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. "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).
  2. "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.
  3. "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).
  4. "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).
  5. "One-Dimensional Nature of Pairing and Superconductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface," Yun-Yi Pai, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Anil Annadi, Guanglei Cheng, Shicheng Lu, Michelle Tomczyk, Mengchen Huang, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin and Jeremy Levy, PRL (2018).

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Noa Marom

Noa Marom received her B.A. in Physics and her B.S. in Materials Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. From 2002 to 2004 she worked as an Application Engineer in the Process Development and Control Division of Applied Materials. She  then pursued and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science and was awarded the Shimon Reich Memorial Prize of Excellence for her thesis. After a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin, she moved toTulane University as an became an Assistant Professor before joining the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016.

Lillian Chong

Lillian Chong received her B.S. in Chemistry from MIT and went on to pursue a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California San Francisco. She is now an associate professor of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and holds a secondary appointment in Computational & Systems Biology. She is also involved in two joint CMU-Pitt programs, one in Computational Biology and the other in Molecular Biophysics/Structural Biology. She has won several awards, among which the NSF-CAREER award in 2009 and the very select Chinese American Chemical Society Scholar award during her undergraduate studies.

Rob Coalson

Robert “Rob” Coalson received both his B.A. in physics and chemistry and his Ph.D. in chemical physics from Harvard University. He was advised by Professor Martin Karplus who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Rob Coalson joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 after a two-year post doc at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is now a Professor of both Physics and Chemistry. He had won several awards including the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh in 2006 as well as numerous NSF grants to support his research.