Group News
Congratulations to Dr. James Barnard for defending his dissertation! We celebrated with him before he moves to his new job! (May 2024)
We went on a group excursion to go kayaking at Eagle Creek Park to help everyone relax at the beginning of the summer! (May 2024)
Congratulations to Yizhi Zhang on being the MSE Nominee for Graduate School Mentoring Award for Graduate Students and Claire Mihalko on winning the Robert M. Briney Achievement Award for their excelent preliminary document and exam. (May 2024)
Congratulations to Jianan Shen for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2024 MRS Meeting (April 2024)!
Congratulations to Matteo Moceri on his graduation (April 2024)!
Congratulation to undergraduate student Eli Hollander and Allison Scher on their poster presentations for Purdue SCALE (December 2023)!
Congratulations to Juanjuan Lu, James Barnard, and Jiawei Song for their posters at the fall MRS 2023 meeting (November 2023)!
Congratulations to James Barnard, Nirali Bhatt, and Liz Quigley for their posters at Purdue's Sandia Top Talent Reception (November 2023)!
Congratulations to Zedong Hu for his presentation at MMM 2023 (November 2023)!
Congratulations to Dr. Hongyi Dou on his graduation (August 2023)!
Thank you to Dr. Jijie Huang for visiting our group again as a visiting scholar. (July 2023)
Group picnic to celebrate personal and professional achievements (July 2023)! (Photo credits for second through fifth photo go to Anyu Shang)
Congragulations to James Barnard, Jianan Shen, Jiawei Song, Yizhi Zhang, and Hongyi Dou for their great presentations at EMA 2023 (January 2023)!
Congratulations Dr. Zihao He on his graduation! (December 2022)
We celebrated Bethany Rutherford's graduation with a farewell luncheon. (October 2022)
Congratulations Dr. Bethany Rutherford and Dr. Juncheng Liu on their graduation! (August 2022)
Congratulations to Dr. Robynne Paldi, Dr. Matias Kalaswad, and Dr. Xin Li Phuah for graduation! Previous graduate Dr. Shikhar Misra was able to join us for the ceremony. (August 2021)
Congratulations to Dr. Di Zhang for graduation! (May 2021)
Technology uses 'single' approach to develop electronics, acoustics (March 2021)
Congratulations to Di Zhang for receiving the Outstanding Research Award and to Robynne Paldi for receiving the Outstanding Service Award in this year's Engineering Graduate Program Awards! (March 2021)
Congratulations to Prof. Haiyan Wang for being named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors! (December 2020)
Congratulations to Xin Li Phuah for being awarded 1st Place in the Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition (SEM category). See the winning ceramographic entry in our Gallery. (November 2020)
Congratulations to Bruce Zhang, Shikhar Misra, and Xuejing Wang for graduation! (August 2020)
Congratulations to Bethany Rutherford for receiving the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Award! (May 2020)
Congratulations to Xuejing Wang for receiving the College of Engineering's Outstanding Research Award and Xin Li Phuah for receiving the College of Engineering's Outstanding Service Scholarship Award! (April 2020)
Shikhar Misra, Di Zhang, and Matias Kalaswad presented their work at the EMA 2020 Conference in Orlando, FL. (January 2020)
Congratulations to Zhimin Qi and Xingyao Gao for graduation! (December 2019)
Thanks to Zhimin, Xingyao, and Bruce for setting up a new section of PLD chambers! These three chambers will be used for exotic materials and special substrates. (December 2019)
Annual Holiday Lunch with Dr. Wang's and Dr. Zhang's Groups. (November 2019)
Xuejing Wang and Shikhar Misra presented their work at the MRS Conference. Congratulations to Shikhar for winning Best Poster award! (December 2019)
Congratulations to Xin Li Phuah for being awarded the Roland B. Snow award (Best of Show of the Ceramographic Exhibit & Competition). See the winning ceramographic entry in our Gallery. Xin Li also won the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) award at the MS&T Conference. (October 2019)
Xin Li Phuah presented her work at the MS&T conference in Portland, OR. (September 2019)
Former group member Dr. Wenrui Zhang visits Purdue University. (October 2019)
Farewell party for Jijie. (June 2019)
