Ohio Technical College and Columbus State Community College, in part to increase the diversity of students participating in the externships. In this program, Ohio companies propose real-world materials and manufacturing problems or themes, solved by teams of college students over 48-hour weekend brainstorming sessions.

Dr. Edward “Ned” Hill, professor of public affairs at The Ohio State University, on a plant tour at Wilson Sporting Goods in Ada, OH.



Manufacturing Partnerships

HOW DOES THE CENTER FOR DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE HELP INDUSTRY?

• Innovate for differentiation

• Improve productivity

• Increase quality

• Lower costs

• Improve sustainability

• Free events offering manufacturing-related presentations

FY2017 HIGHLIGHTS AND PROJECTS HELPING INDUSTRY UTILIZE THE TECHNICAL ASSETS OF OHIO STATE AND APPLIED RESEARCH SERVICES OF OUR TEAM INCLUDE:

• Industry projects for FY 2017 (July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017) quantified: pulled from Salesforce>Closed Won (Previous Fiscal Yr 7/1/16-6/30/17)◦ Number of projects: 54◦ Number of small companies with

projects: 21 ◦ Number of large companies (>500

employee) with projects: 20◦ Faculty/Department projects: 2◦ Government projects: 11◦ Total Sales: $6,665,121 (Average

$68,963)

FANUC ROBODRILL hands on training

CENTER FOR DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE (CDME)

The mission of the Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence (CDME) is to utilize the technical assets and expertise of The Ohio State University’s world-class faculty, staff, students,

and centers to be the foremost leader in commercialization through applied research through the use of business validation, process innovation, integrated design, and best of class manufacturing approaches.


ADDITIONAL FY17 HIGHLIGHTS

• On October 1, 2016, CDME was chosen by the Ohio Development Services Agency to support the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership to be one of seven MEP affiliates in the state who supports small to medium-sized manufacturers in Ohio through an outreach program that supports the growth and competitiveness of their productivity. CDME was awarded 15 counties in the central Ohio region and was awarded $6.25 million over five years for this federal and state program (plus a $3.75 million cost share component) to support growth of manufacturing companies. This 15-county region consists of 3,308 small to medium-sized manufacturing firms.

• CDME’s MEP program was awarded the APEG region in August, which means the absorption of an additional 23 counties in Ohio and yearly federal funding of $1,261,158 (source: Ohio MEP RFP_2018_SE Region (002).pdf) to support the southeast region of Ohio from 2018-2021. This brings the total counties for which CDME is supporting to 38.

Center for Emergent Materials

The Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), OSU’s National Science Foundation — funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) employs innovative multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science to discover

and engineer emergent materials that reveal novel phenomena and phases. CEM research focuses on understanding and controlling magnetism in novel materials and materials systems, and on exploration of emergent electronic and magnetic phenomena. Interdisciplinary teams of faculty, students and postdoctoral researchers are addressing the multi-faceted scientific issues this challenge presents by integrating materials synthesis/growth, characterization, novel probe development, and theory and modeling. CEM seeks to enhance the strong scientific community essential to the future of this endeavor through vigorous engagement in improving participation by the relatively untapped resources of women and underrepresented minorities. CEM’s programs integrate the excitement and potential of the Center’s research into public outreach and education programs that dovetail with recruitment and teaching of diverse communities at all levels — from K-12 students extending through undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs.

SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL IMPACTSCEM seeks to establish foundations for three areas of materials research important to the nation’s scientific vitality and the technological prowess that has strengthened the economy and improved quality of life. IRG-1 focuses on advancing fundamental understanding of magnetism in multi-orbital systems as a foundation for designing new magnetic materials and searching for novel states of matter. IRG-2 seeks to realize robust two-dimensional topological phases including quantum spin Hall and quantum anomalous Hall insulators with dissipationless edge currents and to create new opportunities for understanding spin behavior in reduced dimensions. IRG-3 seeks to enter a new regime of spin transport by studying spin fluxes in magnetically textured materials that, if successful, could enable new paradigms for spin transport and new approaches to manipulation and control in spintronic devices.




IRG-1: Spin-Orbit Coupling in Correlated Materials: Novel Phases and PhenomenaAs the body of literature on compounds containing 4d and 5d transition metal ions grows, gaps in the fundamental understanding of magnetism in these materials are revealed. Two key features, strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a relatively large radial extension from the nucleus, differen-tiate the 4d and 5d orbitals from the magnetism of the more familiar 3d orbitals. The presence of strong spin orbit coupling is believed to significantly alter the interplay of spin, orbital, charge and lattice degree of freedom, while the larger size of the 5d orbitals impacts superexchange interactions and the tendency toward orbital ordering. IRG-1 researchers are focused on advancing fundamental understanding of this intriguing class of materials and laying the foundation for magnetism in multi-orbital systems. This knowledge can in turn be used to design new magnetic materials and search for novel states of matter. Highlights include: Uncovering the hidden effects of spin-orbit coupling in oxides containing 5d3 ions: Orbital angular momentum is typically assumed to be quenched in materials containing octahedrally coordinated 5d3 ions, but using neutron and X-ray scattering probes IRG-1 researchers have shown that SOC plays an important role in determining the magnetic behavior of such materials. Inelastic neutron scattering on Sr2CrOsO6 reveal a large spin gap in the magnetic excitation spectrum indicating appreciable spin-orbit-induced anisotropy, despite the presence of nominally orbitally-quenched 5d3 Os5+ ions. IRG-1 modeled the system including nearest neighbor interactions in a Heisenberg Hamiltonian with exchange anisotropy. Novel magnetism in d4 Mott insulators: In spite of the fact that transition metal ions with 4d4 or 5d4 electronic configurations have zero atomic angular momentum, IRG-1 researchers show that the addition of superexchange can invalidate this nonmagnetic picture in the Mott limit enabling a novel magnetic phase is found. Surprisingly, starting with ferromagnetic spin interactions in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, an antiferromagnetic condensate in the large spin-orbit coupling limit is obtained. Surface states in Dirac semimetals: Theoretical modeling by IRG-1 researchers has demonstrated theoretically, using simple four-band tight binding models and a rigorous K-theory proof, that gapless surface states

in Dirac semimetals (DSMs), the 3D analogs of graphene, such as Na3Bi and Cd3As2, are not topologically protected, in marked contrast to Weyl semimetals. We have also developed the first minimal models for a new class of type II Weyl semimetals. Quantitative imaging of order-disorder effects in epitaxial films Using state-of-the-art high-angle annular dark-field (HAADF) scanning transmis-sion electron microscopy (STEM) IRG-1 researchers have developed probes of cation ordering in three dimensions, and used that capability to quantitatively map out antiphase boundaries in epitaxial double perovskite films of Sr2CrReO6.

IRG-2: Control of 2D Electronic Structure and 1D Interfaces by Surface Patterning Group IV Graphane AnaloguesThe overall goal of IRG-2 is to realize robust two-dimensional (2D) topological phases including quantum spin Hall (QSH) and quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with dissipationless edge currents. This requires understanding and controlling spin-orbit coupling, electronic band structure, and ferromagnetic ordering in a variety of promising 2D and quasi-2D materials including (1) group-IV graphene analogues, (2) new materials for QSH and QAH phases, and (3) vertically stacked and doped 2D heterostructures. The synergies in IRG-2 for theoretical modeling, bulk and thin film synthesis, material characterization, device fabrication and electron transport, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), optical spectroscopy, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), and sharing of samples under air-free conditions are essential for this program. Key activities: • Group-IV graphane analogues, developing 2D materials germanane

and stanene, where the ligand termination can tune the band gap and topological character. Going from Ge to Sn reduces the band gap and increases spin-orbit coupling, potentially enabling band inversion and the QSH phase.

