McQueen Lab

Discovering new phenomena through the design and synthesis of new materials

Indirect-Direct Band Gaps By Design

Open Positions

• Always looking for interested and talented graduate/undergraduate students

News and Awards

• Group duties updated, lanthanide chemistry reference added!
• Welcome to Elizabeth Pogue!
• Updated publications: Universal geometric frustration in pyrochlores!
• Updated references (quantum computing algorithms, process engineering, and more).
• Updated Publications!
• Congratulations to Jennifer Morey on receiving the Alexander Kossiakoff Award for outstanding research accomplishment in chemistry.
• Minor site cleanup, improve fonts, simplify language on remote access instructions.
• Welcome to Lucas Pressley!
• Congratulations to Jessica Panella on Defending her Ph.D.!
• Updated references with further topology reviews.
• Added data files for several publications.
• Updated software with revised virtual machines for LMTO and uSR tools.

Recent Publications (All Publications)

108. B.A. Trump, S.M. Koohpayeh, K.J.T. Livi, J.-J. Wen, K.E. Arpino, Q.M. Ramasse, R. Brydson, M. Feygenson, H. Takeda, M. Takigawa, K. Kimura, S. Nakatsuji, C.L. Broholm, T.M. McQueen
Universal geometric frustration in pyrochlores
Nat. Commun. 9, 2619 (2018) [Full PDF]

107. T.T. Tran, M.A. Quintero, K.E. Arpino, Z.A. Kelly, J. Panella, X.P. Wang, T.M. McQueen
Chemically controlled crystal growth of (CH₃NH₃)₂AgInBr₆
Accepted Cryst. Eng. Comm. (2018) [Full PDF]

106. W.T. Fuhrman, J.C. Leiner, J.W. Freeland, M. van Veenendaal, S.M. Koohpayeh, W.A. Phelan, T.M. McQueen, C.L. Broholm
Diamagnetic Sm³⁺ in the topological Kondo insulator SmB₆
arXiv:1804.06853 (2018) [arXiv:1804.06853]