PARADIM Co-Director Darrell Schlom, of Cornell University, has received the 2021 John A. Thornton Memorial Award and Lectureship from the American Vacuum Society (AVS). Schlom was recognized for his pioneering contributions to the development of molecular-beam epitaxy for growing complex oxides, and for applying the technique to create materials with exceptional properties.
The award honors outstanding research or technological innovation in areas central to AVS, including thin films and plasma processing. It is conferred biennially and includes a cash prize, commemorative plaque, and honorary lectureship at the AVS International Symposium.
Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials (PARADIM)
PARADIM helps users design and create new interface materials — materials that do not exist in nature — with unprecedented properties for the next generation of electronic devices. Creating new interface materials with unprecedented properties, by design rather than by serendipity, is accomplished in PARADIM through a synergistic set of user facilities dedicated to theory (figuring out where to put the atoms for useful behavior), synthesis (putting the atoms in the targeted positions), and characterization (seeing that the atoms are indeed in the desired positions).