March 18, 2025
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Elizabeth Dickey was recently elected a Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. MRS seeks to recognize as MRS Fellows outstanding Members whose sustained and distinguished contributions to the advancement of materials research are internationally recognized. Congratulations, Beth! |
January 15, 2025
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Recent work led by a synergistic group of 3DFeM researchers shows ferroelectricity can be generated in a material that does not have those properties just by stacking it with a material that is ferroelectric without modifying their chemical formulation. The new study, which appears in the January 8 edition of the journal Nature has implications for next-generation processors, optoelectronics and quantum computing. Please click here to read PSU news coverage of this science. |
December 10, 2024
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Congratulations to Sergei Kalinin who has been elected as a to the National Academy of Inventors. NAI Fellowship is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors and recognizes their exceptional achievements for contributions that have made a significant impact on innovation, economic development and society’s welfare. Please click here to read more about Sergei Kalinin’s recognition. Congratulations, Sergei! |
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Congratulations to Suman Datta who received the 2024 University Research Award for Technology from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) for excellence in semiconductor research. Please click here to read more about Suman Datta’s recognition. Congratulations, Suman! |
September 4, 2024
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The Department of Energy announces an additional four years of Energy Frontier Research Center award funding to 3DFeM as the Center for 3D Ferroelectric Microelectronics Manufacturing (3DFeM2).
“The DOE support is essential to bring together a large diverse team of researcher to tackle a difficult problem: how to develop the manufacturing processes that will bring a new family of materials into microelectronics foundries,” Trolier-McKinstry said. “Our team is combining new materials with advances in 3D architecture to overcome current limitations and significantly lower the energy burden associated with computing.” |
May 6, 2024
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Congratulations to Vijay Narayanan and Clive Randall on being named Evan Pugh University Professors at Penn State University. This is the highest distinction given to faculty at the university. Please click here to read more about this honor. Congratulations, Vijay and Clive! |
March 12, 2024
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Congratulations to Benjamin Aronson for winning 3rd place for the best speaker at the American Ceramic Society’s Electronic Materials and Applications Conference in Denver, CO, in February of 2024. His presentation was entitled “Impact of Electrode Chemistry on Retention Performance of Ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2-x.” Congratulations, Benjamin! |
March 12, 2024
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Congratulations to Jon Ihlefeld for being elected as the Chair of the IEEE Ferroelectrics Standing Committee and Vice-President for Ferroelectrics for the IEEE. Congratulations, Jon! |
March 5, 2024
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Congratulations to Sergei Kalinin for being elected as an AAAS fellow for “distinguished contributions to the field of materials physics, particularly for advancing understanding of ferroelectric materials and development of new nanoscale microscopy techniques.” Congratulations, Sergei! |
February 9, 2024
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Congratulations to Venkat Gopalan on being named 2024 Distinguished Alumni from IiT Madras. Congratulations, Venkat! |
January 16, 2024
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Congratulations to Abhronil Sengupta for being selected for the NSF Career Award. The title of his award winning proposal is “Rethinking Spiking Neural Networks from a Dynamical System Perspective” with details at https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2337646&HistoricalAwards=false
Congratulations, Abhronil! |
December 5, 2023
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Congratulations to Jon Ihlefeld for being elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. To read more, please click here. Congratulations, Jon! |
October 20, 2023
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Congratulations to Adri van Duin, on his election to Fellow of the APS! To view the list of 2023 Fellows and read more, please click here. Congratulations, Adri! |
October 19, 2023
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Congratulations to Thomas Beechem for being elected as a Fellow of ASME. Congratulations, Thomas! |
October 18, 2023
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Congratulations to Khander Akif Aabrar, Joe Casamento and Xiaojun (Jenny) Zheng for winning the poster competition at the October 2023 3DFeM Annual Retreat. Akif won first place, Joe won second place and Jenny won third place. Congratulations to all three and thank you for your hard work! |
October 10, 2023
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Abhronil Sengupta has been awarded the 2023 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Early Career Award. Congratulations, Abhronil! Details on Abhronil’s bio and research is available at the following link: |
September 19, 2023
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Sergei Kalinin, Weston Fulton Professor in materials science and engineering at UT Knoxville, along with a team of UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) colleagues, earned a 2023 R&D100 Award. Congratulations to Sergei, Yongtao Liu and Kyle Kelley for this achievement. Please click here to read more about their research and this award. |
September 15, 2023
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Congratulations to Yongtao Liu for being elected as an executive committee member of the AVS nanoscale science and technology division and for being selected as a finalist of the AVS NSTD early career competition! Congrats, Yongtao! |
August 22, 2023
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Congratulations to Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT Knoxville for being a winner of the RD100 award this year. Please click here to read more about it. |
June 26, 2023
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Congratulations to Jon-Paul Maria for receiving the Wilson Faculty Fellowship in EMS. The aim of this fellowship “is to provide supplementary funds to outstanding faculty members in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences to assist them in continuing and furthering their contributions in teaching, research, and public service”.
