Sooho Choo

University of Minnesota

For the creation of freestanding ultra-wide-bandgap CaSnO3 thin films using hybrid MBE with a BaO sacrificial layer”

Molly McDonough

Pennsylvania State University

"Molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of III-V-based semiconductor structures, including InGaSb quantum dots, using machine learning techniques”

Peace Adegbite

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Surface and interface physics, electronic and magnetic behavior, and band structure of correlated oxide systems”

Abigail Jiang

Harvard University 

“Synthesis of quantum materials via molecular bean epitaxy and understanding of how atomic-scale structure drives phase transitions in oxides”

Ali Zayaan Macknojia

University of North Texas

"For advanced surface engineering by developing adaptive nanostructured solid lubricant coatings and optimizing additive manufacturing for extreme tribological environments"

Liya Bi

University of California, San Diego

“For understanding chemical reactions, ligand adsorptions and molecular self-assemblies on surfaces with single-molecule vibrational spectroscopy and microscopy”

Shilpa Choyal

University of Illinois at Chicago

“Characterizing thin film materials using scanning probe microscopy and spatially resolved spectroscopy to elucidate nanoscale surface-activity relationships”

Amit Kumar

University of Georgia

“Developing plasmonic nanostructures and machine-learning-assisted SERS platforms for chemical, biological, and environmental sensing”