2025
March 2025 APS meeting in Anaheim CA: Judy, Yeryun, and Khoan.
2024
(Feb 22) Defense success! Congrats Dr. Xu!
(Feb 22) Alyssa Xu’s PhD defense
(Feb 22) Celebration after Alyssa’s successful defense!
(May 9) Farewell party for Alyssa Xu – Group bowling
(May 9) Let’s bowl! Yeryun, Stephen, Natalie
(May 9) Let’s bowl! Han, Khoan, Sihun
(May 9) Calm after bowling.
(June 11) Yeryun at her poster at the SRC JUMP2.0 SUPREME annual review at MIT
(July) Group lunch. Farewell to REU student Richard Remias and visiting student Christos Kakogiannis from Johns Hopkins U. From Left: Jason, Christos, Natalie, Quynh, Richard, Yeryun, Khoan, Yu-Mi, Saif, Mehrdad, Stephen.
(July) M&M 2024. With David Muller, Phil Batson, and Hongbin
(July) M&M 2024. With Earl, Julia, Peter, and Robert.
(July) M&M 2024. Robert, Pinshane, Jonathan, Julia, Ismail
(July) M&M 2024. With Saif, Jamie, Jason, Stephen.
(Sept) CNF Annual Meeting. Quynh introducing Nanomolding to the crowd.
The Cha group represented in the MSE banner! That’s right, we do engineering differently: Natalie, Yeryun, and Saif.
20241210 ENG Holiday Reception
Dec 13th. MSE Holiday Party
Dec 13th. MSE Holiday Party. From Left: Saif, Natalie, Judy, Mehrdad, Quynh, Sean, Jack, Jason
Dec. 19th. Group Holiday Party at Judy’s place.
2023
Yale graduate students and alum dinner (Judy, Serrae, David, John)
David’s thesis (3/2/2023)! “Large area synthesis and characterization of 2D telluride thin films.”
Defense success! Everyone congratulating Dr. David Hynek after the defense.
Serrae’s thesis (3/2/2023)! “Electronic property tuning and external stimuli control of two-dimensional materials via surface functionalization”
Defense success! Everyone congratulating Dr. Serrae Reed-Lingenfelter after the defense.
Group photo (5/2023) First row: Saif, Han, Judy, Alyssa, Natalie, Quynh. Second row: Jamie, Mehrdad, Gangtae, Yeryun, Khoan
Last lunch at Yale with David and Serrae (5/15/2023)
Cornell EM BBQ (6/2023) Treman Park
Cornell EM BBQ (6/2023) : Saif, Quynh, Natalie, Judy, Mehrdad, Khoan, Astrid
Saif’s poster at 2D Workshop at Cambridge UK (6/2023)
Natalie’s poster at 2D Workshop at Cambridge, UK (6/2023)
With the chief organizer Manish Chhowalla (6/2023)
Astrid’s summer team (Han, Gangtae, Astrid, Judy) (7/2023)
Group BBQ (7/2023) | Gangtae, Mehrdad, Saif, Khoan, Yeryun, Han, Judy, Jane, Astrid, Quynh, Natalie, Jamie, Alyssa
Fire! at group BBQ (7/2023) | Mehrdad, Alex, Alyssa
Group BBQ (7/2023) | Natalie, Quynh
Group BBQ (7/2023) | Khoan, Saif, Alyssa, Astrid
46th CNF Annual Review (9/2023) | Alyssa presenting on her MoTe2 work
46th CNF Annual Review (9/2023) | Alyssa, Natalie, and Quynh presenting posters
From Left: Alyssa, Jamie, Quynh, Gangtae, Mehrdad, Han, Yeryun, Khoan, Stephen, Judy, Sihun, Saif, Jason, Natalie
From left: Jason, Judy, Saif, Khoan, Quynh, Mehrdad, Natalie, Jamie, Gangtae, Alyssa, Sihun, Han (and friend)
2022
2022 Yale Commencement (Judy, Pengzi, Josh)
2022 Yale Commencement (5/23) | Pengzi, Josh, Natalie
2022.6 GRC on 2D electronics beyond graphene | Jamie, Alyssa, Mengjing
2022.6.27 ESI farewell party (group photo) | Jin, Mengjing, Serrae, Judy, Sherry, Alyssa, David, Pengzi, Merhdad
2022.6.27 ESI farewell party (group photo)
2022.6.27 ESI farewell party | Diana Qiu, Mengxia Liu, Vidvuds Ozolins, Judy Cha, Gary Brudvig, Hailiang Wang, Peijun Guo
Last group lunch at Yale (6.29.2022) | Mengjing, Alyssa, Jin, Natalie, Pengzi, David, Serrae