• Vertically stacked and doped 2D heterostructures provide a route to realizing 2D topological phases by combining high spin-orbit coupling, magnetic ordering (exchange splitting), and high mobility transport through encapsulation and proximity effects. Materials of interest include TMDs, graphene, ferromagnetic insulators (FMI), hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and nanoparticles.

IRG-3: Spin Flux Through Engineered Magnetic Textures: Thermal, Resonant, and Coherent PhenomenaIRG-3 focuses on the spin transport in novel materials and structures via collective and coherent magnetic excitations that enable new regime of highly efficient spin conduction. Through an integrated experimental and theory program, IRG-3 researchers are investigating the generation, propagation, and detection of spin currents mediated by novel magnonic excitations and phonons in magnetic insulators, as well as spin-polarized and spin-orbit coupled electrons in conductors. The materials under investigation include ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AF) insulators and semiconductor materials. Specific projects include:

1. Manipulation of magnons in magnetic materials and heterostructures: IRG-3 researchers predict nonlocal magnon drag in an FM bilayer structure whereby a magnon current in one FM layer induces a chemical potential gradient and/or a temperature gradient in the other; IRG-3 PIs are pursuing experiments to realize this prediction.

2. Spin superfluid through dynamic magnetic textures: Following our theoretical prediction of superfluid spin transport in an FM insulator with easy-plane anisotropy we are pursuing this goal experimentally. Micromagnetic simulations of the magnetic excitations of a Pt/YIG lateral structure indicate the soundness of our experimental designs.

3. Studies of spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnets on the honeycomb lattice, show that the effective Hamiltonian for magnons is equivalent to the Haldane model for electrons at low T. This indicates nontrivial band topology and an associated edge state, which can be studied through the spin Nernst effect.

4. Spin Seebeck contribution to transverse thermopower in Ni-Pt and MnBi-Au bulk nanocomposites: enables simultaneously large transverse thermopower and low electrical resistance by combining Nernst and spin Seebeck effect in bulk nanocomposites (Ni-Pt, MnBi-Au).

5. Stable Zero-Field Skyrmion Formation in FeGe Films: We have studied magnetic skyrmions in B20-phase FeGe epitaxial thin films grown on Si and observed the largest topological Hall effect reported to date, and find large remanent topological Hall resistivities (up to 77%) at zero magnetic field, which a significant step forward for technological applications.


Center for Emergent Materials


EDUCATION, OUTREACH, AND DIVERSITY (EHRD) The CEM strives to increase the quantity and quality of scientists and engineers well-prepared to contribute to and lead research, development, and commercialization in materials-related fields and to help enable enhanced career opportunities for diverse communities of students and potential scientists. The CEM addresses three specific objectives: (1) enhancing classroom education; (2) creating research internship opportunities and professional development across educational levels; and (3) widening the Science-Technology-Engineering-Math (STEM) pathway, particularly in materials-related disciplines. Diversity Enhancement activities, aimed at enhancing diversity in science and engineering by eliminating barriers to the success of underrepresented groups are interwoven with these activities.

Education, Outreach, & Diversity Major Accomplishments During this reporting period, the CEM engaged in education, training, and outreach programs that impacted over 1,600 K-12 students, 32 K-12 teachers, over 3,500 undergraduates in classes, 11 undergraduate researchers, 48 graduate students and 10 postdoctoral researchers. CEM continues to develop and implement a set of guided group work sessions for graduate quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, and classical mechanics. These have especially benefitted Bridge Program (OSU-BP) students. For undergraduates, this includes online “essential skills” mastery tasks for the large introductory physics sequences (over 4000 students/year) and measured large gains in skills. At the high school level, CEM partners in a program for 20 teachers across 14 school districts in Ohio to improve materials science-focused high school courses. At the K-8 level, their Scientific Thinkers program launched a new effort to engage families in math and science through an evening event at the high-poverty-status school where undergraduate and graduate student volunteers led science and math activities for the families. CEM and NMHU have an active PREM interaction, including multiple visits and research seminars from OSU faculty, hosting 2 REU students in summer 2016 and 2017, and hosting an NMHU graduate student and NMHU postdoc. The CEM also continues to deliver key support for the M.S.-Ph.D. Bridge Program, which has completed its fourth year, and confirmed internal funding to continue the program. The OSU-BP continues to have dramatic impact on the diversity of the graduate program.

SEED PROGRAM

A vigorous seed program that supports new ideas and incubation of multidisciplinary teams augments CEM interdisciplinary research endeavors. The seed program operates in partnership with IMR and the Center for the Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM). This partnership broadens the impact of all three centers in the OSU materials community and better leverages resources. Components of current IRGs originated from the CEM seed program. The program strongly encourages proposals from junior and underrepresented faculty.

SHARED RESEARCH FACILITIES

Since inception, CEM has played a vital role in strengthening materials research facilities at OSU. The NanoSystems Laboratory (NSL) is closely aligned with CEM which provides partial staff support. CEM members have historically been instrumental in the acquisition of equipment through either federal or internal OSU grants. CEM continues to augment NSL’s impact this year by funding the installation of an inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching system and a compact ultra-high temperature tube furnace. The addition of these tools directly benefits CEM research, as well as the OSU materials and central Ohio community at large. The Chair of the User’s Committee is a CEM investigator (Yang).

COLLABORATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL INTERACTIONS

CEM collaborations led to 11 papers published jointly with national laboratories and 4 published with industry collaborators, and maintains a particularly fruitful center-to-center collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for Solid State Research (IFW) in Dresden, Germany.


2017 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program


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The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program provides internal research funding opportunities through three distinct Funding Tiers designed to achieve the greatest impact for seeding and advancing excellence in materials research

of varying scopes. The goal of the program is to support the generation of materials research in new directions that extend beyond the boundaries of existing research programs. The OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program is jointly funded and managed by IMR along with the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), and the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM).

After a thorough internal and external review process, ten awards were made to fund exceptionally promising, innovative materials research on campus through the 2017 OSU Materials Research Seed Grant Program. These awards total $520,000 in internal research funding to 19 Ohio State researchers from eight departments in two colleges.


2017 EXPLORATORY MATERIALS RESEARCH GRANTS

Exploratory Materials Research Grants enable nascent and innovative materials research to emerge to the point of being competitive for external funding. Six Exploratory Materials Research Grants were awarded this year:

• Development of In-situ Atomic Force Microscopy for Fundamental Investigation of Advanced Battery Binder for Li-Ion Batteries Principal Investigator: Hanna Cho, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Jung Hyun Kim, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Tunable CuMO2 delafossites for the electrocatalytic conversion of oxygen Principal Investigator: Anne Co, Chemistry and Biochemistry; Co-Investigators: Yiying Wu, Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Welding metallurgy and weldability of single-phase and multi-phase high entropy alloys (HEA) Principal Investigator: Carolyn Fink, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Joao de Sousa Oliveira, Materials Science and Engineering.

