03/31/2026: Nirmal gave a physics department colloquium at Georgetown University.
03/23/2026: Mohamed and Nirmal gave invited talks at the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver, Colorado. Mohamed talked on “Synthetic Design of Topological Spin Textures in Centrosymmetric Materials.” Link to Mohamed’s session. Nirmal talked on “Crystal Growth and Characterization of Altermagnets.” Link to Nirmal’s session.
03/23/2026: Mohamed, Jamal, Abhijeet, and Resham presented their work at the APS Global Physics Summit in Denver, Colorado.
03/06/2026: Our collaborative paper on “High-frequency electron spin resonance in Kagome-Lattice YMn6Sn6” is published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. Link to the paper.
02/15/2026: Jamal joins Argonne National Laboratory for his second postdoctoral position. Best wishes!
02/09/2026: Mohamed Receives U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellowship, supporting a year of research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which began in January 2026. Congratulations! Link to Press coverage.
01/17/2026: Nirmal Ghimire attended Dr. Jeffrey W. Lynn’s retirement Symposium at the University of Maryland.
01/17/2026: Abhijeet Nayak attended the 9th annual Winter on Fundamentals of Quantum Materials at the University of Maryland.
01/16/2026: Resham presented a poster on “Altermagnetism in transition metal dichalcogenides,” at the Second Brainstroming Workshop on Altermagnetism at New Jersey Institute of Technology from Jan 14th – 16th. Congratulations!
01/15/2026: We welcome undergraduate student Wyatt Haacker to our group. Welcome!
11/25/2025: Mohamed gave an invited talk at a local High School (Trinity School at Greenlawn). Title: Symmetry and Magnetism: Beyond Silicon. Congratulations!
11/19/2025: Mohamed’s paper on Ga dopped TmMn6Sn6 is published in Physical Review Materials. Congratulations to Mohamed! Link to the paper.
11/12/2025: Nirmal gives a tutorial at the Rice Winter School on Quantum Materials Synthesis at Rice University. Title of the tutorial: Single Crystal Growth of Quantum Materials by Molten-metal Flux Method.
12/10/2025: Abhijeet attends the 2025 Rice Workshop on Quantum Geometry & Winter School on Quantum Material Synthesis at Rice University.
11/04/2025: Our collaborative paper on Co1/3NbS2 has been published today in Physical Review Letters. Link to the paper. Link to a press coverage.
10/03/2025: Nirmal gives a colloquium at the Department of Physics at Northern Illinois University. Title: Altermagnets: A New Paradigm in Spintronics Materials.
09/26/2025: Hari Bhandari’s paper on Ga dopped YMn6Sn6 is published in npj Quantum Materials. Congratulations to Hari! Link to the paper.
09/14/2025: Nirmal gives an invited talk at CPS-APS Emerging Magetics Forum. Title: Altermagnetism in intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides.
08/25/2025: We welcome two returning undergraduate students, Daniel Lu and Mary Kate Carroll, and a high school intern from Mishakawa High School, Edward Kozlowski, in our lab for Fall 2025 semester.
06/28/2025: Our collaborative paper on Mn5SiC gets published in Chemistry of Materials. Link to the paper.
06/10/2025: We welcome four Summer interns to our lab!
Jeff Kindelan: Science Teacher, Adams High School, South Bend through QuarkNet program
Max Busk: High School Student, Trinity High School, South Bend, through QuankNet program
Breanna Drauden: Arizona State University, through REU program
Mary Kate Carroll: University of Notre Dame, though NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF)
05/13/2025: Resham’s paper is published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Resham! Link
04/22-25/2025: Mohamed attends 2025 Spring School on Electron Correlations and Topology at Rice University. Congratulations for winning best poster award -2nd position!
04/16/2025: Resham receives departmental distinguished research award for his work on altermagnetism. Congratulations!
04/15/2025: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Rutgers University. Title: Engineering Magnetic and Electronic Topological States in Kagome-Lattice Magnets.
03/18/2025: Hari Bhandari gives an invited talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: Engineering electronic and magnetic properties in the centrosymmetric kagome magnets RMn6Sn6. Congratulations!
03/22/2025: Hari’s paper on HoAgGe is published in Communications Materials. Congratulations to Hari! Link
03/16-21/2025: Hari, Jamal, Mohamed, Abhijeet and Resham give contributed talk at the APS March Meeting.
03/12/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Quantum Materials Initiative Colloquium at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Title: Altermagnets: A New Paradigm in Spintronics Materials,
01/17/2025: Nirmal gives a talk at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Workshop at University of Maryland. Title: Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond.
01/16/2025: Nirmal gives a lecture on Kagome Magnets at the Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School at University of Maryland. Title: Spin Crafting in Kagome Magnets.
11/24/2024: Hari Successfully defends his PhD thesis. Title: Study of Kagome Lattice Magnets. Congratulations! Good luck with your postdoc position at Rice.
11/12/2024: Our collaborative paper on YMn6Sn4Ge2 is published in PRB. Link
10/23/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Indiana University. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8.
10/02/2024: Nirmal gives virtual colloquium at the department of physics and astronomy at Missouri State University. Title: Engineering magnetic crystals for quantum phenomena.
09/26/2024: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at University of Chicago at Illinois. Title: Altermagnetism in the intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide CoNb4Se8.
09/15/2024: Connor and Hari’s paper on TbMn6Sn6 is published in PRB. Congratulations to Connor and Hari! Link
07/29-08/02/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the Telluride workshop on Competing Interactions and Colossal Responses in Transition Metal Oxides and Related Compounds in Telluride, CO. Title: Magnetic chirality and spin textures in kagome magnets.
06/11/2024: Our collaborative paper on Ba4RuMn2O10 gets published in Chemistry of Materials. Link
05/30/2024: Nirmal gives a seminar at Naval Research Lab. Title: Altermagnets: Anomalous Hall effect and beyond
05/29/2024: Nirmal gives a talk on Altermagnetism at DOD basic needs workshop, at Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD.
04/14-17/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at the ARO future planning workshop at Arlington VA.
04/01/2024: Nirmal Gives a seminar at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Title: Synthesis design approach to electronic and magnetic topological materials.
03/08/2024: Nirmal Gives an invited talk at APS March meeting on Altermagnetism. Title: Topological antiferromagnets and altermagnets.
03/07/2024: Hari gives a contributed talk at the APS March Meeting. Title: Role of Ga doping in the kagome ferromagnet YMn6Sn6-xGax.
02/15/2024: Jamal Sekh joins our group as Postdoc. Welcome!
01/23/2024: Nirmal gives a talk at ND Nano Networking meeting . Title: Synthesis-Driven Approach to Quantum Materials.
01/08/2024: Hari’s paper on YMn6Sn4Ge6 is published in npj Quantum Materials. Congratulations to Hari!. Link
12/11/2023: Nirmal gives a talk at the “Workshop on “Magnetism and topology of RM6X6 kagome metals” at Iowa State University and Ames Lab. Title: Fluctuation-driven phenomena in the kagome-net magnets RMn6Sn6.
11/20/2023: Our collaborative paper on IrGe4 is published in Inorganic Chemistry. Link
09/14/2023: Nirmal gives condensed matter seminar at Brown University. Title: Synthetic design approach to Quantum Materials.
09/01/2023: Graduate student Abhijeet Nayak joins our group. Welcome!
08/15/2023: Mohamed El Gazzah joins our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
07/18/2023: Nirmal gives a talk at Physical Review X seminar (virtual). Title: Synthesis-Driven Approach to Quantum Materials: Opportunities and Challenges.
07/01/2023: Ghimire Group moves to University of Notre Dame.