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. "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).
  2. "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)
  3. "Shubnikov--de Haas--like quantum oscillations in artificial one-dimensional LaAlO3/SrTiO3 electron channels," Guanglei Cheng, Anil Annadi, Shicheng Lu, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Mengchen Huang, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin, and Jeremy Levy, PRL January (2018)
  4. "Electrostatically tuned dimensional crossover in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures," Michelle Tomczyk, Rongpu Zhou, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Guanglei Cheng, Mengchen Huang, Patrick Irvin, Chang-Beom Eom, and Jeremy Levy, APL Materials 5, 106107 (2017)
  5. "Room-Temperature Quantum Transport Signatures in Graphene/LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures," Giriraj Jnawali, Mengchen Huang, Jen-Feng Hsu, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Patrick Irvin, Chang-Beom Eom, Brian D’Urso, and Jeremy Levy, Adv. Mater. 29, 1603488, (2017)

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Theodore Corcovilos

Theodore “Ted” Corcovilos received his B.A. in College Scholars (Physics and Math) from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and his Ph.D. in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He joined Duquesne University as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 2013. Ted is a long-time member of several societies such as the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Physics Students—although now as a faculty member. He is also a member of the American Association of Physics Teachers and has worked and published with numerous undergraduate students throughout his career.

Jim Bain

James "Jim" Bain holds a B.S., a M.S., and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. He received his first degree from the University of Pennsylvania and the other two from Stanford University. Following his graduation in 1993, he joined CMU, where he is now a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and is associate director of the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC). He is a member of the Materials Research Society and the IEEE Magnetics, IEEE Electron Devices, and IEEE Photonics Societies.

Reeja Jayan

Reeja Jayan received her B. Tech. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from University of Kerala in 2002. She received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering (2008),  and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering (2012), from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). Jayan develops highly scalable processes for engineering multi-functional, micro- and nanoscale thin films or coatings on a variety of surfaces (wafers, paper, plastic, textiles). Applications range from transparent, flexible solar cells and electronic devices to conformal coatings on MEMS structures and biological scaffolds. From 2013-2015, she was a postdoctoral associate in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), under the supervision of Professor Karen Gleason. Currently, Reeja Jayan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.