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This highlight provides an example of the precise interface quantum materials that can be created by MBE and characterized by high-resolution STEM and elemental analysis in PARADIM facilities.

Today, sub-angstrom resolution scanning trans-mission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging is routinely achieved. In addition to resolving individual atomic columns in crystals, STEM performed at room temperature can be used to determine their positions with picometer precision which allows us to directly map local properties.

Using a Cornell-developed detector, PARADIM’s David A. Muller and collaborators set a new world record in electron microscope resolution.

In a PARADIM video feature, Tyrel McQueen discusses how new materials are discovered and why they matter.

PARADIM is highlighted in Arts & Sciences Magazine for its role in enabling the discovery of next-generation materials.

Building on their growing expertise with valleytronic materials, PARADIM researchers, Jiwoong Park (University of Chicago) and David Muller (Cornell University) have discovered a way to assemble multi-layer stacks of monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials (MoS2, MoSe2, and WS2) with centimeter-scale dimensions in a user-defined sequence. The assembly is achieved without the use of etchants or solvents by exploiting the stronger binding that occurs between TMD layers than between the TMD layer and the underlying substrate.

PARADIM researcher Eun-Ah Kim is part of a collaborative effort to develop the next generation of superconducting materials.

PARADIM theorists have recognized that lightly hole-doped transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are natural candidates for the long sought odd-parity topological superconductor vital for ground-state topological quantum computing.

PARADIM’s floating zone furnace, built by ScIDre, operates at a world-record 300 bar pressure—enabling growth of materials previously beyond reach.

Building on their growing expertise with interface materials, PARADIM researchers discovered a new mechanism for reorienting magnetization that is 10 times more energy efficient than prior techniques. An electrical current is passed through a low symmetry valleytronic material containing heavy atoms that is positioned under a magnetic layer.