• Exploration of magnetic order in TMTCs, a new family of layered magnetic semiconductors Principal Investigator: Jay Gupta, Physics; Co-Investigator: Roland Kawakami, Physics; Yuan-ming Lu, Physics

• Establishing a Computational Foundation for the Investigation of Magnetoelastic Metamaterials Principal Investigator: Ryan Harne, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Marcelo Dapino, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Coupling of magnons and electromagnons to Terahertz metamaterials Principal Investigator: Rolando Valdés Aguilar, Physics

2017 MULTIDISCIPLINARY TEAM BUILDING GRANTS

Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants form multidisciplinary materials research teams that can compete effectively for federal block-funding opportunities. Two Multidisciplinary Team Building Grants were awarded this year:

• Engineering approaches for profiling the mechano-material properties of the tumor microenvironment Principal Investigator: Jonathon Song, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigators: Carlos Castro, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Michael Ostrowski, Molecular Biology & Cancer Genetics Program; Samir Ghadiali, Biomedical Engineering

• Entropy and Charge Transport in Weyl Semimetals Principal Investigator: Nandini Trivedi, Physics; Co-Investigators: Jos Heremans, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2017 PROTO - IRG GRANTS

Proto-IRG Grants form new Interdisciplinary Research Groups (IRGs) that could be incorporated into the Center for Emergent Materials, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, for the renewal proposal in 2018.

• Structure, Defects, and Emergent Properties at Magnetic Oxide Interfaces Principal Investigator: Prof. Jinwoo Hwang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

• Spin Textures in Chiral Magnetic Materials Principal Investigator: Prof. Mohit Randeria, Department of Physics,

IMR Facility Grants

IMR Facility Grants make shared campus research facilities more accessible to Ohio State researchers

wishing to demonstrate results with the goal of strengthening near-term research proposals for external

support. Each Facility Grant provides $2,000 to offset the cost of user access fees and related minor

charges, with the goal of seeding new, innovative materials research at Ohio State. IMR offers two

rounds of IMR Facility Grants each fiscal year, with deadlines in the fall and spring. During Fiscal Year

2017, IMR awarded twenty new Facility Grants, for a total investment of $40,000 to support new research

efforts. Abstracts for each of these research projects can be found on IMR’s website.

• Microstructural Analysis Near the Phase Boundary in Dissimilar Metal Welds for Nuclear and Fossil Power Generation Applications — Principal Investigator: Boian Alexandrov, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Michael Kuper, Materials Science and Engineering

• Weld Solidification Behavior of CoCrFeNi-based High-Entropy Alloys — Principal Investigator: Carolin Fink, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: João Pedro Oliveira, Materials Science and Engineering

• High Resolution EBL Nanopatterned GaN Epitaxy — Principal Investigator: Tyler Grassman, Materials Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering; Co-Investigator: Siddharth Rajan, Electrical and Computer Engineering; Aimee Bross Price, Institute for Materials Research

• Flexible Photocatalytic Films of Polypyrrole/ZnO-Nanorods for Wearable Solar Cells — Principal Investigator: Liang Guo, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Neuroscience

• Preparation and Characterization of Magnetic Tips for Spin Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy — Principal Investigator: Jay Gupta, Physics; Co-Investigator: Roland Kawakami, Physics

• Development of a New Generation of Double-Sided Heat-Flux Gauges — Principal Investigator: Randall Mathison, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Richard Celestina, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering



• Synthesis of Novel Benzobisoxazole-Linked Covalent Organic Frameworks for the Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Value Added Chemicals — Principal Investigator: Psaras McGrier, Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Electron Microscopy for Cell Junction Remodeling due to Fluid Stress — Principal Investigator: Shaurya Prakash, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Jonathan Song, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Characterization of Amphiphilic Polymer Films for Controlling Cell Attachment — Principal Investigator: Katelyn Swindle-Reilly, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

• Development of Pedagogically Appropriate Images for Illustrating Microstructure- Property- Processing Relationships in Metals — Principal Investigator: Alison Polasik, Materials Science and Engineering.

• Interfacial Analysis in Dissimilar Laser Welding of NiTi to Ti6Al4V Using W and Ta Interlayers Principal Investigator: Antonio J. Ramirez, Welding Engineering Program, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Joao de Souza Oliveira Post-Doc researcher, Welding Engineering

• Metallurgical Characterization of Dissimilar Metal Welds for Subsea Service in the Oil and Gas Industry — Principal Investigator: Boian Alexandrov, Materials Science and Engineering – Welding Engineering Program; Co-Investigator: Ryan Buntain, PhD Candidate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering – Welding Engineering

• Micro/Nano-Platforms to Study Contact Guidance Based Cell Migration in Glioblastomas — Principal Investigator: Vasudha C. Shukla, Research Scientist, Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute; Co-Investigator: Daniel Gallego-Perez, Surgery and Biomedical Engineering

• High-Resolution Characterization of Precipitates in Nickel-Base Superalloy Fabricated by Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing — Principal Investigator: Wei Zhang, Materials Science and Engineering; Co-Investigator: Hyeyun Song, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering

• Development of Differential Phase Contrast Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy for Nanometer-Scale Investigation of Magnetic Structure — Principal Investigator: Robert E A Williams, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

• Experimental investigation of Frequency Stabilization in Intentionally Nonlinear Micromechanical Resonator — Principal Investigator: Hatem Brahmi, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Hanna Cho, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Characterization of Nonmagnetic Nemimetallic Nanocomposite Thermoelectrics — Principal Investigator: Joseph P. Heremans, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Co-Investigator: Koen Vandaele, Postdoctoral Researcher, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering; Stephen Boona, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Emergent Materials

• Nano-Heterostructured Oxide Nanowires for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction — Principal Investigator: Patricia Morris, Materials Science and Engineering

• Effect of Drug Loading on Nanoparticle Morphology for Hydrophobic Drug Delivery Across the Blood Brain Barrier — Principal Investigator: Jessica Winter, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Co-Investigator: Christopher Weghorst, Environmental Health Sciences

• Atomic Scale Characterization of Remote Epitaxy at Graphene-Semiconductor Interfaces — Principal Investigator: Jinwoo Hwang, Materials Science and Engineering


Nanotech West Laboratory

Nanotech West Laboratory (NTW) is the largest and most comprehensive micro- and nanofabrication user facility in the state of Ohio. Open to both academic and industrial users, Nanotech West is a shared user facility managed by the Institute for Materials Research (IMR) and

comprised of more than 24,000 square feet of laboratory, administrative and support space. Home to more than 50 large pieces of user accessible material synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and analysis equipment, Nanotech West’s operations are supported by core administrative and engineering staff (most with semiconductor industry or manufacturing experience) who provide training, process support and project support to Nanotech’s diverse user base. Opened in 2001, Nanotech houses a class 100 cleanroom with a comprehensive wafer processing capability and an active Biosafety Level 2 rated Biohybrid lab.

Driven by IMR’s Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability Discovery Theme, and new faculty recruitment, NTW has recently seen the installation of equipment and the enhancement of various lab spaces to support new capabilities and additional research thrusts. New lab spaces that are now open or currently under development include: the Materials Innovation Lab (dedicated to collaborative industry interactions and outreach), the Mid-Infrared Characterization and Application Lab (enabling infrared pixel and full array characterization), the Energy Storage Hub (dedicated to battery related materials synthesis and test) and the expansion of the metal organic chemical vapor deposition lab to include III-Nitride and novel IV-Nitride epitaxy.

Research activities at Nanotech span a range of cutting-edge materials research that is rather extraordinary for a single facility – from high-frequency GaN/AlGaN electronics, solar cells and infrared focal plane arrays, to microfluidics, biotechnology, and the fabrication of structures for use in the study of basic physics and chemistry. As the primary IMR location on Ohio State’s West Campus, Nanotech West provides substantial impact and continues to be a centerpiece of collaborative research to OSU’s materials research community.

