We welcome Haochen Tian, who joined our group this week. Haochen started his Ph.D. studies at Tianjin University and he will now spend one year as part of his Ph.D. program in our group. We hope that his stay will be a fruitful one – scientifically and culturally.

We welcome Dr. Tomohiro Tetsumoto from IMRA America, Inc. as a new collaborator and visitor to our lab. Tomohiro will work on graphene synthesis and integration of single-layer graphene in photonic devices. Yesterday, we have successfully revived our aging ultra-low pressure CVD system. The first run has already resulted in a perfect graphene sheet on a copper surface.