Prof. Nandini Trivedi has recently been notified that she and her collaborators Utpal Chatterjee (U Virginia), Emilia Morosan (Rice) and Vidya Madhavan (UIUC) have been awarded a DMREF (Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future) grant from NSF.  This is part of the Obama administration's 2011 Materials Genome Initiative launched in 2011 as a multi-agency initiative to accelerate materials discovery and design.

The $1.6M four year grant will be shared among the collaborators whose proposal is entitled: Accelerated discovery of chalcogenides for enhanced functionality in magnetotransport, multiorbital superconductivity, and topological applications.  Dr. Trivedi describes their proposed research:  Transition metal dichalcogenides are weakly coupled layered materials (like graphene, but richer) in which the Coulomb interactions and spin-orbit coupling can be tuned by changing the transition metal ion. Our aim is to explore several phenomena of fundamental importance, such as superconductivity, magnetism and magneto-transport in multi-orbital systems. Our team has expertise in growth of single crystals and thin films, spectroscopy in real space (scanning tunneling) and in momentum space (angle-resolved photoemission), and theory and modeling. We expect our synergistic approach to lead to optimization of properties for topological field effect transistors and thermomagnetic spintronics applications. 

Congratulations Dr. Trivedi!

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