2022.7.11 Lab is being packed (Natalie)!
2022.7.11 Lab is being packed at Yale.
2022.7.11 Packing lab at Yale (Natalie, David).
2022.8.1-4 M&M 2022 at Portland (Jamie)
2022.8.1-4 M&M 2022 at Portland (Quynh)
2022.8.1-4 M&M 2022 at Portland (Saif)
2022.9.7 Enclosure for CVD furnaces
2022.10 Group lunch (From Left: Khoan, Natalie, Quynh, Mehrdad, Gangtae, Alyssa, Mengjing)
2022.11 MRS – group dinner with Josh! (Going around the circle: Mehrdad, Jamie, David, Josh, Saif, Maria, Serrae, Natalie, Quynh)
2022.11 MRS – David’s poster
2022.11 MRS Maria’s poster
2022.11. Group waiting to hear Judy’s talk (1st row: Mehrdad, Gangtae, 2nd row: Natalie, Maria, David, Quynh, Saif, Jamie)
2022.12. Cornell MSE holiday party (from left: Mehrdad, Quynh, Saif, Alyssa, Mengjing, Natalie, Jamie)
2021
2021 Josh’s Thesis Defense
2021 Josh’s Thesis Defense: Pengzi, David, Mengjing, Mehrdad, Josh, Alyssa, Natalie, Judy
2021 Group Trip to Ithaca (7/16): Mengjing, Pengzi, Natalie, Elifnaz, Alyssa, Maria, Jamie, Hanshi, Judy
2021 Group Photo: (First row: Natalie, Elifnaz, Mengjing, Alyssa, Maria, Judy. Second row: J.R., Hanshi, Jin, Pengzi, David, Jamie, Josh)
Group Photo | (First row: Natalie, Elifnaz, Mengjing, Alyssa, Maria, Judy) (Second row: J.R., Hanshi, Jin, Pengzi, David, Jamie, Josh)
2020
2020 Holiday Zoom Lunch (12/21)
2021 Holiday Zoom Cribble Game: Natalie is a winner!
Holiday Zoom party| Various Skribbl entry from group members
John’s Thesis Defense (3/4)
John’s Thesis Defense (3/4)
John’s Thesis Defense (3/4)
2019
2019 MRS Fall (Boston) | Jin, John, Josh, Serrae, David, Alyssa, Sajad, Milad
2019 Farewell Lunch for Terry (9/19) | John, David, Alyssa, Sajad, Milad, Pengzi, Serrae, Terry, Judy, Josh, Jin
Group Lunch (7/26) | Terry, Josh, David, John, Milad, Sajad, Serrae, Pengzi, Judy, Jin
Group Photo (6/20) | Judy, Sajad, David, Milad, Jin, Josh, Pengzi, Serrae, John, Terry
2019 Group Photo
Terry, Serrae, David, Pengzi, Sajad, Judy, Josh, John, Jin, Milad
Terry’s Thesis Defense (4/1)
Terry’s Thesis Defense (4/1) | Judy, Pengzi, Terry, Josh, David, John
Terry’s Thesis Defense (4/1)
2019 GRC on Nanomaterials on Energy (2/25 – 3/1) | Josh and Judy
2019 GRC on Nanomaterials and Energy (Josh and Judy)
2018
2018 Year-End Lunch (12/19) | David, John, Milad, Judy, Josh, Pengzi, Sajad
John’s Wedding! (10/22) | Milad, Pengzi, Sajad, Judy, Josh (with Ariye), David (with Jade)
Group BBQ (9/11) | Milad, Sajad, Pengzi, Josh, Judy, David, Serrae, Terry, John
Group BBQ | Milad, Serrae, Terry, Pengzi, David, Josh’s back
Group BBQ | David in charge of the grill
Group BBQ (9/11) | Alex, John (with Gina)
Group Lunch (7/25) | Terry, Grace, Josh, Judy, Milad, John, Pengzi
2018 Cornell Quantum Summer School | David, Judy, John
2018 CIFAR Quantum Materials Meeting (Montreal, Canada) | Pengzi, Judy, John
2018 CIFAR Quantum Materials Meeting (Montreal, Canada) | Pengzi, John
2018 12th BMG Conference (Seoul, Korea, May) | Terry, Judy, Jan
2018 MRS Spring (Pheonix, April) | Pengzi, Terry, John, David, Josh
2017
2017 Group Photo (9/29) | Yerin, Terry, John, Josh, David, Judy, Jie, Pengzi
2017 Group Photo (9/29) | Terry, Josh, Judy, Yerin, David, Pengzi, John, Jie
2017 Group Lunch (7/27) | Judy (with Jane – 3yro), David, Sungwoo, Yu, Yerin, John, Savannah, Pengzi, Jie
2016
2016 Group Dinner (10.02) | First row: Jie, Yerin, Pengzi, Grace (with Andrew, 4 months), Judy (with Jane, 2.5 yrs)
2016 Group Lunch (7.28) | Grace, Yerin, Emile, Yu, Terry, Piran, John, Judy
Group Photo | Piran, John, Judy, Terry, Sungwoo, Yu
Group Photo | Judy, John, Sungwoo, Terry, Piran, Yu
2015
2015 Group Dinner (October) | Grace, Piran, Jie, Yu, John, Terry, Judy (with Jane, 1.5 yrs)
2015 Group Dinner (10.2015) | Terry, John, Judy, Piran, Jie, Yu, Grace, Jane
2015 CRISP public lecture on in situ TEM (4/4). Many (future scientist) kids asked great questions!
CRISP public lecture (4/4). Judy gave a talk on in situ TEM.
2014
2014 Summer BBQ | Eric (with family), John (with Gina), Judy’s dad, Terry, Jie
2014 Summer Group Photo | Terry, Jie, Eric, John, Judy
2014 Thanksgiving Lunch | Terry, Jie, Judy (with Jane 6 months)
2014 M&M meeting at Hartford. Jie presented her work on InGaAs/GaP quantum dot systems.
2014 CRISP open house (9/25). Eric presented his work on size-dependent crystallization of metallic glasses using in situ TEM.
