Rondinelli named 2017 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for work with complex inorganic oxides
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Spaldin studied natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her BA degree, received her PhD degree in chemistry at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral researcher in applied physics at Yale University before starting her career in the Materials Department at UC Santa Barbara. Awards include the 2017 Lise Meitner Award of the German
Rondinelli named 2017 MRS Outstanding Young Investigator for work with complex inorganic oxides
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ames M. Rondinelli, professor of materials and manufacturing at Northwestern University, has been named a 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator. He was cited “for pioneering advances in the theoretical understanding of atomic structure-electronic property relations of complex inorganic oxides in bulk, thin film, and superlattice geometries.” He will be presented with the award at the 2017 MRS Spring Meeting in Phoenix, Ariz. Transition-metal oxides offer a platform for electronics owing to the phenomena they offer, including ferroic functionality, correlated-electron behavior, and coexisting contraindicated properties. Because of the sensitivity of their properties on local as well as crystal structure and composition, picoscale
2017 SPRING MEETING & EXHIBIT
structure–property relationships are necessary to design function. In his presentation, Rondinelli will provide an overview of the progress in identifying these relationships and finding new phases through quantum mechanical approaches combined with multiple materials theory methods. Although large epitaxial strains are believed to induce ferroelectricity, biaxial strain induces an unforeseen polar-tononpolar transition in (001) thin films of Ca3Ti2O7 (n = 2) at experimentally accessible biaxial compressive and tensile strains owing to strain-tunable BO6 octahedral rotation modes. He will describe how to use local electrostatic interactions among atomic metal-monoxide planes (AO and A'O) to induce differential bond distortions for electronic control. Older complex oxides, which are now
and Austrian Physical Societies, the 2017 L’OREAL/UNESCO for Women in Science Award, the 2015 Körber European Science Prize, the 2014 ETH Golden Owl Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2010 APS McGroddy Prize for New Materials. She is the proud former advisor of this year’s Outstanding Young Investigator Award winner, James Rondinelli.
understood to exhibit nontrivial lattice mode anharmonicities, offer a plentiful playground for realizing new functionalities with both static and dynamic fields in thin-film and bulk form. Rondinelli received a BS degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University and a PhD degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently the Morris E. Fine Junior Professor in Materials and Manufacturing at Northwestern University in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, where he leads the Materials Theory and Design Group. His interests include electronic structure theory and first-princi
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