Our research activity involves close collaboration with other theoretical and experimental groups, including

• Vincent Meunier (ORNL) - STM image simulation and surface physics of transitional metal oxides by density functional theory; DFT and electrostatics of Scanning Gate Microscopy on carbon nanotubes and  1D structures
• Mark Kachanov and Edgar Karapetian (Tufts University) - Nanoelectromechanics of piezoelectric indentation and polarization switching in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy
• Alexei Gruverman (North Carolina State University) - Polarization switching and novel ferroic phenomena in ferroelectric thin films
• Correlated Electron Materials Group (David Mandrus) (ORNL) - Electronic and structural phenomena on the surfaces of transition metal oxides
• Thin Film & Nanostructured Materials Group (Doug Lowndes, Hans Christen, David Geohegan)  - Properties of epitaxial oxide thin films and frequency dependent transport imaging in carbon nanotube networks
• Steve Pennycook group (ORNL) - Interface phenomena in TMO multilayers;  Catalytic Nanoclusters