December 5, 2023: Cunzheng Dong just passed his Ph.D. defense as the 30th Ph.D. graduate from our lab. Congratulations!

Our paper is on the Front Cover of Advanced Engineering Materials

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adem.202370071

Mechanically Driven Solidly Mounted Resonator-Based Nanoelectromechanical Systems Magnetoelectric Antennas
Xianfeng Liang, Huaihao Chen, Neville Sun, Bin Luo, Elizaveta Golubeva, Cai Müller, Sushant Mahat, Yuyi Wei, Cunzheng Dong, Mohsen Zaeimbashi, Yifan He, Yuan Gao, Hwaider Lin, David G. Cahill, Mohan Sanghadasa, Jeffrey McCord, Nian X. Sun, Advanced Engineering Materials, 25, 2300425 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202370071

September 18, 2023: Dr. Sun hosted the visit of the DFG (German Research Foundation) Delegation on “Innovative Materials from Synthesis to Applications” with a whole-day program of Technical Exchange on NU Campus having more than 20 distinguished speakers. Follow-up collaborative activities are being planned.

September 19, 2023: We are in the news: Improving Power Delivery for High-Performance Computing – Northeastern University College of Engineering

Our lab is in the news: NSF and partners invest $45 million in the future of semiconductors | NSF – National Science Foundation.

August 1, 2023: Our new patent, US Patent 11,701,031, Molecularly imprinted electrochemical sensors, by NX Sun, S. Emam, and Adam Keith Ekenseair, was granted and published on July 18, 2023.

This is the 16th granted US Patent. Cheers!

August 1, 2023: Our new patent, US Patent 11,710,901, Compact and Efficient Magnetodielectric Antenna, by NX Sun, PV Parimi, CS Cheng, and H Lin, was granted and published on July 25, 2023.

This is the 15th granted US Patent. Cheers!

June 28, 2023: Yifen He just passed his Ph.D. defense as the 29th Ph.D. graduate from our lab. Congratulations!

June 16, 2023: Our paper on new pathogen sensors for detecting SARS-CoV-2 virion particles (not small-molecule volatile organic compounds!!) in aerosols in seconds is accepted by Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

April 26, 2023: Alex Will-Cole was awarded the COE outstanding RA award, 2023. Congratulations!

April 19, 2023: Alexandria Will-Cole passed her Ph.D. defense as the 28th Ph.D. graduate from our lab. Cheers!

March 6, 2023: We have openings for two new graduate research assistants with a background in ECE/Physics/Materials. Please send your resume and transcripts to n.sun@northeastern.edu if interested. This message is valid until Dec. 31, 2023. Thank you!

Dr. Nian Sun received the College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Award on January 23, 2023. Cheers!

iSIM 2023 Announcement:

We cordially invite you to The First International Symposium on Integrated Magnetics 2023 (iSIM 2023), which will be held in Sendai, Japan, on May 14-15, 2023, and seamlessly connected with the upcoming INTERMAG 2023.
We started the International Symposium on Integrated Magnetics (iSIM) series to serve the fast-growing needs of Society by reaching out to other IEEE societies and industries and bringing the science and technology on integrated magnetics to the market and general public. The iSIM 2023 will become a platform to communicate the most recent achievements and developments in integrated magnetics among students and scientists from academia and industry.
The iSIM strongly supports the participation of young researchers with best poster awards, student travel awards, and iSIM Young Investigator Award. More information on iSIM 2023 can be found on the symposium webpage: https://theisim.org/. We look forward to seeing you at iSIM 2023 in Sendai.

After ~3 years of delay due to COVID-19, Lars Thormählen from Kiel University, Germany, finally joined our lab for a ~3 months visit to further our decade-long collaborations with Kiel University. Welcome, Lars.

Alex delivered an invited talk entitled “Sputtered Topological Insulator/Ferromagnet Heterostructures and Interfacial Magnetic Topological Insulator Phases” at The 67th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM 2022), jointly sponsored by AIP Publishing and the IEEE Magnetics Society, Oc. 31~Nov. 4, 2022, Minnesota, MN. Congratulations, Alex!

Alex Will-Cole won the Best Poster Award in The 67th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM 2022), jointly sponsored by AIP Publishing and the IEEE Magnetics Society, Oc. 31~Nov. 4, 2022, Minnesota, MN. Congratulations, Alex!

Nian Sun gave an invited talk entitled “Magnetoelectric Multiferroics: A Path Toward Ultra-low SWAP-C” at the International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (TFE3S) held on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, August 10-12, 2022.

We had the honor to host the International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (TFE3S) held on the Northeastern University campus in Boston, Massachusetts, August 10-12, 2022, together with the University of Dayton, and the Pennsylvania State University.

June 1, 2022: Nian Sun gave a seminar entitled “Novel Pathogen Sensors for a Breathalyzer Platform for Rapid Tests of Coronaviruses with High Accuracy” in the Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science (KiNSIS) Colloquium at the University of Kiel, Germany.