The UT-Rutgers DMREF team always goes to our favorite Greek restaurant!
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Jan and friends at the DMREF PI Meeting in DC in 2015 in front of our awesome poster!
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Jan and friends at the 2013 Telluride workshop on spin-orbit coupling in 4 and 5d materials.
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Jan and friends at the 2015 Telluride workshop on spin-orbit coupling in 4- and 5d-containing materials.
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Jan and friends at the conference picnic in Telluride after a wonderful day of science + hiking!
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Jan with many old friends in front of the hybrid magnet at the Chinese High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Heifei.
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Kati Kamaras from the Wigner Institute in Budapest joined us for the solar eclipse. We had 33 seconds of totality!
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Jan with Erik Henriksen from Washington University and Dave Mandrus from UT/ORNL eating lunch by the ocean at the "Inorganic analogues to graphene" workshop in Cancun. Ben Hunt from Carnegie Melon took the photo!
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Larry Carr and Jan hanging out at beamline 5.4 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Kevin and Mike Martin working at beamline 2.4 at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
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Micky Holcomb (WVU), Randy Fishman (ORNL), and Jan walking around Portland after the Gordon Research Conference!
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Kati Kamaras and Jan in the beautiful snow at the Boston March Meeting!
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Avery likes this version of the 2019 group picture! I wonder why... It must be because the girls look so happy!
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Magneto-optics reunion in Washington DC with Giti Khodaparast (Virginia Tech), Madalina Furris (Vermont), Steve McGill (Magnet Lab), and David Bernholdt (ORNL)!
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Fall 2020 photo of the research team. What a beautiful fall day!
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Avery and Kiman dress up as the X-Men (or the Blues Brothers?) for the departmental Halloween contest! p.s. They won first prize!
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We have a new espresso maker! It's very popular. :-)
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We have the cups too... so we look good drinking our espresso.
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Avery gave a talk at the MAGNA meeting and won the 3rd place presentation prize!
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The DMREF PIs (Kristjan, David, Weida, Valery, Sang, and Jan) meet regularly on Zoom.
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Amanda popping the cork on the champagne after her defense.
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Three new PhD's in one day! A world record?
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We took photos outside before the graduation ceremony in the stadium.
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Avery shows Jun Hee Lee and his team (Ulsan) how we interface the cryostat to our
infrared microscope. They spent a sabbatical year in Knoxville.
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Out for lunch at Chiao's with Heung-Sik Kim from Kangwon. He survived hot chile level 35!
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Visiting El Paso for the United Nations International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Thanks to Mark and Zahara for organizing it!
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A quick break between sessions at the Starbucks with Steve Hill, Jim Fry, and Hai Ping Cheng at the San Diego ACS meeting.
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Kiman gave a poster on nonreciprocity in the telecom wavelength range at the Quantum Materials summer school in Santa Barbara!
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7 year old Violet El Gammel and Avery make bubbles with dry ice, measure the modulus of a banana under liquid nitrogen, and make ice cream.
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Violet even has a look at a penny using our new stereo microscope.
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Vivien Zapf visits the lab to discuss high field polarization with Avery!
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Han Bechtel visits the lab to work with the near field team!
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Luther is monitoring the world cup while reading Kevin's thesis.
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Kevin teaches Brian and Sambridhi how to exfolidate sheets from 2D chalcogenides and view the results using our new stereo microscope.
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Kevin uncorks a bottle of champagne after his defense!
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Ashley is the very first user on the near field infrared beam line at Brookhaven!
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Luther loves measuring synchrotron-based far infrared at the high pressure beam line at Brookhaven!
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Avery enjoys teaching Raman scattering spectroscopy to the advanced physical chemistry lab students.
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Yanhong and Kevin also had fun with the p-chem students and the "Raman scattering for gemstone identification" lab.
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Jan acquired a complete optical bench for the Bruker 113v from David Tanner's lab in Gainesville. She picked up a lot of spare electronics boards as well!
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Dylan (along with his mentor Luther) presents a poster at the UT undergraduate research symposium on thermal analysis of quantum materials.
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Brian visits the Weizmann Institute. Here, he is posing with Reshef Tenne and Yao Guo by the Salvador Dali scuplture in the lobby!
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Brian got a great tour of Alla Zak's lab at the Holon Instutute + a chance to see how chalcogenide nanotubes are made!
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Brian also went on a guided tour of Jerusalem before the NTAI workshop at the Holon Institute.
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Ashley gave a poster at the near field infrared summer school in San Sebastian, Spain!
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Ashley at a traditional Basque cider house in San Sebastian, Spain.
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Avery polishes crystals in preparation for pulsed field polarization measurements at Los Alamos!
