Tate Group in the Yunker Library, Winter 2020. The right hand rules. Front: Pritha, Elena, Acacia, Janet. Back: Joe, Cameron, Okan, Rohal (photo by Amit)

• Julian Wulf (B.S. 2021) is now a patent analyst at Global Patent Solutions. He reports spending his time doing physics related research, which is great!
• Our paper, “Amorphous‑to‑crystalline transition of thin‑film TiO2 precursor films to brookite, anatase, and rutile polymorphs” by OA, PB and JT has been accepted by JMR and has appeared online!
• Skylar Farmer, undergrad in Physics, will join our group in winter term - welcome!
• Pritha's work on mixed oxides is part of a new collaboration with the Sanatala group in ME.

• Okan started his new job as an engineer at Intel in November - congrats!
• Acacia Patterson is starting her second year as a Physics grad student at WSU in Brian Collins' group. She studies morphological mechanism for increased charge efficiency of ternary organic photovoltaics using resonant soft X-ray scattering at the ALS, NSLS II, and ANSTO synchrotrons.
• Okan defended his thesis on Wednesday, September 15th - congratulations Dr. Agirseven!
• Pritha presented her TiO2 work at the 2021 Symposium of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the AVS, and received an “Honorable Mention” for her presentation (and a cash prize!). Congratulations!
• Okan is hard at work writing up the results of the Avrami exponent analysis; Pritha is getting results on the new SnO2/TiO2 system
• Elena, Julian and Rohal give their senior thesis presentations on June 8, 2021: https://physics.oregonstate.edu/senior-thesis-presentations-part-ii-3
• Rohal features on the College of Science website: https://science.oregonstate.edu/impact/2021/05/from-a-construction-job-to-hewlett-packard-a-physics-major-takes-an-unconventional (Thanks for the plug for the Tate Lab, Rohal!)
• Joseph will join the UO Master's Intern Program in Fall 2021 - congratulations!
• Rohal has a job Hewlett Packard - Congrats Rohal! (Also congrats on your new baby daughter!)
• Everyone is weathering the pandemic well - keep up the good work.

• Cameron has a job as an RF engineer at Summit Wireless Technologies in Beaverton - congrats Cameron!
• Acacia won the Outstanding Learning Assistant prize & Okan's travel award was announced at the virtual awards ceremony. Congrats all. Also, lots of pets.
• Cameron Stewart B.S. and Acacia Patterson, B.S. are our graduating seniors - congratulations! Elena Wennstrom and Joseph Kreb will be continuing as 5th-year seniors.
• Acacia will be attending Washington State University's Physics graduate program! Congratulations!
• Rohal has been awarded a SURE Science fellowship - congratulations! (April)
• WASH YOUR HANDS!! This pandemic has just started.
• The Tate lab has transitioned to minimal experimental operations. We are focusing on data analysis, paper writing and planning.
• The covid19 pandemic hit, the MRS meeting was cancelled (and APS), we're meeting via Zoom, and we are using enhanced cleaning and social distancing. We're also supporting each other and we will figure this out together. (March)
• Undergrad Julian Wulf will join the group in Spring term - welcome
• Okan's sputter precursor paper published in AIP Advances!! (February)
• Okan and Pritha will attend MRS in Spring.
• Acacia attended CUWiP at WSU and presented a poster.
• Rohal Kakepoto, undergrad, joins the group - welcome!

