August 2026
<p>We are hiring! See openings for more info.
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July 2026
<p>We are delighted to win an elite NSF Programmable Cloud Lab award (one of 20 in the US across science and engineering) with Vikram as the Science Lead. See a news release for the award here.
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December 2024
<p>Our paper on nanomechanical coupling in the magnetic topological insulator MBT is accepted in Nano Letters.
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November 2024
<p>Vikram participated in a Roundtable on the ‘Future of Computing’ organized by Utah Business Magazine. Read the article here.
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October 2024
<p>Jamie’s paper on carbon nanotube vernier scales is published in Phys. Rev. B.
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Spring 2024
<p>We welcome our first cohort of SRI students.
Vikram co-chairs Condensed Matter Experiment faculty search.
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Fall 2023
<p>Vikram did a sabbatical in Dima Efetov’s lab in LMU Munich. Thank you Dima for being a gracious host!
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August 2023
<p>We are awarded a $900k NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant as co-PI for the “Acquisition of an integrated physical property measurement system for the electronic, optical, and magnetic characterization of materials”.
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June 2023
<p>Jasper departs for Urbana.
Lily and Andrew join the group.
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March 2023
<p>Amit departs for his INSPIRE Junior Faculty position.
Su Kong starts research position in Beijing.
We are delighted for our first group members starting independent research positions!
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November 2022
<p>Our 3D TI quantum spin Hall paper is published in Nature Communications.
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October 2022
<p>Chuankun defends his PhD. Congratulations to him as he joins Texas Instruments!
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August 2022
<p>Shuwan defends her PhD. Congratulations to her! She will join Applied Materials in Santa Clara.
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March 2022
<p>Physics Today feature article on our carbon nanotube work. See here for a version of the article.
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October 2021
<p>Our review article on 3D TI heterostructures is published in Curr Opin Solid State Mater Sci.
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May 2021
<p>Rohit defends his PhD, headed to Intel!
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April 2021
<p>Our CNT quantum interference paper is accepted in PRL.
We are awarded a Research Instrumentation Fund to upgrade our dilution fridge!
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March 2021
<p>Amit joins the group as postdoc, welcome Amit!
Rohit wins best poster at department research symposium.
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July 2020
<p>Neda accepts postdoc position at NYU. We wish her the best for her future!
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May 2020
<p>We are delighted to receive NSF funding for our nanotube work!
Neda defends her PhD on Zoom, congrats Dr. Lotfizadeh!
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November 2019
<p>Su Kong is the group’s first PhD graduate! We wish him the best as he starts his postdoc position at UCLA.
Neda’s paper on nanotube compressibility published in PRL and highlighted in Physics magazine! See UNews coverage here.
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October 2019
<p>Vikram awarded prestigious $1.6M NSF “Quantum Idea Incubator” program as PI to work on topological insulators. Media release here.
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July 2019
<p>Su Kong’s paper on 3D TI surface coupling published in PRL! Media release on this work here.
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April 2019
<p>Neda and Su Kong win departmental outstanding graduate student Swigart awards!
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November 2018
<p>Three papers accepted in one week! Su Kong’s paper published in Nano Letters, our paper with Sparks group accepted to Scientific Reports and our collaborative work with Vardeny group accepted in Nature Communications.
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March 2018
<p>Vikram awarded USTAR Science & Technology Initiation Grant.
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June 2017
<p>Vikram awarded ACS PRF new investigator award.
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March 2017
<p>Group poster voted among top 3 posters at the Department Research Symposium. Thanks to all who contributed!
Deshpande group members present 4 talks at APS March Meeting in New Orleans. Neda felicitated for APS travel award. Congrats Neda!
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December 2016
<p>Our paper on 2D MOFs with Louie group is published in JACS.
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February 2016
<p>Cedric Wilson accepted to Harvard and MIT graduate school. Congrats Cedric!
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August 2015
<p>New graduate student Su Kong Chong joins the group. Welcome Su Kong!
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June 2015
<p>We welcome new postdoc Ryuichi Tsuchikawa and REU students Justina Bonaventura & Glen Hamblin.
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December 2014
<p>Profs Deshpande and Sparks awarded MRSEC seed grant.
The Deshpande lab has projects for highly motivated grad students & undergrads. Interested students should contact Vikram.
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