PARADIM’s Crystal Growth Lab at JHU Featured in Johns Hopkins Magazine

The Spring 2020 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine highlights PARADIM’s Bulk Crystal Growth Facility on the Homewood campus. Dubbed “The Magic Shop,” the lab allows researchers to grow single crystals of new materials using techniques like floating zone growth. These capabilities are central to PARADIM’s mission of accelerating the discovery of next-generation electronic materials.

Single crystal grown via floating zone technique at PARADIM’s Bulk Crystal Growth Facility at Johns Hopkins University. Image courtesy of PARADIM.

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).