Research Interests

My research area is in computational condensed matter physics and materials science. Density-functional methods are employed to study structural, electronic, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties of solids from first principles. Current research interests include:

• Transparent conducting oxides
  • Composition and defect formation
• Amorphous oxide semiconductors
  • Crystallization, transport and flexibility
• Thermoelectric and topological materials
  • Spin-orbital coupling and superconductivity
• Advanced steels
  • Alloying, fracture, and deformation
• Dilute magnetic wide-bandgap semiconductors
  • Multilayers, digital alloys, interface engineering
• Magnetoresistivity in strongly-correlated oxides
  • Spin, charge, orbital degrees of freedom