• Acacia attended PhysCon and presented a poster on electricial properties of TiO2 thin films.
• Okan's paper submitted to AIP Advances.
• Lab clean up day on June 28th. Thank you Acacia, Elena and Okan.
• Congratulations to Kelda on her job at Voxtel in Eugene!
• Congratulations to Patrick for securing a spot in the University of Oregon AMAC program!
• Kelda Diffendaffer B.S. and Patrick Berry, B.S. are our graduating seniors - congratulations!
• Patrick and Kelda presented their talks at the Senior Thesis presentations on June 4 & 11 respectively - well done!
• Elena Wennstrom, an undergraduate, will join us in the summer - welcome! She will work on a Brownian motion experiment.
• Okan gave a tour to the Taft High School visitors.
• Okan presented posters at the grad recruiting weekend and at the Yunker Lecture reception - what a great lab ambassador!
• Patrick presented his work on optical properties of TiO2 amorphous precursors at the May meeting of the APS NW Section in Bellingham, WA. Well done - first conference!
• Acacia has been awarded a SURE Science fellowship - congratulations!
• Okan was awarded a travel grant to go to ICDS - congratulations!
• Okan submitted an abstract about the TiO2 sputtering work to ICDS30, to be held in July 2019.
• James H. has joined Intel in Hillsboro as an engineer - congratulations!
• Cameron Stewart is an undergraduate working with us in the Winter; he will work with Patrick on the R&T measurements. Welcome!
• Wenhao's nitrides paper, a CNGMD paper with Bethany and Janet as co-authors, has been accepted to Nature Materials.
• Joseph Kreb is an undergraduate working with us in the Winter; he will work on ellipsometry. Welcome!
• Okan's poster won second place at the Graduate Showcase in February. Congratulations Okan!
• Okan's & James's paper with John Mangum, Selective brookite polymorph formation related to the amorphous precursor state in TiO2 thin films, appeared in the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids in February 2019 - congratulations!
• Izak McGiesson and Pritha Biswas are sitting in on group meetings in Winter quarter.

• Acacia Patterson is joining the group as an undergraduate this Fall - welcome! She will work with Kelda on transport properties.
• Janet is on sabbatical leave for Fall 2018 and Winter 2019
• Aaron has a full-time position with PMIC, Corvallis - congratulations!
• Bethany's thesis defense was on September 18th - congratulations Dr. Matthews!
• Kelda did an internship at her parents' thin-film deposition business this summer.
• Janet gave an invited talk at the Thomas Young Center at University College, London, in July.
• Okan passed his preliminary exam on July 6 - well done!
• Chris had a successful PhD defense on June 29 - congratulations!
• Dinner at Janet's house 28 June to celebrate summer, degrees and the end of the year!
• Bethany has a post-doc job offer from PNNL - Congratulations!
• Bethany gave a nitrides talk at the SIMS/AVS conference at PNNL, June 18- June 22.
• James H. will be teaching in the intro Physics sequence at OSU this summer - he'll be busy!
• The new polymoprhs paper has been submitted to J. Mater Chem - congrats Okan, James and Janet!
• James H. defended his Ph.D. degree on 14 June 2018! Congratulations!
• Aaron Dethlefs and Ryan Lance gave their senior thesis presentations in June - congratulations - and graduated - congratulations again!
• James May is graduating this year and has a job with Boeing - congratulations! (Also became a dad - congrats again!)
• Okan and Bethany gave talks at the APS NW meeting June 1.
• Hypo Chen from SLAC visted our lab June 1.
• Bethany is co-author on a nitrides paper accepted at ACS Combinatorial Science that includes her work at NREL with Andriy - congrats!
• Ryan has been accepted into the UO Masters Intern program - congrats!
• Janet's Distinguished Professor lecture was in May 11.
• Andriy Zakutayev visted our lab May 9-11 and gave a great talk on heterostructural alloys.
• Grad recruiting weekend was Mar 9 - thanks for presenting posters & showing the labs.
• Aaron is working with Linda from PMIC on Hall experiments.
• Okan gave a poster at the grad research showcase at LaSells on Feb 8th
• Hazel Betz is on an internship in New Zealand - working on Raman spectroscopy in TiO2!
• Janet is invited to give a talk at the Thomas Young Center conference in July.

Bethany, Janet, James in 2017:

• Lab cleanup day December 4th!
• James H. was awarded his M.S. degree 25 October 2017! Congratulations!
• James H. gave the Solid State Seminar on October 25 on “High-fraction Brookite Films”
• James' 'TiO2 polymorphs' paper was accepted by Scientific Reports October 25- well done!
• Sanga Kim, the Horiba field engineer, is here Wed-Fri Oct 25-27 to upgrade the Raman spectrometer.
• Welcome to Kelda Diffendaffer, who is joining this term. Kelda earned her thin film stripes earlier than most of us - her family business is thin film coating!
• Congratulations to Ryan for winning Honorable Mention for an excellent lightning talk, “Analyzing Thin Films with Optics” at the Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium on September 14!
• Alumni news: Michael Forkner has accepted a position as a physics teacher at a high school in the Bronx, NYC.
• James submitted his TiO2 paper to Scientific Reports!
• Bethany is doing research at NREL on her SCGSR fellowship until November.
• Bethany's SnCaSe alloys paper was accepted for publication by the Journal of Chemistry A (19 July)!! J. Mater. Chem A, 2017, 5, 16873 - 16882.
• Bethany attended the 77th annual Physical Electronics Conference in Portland (28-29 June)and presented the alloys microscopy work.
• Michael has graduated and accepted an internship at the Optical Society of America in Washington, D.C. - congratulations and best wishes!
• Hazel has a summer internship at Intel - enjoy the new experience!
• Michael, James M. and Hazel gave their undergraduate thesis presentations.
• Bethany was awarded her M.S. degree- congratulations!
• The Heterostructural Alloys paper has been published in Science Advances.
• Janet, James, Bethany and Okan attended the CNGMD all-hands meeting at Harvard in May.
• David Rivella is joining for the Spring term - welcome!
• Janet gave an invited talk at the Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Francisco.
• Bethany submitted the (SnCa)Se Alloys paper to Journal of Chemistry A on April 27.
• The RERF proposal to acquire a variable-temperature stage for the Raman microscope was awarded! Okan, James H. and Paul LeDuff (Rorrer group) will spearhead the acquisition.
• Bethany was awarded the Whiteley Materials Science Fellowship! Congratulations again.
• James and Okan represented Tate Lab at March for Science in Portland
• Annual Lab Clean Up done on April 4th for all labs. Seebeck Lab reorganized.
• Bethany has been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award to work at NREL for 4 months. Congratulations, we're very proud of you!
• The Heterostructural Alloys paper has been “all but accepted” by Science Advances - yay!
• Chiyuki Sato completed her PhD at Yamanashi University - congratulations!

• Aaron Dethlefs, junior in Physics, is sitting in on our group meetings - welcome.
• James H's poster won a “Best Poster” award at the MRS meeting!
• Janet will give an invited talk at the ACS Spring Meeting in San Francisco.
• James H will attend the MRS Fall Meeting in Boston and present a poster on TiO2 polymorphs.
• Michael and Hazel attended the PhysCon Conference in San Francisco; Michael presented some alloys work in a poster presentation.
• Ryan Lance is joining us for group meetings starting Fall - welcome!
• James H passed his prelim oral - awesome job!
• Congratulations to Bethany on her marriage to Scott! Our very best wishes!
• Hazel Betz is joining the group - welcome!
• Okan Agirseven joined the group this summer - welcome!
• Michael and James M gave talks at the USRS Symposium - well done!
• Josh graduated with a B.S. in Physics - congratulations!
• Janet attended the March APS meeting and received APS Fellow status
• Bethany passed her Ph.D. preliminary exam! Congratulations!
• Bethany attended the EFRC all-hands meeting in January.
• Lab floors all waxed and clean in January - how great is that?!
• Chiyuki returned to Japan in January - thanks for visiting.

• Bethany and James H have posters at the Fall MRS - both nominated for best poster award! Congrats!
• Janet attended the EFRC PI meeting in Washington DC on October
• Michael Forkner and James May are our new undergrad colleagues - Welcome!
• James, Bethany and Janet will attend MRS in December.
• Janet had a banner year - APS Fellow, College Gilfillan Award, OSU Alumni Distinguished Professor Award, and Dr. Russ and Dolores Gorman Faculty Scholar Award!
• Bethany, James and Janet will attend the EFRC All hands meeting at LBL 5-7 August.
• Chiyuki Sato has joined us from the University of Yamanashi - welcome!
• Emily Thomas is working with us over the summer - welcome!
• Josh, Scott and Alex are graduating!
• James, Bethany and Janet will give talks at APS Northwest in May.
• Josh has decided to attend grad school at the University of Washington - congrats!
• Bethany, James & Janet will be visiting NREL for an all-hands meeting of the EFRC.
• Undergrads Josh Stahly and Katie Banowetz are working in the lab!

