05/28/2024    Henry from Hamilton College joined the group as an REU student. Welcome!

03/03/2024-03/08/2024    Mengen gave a talk about First-principles study of surface and defect properties in Sn-based perovskites at the 2024 APS March meeting.

11/17/2023    Alex Pyle joined the group as an MS student. Welcome!

08/20/2023    Zhikang Zhou (from Prof. Guangwen Zhou's group) joined the group as a co-advised PhD student. Welcome!

07/01/2023    We are honored to receive the 2023-2024 Pooled Research grant from the Integrated Electronics Engineering Center (IEEC) at Binghamton University.

04/21/2023    We are honored to receive the seed grant (in collaboration with Prof. Tara Dhakal and Prof. Manuel Smeu) from Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence (TAE) at Binghamton University.

03/16/2023    Kejia Li joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

02/24/2023    Andrew Meccariello joined the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome!

03/06/2023-03/10/2023    Mengen gave two talks at the 2023 APS March meeting:

M39.00013 First-principles study of impurities on diamond surfaces

W68.00004 First-principles study of surface kinetics in β-Ga2O3

01/30/2023    Mengen gave an invited talk “First-principles study of planar defects in gallium oxide”, and served as a session chair at the "Oxide-based Materials and Devices XIV" conference, SPIE Photonics West 2023.

01/21/2023    Chadawan Khamdang joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!

01/20/2023    Mengen developed a graduate-level course 'EECE/MSE 535X Quantum Physics of Semiconductor Materials' in Spring 2023. Join us and explore the fun topics! This course is offered both in-person and via distance learning. Course syllabus is available here.

11/09/2022    Mengen is now affiliated with MSE program at Binghamton University. Looking forward to the new exciting collaborations!