Tackling grand challenges in the materials science of liquids and glasses and non-equilibrium magnetism.
The Wisconsin MRSEC Advanced Materials Industrial Consortium (AMIC) facilitates industrial access to the MRSEC and UW Madison shared instrumentation facilities. The AMIC team has performed a comprehensive benchmarking study across peer institutions semiconductor nanofabrication centers that evaluates their operational models, access policies, technical capabilities, and industry engagement practices.
Researchers in Wisconsin MRSEC IRG 2 have developed instrumentation to use light to study magnetism, vibrations, and their couplings in thin crystal membranes as they are pulled and bent. These phenomena cover a range of wavelength from nanometers to millimeters and they respond in as little as 10-15 s (a femtosecond). The instruments developed by IRG 2 cover this entire range of wavelengths and timescales, making them a powerful suite of tools for MRSEC research.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) has received $18 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for interdisciplinary exploration of fundamental questions in materials science.