
Group Picture (8/24/06, Left to Right): Justin Olamit, Jared Wong, Jamie Romnes, Randy Dumas, Joe Davies, Kai Liu, and Melina Blees.

Group Picture (12/17/03, Left to Right): Justin Olamit, David Barnes, Kai Liu, Joe Davies, Peter Klavins, and Randy Dumas.
Group News:
2007
Prof. Kai Liu awarded the U. C. Davis Chancellor's Fellowship
Peter Greene won the 2nd Prize Steven Chu Award at the 2007 American Physical Society - California Section Meeting for Best Undergraduate Research
Randy Dumas received a U. C. Davis Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award.
2006
Randy Dumas won the Leo M. Falicov Award on his FORC study of Fe nanodots at the 53rd American Vacuum Society International Symposium for Best Graduate Student Research & Presentation from the Magnetic Interfaces and Nanostructures Division.
Jared Wong won the 1st Prize Steven Chu Award on his study of multilayered Co/Cu nanowires at the 2006 American Physical Society - California Section Meeting for Best Undergraduate Research.
Justin Olamit received a 2007 MMM-Intermag Student Travel Award.
Joe Davies awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Joe Davies received a U. C. Davis Summer Graduate Student Researcher Award.
Joe Davies received a 2006 Intermag Student Travel Award.
2005
Randy Dumas won the 1st prize Margaret Brubidge Award for Best Experimental Research at the 2005 APS-CA meeting.
Justin Olamit won the 3rd prize Margaret Brubidge Award for Best Experimental Research at the 2005 APS-CA meeting.
Joe Davies won the 3rd prize Charles Kittle Award for Best Graphics at the 2005 APS-CA meeting.
Randy Dumas received the Katherine Fadley Pusateri Memorial Travel Award to present at the 2005 APS March Meeting.
Prof. Kai Liu awarded the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
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2004
Justin Olamit awarded a NEAT-IGERT Fellowship.
2003
Randy Dumas awarded a McNair Graduate Fellowship.
Major Instruments:
Multi-source UHV magnetron sputtering system
Multi-source UHV e-beam evaporation system
Perkin-Elmer Electrochemical deposition unit
Combined PMC vibrating sample magnetometer & alternating gradient magnetometer
SHB B-H loop tracer and magnetoresistance setup
Durham Magneto Optics Nano-MOKE2
Shared Resources
Quantum Design MPMS SQUID magnetometer & EDC probe
Quantum Design PPMS system
Bruker D8 thin film diffractometer
Siemens powder X-ray diffractometer
Magnetron sputtering system
Thermal evaporation system
Lindberg high temperature furnaces
Miller arc furnace
VAC PC-1 Dryboxes
Du-Pont Instruments 910 differential scanning calorimeters
Du-Pont Instruments 951 thermalgravimetric analyzer
Shared Resources on Campus
Cleanroom & microfabrication facilities
Field-emission SEM
High resolution TEM
Last Updated 2/08