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01/10/2018 Our 2009 work on topological insulator Bi₂Te₃ is listed among 40 milestones over the past 40 years by the DOE office of science. Congratulations to Yulin and ZX!

07/06/2017 By combining X-ray diffraction at LCLS and photoemission at Stanford, work led by Simon Gerber and Shuolong Yang directly measured the electron-phonon coupling constant in FeSe from the time domain. The result is published in Science.

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10/30/2015 Research led by Eric Yue Ma, Yong-Tao Cui and Kentaro Ueda discovered mobile metallic domain walls in a magnetic insulator. The result is published in Science.

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04/28/2015 Congratulations to Prof. Z.-X. Shen for being elected to the National Academy of Sciences!

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02/09/2015 "An Incubator for Innovation" - Jared Schwede and Dan Riley became Project Leads at Cyclotron Road at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

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11/12/2014 Work led by J. J. Lee, Felix Schmitt and Rob Moore studying single layer FeSe on SrTiO₃ appeared in Nature.

10/20/2014 Research led by Wei-Sheng Lee discovered unexpected collective modes in electron-doped cuprates. The result showed up in Nature Physics.

05/25/2014 Zhongkai Liu's paper, "A stable three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal Cd₃As₂", appeared in Nature Materials.

03/20/2014 Shuolong Yang's paper, "Superconducting graphene sheets in CaC₆ enabled by phonon-mediated interband interactions", appeared in Nature Communications.

01/16/2014 Zhongkai Liu's paper, "Discovery of a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Semimetal, Na₃Bi", appeared in Science.

12/22/2013 Yi Zhang's paper, "Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe₂", appeared in Nature Nanotechnology.

03/28/2011 Ruihua He and Makoto Hashimoto's paper "From a single-band metal to a high-temperature superconductor via two thermal phase transitions" appeared in Science.

01/27/2011 Non Meevasana's paper "Creation and control of a two-dimensional electron gas at the bare SrTiO₃ Surface" appeared in Nature Materials.

08/30/2010 Prof. Z.-X. Shen wins the Oliver E. Buckley Prize!

08/30/2010 Prof. Z.-X. Shen and Nick Melosh awarded $1.8 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

08/06/2010 Yulin Chen led efforts published in Science studying the effect of magnetic impurity doping in topological insulators.

08/02/2010 Work led by Jared Schwede and Dan Riley demonstrating the feasibility of PETE published in Nature Materials.

06/25/2010 Prof. Z.-X. Shen becomes the Chief Scientist for SLAC.

04/06/2010 Makoto Hashimoto and Ruihua He led efforts published in Nature Physcis reporting particle-hole symmetry breaking of pseudogap in Bi2201.

12/17/2009 Prof. Z.-X. Shen receives the E.O. Lawrence award from the U.S. Department of Energy.

9/10/2009 Yulin Chen receives the Spicer Young Investigator Award