The Carlsberg Foundation has awarded group member Kirsten Jensen a postdoctoral fellowship that will fund her research regarding nanocluster structures for the next two years and will also allow her to begin independent research in Denmark. The Carlsberg Foundation supports basic research in the physical sciences, humanities and social sciences carried out by Danish researchers and foreign… Read More KIRSTEN JENSEN AWARDED CARSLBERG FELLOWSHIP
Recent work in the Billinge group on a new family of superconductors, published here in Nature Communications, has been highlighted by Brookhaven National Lab and the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science (see press release here). Superconductivity refers to the ability of certain materials to conduct electricity without any energy loss, and the… Read More Research on novel titanate superconductor gains media attention
High-temperature superconductivity remains one of the biggest current challenges in condensed matter physics, even while the prospect of room-temperature superconductivity holds enormous potential as a transformative breakthrough in energy technology. In recent years, it has been found that unusual electronic states that break subtle symmetries of the crystal lattice are often found in close proximity to the… Read More New connections among titanate, cuprate, and iron-pnictide superconductors
Emil has been invited to give a keynote lecture at The 29th European Crystallographic Meeting next August in Rovinj, Croatia. His presentation is titled: “Local structure and physical properties in complex functional materials.” Congratulations Emil!
A new understanding of the physics behind the properties of the MIT in Cu(Ir1-xCrx)2S4 is obtained by studying the local structure and generating a local phase diagram, as opposed to the more usual average phase diagram. This has translational importance as other complex electronic systems such as high temperature superconductors are likely to have similar… Read More PDF characterizes competition at the nanoscale between charge localized states
Luminescent semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are central to emerging technologies that range from tissue imaging to solid-state lighting. However, existing samples are heterogeneous, which has prevented atomic-resolution determination of their structures and obscured the relationship between their atomic and electronic structures. In this work, we synthesized, isolated and structural characterized three cadmium selenide QDs with… Read More PDF combined with SCXRD solves the atomic structure of tetrahedral quantum dots
For the first time, the detailed structure of the light harvesting material in recently discovered high performance dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has been determined. There has been a strikingly rapid increase in the performance of solar cells based on methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI3) perovskites following the first report in 2009; today greater than 15%… Read More PDF unveils the structure of organic-inorganic perovskite solar cell
Xiaohao won Best Student Oral Presentation Award in MRS 2014 spring, Symposium AAA for his presentation Pair Distribution Function-Computed Tomography. Congratulation to Xiaohao! Read more about Pair Distribution Function-Computed Tomography: S. D. Jacques, M. D. Michiel, S. A. J. Kimber, X. Yang, R. J Cernik, A. M Beale, S. J. L. Billinge, Pair distribution function… Read More Xiaohao Yang wins Best Student Oral Presentation Award in MRS 2014 Spring
The first “Nanostructure in the City” Symposium was successfully held this Monday (the 18th of August). The one-day long symposium offered every participant the opportunity to share their research work, interact with students/scientists from different disciplines. Throughout the day there were four sessions, 15 speakers bringing in a wide variety of PDF-related research topics ranging… Read More First Nanostructure in the City Symposium successfully held
Current group member Chenyang Shi won the poster presentation contest at 2014 NSLS/NSLS II and CFN Users’ meeting. A total of 38 posters were in the contest with only 3 winners chosen as standouts.
The Billinge Group: Columbia University 