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Location: Science Village 1381 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212

Website: nanotech.osu.eduContact: Dr. John Carlin, Interim Director (614) 292-6112, [email protected]

NANOTECH WEST LABORATORY FY17 HIGHLIGHTS

• NTW supported more than 270 OSU users (and approximately 75 non-OSU researchers) representing 72 OSU PI’s and 105 research projects in the Colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Medicine; impacting more than $36M of sponsored research.

• Staff, aided by senior graduate student, Superusers, and undergraduate engineering interns, trained 95 new users of the Nanotech West facility (72 OSU and 23 non-OSU), bringing the total number of researchers trained to 696 since 2012.

• $1.9M of new, donated and relocated equipment installations in FY17 with an additional $2.0M of equipment installations underway for FY18. New capabilities include: PlasmaTherm SLR 770 ICP-RIE deep Si etcher, Lakeshore CRX6.5 low temperature probe station with semiconductor parameter analyzer, TS Space Systems multi-zone solar


Cross-section SEM of micro and nanofluidic channels in a targeted therapeutic device prototype. Image by David Hollingshead.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT HIGHLIGHT

The ability to target and deliver therapeutic molecules directly to specific cells is a compelling topic for modern medical researchers. Recently, Nanotech West staff worked with Professor Daniel Gallego-Perez (Departments of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering) to develop a process for the manufacturing of next-generation platform nanotechnologies for point-of-care delivery of therapeutics

into deep tissue. The unique design of these devices called for an intricate combination of micro- and nanoscale structures with fluidic connections (image at right), which required a mixture of carefully controlled pattern and etching processes. The project was funded by an Accelerator Award from the Ohio State University Technology Control Office.

simulator, Infrared (single pixel and focal plane array) characterization, CSZ environmental chamber with full spectrum lighting system for solar test, SET FC-150 flip-chip bonder (FY18), dual chamber nitride MOCVD (FY18), glove boxes, battery cyclers and additional equipment for synthesis and battery test (FY18).

• Successful completion of Nanotech’s three year Ohio Sensor and Semiconductor Innovation Platform (OSSIP) program funded by Ohio Third Frontier and the Ohio Development Services Agency. Motivated by facilitating the use of NTW’s existing equipment and expertise by local industry and promoting the creation high tech jobs in Ohio, the $2.6M program supported more than 25 Ohio companies and the development of numerous products, resulting in the creation of more than 50 new jobs in Ohio.

Dr. John Carlin receives the 2017 IMR Distinguished Service Award from Executive Director Steve Ringel

John Carlin – NTW Associate Director and IMR Member of Technical Staff, received the 2017 IMR Distinguished Service Award in recongnition of his sustained outstanding performance in support of IMR’s mission and university core values, going above and beyond their duties in the areas of outstanding service, exem-plary service to students and outstanding support of research activities.

Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS)

The Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (CEMAS) boasts one of the largest concentrations of electron and ion beam analytical microscopy instruments in any North American institution, housed in a custom designed environment located on West Campus. The facility provides a world-class environment for five transmission electron

microscopes (TEM), three scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and two dual-beam focused ion beam (FIB) instruments. CEMAS’s two aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopes (S/TEM) include one instrument optimized for high spatial resolution imaging and analysis with the capability to provide sub-angstrom resolution, and a second instrument designed for investigation of soft materials and biomaterials with the ultimate in chemical analysis capabilities as well as high resolution imaging performance. Sample preparation laboratories for life sciences, physical sciences and engineering are provided with full technical support. The provision of comprehensive computer facilities for data processing and image simulation allows academic and industrial users to carry out their entire microscopy and analysis program at CEMAS.



The CEMAS facility supported 254 Ohio State University researchers and 15 users from external academic institutions and industry partners, for a total of 269 users during FY17.

During 2016 – 2017, CEMAS updated some necessary equipment. While the CM-12 and CM-200 were both very useful TEMs for training and research, they had reached the end of their service life. They were replaced with a new Thermo Fisher Scientific Tecnai 30. This instrument is capable of achieving 0.24 nm point resolution and is equipped with a large area light element SDD X-ray detector. It is also capable of remote operation making it very useful for demonstrations and teaching. CEMAS has recently been transitioning our SEM capabilities. To date, two brand new Thermo Fisher Scientific Apreo’s have been installed and are up and running. Additionally, CEMAS has added a Thermo Fisher Scientific HeliScan micro-CT system. This novel instrument is capable of non-destructivly imaging large volumes of samples down to a 0.8um voxel size. With advanced helical scanning and iterative reconstruction technology this machine produces unsurpassed image fidelity and is capable of scanning samples with aspect ratios up to 10:1. ‘As part of a multi-scale imaging solution, HeliScan enables scientists to gain valuable insight from internal structures to explore and validate a wide range of material properties.’ In terms of Outreach, CEMAS has been granted nearly $30k in sponsorship by the Honda-Ohio State Partnership for a K-12 Outreach program with Metro High School designed by research scientists Isabel Boona and Frank Scheltens. The Honda — Ohio State Partnership first provided full funding for the 2016 – 2017 academic year of this collaboration. Through a new grant from Honda R&D Americas, Inc., the program is guaranteed to be implemented over the next two years. In April, CEMAS hosted 2 different groups of students from a middle school and a high school in the Columbus area. From Shanahan Middle School, 25 students from Amy McKibben’s 8th grade Biology class were given an introduction to biological sample preparation for characterization using electron microscopy techniques as well as a tour of the CEMAS facility. Later that same month, AP Biology students from Grandview High School were given an in depth introduction to biological sample preparation techniques and were provided a chance to see the tools in person along with a tour of the rest of the facility.

Location: 1305 Kinnear Rd, Suite 100, Columbus, Ohio 43212

Website: cemas.osu.eduContact: Hendrik (Henk) Colijn, Associate Director (614) 643-3458, [email protected]


In April, CEMAS hosted 2 different groups of students from a middle school and a high school in the Columbus area. From Shanahan Middle School, 25

students from Amy McKibben’s 8th grade Biology class were given an introduction to biological sample preparation for characterization using electron microscopy techniques as well as a tour of the CEMAS facility. Later that same month, AP Biology students from Grandview High School were given an in depth introduction to biological sample preparation techniques and were provided a chance to see the tools in person along with a tour of the rest of the facility.

CEMAS has recently completed several faculty searches this year and has welcomed Professor Joerg Jinschek this January and Professor Vicky Doan-Nguyen this August to the list of faculty members at CEMAS.

NanoSystems Laboratory (NSL) users have access to advanced material characterization and fabrication tools for research and development applications. NSL operates a diverse set of research instrumentation and research capabilities including Focused Ion Beam/Scanning Electron Microscopy, X-ray diffractometry, SQUID magnetometry, Atomic Force/Magnetic Force microscopy, EDS X-ray microanalysis, Langmuir-Blodgett

trough monolayer deposition, e-beam lithography, Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy, Physical Vapor material deposition, ion milling, maskless photolithography, Low-Temperature/High Magnetic field magnetotransport measurements, diamond CVD growth, material polishing, Kerr

microscopy, critical point drying and magneto-optical material studies. NSL also operates two 1,600 ft2 clean room facilities. One clean room houses instruments for material deposition and photo lithography, while the other clean room is devoted to processing organic spintronics devices, organic photovoltaics, organic LEDs, and other air and moisture sensitive materials. It is equipped with four interconnected gloveboxes with Ar and N2 atmosphere. Equipment installed in the gloveboxes includes an organic deposition chamber, metal deposition chamber, a spin coater, wiring station and a system for electrical testing.

