Professor Haiyan Wang's Thin Film Group is in the School of Materials Engineering and School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Our research focuses on:
Heteroepitaxial oxide thin films for magnetic and spintronic devices
New types of 2D layered structures for room-temperature multiferroics
Integration of functional thin films onto silicon and flexible substrates
Electronic devices such as memristors and their switching properties
Field-induced mass transport phenomena during flash sintering of ceramics
Microstructural characterization with in situ TEM
Lithium-ion thin film batteries and solid oxide fuel cells
Recent 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)!
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