Congratulations to Han Wang and Xing Sun for graduation! (August 2019)
Congratulations to Xin Li Phuah for being awarded the Briney Achievement Award! (May 2019)
Dr. Haiyan Wang was named a Fellow of the Materials Research Society. (March 2019)
Congratulations to Shikhar Misra for being awarded the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship! (January 2019)
Jijie Huang, Han Wang, and Shikhar Misra presented their work at the EMA 2019 Conference in Orlando, FL. (January 2019)
Dr. Wang and Xin Li Phuah presented their work at Gordon Research Conference: Solid State Studies in Ceramics. (August 2018)
Farewell luncheon for Leigang. (January 2018)
Congratulations to Leigang Li and Meng Fan for graduation! (May 2017)
Congratulations to Jijie Huang and Jie Jian for graduation! (December 2016)
Annual Holiday Lunch. (December 2016)
Visit from Dr. Tsakalakos. (November 2016)
Clement's farewell. (January 2016)
Group meeting. (July 2015)
Fauzia's farewell. (May 2015)
Liang's graduation. (May 2015)
Congratulations to Wenrui Zhang and Clement Jacob for graduation! (December 2015)
Congratulations to Fauzia Khatkhatay and Liang Jiao for graduation! (May 2015)
TAMEST 2015 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards Tribute Video. (January 2015)
Lab tour at Texas A&M ERB building. (December 2014)
Congratulations to Qing Su for graduation! (January 2014)
Congratulations to Li Chen for graduation! (August 2013)
Congratulations to Michelle Myers, Chen-Fong Tsai, Aiping Chen, Yuanyuan Zhu for graduation! (May 2013)
Congratulations to Yuanyuan Zhu for her paper featured on the cover of Superconductor Science and Technology! (February 2013)
Congratulations to Joon Hwan Lee for graduation! (December 2012)
Congratulations to Sungmee Cho for graduation! (August 2011)
Congratulations to Ick-Chan Kim for graduation! (May 2011)
Congratulations to Zhenxing Bi for passing his Ph.D. final defense! (March 2011)
Michelle Myers presented her research results on ZnO thin films at the International Conference of ZnO hosted in China. (August 2010)
Chen-Fong Tsai, Li Chen and Dr. Wang attended the ASC 2010 meeting in Washington DC and presented our group’s recent effort on high temperature superconductors. (August 2010)
Our group hosted two summer undergraduate researchers (Fan Zhu and Travis Neeley) and two high school teachers (Mr. Collins and Mr. Hudson) for conducting summer research at our labs. The research results were presented at the REU poster session. (August 2010)
Dr. Wang received a NSF-CAREER award in 2009. (March 2009)
Dr. Wang received a PECASE award at the award ceremony hosted in White House on December 19th, 2008. (December 2008)
Congratulations to Roy Araujo for passing his Ph.D. final defense! (October 2008)
Congratulations to Jongsik Yoon for passing his Ph.D. final defense! (August 2008)
Applied Materials Inc. donated equipment for Dr. Wang's thin film class. (July 2008)
Dr. Wang receives ONR young investigator award (ONR-YIP) 2008. (March 2008)
Dr. Wang was featured as one of the Rising Stars of Texas in Nano Summit 2007. She presented an invited talk entitled “Nanostructured Functional Ceramic Thin Films and Applications”. The talk summarized our group’s research efforts on various ceramic coatings for applications in high temperature superconductors, diffusion barriers, solid oxide fuel cells and ion irradiation tolerance coatings. Jongsik Yoon presented a poster on his thin film solid oxide fuel cell work in the conference. (August 2007)
Dr. Wang, Jongsik Yoon and Roy Araujo reported our recent research results at the MRS Spring 2007 meeting in San Francisco. Dr. Wang’s talk focused on our group effort in the area of nanostructured YBCO coated conductors with improved flux pinning properties. Jongsik presented his recent progress on nanoporous cathode developments for thin film solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Roy presented his research on nanostructured nitride diffusion barrier for Cu interconnects. (April 2007)
Roy Araujo presented his poster presentation for his research on nanostructured nitride diffusion barrier for Cu interconnects at the Student Research Week at TAMU. (March 2007)
Dr. Wang receives Air Force young investigator award. (October 2006)