Recruiting:
Our group is currently recruiting motivated graduate and undergraduate students. If interested in joining our group please apply for admission to the UMBC Department of Physics through the UMBC graduate school.
Group news:
December 2020: Jaron’s paper is highlighted by several science news outlets.
May 2020. Jaron has successfully defended his dissertation. Congratulations Dr Kropp!
May 2018. Jaron receives first place award in the student poster competition during the regional AVS Mid Atlantic meeting at NIST. Congratulations Jaron!
November 2017. Jaron presents a poster at the AVS International Conference in Tampa, FL.
July 2017. Jaron presents a poster at the ALD International Conference in Denver, CO.
June 2017. Liwang and Jaron are coauthors in a paper accepted in Applied Surface Science.
March 2017. Jaron presents successfully his Ph.
D. proposal and advances to candidacy. Congratulations!
December 2015. Alex graduates with a Ph.D. in Physics. Congratulations!
August 2015. Jaron completes successfully the written Ph.D. Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
June 2015. Alex presents a talk at the ALD Conference in Portland, Oregon.
May 2015. Alex gets the second place award at the poster competition in the 2015 Mid Atlantic AVS meeting.
January 2015. Gene completes successfully the written Ph.D. Qualifying Exam. Congratulations!
November 2014. Liwang and Alex present talks at the AVS International Conference in Baltimore, MD. Alex places fifth overall and second in his age group in the AVS 5 km race.
November 2014. Liwang defends successfully his PhD dissertation. Congratulations!
September 2014. Two new undergraduate students, Philip Dang, and Andy Cook join our group.
July 2014. Our group hass been awarded a $300K, three-year grant (ECCS-1407677) from the National Science Foundation to study the atomic layer deposition of high-quality dielectrics on two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals such a MoS2 and WSe2 for MOSFET applications. This work will be conducted in collaboration with the group of Prof Qiliang Li of George Mason University and the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST).
June 2014: Our lab hosts Shane Folk and Simona Tsvetkova, two students from the Baltimore County Community College participating in the Nano Education Hub pilot program at UMBC.
May 2014. Nathan Smith graduates from UMBC. Congratulations Nathan and good luck at grad school
November 2013. Liwang and Alex present talks at the AVS International Conference in Long Beach, CA.
May 2013. Dan Litwak graduates from UMBC. Congratulations Dan and good luck at grad school.
May 2013. Alex gets first place award and Liwang places third at the poster competition in the 2013 Mid Atlantic AVS meeting.
February 2013. Liwang presents a talk at the UMBC 35th Annual Graduate Research Conference. Alex presents a poster at the same event.
Alex and Liwang in front of Alex’s poster.
Liwang and Alex with fellow Physics graduate students Reed Espinoza and John Sullivan.
October 2012. Liwang presents a poster at the AVS International Conference in Tampa, FL. Alex places third overall in the AVS 5 km race. Congratulation to both!
April 2012. Paper on Ta2O5 ALD on GaAs is accepted by the Journal of Physical Chemistry C.
November 2011. Liwang presents a poster at the AVS International Conference in Nashville, TN.
March 2011. Theodosia gives an invited presentation at the 2nd annual Nanomaterials Symposium, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL)
October 2010. Theodosia presents a seminar at the Physics Department of James Madison University.
August 2009. John defends his M.Sc. Thesis. Congratulations John!
February 2009. Theodosia receives an NSF CAREER award.
August 2008. Justin defends his Ph.D. Thesis. Congratulations Justin!
July 2008. Paper on the HfO2 ALD from TDMAH+H2O is accepted by JVST A
March 2008. Paper on the deposition of HfO2 on GaAs is accepted by Applied Physics Letters
November 2007. Paper on the deposition of Y2O3 films in sc CO2 is accepted by Thin Solid Films.
August 2007. Theodosia gives an invited presentation at the 2007 ACS meeting in Boston.
August 2007. Justin’s first paper appears in the Journal of Applied Physics.</p