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Featured Research

Kulatheepan Thanabalasingam

Kulatheepan Thanabalasingam

PhD student Kulatheepan Thanabalasingam and Dr. Kyle McCall traveled to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to conduct neutron pair distribution function measurements on 2D perovskites on the NOMAD beamline, studying the local structure of these atypical semiconductors. The results proved the hypothesis that the average and local structure of these materials differ substantially due to ns2 lone pair interactions, and this work is expected to yield new design principles for unconventional semiconductors.

Dr. Robert Wallace

Dr. Robert Wallace

Dr. Robert Wallace is doing things that matter on a global scale as a Tyndall National
Institute Fellow
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