March 2019

APS March Meeting talks from our group:

1. Electrical Spin Injection into Silicon Nanowires with Axial Doping Gradient

2. Spin Filtering through Chiral Molecules on Semiconductors

3. Critical current and persistent supercurrent in asymmetric superconducting rings

03/22/2017

Timothy Keiper defended his dissertation on "Surface Modification for Improved Design and Functionality of Nanostructured Materials and Devices".

Congratulations to Dr. Keiper!

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04/11/2017

Jorge Barreda defended his dissertation on "Fabrication and Characterization of Heterogeneous Nanowires".

Congratulations to Dr. Barreda!

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04/17/2018

Longqian Hu defended his dissertation on "Transport and Tunneling Investigation of Strongly Correlated Superconducting and Magnetic Thin Films".

Congratulations to Dr. Hu!

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03/29/2018

Tianhan Liu won the People's Choice Award at the 2018 Art in STEM Exhibition.

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05/23/2018

Konstantinos Kountouriotis defended his dissertation on "Spin Transport in Si Nanowires with an Axial Doping Gradient".

Congratulations to Dr. Kountouriotis!

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11/27/2018

Congratulations to Tianhan Liu as a finalist in the Three Minute Thesis competition!

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01/29/2019

Danielle Simmons defended her dissertation on "Magnetic Ordering and Magnetotransport at Molecular and Nano Scales".

Congratulations to Dr. Simmons!

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02/02/2019

Our group took the responsibility for the CMMP tour at the Physics Open House.

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02/23/2021

Tianhan Liu defended her dissertation on "Spin Transport in Hybrid Organic-Semiconductor Nanostructures via Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity". Congratulations, Dr. Liu!

We were also excited to hold the virtual homecoming with previous Xiong group members.

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Novermber 2020

Prof. Stephan von Molnár passed away on 11/17/2020.

We mourn a loss and will carry on with his legacy!

Remembering Stephan von Molnár (FSU Physics)

A pioneer in magnetic semiconductors (Journal of Semiconductors) (pdf)

Stephan von Molnár (Physics Today)

March 2020

APS March Meeting talks from our group:

1. Chirality-induced Spin Selectivity in a Two-terminal Semiconductor Device

2. In-plane Critical Field far beyond the Paramagnetic Limit for Thin Al Films on Topological Insulator Surface

3. Theory of Giant In-Plane Critical Field Enhancement in Superconducting Films on a Topological Insulator Surface

4. Scanning Photocurrent Measurements of Degenerately Doped Si

04/23/2021

Congratulations on Dr. Xiong for receiving his Distinguished Research Professor Award!

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Congratulations to Meg for receiving the Lannutti Award, gold metal for best poster presentation entitled “Nonlinear current-voltage characteristics due to ion migration in 1D metal-halide hybrids” and Charles & Anna Uhrhan Scholarship “for her outstanding Honors Thesis research on electronic properties of 1D metal-halide hybrid materials”.

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May 2021

First-year graduate students Zhenqi Hua and Haoyang Liu joined Xiong group. Welcome!

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07/06/2021

Jacob Hudis defended his dissertation on "Persistent Current Dynamics in Asymmetric Superconducting Nanorings". Congratulations, Dr. Hudis!