Congratulations Jon-Paul! |
May 31, 2023
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Sergei Kalinin been selected to present the 2023 Edward Orton Jr. Memorial Lecture during the Materials Science & Technology Conference and Exposition (MS&T ’23), during the week of October 1-4, 2023, in Columbus, Ohio. Congratulations, Sergei! |
May 1, 2023
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Sergei Kalinin has received the Medard Welch Award from the American Vacuum Society. Congratulations, Sergei! |
April 28th, 2023
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Congratulations to Jon-Paul Maria for receiving the 2023 PSU Faculty Scholar Medal for Engineering. Read the news article here. |
April 3, 2023
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Congratulations to Yongtao Liu, for receiving the Microscopy Society of America Postdoctoral Scholar Award. Congratulations, Yongtao! |
March 2, 2023
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Congratulations to Yongtao Liu, for receiving the CNMS Postdoctoral Scholar Award. Congratulations, Yongtao!
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February 15, 2023
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Congratulations to Samantha Jaszewski and Joe Casamento for winning first place at the poster competition at the 3DFeM Annual Retreat! Congratulations to Leonard Jacques for winning second place in the poster competition. Congrats, Sam, Joe and Leonard! |
February 14, 2023
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3DFeM congratulates Samantha Jaszewski on her acceptance into the Hruby Postdoc Fellowship Position at Sandia National Lab. Congratulations, Sam! |
January 17, 2023
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Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, A. Robert Noll Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering, is the new associate dean for innovation. Congratulations, Vijay! |
November 29, 2022
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Results from Andrew M. Rappe’s group at the University of Pennsylvania have been published in Science Advances and offer new insight into how materials grown on silicon can offer stable information storage at the nanometer scale. Click here to read the news article at the University of Pennsylvania Website. |
October 18, 2022
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Results from Jon Ihlefeld’s group providing new insight into ferroelectric phase stability mechanisms in hafnia are featured in a news article from the University of Virginia.
Read the news article here: https://engineering.virginia.edu/news/2022/10/uva-materials-science-engineers-work-new-material-computer-chips |
October 14, 2022
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3DFeM is pleased to congratulate Yongtao Liu for being an AVS Nanoscale Science and Technology Division Early Career Competition Award Finalist. 3DFeM also congratulates the team that won the ORNL Outstanding Scholarly Output Award. The team includes Yongtao Liu, Sergei V. Kalinin and Kyle P. Kelley. Congratulations Yongtao, Sergei and Kyle on these achievements. |
June 21, 2022
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3DFeM is pleased to announce that David Henry, of Sandia National Labs, has been awarded the special appointment of Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia. We congratulate David on this well-deserved recognition. |
May 5th, 2022
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Leonard Jacques, a 3DFeM student, won the poster competition at the IWATMD meeting in State College, PA. Congratulations, Leonard! |
May 5th, 2022
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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are teaching microscopes to drive discoveries with an intuitive algorithm, developed at the lab’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, that could guide breakthroughs in new materials for energy technologies, sensing and computing. Click here to continue reading. |
Jan 19th, 2022
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Jon Ihlefeld was elected to be the Vice chair of the IEEE Ferroelectrics standing committee 2022-2023! |
July 19th, 2021
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Leonard Jacques, a PhD student in Professor Susan Trolier-McKinstry group is one of the first prize winners for the student poster competition at ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2021 conference. Congratulations Leonard! |
May 10th, 2021
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Thrust # 2 PI Saptarshi Das has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations Saptarshi! |
April 11th, 2021
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Congratulations to Thrust #1 PIs Roman Engel-Herbert and Jon-Paul Maria for the Penn State 2021 Wilson award for outstanding Service! |
Feb 11th, 2021
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Thrust # 2 PI Saptarshi Das has been awarded the NSF career award 2021. Congratulations! |
Feb 9th, 2021
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Our associate director, Vijay Narayanan has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society 2021 Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award “For contributions to cross-layer power-aware architectures leveraging post-CMOS technology.” The IEEE Computer Society Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award is given for outstanding and innovative contributions to the fields of computer and information science and engineering or computer technology, usually within the past 10, and not more than 15, years. Further information about the award, including a list of past recipients, may be found at https://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/technical-achievement |
Dec 8th, 2020
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Our associate director, Vijay Narayanan is among 175 academic inventors elected as 2020 Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation and contributed to inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors. The 2020 class of NAI fellows will be inducted in June at the NAI annual meeting in Tampa, Florida. Congratulations Vijay! |