Samanvitha Sridhar - Physics Graduate Student

Photoelectron spectroscopy of new electronic materials such as hybrid perovskites, spin-orbit halides, and organic semiconductor crystals.

Ali Khansari - Physics Graduate Student

Surface potential of Mott insulators, Memristors in transition metal halides, morphology of chiral organic thin films

Alumni:

Jordan Frick - Ph.D in Physics 2021

Thesis: "Non-linear Charge Transport in the Mott Insulator a-RuCl3 and Related Materials"

Elizabeth Norman: B.S. in Physics

Point contact tranport in transition meta

Sara Pazoki - Ph.D in Physics 2019

Thesis: "Obstacles for Carrier Transport in Organic Semiconductors: Study of Dynamic Disorder and Morphological Degradation"

Dan Nevola - Ph.D in Physics 2018

Thesis: "Time-and-Angle Resolved Studies of Quantum Materials."

Joseph Laanan: B.S. in Physics

Organic seminconductor film growth and TFT characterization

Will DeLooze: B.S. in Physics

X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy of RuCl3 and software developement for XPS data acquistion

Polina Pechnikova: B.S. in Physics 2018

Organic semicocndutor film growth and ultrathin film transistor fabrication and characterization

Drew DeLoach - Ph.D in Physics 2018

Thesis: "Spin Polarized Hybrid States in Metal-Organic Interfaces: The Effect of a Spin-Split Substrate Band on Electronic Structure of Adsorbed Molecules"

Johnathan Thomas: B.S. in Physics

Organic single crystal growth by vapor transport

Aubrey Apperson - B.S. in Physics

Organic semiconductor film growth by molecular beam deposition characterization with atomic force microscopy; time dependent observations of film morphology evolution

Ben Hoffman - Ph.D in Physics 2017

Thesis: "Electronic Disorder in Organic Semiconducting Films Observed with Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy "

Jingying Wang - Ph. D in Physics 2016

Thesis: "Orbital Control of Spin-Polarized Hybridization for Spin Injection at Metal-Organic Interface"

Andy Hewitt - Ph.D in Physics 2016

Thesis: "Coupling Organic Molecules to Topological Insulators"

Sean Stuart - Ph.D in Physics 2015

Thesis: "Oxide-Graphene Interfaces for Graphene Spintronics"

Terry McAfee - Ph.D in Physics 2015 (co-advised with Harald Ade)

Thesis: "Investigation and Control of "Sphere-Like" Buckminsterfullerene C60 and "Disk-Like" Copper(II) Phthalocyanine"

Jiuyang Wang - Ph.D in Physics 2013

Thesis: : "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Disorder in Organic Semiconductors"

Mark Wetherington - B.S. in Physics (2013)

Mark studied the growth, nanoscale morphology, and charge transport properties of organic semiconductor films. He was particularly valuable in helping us explore the unusual and tricky vacuum evaporation of the polymeric materials P3HT.

Alex Pronschinske -PhD in Physics (2012)

Thesis: "Surface-Bound Molecular Film Structure Effects on Electronic and Magnetic Properties"

Andreas Sandin (co-advised with Jack Rowe) - PhD in Physics (2012)

Thesis: "Tunneling Spectroscopy Studies of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC(0001) and its Interfaces"

Zhengang Wang - PhD in Physics (2012)

Thesis: "Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy of Metal-Organic Interfaces for Electronics and Spintronic Applications"

Will Collins - Center for Molecular Spintronics Summer REU 2011, Bachelor's degree from Shaw university (2012).

Will spent the summer of 2011 helping to define a new direction in Molecular Spinstronics research by performing our first experiments in the vacuum deposition of Fe(II) spin crossover thin films. These materials have become a crucial part of our spintronics research efforts and figured prominently in the CMS reverse site visit to the National Science Foundation. Will delivered a poster about his summer REU work during this important trip to Washington, DC.

Andy Hewitt - BS in Physics (2011)

Andy was one of the founding members of the research group in 2008. He spent 3 years studying the growth and electrical transport properties of organic films and single crystals. He had a hand in building a large part of the lab. His work earned 3 NCSU undergraduate research awards, 3rd prize in the Physics department undergraduate poster contest in 2009, and 2 summer undergraduate research fellowships at NIST.

Daniel Mardit - MS in Physics (2011)

Dan worked on STM studies of surface alloying during Fe growth on Cu(110). He also contributed to theoretical studies of the constant-current distance voltage mode of scanning tunneling spectroscopy.

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