With surprise visits by former group members Dr. Jui-Yung Chang and Dr. Sydney Taylor this week, Wang group had a wonderful dinner gathering with former and current members as well as their families. Dr. Jui-Yung Chang graduated with PhD in 2017 and currently is an Assistant Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Dr….

Prof. Liping Wang is selected a Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)!

Congrats to Sydney and all co-authors for their paper titled “Temperature-dependent Optical Characterization of VO2 Thin Film Prepared from Furnace Oxidation Method” selected for best paper award from ES Materials & Manufacturing! Support and recognition are greatly appreciated!

Nicole, Jeremy, Neal, Christian and Nicholas are presenting and sharing their research results at the FURI symposium. Congratulations and thanks for their hard work as well as the mentorship from PhD students and postdoc (Sydney, Payam, Linshuang) from the group! We greatly appreciate the support from ASU Fulton Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) program!! Everyone enjoyed…

Sydney and Payam presented posters and gave oral talks at 2019 IMECE conference in Salt Lake City, and enjoyed meeting with scholars. Big congrats to Sydney for winning the “Most Innovative Experimental Poster Award” and to Payam for winning the “Best Poster Oral Presentation Award”!! The great contributions and hard work from their coauthors (FURI…

Payam successfully defended his PhD and Congrats to Dr. Sabbaghi! Thanks the committee for the great advice and help!

Over last month, another class 1000 portable cleanroom has been successfully installed in our lab ERC326 to protect our unique and delicate optical instruments from desert dust!

Congrats Hassan Alshehri for successfully passing the PhD Comprehensive Exam and Prospectus!

Today we finally had a new softwall cleanroom installed in our lab. This class 1000 cleanroom with five air filters will provide a much cleaner environment for lots of experiments such as near field radiation measurements, AFM, laser scanning thermoreflectance, etc. Cheers!

After group meeting in the Friday afternoon, ASU NETR Group celebrates the birthdays of Prof. Wang and Ms. Sydney Taylor with cake and pizza, with a special guest Jeremy Wang. Hope we can keep this as a group tradition in the future to celebrate the birthday of every group member!