• Janet was named a TU Ambassoador by the Technical University of Munich
• Jaeseok & Chris's paper was published in Advanced Energy Materials !
• Congratulations to Kai Zhan, M.S!
• Delighted to join the EFRC with NREL, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Colorado School of Mines!
• Scott Hutchings and Alex Poff are our new undergrad researchers - welcome.
• Labs are all spruced up and ready for work - thanks to all who participated in June 19 clean-up day!
• Kai is going to the PhD program in EECS at OSU, Rodney is going to U. Maryland to grad school in Physics; Kat has a software job at Callisto in Albany - good luck in your next ventures!
• Congratulations to Rodney Snyder, B.S.; Kat (Stevens) Prudell, B.S.!
• Rodney, Kat and Aaron presented their thesis work.
• Josh has a SURE Science award for summer 2014! Congratulations!
• NW-APS upcoming 1 May 2014; Chris, Kai, Rodney, Josh, Daniel have posters; Janet has an invited talk; Rodney has an Honors College “Grandma” scholarship to pay expenses!
• SnCaS paper published in Journal of Applied Physics, March 2014
• Bethany Matthews and James Haggerty are joining us this term

• River's thermal conductivity paper was published by Thin Solid Films! (November 2013)
• Josh Mutch (undergrad) will be joining us this fall.
• River's thermal conductivity paper was accepted by Thin Solid Films! (Sept 2013)
• Undergrads Rose Baunach (Whitman) and James Cutz (LB) will be joining us for the summer - welcome. Also Kyle MacClellan and Kai Zhan are grads who will be in the lab this summer.
• Summer CLEANUP day is Thu Jun 20, 2013 - lunch to follow.
• Congratulations to River who was recognized as the Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher in the College of Science for his work on the thermal conductivity experiment.
• Congratulations to Jason Francis, Ph.D.! And to River Wiedle, B.S. (Honors), Ben Howorth B.S., Casey Hines B.S. June 2013
• Jason has a job with Intel! Congratulations!
• River has a job with Intel! Congratulations!
• River submitted his paper on th thermal conductivity of AlPO to Thin Solid Films. April 2013
• Jason submitted this paper on SnS to Thin Solid Films. April 2013
• Undergrads Aaron Kratzer and Michael Perlin are joining us. 7 Jan 2013
• Nico passed her thesis exam!

• Ben Howorth is working with Chris on XRD, Rodney Snyder with Jason on the Hall measurements, Casey Hines on the thermal evap system and with River on the thermal conductivity system. Dec 2012.
• Nico Schmidt from the University of Konstanz is joining us for 5 months to work towards her senior thesis. Welcome Nico! 7 May 2012
• Subin passed the comp exam! April 2012
• Jason presented his work on SnS with the Boettcher group at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco - April 2012
• Winter term CLEANUP day is Friday March 23. Come ready for work - old clothes, gloves, pizza appetite.
• Kathleen Stevens will be starting her senior thesis project with us on the optical spectrometers - welcome! March 2012
• Congratulations to Annette, who has a research position at Praxair in Indianapolis! February 2012
• Jason's BiCuOSe XAS paper with the Piper group published by PRB, Feb 2012
• Chris passed the comp exam! Jan 2012
• Annette's BiCuOSe paper is published in JSSC, 14 Jan 2012
• Weniger 489 had a major cleanup and reorganization - check it out! Weniger 487 & 481 had a cleanup, too. 7 Jan 2012

• Subin Sahu will be working with us in Winter 2012 - welcome Subin!
• Undergrads Kevin Albright and Novela Auparay will work with us starting Winter 2012. Welcome!
• Jason passed the Ph.D. prelim exam, Dec 2011
• Annette's BiCuOSe single crystal paper was accepted by JSSC, Nov 2011
• River and Matt presented a poster at the CSMC Kickoff meeting in Corvallis, Oct 24-25, 2011
• Jason & Chris presented papers and River presented a poster at the APS NW meeting in Corvallis, Oct 21-22, 2011
• Jason and River presented posters at the AVS meeting in Wilsonville, Sep 15-16, 2011
• Congratulations Dr. Annette Richard! Jan 10, 2011

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