Complex materials for everyday energy challenges
Predictions state that by 2040, computational energy demand of current technologies will exceed global energy production. With the growth of transistor density also slowing and approaching its physical limits, as well as projections that silicon devices will become unfeasible as a storage medium within two decades, it is an important challenge in materials science to discover new materials systems that can be used for an alternative computational paradigm.
Ordered polar topologies for emergent electronic behavior
Atomically engineered heterostructures to design device functionality
Designer multiferroic textures for electrically controlled spintronics
Intentionally disordered materials to tune thermodynamic and functional properties
My research centers around the discovery and engineering of functionalities in complex magnetic, electronic, and quantum oxides. Precisely engineering the boundary conditions of nanoscale crystals can stabilize interesting properties and topologies, which we can then image with modern real- and reciprocal space techniques. I am particularly interested in systems with nontrivial functional orders, such as structural disorder, noncolinear magnetism, and complex ferroic domains. I aim to combine materials design, atomically precise synthesis, and state-of-the art X-ray and scanning probe techniques to create materials and devices for understanding fundamental physics and applications in computation.