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Yanhong and Kevin set up for Kerr rotation measurements on the 25 T split helix at the Magnet Lab!
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This afternoon, we went to the Oppenheimer movie and ate
Korean food. A good time was had by all!
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Our new micro-electronic drilling system finally arrived! Now we can drill gaskets!
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Dylan wins third place at the Advanced Light Source Poster Slam!
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Dylan spent the summer at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory!
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Yanhong helps herself to the summer berry pie.
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Summer berry pie is amazing!
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Brian is measuring the low temperature Raman scattering response of chalcogenide nanotubes of different sizes.
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Ladies and gentlemen... Behold! The new sample mounting tables (hereafter called "the Big T") are here!
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Ashley is checking out the tip-enhanced Raman setup at Horiba Instruments!
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Ashley and Sean are polishing c-oriented Ni3TeO6 at Rutgers to better reveal domain wall topology.
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Luther is loading an annealed ruby ball into a diamond anvil cell for high pressure measurements.
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Yanhong has spectroscopy under strain working in our infrared microscope!
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Sambridhi joins the infrared beamline guys for dinner at Lombardi's!
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Sambridhi measures high pressure infrared at the BNL synchrotron!
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Everyone had lunch with Laura Greene during her visit where she shared stories of meeting the President!
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Sambridhi and Yanhong check out the reindeer antlers before picking out sandwiches and cookies for the hike!
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Everyone is ready for the Alum Gap hike in the Smokey Mountains!
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Sang Cheong (Rutgers) and Junjie Yang (NJIT) join us on the Alum Gap hike in the Smokiey Mountains.
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Sang Cheong (Rutgers), Junjie Yang (NJIT), and Jan plot a path to Glory on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
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Sambridhi gave a poster at the University of Maryland Quantum Materials Winter School!
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Luther plays in the snow on the Maryland campus with Stan Tozer (NHMFL) and Bianca Haberl (ORNL).
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Luther presents a poster on his work at the High Pressure Quantum Materials Winter School at University of Maryland as well.
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Karin Rabe (Rutgers) visits for the United Nations day of celebration for women and girls in science! Kevin, Ashley, Daniel, and Ben join in the discussions!
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We took Karin downtown to Remedy Coffee where she had coffee and the traditional Rutgers Salmon Bagel!
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Kevin, Avery, and Luther gave talks on their work during Johnny Pelliciari's (BNL) visit!
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Jun Hee Lee (Ulsan) and his student came by to discuss polarization switching in hafnia. Kevin, Sam, Ashley, and Avery joined in!
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Brian and Sambridhi drill gasket holes at the National Synchrotron Light Source II.
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Kevin at one of the road side overlooks on the way up to Los Alamos.
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Kevin enjoys a snowstorm in Los Alamos with Oppie and General Groves.
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Everyone surprised Jan on her birthday, so we ate cake and took a photo outside!
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Another great poster on the properties of quantum materials by Dylan!
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We stopped at the Buc ee's on the way to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base so that Luther could check out the selection of beef jerkey!
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The new transfer line for the 4 - 500 K low profile cryostat is here, thank goodness!
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Please welcome Dr. Avery Blockmon! His defense probably set a new world record with 50 in-person attendees and 41 via Zoom!
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Thank you to the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for making Avery's work on the high field properties
of molecule-based quantum materials possible!
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Sean Xu visited the lab before heading up to his new job in Minnesotta.
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Ella, our summer lab technician, cleans and sorts our sample holders using the stereo microscope.
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Brian, Sambridhi, and Luther attend the high pressure Gordon Research Conference at the Holderness School.
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Sambridhi and Brian enjoy kayaking with Luther (not shown) during the free time at the GRC.
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Luther and Brian tuck into the traditional Thursday evening lobsters at the high pressure GRC.
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Ella with the team on the last day of her summer internship. Sophmore year in high school is not nearly as exciting as work in the lab!
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We are ready to go tubing down the river in Townsend! Sunscreen? Check. Water? Check. Hats? Check.
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Tubing in the Smokey Mountains is a blast! The sun was bright, the water was cool... and Luther can do a double flipping twist jump off the rocks!
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ISCOM 2024 was held in Anchorage, AK this year with great hiking for all! Avery and Ben joined in the fun!
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Kevin, Yanhong, and Daniel with Steve McGill at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee!
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Kevin, Daniel, and Yanhong have a look inside the bore of the 45 T hybrid magnet in Tallahassee.
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Ben and Yanhong show the photoconductivity setup to Yuan Li and his team from Peking University.
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Another big day in the Musfeldt group. Please welcome new PhD Luther Langston!
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And now it's graduation day for Luther (and Avery)!
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