During FY17 NanoSystems Laboratory provided research services totaling $280,000 and supported 179 users from 58 research groups. Most of those researchers supported were from 7 departments at the Ohio State University and 6 external industrial groups.



NanoSystems Laboratory

Location: Physics Research Building First floor and Lower Level, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210

Website: nsl.osu.eduContact: Dr. Denis V. Pelekhov, Lab Manager

(614) 292-9125, [email protected]


SPIN CURRENT GENERATION IN GRAPHENE LAYERS USING SPIN HALL EFFECT

Generation of spin currents in graphene without using a magnetic material is fundamentally important for understanding spin related phenomena as well as for spintronic applications. Employing spin Hall effect (SHE) in a non-magnetic material and novel inverted device design, we present an experimental study to generate spin current in graphene. Figure (a) shows the optical image of graphene device, with Platinum nanowires (labeled Pt) and multiple cobalt electrodes (labeled Co), used to generate spin current in graphene. Interface of Pt/graphene is clean and free of any contaminants (or residues) as confirmed by atomic force microscopy. Figure (b) shows the spin-dependent non-local signal (RSHE) as a function of external applied magnetic field to control the orientation of the magnetization of the ferromagnetic detector electrode. The sign reversal of the RSHE signal upon reversing the polarity of the charge current in Pt confirms the spin-related origin of the measured signals. The spin signal (ΔRSHE) in our devices is three orders of magnitude larger than those observed for metallic spin channels. Inset to Figure (b) shows the schematic of the measurement set-up. The work was done by Dr. Simranjeet Singh, who is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Chris Hammel, in collaboration with the group of Prof. Roland Kawakami. The research was funded by the OSU Center for Emergent Materials (NSF MRSEC). Dr. Singh used NanoSystems Laboratory (NSL) facilities for device fabrication, characterization, packaging and measurements.

Dr. Denis Pelekhov, Director of NanoSystems Lab (NSL), received the John G. Whitcomb Distinguished Staff Award, which recognizes exceptional accomplishments, leadership, and service to the Department of Physics and its missions of research, teaching, and service. Dr. Pelekhov was recognized for his strong commitment to safety, student mentorship, and consistently outstanding service to NSL users. “Denis provides excellent service to users at NSL that is timely, thorough, inclusive, and equitable. I am particularly impressed with his respect for all levels of research: he treats graduate and undergraduate students with the same respect and care he shows to faculty… In addition to offering quality service, Denis is a shining example of scientific and research safety. He goes above and beyond to ensure that our students are following safety protocols–often adding his own for good measure –so that our students can learn and grow without fear or danger. I have personally witnessed Denis drop everything multiple times to address a safety issue with all the gravity and importance it deserves (and more) to protect a student.”

NSL Director Dr. Denis Pelekhov with his John G. Whitcomb Distinguished Staff Award

Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL)

The Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL) is Ohio State’s primary facility for molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). SEAL is home to six state-of-the-art MBE chambers, each dedicated to different, complementary

material systems, to ensure high-quality material epitaxy for both basic studies and true device development. Research is focused on a broad range of semiconductor materials, including AlGaInAsP, AlGaInAsSb, plasma assisted AlGaInN, plasma assisted AlGaO, SiGe and 2D selenium based materials. Several chambers are integrated into ultra-high vacuum (UHV) cluster tools enabling an unusual range of hybrid structures and devices. Vacuum Cluster I encompasses two MBE chambers and an analytical system allowing III-V/IV integration studies and high resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for in-situ chemical studies of pristine surfaces and interfaces. Unique combinations of nitride and oxide based electronic materials are capable within the two MBE chambers which make up Vacuum Cluster II. SEAL also includes a wide range of advanced, materials characterization tools to support breakthrough epitaxy and electronic materials. SEAL is a fully staffed user facility open to university and industry researchers.

SEMICONDUCTOR EPITA XY AND ANALYSIS LABORATORY FISCAL YEAR 2017 HIGHLIGHTS

• SEAL provided $177,000 of research services in FY17, enabling more than $10M of external research funding to the SEAL facility and industrial clients. SEAL increased its external service contracts in FY17 accounting for over 20% of it’s total revenue.

• The SEAL facility has expanded in FY17 to provide 450 square feet of research space dedicated to Prof. Sanjay Krishna’s efforts toward narrow bandgap semiconductors applied to infrared imaging sensors and technologies. Prof. Krishna has added a new antimonide MBE reactor (AMBER) to the SEAL facility that allows for the growth of high quality material for infrared sensing and imaging and for low power, high speed electronic technology. The user facility will be open for academic, government and industrial researchers and engineers for proof of concept demonstration to rapid prototyping through SEAL’s established cost center.

• Recent world’s-first demonstrations of all-epitaxy GaAsP/Si tandem solar cells — work that began and continues with SEAL support —formed the basis of new funding from the DOE-EERE SunShot program (DE-EE0007539) to bring this exciting and potentially transformative technology closer to commercial viability. Researchers at SEAL and NTW, teamed with collaborators from around the world, are working toward the focused optimization of every component within this advanced photovoltaic architecture, from fundamental materials science to novel device structures.



Location: SEAL Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) LabCleanroom: 095 Dreese Laboratories, 2015 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210SEAL Analysis Lab: 360 Caldwell Laboratory, 2024 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210Website: seal.osu.eduContact: Mark Brenner, Lab Manager (614) 688-4568, [email protected]


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SEAL researchers show the worlds first (AlGa)2O3/ Ga2O3 modulation doped field effect transistor. The images shows a cross sectional TEM image of the device material, and I-V characteristics of the device results. Siddharth Rajan and his research team have been working toward producing β-Ga2O3 based material over the past year which has significant potential for power switching and RF applications due to its wide band gap (4.6eV). The (AlGa)2O3/ Ga2O3 MODFET device can enable mm-wave and THz amplifiers with high power density that have applications in several areas including communication, radar, and sensing. This project has already yielded several collaborations and funding opportunities through the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).

Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Zhanbo Xia, Chandan Joishi, Yuewei Zhang, Joe McGlone, Jared Johnson, Mark Brenner, Aaron R. Arehart, Jinwoo Hwang, Saurabh Lodha and Siddharth Rajan “Modulation-doped β−(Al0.2Ga0.8)2O3/Ga2O3 field-effect transistor” Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 023502 (2017)

SEAL Lab Manager Mark Brenner receives his award from Electrical and Scott Osborne, Assistant Dean for Research, College of Engineering.

Mark Brenner, Lab Manager with the Semi-conductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL), was recently honored with the College for Engineering’s “Exemplary Support for Advancement of Research.” Given at the 2017 College of Engineering Staff Appreciation Luncheon, Brenner was recognized for his service and dedication to faculty recruitment, as well as student and research support across multiple departments. “Mark is a unique and outstanding part of our team and college,” his nomination letter states. “Without Mark here, we would not have been successful at recruiting the quality of faculty members that we have been able to, nor would those faculty members have been able to grow their programs so successfully. Mark’s commitment to student learning and student research also sets him apart. He takes time to train students on the various aspects of the lab and explain why certain procedures are in place. He will always drop what he’s doing to answer a student’s question or assist them if they are having difficulty. He is a great mentor.”

