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Jan., 2026. Our most recent research, , is available on the ArXiv. ¾«¶«AV students Zander, Ezra, and Natalie contributed to this work.

August, 2025. Our most recent article, "Measuring optical force with a torsion pendulum: a platform for independent student experimentation"   in American Journal of Physics.

This work was and awarded the journal cover. Congrats to Leland, Zeke, and Anatalya, and thanks to the students who piloted this experiment in the advanced laboratory course.

August, 2025. A beautiful day to hike near Mt. Hood.

May, 2025. Graduation! Congratulations on successful thesis defenses and best of luck in the future to Adam, Leo, and Joaquin, as well as to all the ¾«¶«AV graduates.

March, 2025. Rubayat won a "top presenter" award at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Anaheim, CA, for her poster, "Electric transport in organic conductive polymer-inorganic nanocomposites".

March, 2025. Joaquin presented, "Transition Between Semiconducting and Metallic Behavior in PEDOT:PSS Composites" at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Anaheim, CA.

Jan, 2025. Welcome back Natalie! Natalie rejoined the group as a post-baccalaureate research assistant, working on our 2D materials projects.

Nov, 2024. Rubayat presented a talk, "Electric transport in composites of conductive polymer and gold nanoparticles," at the Murdock Undergraduate Research Conference in Vancouver, WA.

Oct, 2024. Adam and Rubayat toured Oksana Ostroverkhova's lab at Oregon State University, checked out the clean room, and measured their sample thicknesses with the profilometer.

Sept, 2024. Everyone did a great job presenting their work at ¾«¶«AV's 2024 summer research poster session.

July, 2024. Capping off a great summer of collaboration with University of Portland faculty Nelson Coates and Paige Hall, and students.

July, 2024. We enjoyed a day at Silver Falls.

May, 2024. Welcome the summer crew 2024– and thanks for sticking around a few weeks Anatalya to make this a smooth transition. (back) Noah, Anatalya, Jennifer, Zander (front) Rubayat, Joaquin, Zeke.

May, 2024. Graduation! Congratulations on successful thesis defenses and best of luck in the future to Teddie, Hope, Natalie, and Anatalya.

March, 2024. Natalie received an 'outstanding presenter' award for her talk, "Exfoliating and characterizing mm-size 2D MoS₂ films" at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

March, 2024. Rubayat presented her research, "Temperature and frequency-dependent electric response conductive polymer composite" at the American Physical Society March Meeting in Minneapolis, MN.

 Nov, 2023. Open Labs day at ¾«¶«AV. We welcomed members of the community to try their hand at exfoliating 2D materials (graphene), to learn more about our research, and to tour our labs.

 Nov, 2023. Pratik presented his research, "Scanning Probe Microscopy of Nanoparticle-Polymer Composites," at the Murdock Undergraduate Research Conference in Vancouver, WA.

Oct, 2023. Rakshya Khatiwada received the Linfield University Outstanding Young Alumnus award. Rakshya's first research experience was in the Heath lab. She is now a Fermilab scientist and an assistant professor at Illinois Tech, studying quantum sensors for use in the search for dark matter.

Sept, 2023. ¾«¶«AV's student poster session! Rubayat, Daniel, Leo, Pratik, and Natalie each did an outstanding job presenting their summer research projects.

July, 2023. Trip to the ¾«¶«AV Cabin, Mt. Hood, Ramona Falls with the physics summer student researchers.

July, 2023. The collaborating teams from the Heath, Coates, and Hall groups are meeting regularly to share results and see what is going on in each of the labs.

June, 2023. Welcome the summer crew 2023– and thanks for sticking around a few weeks Amelia to make this a smooth transition. (L-R) Leo, Pratik, Natalie, Daniel, Rubayat, Prof. Jennifer Heath, Amelia.

May, 2023. Bhavana and Amelia are graduating! Congratulations on successful thesis defenses and best of luck at Cornell (Amelia) and Kings College, Cambridge (Bhavana).

1. Schaeffer, “Striking Gold: An Atomic Force Microscopy Study of Gold Nanoparticle-Polymer Interfaces” (Senior Thesis, ¾«¶«AV, 2023).
2. Panchumarthi, “Dielectric Response of Bulk hBN” (Senior Thesis, ¾«¶«AV, 2023).

March, 2023. We’re at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas. Amelia and Bhavana both did an excellent job presenting their research.

1. Schaeffer, J. Heath, N. Warren, A. Hyslop, N. Coates, and P. Hall, “Investigating Structure and Conductivity in a PEDOT:PSS and Au System”
2. Panchumarthi, “Dielectric response of bulk h-BN”

Sept., 2022. The Oxford-Asylum Cypher S scanning probe microscope has been installed… and it seems to work! We’re officially 'open for research'.

August, 2022. NSF funded our grant proposal, submitted with Paige Hall and Nelson Coates of University of Portland. “Collaborative Research: RUI: Effects of Interfacial Properties on Charge Transport in Conducting Organic/Inorganic Composites”. This will provide $266,000 to the Heath group over three years. NSF-DMR 2226953

August, 2022. New Faculty Startup award from The Murdock Charitable Trust. Together with funds provided by ¾«¶«AV, this will help equip two my research space over the next few years. Thank you!