QF Fellow and Associate seminar: Alex Hallett

Exploring the effects of doping in compressively a strained SrTiO3

Alex graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arkansas before joining the Harter Lab in the Materials Department at UCSB in 2019. During their
undergraduate studies, Alex performed electrochemistry research at the University of Arkansas and at Caltech, and they also worked at MIT fabricating superconducting MoN thin films. Their current work focuses on using ab intio calculations to perform a systematic exploration of herbertsmithite-related quantum spin liquid candidates. Candidate compounds are ranked by their structural and thermodynamic stability, structural properties, as well as their defect energy costs. Several promising materials are selected from a total of 120 candidates.