Assistant Professor Lucas Caretta

caretta@brown.edu

Caretta is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Brown University in the Materials Group. He received his BS from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an NSF Graduate Student Fellow and GEM Consortium Fellow. He completed his postdoctoral studies in the Ramesh Lab at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.

Akshay Pakhare

akshay_pakhare@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Mechanical degradation of electrodes in rechargeable batteries.

• Understanding the mechanics of lithium metal penetration in solid state battery electrolytes and mitigation strategies using thin film mechanics

• Developing Multiphysics models of rechargeable battery electrodes.

Shiyu (Sherry) Zhou

shiyu_zhou@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Magnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroic materials, particularly oxides.

• Utilizing material symmetry and structure to design and fabricate spintronic devices with various functionalities, including spin-logic devices, in-memory computing devices, and superconducting diodes.

Shih Wei Chiu

shih-wei_chiu@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Epitaxial heterostructures of ferroic oxide films using pulse laser deposition for spintronic devices.

• Developing optical systems for measuring ferroelectric materials.

• Probing spin-correlated quantum phenomena by using synchrotron-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. 

Geo Fratian

geo_fratian@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Encoding cryptographically secure ferroelectric sensors with high entropy in backend CMOS compatible technologies

• Optoelectronics, spintronics, ferroelectrics, anti-ferromagnets, collective order

Ninni Ghosal

arundhati_ghosal@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Epitaxial growth of oxide thin films

• Magnetic and Ferroelectric characterization of ferroelectric superlattices

• Oxide twistronics

Liang Zhang

liang_zhang1@brown.edu

Research interests:

• Characterization and manipulation of spin orbital torques using metal
  oxides

• Epitaxial synthesis of transition metal oxides