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2017 OSU Materials Week


Our 9th annual Materials Week was held May 9 – 12, 2017 at the Blackwell Inn and Conference Center on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. Materials Week is an annual event to

share innovative research, enable collaborations, and celebrate the breadth and depth of Ohio State’s multi-dimensional materials community. The conference brings together hundreds of researchers from academia, government labs and industry to discuss the latest materials advances across the wide spectrum of materials-allied fields. 2017 OSU Materials Week welcomed 376 participants who attended a keynote address, two crosscutting sessions, six focus sessions, Three Minute Thesis competition and two student poster sessions.

Senior Vice President of Research, Dr. Caroline Whitacre attended the closing session to recognize IMR Executive Director, Dr. Steven A. Ringel for over 10 years of “selfless dedication as the Executive Director of The Ohio State University Institute for Materials Research”, and to congratu-late our Student Poster Award winners. In addition to a record 22 Student Poster Awards, awards were presented for IMR Distinguished Service Award, IMR Member Most Citations Award, and IMR Innovation Awards (recognizing the most invention disclosures and patents issued).

2017 OSU Materials Week included a total of 41 scientific presentations, and two panel discussions in eight technical sessions:• Two Crosscutting Sessions on Materials and Manufacturing

for Sustainability • Six Focus Sessions◦ Materials Innovation◦ Materials & Nanostructures for Magnetic Skyrmions◦ Integrated Design of Materials◦ Innovations in Advanced Microscopy◦ Nanoengineered Materials for Medical Applications◦ Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductors

The 2017 OSU Materials Week conference was organized by the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability Discovery Theme focus area, with additional sponsorship by the Center for Emergent Materials and Office of Energy and Environment at Ohio State.

2017 IMR Innovation Award winners – Prof. Nicholas Brunelli, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Prof. Daniel Gallego- Perez, General Surgery and Biomedical Engineering


IMR KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Solar Electricity: Advancements and Opportunities with Innovative Emerging Technologies

Ayodhya N. Tiwari

Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Professor, ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of technology) ZürichChairman and Founder, Flisom Ltd.

Dr. Tiwari’s lab has contributed to numerous innovations and breakthroughs with novel concepts, especially in the field of thin film solar cells. His lab has achieved world record efficiencies for flexible thin film solar cells and for thin film polycrystalline tandem solar cells. Dr. Tiwari has more than 35 years of R&D experience in various photovoltaic technologies and is an internationally recognized leading scientist in the field of thin film solar cells. He is a co-author of more than 240 research publications and about 250 conference presentations including numerous invited papers and talks. He has co-chaired or co-organized several international conferences, co-edited special issues of leading journals on solar cells and thin films, and is serving on the editorial boards of several journals. He has been advisor to various institutions and an expert delegation member of EU and other national agencies..

In addition to the Student Poster Awards, we were happy to present four awards to students participating in the Three Minute Thesis Competition. Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition

developed by The University of Queensland (UQ) whereby Masters and PhD students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance. 3MT challenges students to consolidate their ideas and research discoveries so they can be presented concisely to a non-specialist audience. All participants did a wonderful job presenting to our panel of judges.

Matthew Souva (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) was awarded first place in the competition, while Xinpeng Du (Materials Science and Engineering) and Xianje (Tony) Ren (Food, Agricultural & Biological Engineering) tied for second place. Additionally, Silvia Duarte-Sanmiguel (Biomedical Engineering) was the recipient of the People’s Choice Award.


2017 OSU Materials Week


2017 OSU MATERIALS WEEK – STUDENT POSTER AWARDS

A total of 114 research posters were presented by Ohio State students from across the university at Materials Week’s two poster sessions. Each poster and presentation was evaluated by volunteer judges and

the top 20% were recognized during our Student Poster Awards at the conference’s closing ceremony.

• Saurabh Ailawar, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Hydrodechlorination of Trichloroethylene using Pd Supported on Swellable Organically Modified Silica (SOMS) in Aqueous Phase”

• Ehsan Akbari, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Alex Avendano, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering• Shelby Behnke, Chemistry and Biochemistry, “[Ni(cyclam)]2+ as

a Model System for CO2 Reduction”• Anne Benjamin, Physics, “Electronic and Optical Control of

Defects in Semiconductors”

• Ryan Buntain, Materials Science and Engineering (Welding Engineering)

• Julia Deitz, Materials Science and Engineering, “Detecting Nanoscale Electronic Structure Details with Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy”

• Bryan Esser, Materials Science and Engineering• Kevin Galiano, Physics• Jared Johnson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,

“Point and Extended Defects in Ultra Wide Band Gap β-Ga2O3 Interfaces”

• Kelly Luo, Physics, “Opto-Valleytronic Spin Injection in MoS2/Graphene Hybrid Structure”

• Alexander Marras, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, “Controllable Motion and Hierarchical Assembly of DNA Origami Mechanisms”

• Brendan McCullian, Physics, “Optical Detection of Acoustically Driven Ferromagnetic Resonance”

• Brenton Noesges, Physics, “Applications of Depth-Resolved Cathodoluminescence Spectroscopy to Ultra-thin Complex Oxides”

• Xianjie Ren, Food Agricultural & Biological Engineering• Jeffrey Slater, Chemistry and Biochemistry, “Electrochemical

Hydrogen Generation using a Protein-Based Catalyst”• Jeff Stewart, Materials Science and Engineering (Welding

Engineering), “Temper Bead Welding for Weld Overlays Power Generation, Oil and Gas, and Petrochemical Industries”

• Steven Tjung, Physics• Ramandeep Vilkhu, Electrical and Computer Engineering,

“Scalable Power Generation for Wearable Electronics using Fabric Electrochemistry”

• Mariah Whitaker, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, “Designing cooperative interactions in organic-inorganic cata-lysts for selective production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural”

• Hao Yang, Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Nanoporous Graphene Materials for On-Chip Energy Storage Applications”

• David Yeung, Biomedical Engineering, “Decoron and Collagen Micro-Rheology”


The Metrobots

The Metrobots are a high school robotics team that participates in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition every year. The team is made up of both students and teachers from Metro Early College High School. Students run almost all aspects of the competition on their own, including raising funds, building the robot and controlling the robot during the competi-tions themselves. The mentors and coaches provide guidance and assistance if necessary, giving the students a chance to be independent and create something on their own. The FIRST Robotics Competition is international, and the challenge changes every year. Teams are given six weeks to design and build their robot; this includes reaching out to potential sponsors to fund their design, create a team brand for the competition and build the robot itself. Through this experience, students are given the chance to get some real-world experience with engineering. It’s a wonderful experience for high schoolers in general, and allows them to get involved in engineering before entering college. The Institute for Materials Research donated to the team earlier this year after learning more about the competition and how it benefits high school engineering students. IMR is dedicated to encouraging youth engineering students and investing in their future. The team recently finished the World Competition in St. Louis, and were awarded the Engineering Inspiration Award for their hard work. This award “celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school as well as their community.” Congrats to the team for all of their amazing work this year! If you’re interested in learning more about the team, you can visit their website at www.metrobots.org.

Distinguished Lecture Series

The Institute for Materials Research hosts a Distinguished Lecture Series which brings world renowned materials researchers to The Ohio State University

each year. IMR Distinguished Lecturers discuss cutting-edge materials research with Ohio State students, faculty and staff in an effort to broaden our information base beyond our campus by meeting some of the top scientists in their fields.

