Brown University researchers developed a technique to make ultra-thin multiferroic materials that retain their functional properties, offering a potential path toward low-power microchips for AI.
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Lucas Caretta
Howard M. Reisman '76, P'09 Assistant Professor of Engineering
Barus & Holley 655
Research Interests
quantum materials, spintronics and magnetism, ferroelectricity, multiferroics, spin-orbit coupling, interface engineering, oxide thin films, epitaxial thin films, emergent phenomena, atomically-precise growth, device design and lithography, magneto-optics, magnetotransport
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Brown’s Caretta, Zhou selected for 2026 NAE Symposium
Seventy-four innovative early-career engineers have been chosen to participate in the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2026 Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
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Caretta earns CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation
The early-career grant will enable Lucas Caretta to broaden the accessible materials palette for next-generation spintronic devices and enable new experimental approaches to controlling spin transport in a growing field that has a thirst for new materials approaches.
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