MSE graduate student, Yin Liu wins MRS gold award! UC Berkeley MSE graduate student Yin Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Jie Yao’s research group, won the Gold Award for Graduate Student Award at the 2019 Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting. The MRS Graduate Student Awards consisting of gold and silver medals, are highly competitive…

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 Subject: Big Give is coming on March 14 – Join me!   Dear alumni, colleagues, and friends of UC Berkeley Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Berkeley’s annual day of giving — Big Give — is happening next week, starting at 9 pm on Wednesday, March 13th and ending at 9 pm on Thursday,…

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It is with great sadness that we pass on the news that Wladyslaw (Wladek) Walukiewicz, a leading mind in the field of semiconductor materials, passed away on November 9, 2022. Wladek received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, and spent a few years working at the National…

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Faculty Spotlight: Professor Andrew Minor   Where did you study? I grew up in the bay area and then I went to college at Yale University in Connecticut. Having done my time back east, I was happy to come back west for graduate school at Cal, and have been here ever since. . .  …

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Where did you study? I studied physics in my undergraduate in Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and also got a MS degree in physics from Peking University, China. I came to the U.S. and obtained my PhD degree in the Applied Science and Technology Graduate Program in UC Berkeley. After a postdoc research at Harvard…

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Berkeley MSE Undergraduate Program ranks #2 Best in 2021 U.S News Rankings! The 2021 US News and World Reports rankings have been released and UC Berkeley’s Materials Engineering program has been ranked number 2 in the nation! The complete rankings and link to more details can be found here. Contact Us Department offices are located…

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Enhanced Atomic-scale Ferroelectricity Directly on Silicon Scientists at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab, led by S. Cheema and Prof. S. Salahuddin, have managed to stabilize ferroelectric order in ultrathin doped hafnium oxide on silicon. Their recent paper published in Nature not only demonstrates ferroelectricity down to single nanometer thickness (equivalent to two unit cells of…

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