From Mobile Phones to Russian Dolls to MASERsNeil Alford, Imperial College London January 20, 2017



IMR-Supported Workshops

SPINS, VALLEYS, AND TOPOLOGICAL STATES IN 2D AND LAYERED MATERIALS

In 2017, IMR was pleased to support the Spins, Valleys, and Topological States in 2D and Layered Materials which took place at The Ohio State University June 5-8, 2017. The aim of the workshop is to bring together a leading group of researchers, in addition to students, postdocs and other participants, to discuss 2D platforms for spin, valley, and topological physics and their potential applications. With the continued evolution of graphene spintronics, combined with the recent advances in spin/valley-polarized excitations in transition metal dichalocogenides, and novel concepts related to the theory and synthesis of emerging new materials, there is a critical mass of researchers with complementary interests. In addition, monolayer magnetism and robust 2D topological states are important challenges moving forward. The workshop included four tutorial sessions, 39 technical talks, 105 student poster presentations, and was attended by ~150 participants in which over half were from external Universities and National Laboratories. The workshop was organized by IMR members, Prof. Joshua Goldberger, Prof. Roland Kawakami, and Prof. Yuan-Ming Lu, and supported by the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM) an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), the Institute of Complex and Adaptive Matter (ICAM), the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), and the Center for Exploration of Novel Complex Materials (ENCOMM).


The Ohio Manufacturing Institute, University of Cincinnati and Ohio partners hosted a workshop featuring a delegation of industry, university and economic development representatives from the Baden-Württemberg state of Germany. The March 27th international workshop featured discussion on how Ohio and Germany are participating in the fourth industrial revolution, or “Industry 4.0,” the current trend of manufacturing technologies maximizing efficiency through automation and data exchange.

The workshop included keynote addresses by representatives from GE Aviation and Baden-Württemberg addressing the question of automation and how the workspace will evolve in the future. Panel discussions on “Smart Factories – Towards the Factory of the Future,” and “Work 4.0 – How Next Generation Industries Will Change the Working Reality of the Future” included three experts IMR’s Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) program – moderator Glenn Daehn, Fontana Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and M&MS Deputy Faculty Director, and panelists Jay Sayre, Assistant Vice President for M&MS and IMR Director of Innovation and Ned Hill, Professor of Public Administration and City and Regional Planning, who was hired in 2015 through the M&MS program. The workshop concluded with an evening reception attended by state government and university dignitaries. Presentations from the Industry 4.0 workshop are available on OMI’s website: https://omi.osu.edu/Industry4.0

M&MS Leaders Participate in Germany-US Industry 4.0 Workshop

IMR FY 2017 Financial Overview

INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH | FINANCIALS AND FUTURE PLANS

76% DIRECT RESEARCH

SUPPORT

● Technical Personnel $1,323,552 (43%)

● NTW Core Operating Expenses $550,361 (18%)

● Seed Grants $230,351 (7%)

● Additional Support of Prime Materials Research Centers $236,075 (8%)

24%

● Administrative Personnel $659,702 (21%)

● Outreach and Engagement $70,451 (2%)

● Strategic Workshops $7,253 (<1%)

● Core Operating Expenses $17,040 (1%)


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Institute for Materials Research Strategy

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The Institute for Materials Research’s strategic plan is driven by the goal to support and grow research excellence and impact by our students, staff and faculty to position Ohio State as a world-leader in materials research and innovation. The plan revolves around these core tenets:

Programmatic alignment with university, college, and department strategic plans:

• Enablement of interdisciplinary research

• Development, support, and advancement of prime research centers,

• Assurance of world-class core facilities, and

• Development of new strategic opportunities for the OSU materials community

During the past year, the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) Discovery Theme program led by IMR has become a well-advanced program. The hiring of our third cohort of M&MS faculty and innovation leaders is complete, the Materials Innovation Laboratory is now a fully functioning arm of the Institute, our global partnership program continues to be vibrant, we are enabling interdisciplinary collaborations on a local to global scale, and we are establishing new core material facilities; all of this while our existing centers continue to push the leading edges of their fields and our seed programs are building the teams and centers of the future. Thus, with the IMR now 10 years old, the next four years are pivotal, since now for the first time IMR has the capacity and resources to add to and complement its more internally-focused agenda with an external engagement strategy that leverages all that IMR has done to date.

Below is an outline of our set of rolling four-year strategic objectives, which is updated annually to maintain relevancy.

PROGRAMS AND CENTERS

• Deliver on the Materials and Manufacturing for Sustainability (M&MS) objectives

• Expand strategic partnerships and collaborations

• Establish, develop, and grow new research centers while sustaining and improving impact of existing centers

CORE MATERIALS FACILITIES

• Develop new core facilities according to strategic directions

• Improve operational efficiency and effectiveness across core facilities

COMMUNITY EVENTS

• Continue to advance IMR culture of inclusion, engagement, and collaboration through Materials Week and Distinguished Lecture Series

• Launch innovation sessions, seminars, and workshops


Gunjan Agarwal, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Sudha Agarwal, Professor, Oral Biology

Sheikh Akbar, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Boian Alexandrov, Research Staff, Materials Science and Engineering

Heather Allen, Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry

Douglas Alsdorf, Associate Professor, Earth Sciences

Betty Lise Anderson, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Peter Anderson, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Aaron Arehart, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aravind Asthagiri, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jovica Badjic, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Robert Bailey, Faculty Emeritus Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jim Beatty, Professor, Physics

Avraham Benatar, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Paul Berger, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Bharat Bhushan, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Thomas Blue, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Marc Bockrath, Materials Science and Engineering

Dennis Bong, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Leonard Brillson, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nicholas Brunelli, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Rafael Bruschweiler, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Rudy Buchheit, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Ralf Bundschuh, Associate Professor, Physics

Richard Busick, Lecturer, Engineering Education Innovation Center

Michael Camp, Assistant Professor, Fisher College of Business

Lei (Raymond) Cao, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Carlos Castro, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jose Castro, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jeffrey Chalmers, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Hanna Cho, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

William Clark, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

John Clay, Associate Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Anne Co, Assistant Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry

James Coe, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Henk Colijn, Research Specialist, Materials Science and Engineering

Edward Collings, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Terry Conlisk, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Stuart Cooper, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Katrina Cornish, Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science

Glenn Daehn, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Marcelo Dapino, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Robert Davis, PVIC PI & Director, Institute for Materials Research

Frank De Lucia, Distinguished University Professor, Physics

Suliman Dregia, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Charles Drummond, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Rebecca Dupaix, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Prabir Dutta Fox, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemist

Thaddeus Ezeji, Assistant Professor, Animal Sciences

Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Dave Farson, Associate Professor Materials Science and Engineering

Ayman Fayed, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carolin Fink, Industrial Science and Welding

Gerald Frankel, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Hamish Fraser, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Richard Freeman, Professor, Physics

Samir Ghadiali, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Nima Ghalichechian, Research Scientist, Electroscience Laboratory

Maryam Ghazisaedi, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Josh Goldberger, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Keith Gooch, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Thomas Gramila, Associate Professo, Physics

Tyler Grassman, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jianjun Guan, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Yann Guezennec, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Liang Guo, Assistant Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jay Gupta, Assistant Professor, Physics

Prabhat Gupta, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Terry Gustafson, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Denis Guttridge, Professor, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics

Lisa Hall, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Nathan Hall, Assistant Professor, Radiology

P. Chris Hammel, Professor, Physics

Derek Hansford, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Ryan Harne, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Richard Hart, Chair, Biomedical Engineering

Xiaoming He, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Joseph Heremans, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Anton Heyns, Lecturer, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Ned Hill, Professor, John Glenn Public Affairs

George Hinkle, Professor Emeritus, Pharmacy

W.S. Winston Ho, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

John Horack, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jinwoo Hwang, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Joerg Jinschek, Materials Science and Engineering

