Jing Shi, the director of SHINES EFRC research center, discovered an electrical detection method for terahertz electromagnetic waves, which are extremely difficult to detect. The discovery could help miniaturize the detection equipment on microchips and enhance sensitivity. Terahertz is a unit of electromagnetic wave frequency: One gigahertz equals 1 billion hertz; 1 terahertz equals 1,000...
Allan MacDonald, a PI of SHINES EFRC research center, has received the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in a field known as twistronics, which holds extraordinary promise to "lead to an energy revolution," according to the Wolf Foundation announcement today. Given annually in Israel, the Wolf Prize is generally considered the...
Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within closer reach thanks to a new discovery by Johns Hopkins researchers. “We’ve found that a certain superconducting material contains special properties that could be the building blocks for technology of the...
Dr. Igor Barsukov, a PI of SHINES research center. has designed an experiment to explain the concept of magnetic resonance. The project was carried out by undergraduate students in collaboration with local high school teachers. A versatile technique employed in chemistry, physics, and materials research, magnetic resonance describes a resonant excitation of electron or atomic...
Alexander Balandin, a PI of SHINES EFRC reseach center, has received the Brillouin Medal from the International Phononics Society. The award was presented at the Phononics 2019: 5th International Conference on Phononic Metamaterials, Phonon Transport, and Topological Phononics in Tucson, Arizona, on June 6. Phonons are quanta of crystal lattice vibrations in solid materials, which...
Prof. Kang L. Wang, a PI of SHINES EFRC research center, won 2018 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal. He received his BS degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a Guggenheim Fellow, Fellows of American Physical Society and IEEE. He is...
Whenever you use electricity, you lose some power as heat. This may be obvious when you’re standing under a heat lamp, but it holds for very efficient electronics, such as LEDs or computer chips. This heat generation has been a major obstacle in improving computer chips, which generate more heat as they work faster. Researchers...
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — In the world of electronics, where the quest is always for smaller and faster units with infinite battery life, topological insulators (TI) have tantalizing potential. In a paper published today in “Science Advances,” Jing Shi, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues at Massachusetts Institute...
SHINES will hold a workshop on spin and heat from January 12-13th, 2017 at the UCR Palm Desert Center. Workshop program is here http://efrcshines.ucr.acsitefactory. com/files/1.pdf.
Research team led by SHINES PI Prof. Balandin at UC Riverside discover new method to dissipate heat in electronic devices by modulating the flow of phonons (elemental excitations) through semiconductor nanowires. They report results of Brillouin—Mandelstam light scattering spectroscopy, which reveal multiple (up to ten) confined acoustic phonon polarization branches in GaAs nanowires with a...
Three SHINES PIs; Prof. Jing Shi, Prof. Kang L. Wang and Mingzhong Wu gave invited talks for the symposium titled “Topological Insulator/ Ferromagnet Heterostrctures for spintronics” at MMM 2016 held in New Orleans-Louisiana. Prof. Shi’s talk is “ Enhanced spin Seebeck effect in topological insulator/ magnetic insulator heterostructures” Prof. Wang’s talk is “ Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet...
In May, the newsletter of the DOE Office of Science described recent results obtained by the Balandin Group showing acoustic phonon confinement effects in nanoporous arrays. Understanding changes in the acoustic phonon spectrum induced by spatial confinement is important for the fine-tuning of heat propagation in nanometer scale structures and electronic devices. Investigation of the...
On March 11th, US Congressman Mark Takano (41st district) visited Professor Khitun's Device Discovery Lab and had a thirty minute discussion about the ongoing research on magnonic holographic imaging of magnetic nanostructures. This work is supported by the SHINES center and director Professor Jing Shi.
Five UCR professors are among the 165 UC faculty named as the most influential scientists in their fields in 2015, a number unmatched by any other university in the world, according to an analysis by Thomson Reuters. The UC system led the 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list, which named more than 3,000 scientists...
Much of what Dr. Xiaoqin "Elaine" Li researches is completely invisible to the human eye. She works with materials that are merely a few atoms thick and observes processes that occur within a trillionth of a second. An associate professor in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas Austin, Dr. Li leads a...
Professor Jing Shi has been spotlighted in UCR's "Living the Promise" series focusing on breakthrough research. Professor Shi's lab focuses on fundamental problems associated with how to generate, conserve and save energy. Their focus is on spin and heat, specifically in trying to leverage the spin degree of freedom in electrons to convert other forms...
A team of researchers, led by Jing Shi's group at UC Riverside, have demonstrated for the first time the transmission of electrical signals through insulators in a sandwich-like structure, a development that could help create more energy efficient electronic devices. UCR Today: Spinning Better Electronic Devices Article at Nature Communications
Professor Chia-Ling Chien has been awarded the 2015 IUPAP Magnetism Award and Néel Medal for pioneering discoveries in magnetic materials and nanostructures. http://iupap.org/commissions/c9-magnetism/c9-news-2/ The 11 th International Nanotechnology Conference on Communication and Cooperation May 11-13, 2015 / Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Fukuoka, Japan Graduate Student’s Chi Tang and Aleksey Volodchenkov from UC Riverside, have been...
