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"2D MATERIALS LEGO: EVIDENCE FOR A SINGLE-LAYER VAN DER WAALS MULTIFERROIC!
An international collaboration among the experimental groups led by Prof. Riccardo Comin and Prof. Nuh Gedik at Massachussets Institute of Technology and the theoretical groups led by Dr. Silvia Picozzi at CNR-SPIN and by Prof. Antia Botana at Arizona State University resulted in the discovery of multiferroicity persisting down to the monolayer limit.
See our recent Nature paper !!
Song Q., Occhialini C.A., Ergecen E., Ilyas B., Amoroso D., Barone P., Kapeghian J., Watanabe K., Taniguchi T., Botana A. S., Picozzi S., Gedik N., Comin R., Nature 602,601 (2022)
NEW POST-DOC JOINING!
Starting March 2022, a new group member joined, Dr. Srdjan Stavric. Welcome!
SILVIA NAMED AS 2019 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY FELLOW
On September 19th, the American Physical Society (APS) announced the 168 members elected as "APS Fellows" for the year 2019 and Silvia was included in the list of awardees for the Division of Materials Physics (DMP). The motivation for the award reads as: “For pioneering contributions to the fundamental understanding of microscopic mechanisms linking magnetic and electric dipolar degrees of freedom, through advanced modelling of ferroelectrics, antiferromagnets and multi-ferroics”.
The Fellowship Program of the American Physical Society was established as a recognition by colleagues towards members of the Society who contributed in an exceptional way to progress in different fields of physics through research and original publications, or brought innovations in the application of physics to technology, or considerably contributed to the teaching of physics or to the activities of the Society. Each year, less than 0.5% of APS members (excluding student members) are elected as Fellow of the American Physical Society. The award will be celebrated with a ceremony in honor of the APS Fellows in Denver (Colorado, USA) at the upcoming APS March Meeting (2-6 March 2020).