Joel Johnson, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, Assistant Professor, Physics

Goldberger Josh, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Roland Kawakami, Professor, Physics

Marat Khafizov, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Waleed Khalil, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jung-Hyun Kim, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Matt Kleinhenz, Associate Professor, Horticulture and Crop Science

Kurt Koelling, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Sanjay Krishna, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ashok Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Gregory Lafyatis, Associate Professor, Physics

John Lannutti, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jeanie (ChunNing) Lau, Physics

L. James Lee, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Robert Lee, Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robert J. Lee, Professor, Pharmacy

Stephen Lee, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Jennifer Leight, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Thomas Lemberger, Professor, Physics

John Lenhart, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Sciences

Yebo Li, Associate Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Blaine Lilly, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

John Lippold, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jenifer Locke, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Wu Lu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Alan Luo, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Fang Luo, Research Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH | FACULTY MEMBERS


Anthony Luscher, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Raghu Machiraju, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Edward Martin Jr., Professor, Surgery Oncology

Sandip Mazumder, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

David McComb, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Psaras McGrier, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Jack McNamara, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Chia-Hsiang, Menq Ralph W. Kurtz Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Fred Michel Jr., Associate Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Terry Miller, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Michael Mills, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Prasad Mokashi, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Patricia Morris, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Randy Moses, Associate VP, Office of Research

Karin Musier-Forsyth, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Roberto Myers, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Stephen Myers, Professor, Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center

David Nagib, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Stephen Niezgoda, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Susan Olesik, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Michael Ostrowski, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Umit Ozkan, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Andre Palmer, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Wendy Panero, Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences

Jon Parquette, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

Michael Paulaitis, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jonathan Pelz, Professor, Physics

David Phillips, Lecturer, Materials Science and Engineering

Michael Poirier, Assistant Professor, Physics

Alison Polasik, Lecturer, Materials Science and Engineering

Farhang Pourboghrat, Professor, ISE

Stephen Povoski, Associate Professor, Surgery Oncology

Heather Powell, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Shaurya Prakash, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Siddharth Rajan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Thaliyil Rajanbabu, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Antonio Ramirez Londono, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Mohit Randeria, Professor, Physics

Robert Rapp, Professor Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering

Bill Ravlin, Professor, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

Ronald Reano, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

David Rigney, Faculty Emeritus, Materials Science and Engineering

Matthew Ringel, Professor, Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics

Steven Ringel, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Giorgio Rizzoni, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Patrick Roblin, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Roberto Rojas-Teran, Professor, Electroscience Laboratory

Thomas Rosol, Professor, Surgery Oncology

Gang Ruan, Research Staff, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

William Saam, Emeritus Professor, Physics

Yogeshwar Sahai, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Sudhir Sastry, Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Jay Sayre, Director of Innovation, Institute for Materials Research

Scott Schricker, Associate Professor, Dentistry

Kubilay Sertel, Research Scientist, Electroscience Laboratory

Hannah Shafaat, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Ajay Shah, Assistant Professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Scott Shearer, Chair, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Sherwin Singer, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Rajendra Singh, Department Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Philip Smith, Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering

Soheil Soghrati, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jonathan Song, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ratnasingham Sooryakumar, Professor, Physics

Krishnaswamy Srinivasan, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Steven St. Martin, Faculty Emeritus, Horticulture and Crop Science

Doru Stefanescu, Faculty Emeritus Materials Science and Engineering

David Stroud, Professor, Physics

Haijun Su, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vishwanath Subramaniam, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Michael Sumption, Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Xiaodong Sun, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Vishnu Sundaresan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Richard Swenson, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Catelyn Swindle-Reilly, Biomedical Engineering

F. Robert Tabita, Professor, Microbiology

David Tomasko, Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Nandini Trivedi, Professor, Physics

Claudia Turro, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

George Valco, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Assistant Professor, Physics

Hendrik Verweij, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Gopal Babu Viswanathan, Research Scientist, Materials Science and Engineering

Yael Vodovotz, Associate Professor, Food Science and Technology

John Volakis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Robert Wagoner, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Eric Walton, Staff Emeritus, Electroscience Laboratory

Yunzhi Wang, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Janet Weisenberger, Associate Vice President, Office of Research

Caroline Whitacre, Vice President for Research, Office of Research

Marvin White, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

John Wilkins, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Physics

David Williams, Dean, College of Engineering

James Williams, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Robert Williams, Senior Research Specialist, Materials Science and Engineering

Wolfgang Windl, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Jessica Winter, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

David Wood, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Patrick Woodward, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Yiying Wu, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Barbara Wyslouzil, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Vicki Wysocki, Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Ronald Xu, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Fengyuan Yang, Assistant Professor, Physics

Shang-Tian Yang, Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Allen Yi, Professor, Integrated Systems Engineering

Sheng-Tao John Yu, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Jinsuo Zhang, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Mingjun Zhang, Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Wei Zhang, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Ji-Cheng Zhao, Associate Professor Materials Science and Engineering

Yi Zhao, Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering

Fengyuan Zheng, Resortative Sciences and Prosthodontics

Yuan Zheng, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dongping Zhong, Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry

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IMR MEMBERS OF TECHNICAL STAFF

Mark BrennerSenior Research AssociateSemiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory (614) [email protected]

John CarlinAssociate Director and Research ScientistNanotech West Laboratory (614) [email protected]

Henk ColijnAssistant Director of Operations and Senior Research SpecialistCenter for Electron Microscopy and Analysis (614) [email protected]

David HollingsheadSenior Research Associate Nanotech West Laboratory(614) [email protected]

Denis PelekhovDirectorNanoSystems Laboratory (614) [email protected]

Aimee PriceSenior Research AssociateNanotech West Laboratory (614) [email protected]

IMR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

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IMR ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS

Bob DavisDirector, Nanotech West Laboratory (614) [email protected]

David McCombProfessor, Materials Science and Engineering; Ohio Research Scholar in Nanoscale Materials Characterization; and Director, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis(614) [email protected]

Fengyuan YangAssociate Professor, Physics and Director, NanoSystems Laboratory (614) [email protected]

DIRECTORS

Steven A. RingelIMR Executive Director; M&MS Faculty Director; Neal A. Smith Chair and Professor of Electrical Engineering (614) [email protected]


Jay R. SayreAssistant Vice President for M&MS and IMR Director of Innovation(614) [email protected]

Timothy ArmstrongBoard Chair Chief Executive OfficerSteward Advanced Materials [email protected]

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Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the following contributors who provided valuable content to this report:

Mark Brenner, Senior Research Associate, Semiconductor Epitaxy and Analysis Laboratory

Isabel Boona, Research Associate, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

John Carlin, Associate Director, Nanotech West Laboratory

Henk Colijn, Asst Dir, Research Operations, Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis

Susan Conrad, Associate Director, Office of Sponsored Programs

Michael Coutinho, Systems Officer, Technology Commercialization Office

Elizabeth Culley, MEP Marketing & Outreach Coord, Communication & Marketing Coordinator, Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence

Kathryn Kelley, Managing Director, Ohio Manufacturing Institute

Rachel Page, Program Coordinator, Center for Emergent Materials

Denis Pelekhov, Director, NanoSystems Laboratory

Eric Wagner, Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence

Stephanie Henry, Graphic Design, henrydesigninc.com

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• Nanotech West (NTW)

• Materials Innovation Lab (NTW)

• Center for Electronic Microscopy and Analysis

• Center for Design and Manufacturing Excellence

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