Patrick Irvin

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
Ph.D. Physics, University of Pittsburgh, 2009
Summary:

Low-temperature transport, photonic measurements in semiconductor and oxide nanostructures, microwave spectroscopy of ferroelectric thin films, spectroscopic measurements combining high spectral and temporal resolution. 

Most Cited Publications
  1. "Room-temperature ferroelectricity in strained SrTiO3," JH Haeni, P Irvin, W Chang, R Uecker, P Reiche, YL Li, S Choudhury, W Tian, ME Hawley, B Craigo, AK Tagantsev, XQ Pan, SK Streiffer, LQ Chen, SW Kirchoefer, J Levy, DG Schlom, Nature 430, 758 (2004)
  2. "Rewritable nanoscale oxide photodetector," Patrick Irvin, Yanjun Ma, Daniela F Bogorin, Cheng Cen, Chung Wung Bark, Chad M Folkman, Chang-Beom Eom, Jeremy Levy, Nature Photonics 4, 849 (2010)
  3. "Nanoscale Phenomena in Oxide Heterostructures," Joseph A. Sulpizio, Shahal Ilani, Patrick Irvin, Jeremy Levy, Annual Review of Materials Research 44, 117 (2014)
  4. "Room-temperature electronically-controlled ferromagnetism at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface," Feng Bi, Mengchen Huang, Sangwoo Ryu, Hyungwoo Lee, Chung-Wung Bark, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin, Jeremy Levy, Nature Communications 5, 5019 (2014)
  5. "Electron pairing without superconductivity," Guanglei Cheng, Michelle Tomczyk, Shicheng Lu, Joshua P. Veazey, Mengchen Huang, Patrick Irvin, Sangwoo Ryu, Hyungwoo Lee , Chang-Beom Eom, C. Stephen Hellberg & Jeremy Levy, Nature 521, 196 (2015)
Recent Publications

 

  1. Over 100-THz bandwidth selective difference frequency generation at LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 nanojunctions Chen, L., Sutton, E., Lee, H., (...), Irvin, P., Levy, J.  Light: Science and Applications 8(1),24 (2019)
  2. "Reconfigurable edge-state engineering in graphene using LaAlO3/SrTiO3 nanostructures." Li, Jianan, Qing Guo, Lu Chen, Shan Hao, Yang Hu, Jen-Feng Hsu, Hyungwoo Lee et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.02030 (2018).
  3. "Extreme Reconfigurable Nanoelectronics at the CaZrO3/SrTiO3 Interface." Chen, Lu, Jianan Li, Yuhe Tang, Yun‐Yi Pai, Yunzhong Chen, Nini Pryds, Patrick Irvin, and Jeremy Levy.  Advanced Materials 30, no. 33 (2018): 1801794.
  4. "Quantized Ballistic Transport of Electrons and Electron Pairs in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Nanowires." Annadi, Anil, Guanglei Cheng, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Shicheng Lu, Anthony Tylan-Tyler, Megan Briggeman et al. Nano Letters (2018).
  5. "Graphene-Complex-Oxide Nanoscale Device Concepts," Giriraj Jnawali, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Mengchen Huang, Jen-Feng Hsu, Bi Feng, Rongpu Zhou, Guanglei Cheng, Brian D'Urso, Patrick Irvin, Chang-Beom Eom, and Jeremy Levy, ACS Nano (2018).

More Members

Judith Yang

Judith “Judy” Yang received her B.S. in physics from the University of California and both her M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. After graduation, she became a post-doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Metallforschung in Stuttgart, Germany. She continued her post-doctoral research and became a visiting lecturer when she joined the Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign. She joined the  Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of the University of Pittsburgh in 1999 and has received numerous awards including the 2005 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award.

Ken Jordan

Ken Jordan received his B.A. in Chemistry from Northeastern University and then his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then was an Instructor and then an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale before joining the University of Pittsburgh in 1978. He has received numerous academic honors, and the 2014 Kenneth Jordan Festschrift Issue of the Journal of Physical Chemistry was dedicated to his lifetime achievements. He has held several positions on editorial, advisory, and executive boards, and is currently a Co-Director of the Center for Simulation & Modeling at Pitt.

Hrvoje Petek

Hrvoje Petek received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkley, both in Chemistry. He then had appointments as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate at the Institute for Molecular Science and as Senior Research Scientist and Group Leader at the Hitachi Advanced Research Laboratory in Japan. Finally, he joined the Department of Physics of the University of Pittsburgh in 2000. He has won many awards and honors and currently sits on the National Research and Development Agency Committee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.