The Department of Defense has announced funding for a new Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) to study bioinspired vibronic coherence in molecular and solid-state systems. Read more here

Sophia Chen of The MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast interviews Nathan on our recent work in mapping photocurrent streamlines. Check out the episode on Spotify here

A paper by David Mayes, Farima Farahmand, Max Grossnickle, and Professor Gabor on mapping intrinsic photocurrent streamlines has been published by PNAS.

Congratulations Esat!!

Jed has defended his doctoral thesis.

Jedediah Kistner-Morris, Benjamin Stewart, and Professor Gabor published a paper in Physics Today! The predominance of green terrestrial plants stems from chlorophyll's absorbance wavelengths. Those spectral selections ensure consistent energy harvesting and avoid photo-oxidative stress.

Congratulations David!!

QMO Lab is featured in the Army Research Office Year in Review for research in twisted van der Waals Heterostructures! The report summarizes progress made in projects funded by the Army Research office and highlights recent work by the QMO lab a quantum photodiode project. Read more about the project and funding at U.C. Riverside News.

Vibronic exciton-phonon states, normally only accessible in molecule-like systems, have been found in stack-engineered van der Waals heterojunction photodiodes! Fatemeh Barati, Trevor Arp, and Professor Gabor are co-authors on a paper published in Nano Letters detailing the observation of these vibronic states in WSe₂/MoSe₂ photodiodes.

Congratulations Jacky!

With a team from Apsidal, LLC and NASA, QMO Lab is sending it's first experiment into space aboard the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus. The experiment will spend several months on the International Space Station! Watch NASA's official launch video on YouTube!

YouTube's Atlas Pro has Professor Gabor on to help explain why KEPLER-186F would have red plants.

YouTube star Adam Ragusea featured a paper by Trevor Arp, Jed Kistner-Morris, and Prof. Gabor while explaining why foods tend to be green, yellow, red, and purple, but are seldom blue.

Postdoc Erfu Liu, Prof. Gabor and Prof. Lui are co-authors on a paper published in Nature! Optical experiments on ultrathin semiconductor heterobilayers reveal signatures of moiré trions, including interlayer emission with sharp lines and a complex charge-density dependence, features that differ markedly from those of conventional trions.

Along with our collaborator Vivek Aji, the QMO lab has been awarded $582,000 by the U.S. Department of the Army for use in a new project focusing on the conversion of light into electricity using photodiodes composed of twisted atomic-layer heterostructures. Read more about the project and funding at U.C. Riverside News.

Prof. Gabor gives an invited talk "Excitons to Electronic Fluids in Atom-Thin Solids" as part of a virtual workshop hosted by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences at CUNY. The workshop presentations is available on YouTube.

The Gabor Research Lab is searching to fill multiple postdoctoral positions in the area of biophysics and quantum biology to begin Spring/Summer 2021. Postdoctoral researchers will work closely with collaborators in the lab of Prof. Tom Kuhlman to develop novel techniques at the interface of nanoscience and in vivo / in vitro protein and cellular bioenergetics. Interested applicants, please inquire here.

Congratulations Farima!!

Quanta Magazine, an online publication of the Simons Foundation, has written a popular science article, Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis, which features work done by the QMO Lab in photosynthesis.

Trevor Arp, Jed Kistner-Morris, and Prof. Gabor are co-authors on a paper published in Science! A counterintuitive feature of photosynthesis is that the primary pigments involved in absorbing light--for example, chlorophyll a and b in plants--do not all absorb right at the peak of the spectrum but instead are offset from the peak and each other. We use a network model to explain how using pigments with this absorption-peak pattern can mitigate internal and external fluctuations in energy transfer, minimizing noise in output power. The model accurately reproduces absorption peaks for three diverse photosynthetic systems from different spectral environments.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Summer Physics Academy, a training session for high school physics teachers hosted each summer by the UCR Department of Physics and Astronomy and the California Science Project, has been moved online this summer. For more information, see our article in insideUCR

He will be joining the group of Prof. Andrea Young as a postdoc in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Congratulations Trevor!

Congratulations Jed!!

Abby has been accepted as a PhD student in the Physics department at Cornell University. Congratulations Abby!

She will be joining the group of Prof. Shabani as a postdoc in the Center for Quantum Phenomena at New York University.

