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Materials Innovation Platforms provide free access and training at state-of-the-art equipment. Based on accepted projects to use PARADIM, our User Program is particularly interesting for young researchers and faculty at the start of their own research group, when required equipment or well-trained personnel might not be readily available at their home institutions.

Figure:  Pie chart representing the distribution of academic ranks among PARADIM's 66 external PIs, Scientists 8%, Assistant Professors 32%, Associate Professors 24%, and Full Professors 36%. Portraits of 5 examples of Assistant Professors whose success at PARADIM led to subsequent funding.

Details of Presented Examples:

Prof. Samaresh Guchhait (Howard): NSF MRI, “Acquisition of a Physical Property Measurement System to Study Quantum, Magnetic and Functional Materials and Quantum Devices,” https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018579.

Prof. Jason Kawasaki (U Wisconsin-Madison): AFOSR YIP: "Topological superconductivity and induced phase transitions in strained Heusler membranes and twisted bilayers,” https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2406086/afosr-awards-grants-to-36-scientists-and-engineers-through-its-young-investigat/.

Prof. Martin Mourigal (Georgia Tech): NSF-DMR: “CAREER: Anomalous spin dynamics in triangular quantum magnets: from materials discovery to quantitative neutron spectroscopy,” https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1750186 and DOE-BES: “New Controlling quantum coherence in frustrated spin-orbit magnets“ (DE-SC0018660).

Prof. Jian Shi (RPI): PARADIM provided important results for obtaining tenure at home institution and the following grants: NSF award CMMI #2024972, “Scalable Manufacturing of Single Crystalline Halide Perovskite Film via Interface Engineering,” https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2024972;  NSF award EPMD #2031692 “Symmetry-protected spin dynamics in ferroelectric spin device” https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2031692; and ARO STIR.

Prof. Vladan Stevanovic (Colorado School of Mines): NSF-DMR: “CAREER: Toward Rational Discovery and Design of Metastable Materials” https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945010.

User Data Statistics.

66 PIs and their research groups from universities and research centers across the US (only non-PARADIM institutions) received access to PARADIM based on reviewed proposals: Full Professor: 24 (36%), Assoc. Prof.: 16 (24%), Assist. Prof.: 21(32%), Scientist: 5 (8%)