June 2017
Our work within Nanolab NL featured in Youtube films
NanoLabNL: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen - Beatriz Noheda
NanoLabNL: Atomic Scale Control to Enhance Nanotechnology
May 2017
Our collaboration with the neighbor town hall Zuidhorn appears in the news
July 2016
NWO-Veni grant for Dr. Saeedeh Farokhipoor
Perspective article on ferroelectric chalcogenides by B. Noheda and B.J. Kooi appears in Science
May 2016
TOP-PUNT grant of 1.7 M€ for Beatriz Noheda
January 2016
Cover of January 2016 issue of Advanced Electronic Materials features our paper Arnoud Everhardt et al. "
Ferroelectric domain structures in low-strain BaTiO3
"
December 2015
Two papers on Jeroen Heuver’s thin films of multiferroic spinel CoCr2O4 are published in Physical Review B:
J.A. Heuver et al. (Strain-induced magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial thin films of the spinel CoCr2O4 ) and A. Aqeel et al. (Spin-Hall magnetoresistance and spin Seebeck effect in spin-spiral and paramagnetic phases of multiferroic films)
November 2015
Paper by Arnoud Everhardt et al. "
Ferroelectric domain structures in low-strain BaTiO3 " published online in Advanced Electronic Materials.
February 2015
Oleskiy Nesterov successfully defends his thesis "Control of Periodic Ferroelastic Domains in Ferroelectric Pb1-xSrxTiO3 thin films for nanoscale memory devices"
November 2014
Paper by Saeedeh Farokhipoor, Cesat Magén et al. " published in Nature:
DOI: 10.1038/nature13918
June 2014
Paper accepted in Nature Communications: The paper on "Super switching and control of in-plane ferroelectric nanodomains in strained thin films" by Sylvia Matzen, Oleksiy Nesterov, Gijsbert Rispens, Jeroen Heuver, Mike Biegalski, Hans Christen, and Beatriz Noheda to appear in July in
Nature Communications .
December 2012
Beatriz Noheda is appointed member of the Editorial board of Applied Physics/Journal of Applied Physics for the next 3 years.
December 2011
Beatriz Noheda has been elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. For more information see RUG, Zernike Institute or FOM press releases.
October 2011
Paper on "Flexoelectric rotation of polarization in ferroelectric thin films" by Gustau Catalan, Ard Vlooswijk, Gijsbert Rispens and Beatriz Noheda (SSME group) and collaborators at Twente, Barcelona and Toulouse, has been published in Nature Materials (Advanced online publication in October 16th). See also press release.
August 2011
Paper on "Conduction at 71° domain walls in BiFeO3 thin films" by Saeedeh Farokhipoor and Beatriz Noheda has been accepted in Phys. Rev. Letts.
June 2011
The University of Groningen is ranked 4th in terms of citations and impact on Materials Science according to Thomson Reuters (June 2011). See ranking.