Prof. Gabor and the QMO Labs receive Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding through the HBCU/MI Award to study viper vision. This is the third major biophysics award in the QMO Labs.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government to outstanding scientists and engineers. See more here: Presidential Early Career Award

Dr. Gabor has been selected as a Kavli Frontiers Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. His presentation at the 2019 Kavli Frontiers of Science conference is available on Vimeo.

Trevor Arp, Dennis Pleskot, and Professor Gabors paper on the electron-hole liquid was profiled in a Nature Photonics News and Views article!

Max Grossnickle successfully defended his doctoral thesis! Max will take his expertise in advanced optical and optoelectronic measurements to Applied Materials in April of 2019.

Trevor Arps paper on multiple parameter dynamic photoresponse microscopy (MPDPM) is accepted as an editors choice in Review of Scientific Instruments!

Trevor Arp, Dennis Pleskot, and Professor Gabor are co-authors on a paper published in Nature Photonics! The electron hole liquid is an exotic phase of matter formed from the condensation of electrons and hole at high density. Previously accessible only in low temperature semiconductors, this work has shown that this phase can be produced at room temperature in a 2D MoTe₂ photocell excited by an ultrafast laser. This discovery may offer a path to room temperature optoelectronic technology that harnesses the unusual properties of collective electronic phenomena, and may open up exciting avenues for research into correlated electronic phases.

Dennis Pleskot has defended his doctoral thesis. He has been a part of the QMO Lab since 2013 and will take his fabrication expertise to Cree, Inc. in February of 2019.

Professor Gabors Perspective article "Electron quantum metamaterials in van der Waals heterostructures" has been published in Nature Nanotechnology! Read the article here or check out UCR press releases about the article at UCR Today or on Twitter.

Fatemeh Barati has defended her doctoral thesis. She has been a part of the QMO Lab since 2013.

Grad Slam is an annual contest to communicate research. It aims to make research accessible by providing emerging scientists and scholars with the skills to engage the public in their work. The UCR Grand Finals were also covered in the Press Enterprise.

Professor Nathan Gabor has been awarded tenure!

Max Grossnickles research highlight on the creation of a spin-caloritronic nano-oscillator by two SHINES Center research groups has been published the Frontiers in Energy Research newsletter. The newsletter is developed by EFRC early career scientists who are dedicated, curious, and committed to communicating science.

Fatemeh was awarded the Ken Hass Outstanding Student Paper Award for APS March Meeting 2018.

Each year only fifteen early career investigators are given the prestigious appointment, which is designed to provide support in developing research networks and essential leadership skills. For more information on Professor Gabor and the CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar program, please see this profile at UCR Today.

Fatemeh Barati, Max Grossnickle and Professor Nathan Gabor have coauthored a paper on carrier multiplication that has been published in Nature Nanotechnology! The paper describes a way of using atomically thin materials to significantly amplify small electrical signals and increase solar cell efficiency and is profiled in UCR Today.

Professor Gabor has been invited to Scialog: Advanced Energy Storage. The RCSA Scialog conference brings together early career faculty and scientific leaders to collaborate in high risk discovery-based research that falls outside the boundaries of traditional federal funding streams.

Max Grossnickles article on room-temperature creation and control of skyrmions by two SHINES Center research groups has been published in the Frontiers in Energy Research Newsletter. The newsletter is developed by EFRC early career scientists who are dedicated, curious, and committed to communicating science.

The CAREER Program offers the National Science Foundations most distinguished awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. The awards seek to aid early-career faculty in building a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrating education and research.

Jacky Wan and Jedediah Kistner-Morris were named as the two Outstanding Teaching Assistants in Physics for 2017. Fatemeh Barati, meanwhile, has been awarded a prestigious Dissertation Year Program fellowship by UCR.

The newsletter seeks to illustrate the collaborative research undertaken by the DOE-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers. The QMO Lab is a part of SHINES, an EFRC led by UCR and comprised of seven other universities.

Fatemeh Barati wins the Dr. Janet M. Boyce Memorial Award!

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement Cottrell Scholar program develops outstanding teacher-scholars who are recognized by their scientific communities for the quality and innovation of their research programs and their academic leadership skills. Outstanding candidates are admitted to the ranks of Cottrell Scholars through a stringent peer-review process based on their innovative research proposals and education programs. - rescorp.org