Burç Mısırlıoğlu,

Professor of Materials Science

Materials Science and Engineering Program

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Sabancı University

burc_at_sabanciuniv.edu

 

Ph.D, Materials Science and Engineering

University of Connecticut

M.Sc., B.Sc. in Metallurgy

Istanbul Technical University

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

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2008-Present: Faculty member in Materials Program, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University

2007-2008: Post-doctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Research topic: Probing of surface electronic states on electrochemical activity of solid oxide cathodes)

2006-2007: AvH Fellow at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Research topic: Effect of interfaces and periodicity on electrical properties of ferroelectric superlattices)

 

Our research is centered around understanding the effects of defects, interfaces and microstructure on the physical properties of functional oxides and materials in confined dimensions. Using continuum level computational and experimental approaches, we try to reveal the mechanisms by which defects and interfaces impact the physical properties and at what magnitude this occurs. Such knowledge is the key to design and fabricate structures in various geometries for specific engineering applications. The applications governed by such phenomena encompass macro- and micro-scale capacitors for electric energy storage, non-volatile solid state memories, nanoscale devices and electrooptical thin films. Our group’s research covers:

 

Ferroelectric-semiconductor interfaces, resistive memory action of such systems.

Phase transitions in functional oxides and artificially grown multilayers/superlattices.

Effect of defects on thermodynamics and phase transitions of crystalline materials.

Ferromagnetic materials in confined dimensions

Growth of ferroelectric and multiferroic films using chemical precursor methods and their characterization.

Electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric solid solutions and its applications.

Updates:

 

New: Prof. Misirlioglu gave an invited talk at the MRS 2023 Fall Meeting in Boston on the phenomenological analysis and possible limits of voltage amplification in a semiconductor channel gated by a ferroelectric oxide film. Co-authors: Prof. A. P. Levanyuk of Univ. of Washington/USA, Dr. Andres Cano of CNRS/France and Dr. M. B. Okatan of İYTE/Turkey.

 

New: Prof. Misirlioglu gave an invited talk at the 24th Photonics Workshop organized at Koç University in September of 2023 on the changes in optical properties of materials at phase transitions.

 

New: Cihan gave an online talk at the ISAF-ISIF-PFM 2023 Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio (Organized by IEEE) on the effects of volume change on caloric response of ferroelectric thin films. You can click here to watch it.

 

New:  Talk on the theory of phase coexistence in symmetry breaking structural transitions occurring under clamping (Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics and Related Materials Workshop organized by Carnegie Science, Washington DC, January 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oWwBf_j0aQ&t=757s

 

New: Our TÜBİTAK 1001 proposal to study the caloric effects in ferroelectric thin films to sense polarization states is granted. This is a computational project and we seek Ph.D. students with high level of interest in solid state physics and coding.

 

Other: Cihan’s work on the contribution of volumetric changes in a ferroelectric film to its caloric response is accepted for publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Check it out: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/tc/d2tc04694f

 

Other: Wael’s article reporting on our study of the reversal process and the associated energetics in ferromagnetic nanodiscs is accepted for publication in Nanoscale. Check it out: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/nr/d2nr02768b

 

Other: Our work on ferromagnetic nanostructures was featured on the cover of the 2021 October Issue of the journal Annalen der Physik. Click here to read the article.

 

Other: Prof. Mısırlıoğlu’s TÜBİTAK 1001 proposal to study the stability and limits of so-claimed negative capacitance in ferroelectric/dielectric heterostructures under realistic boundary conditions was granted and started as of 1 October 2021.

 

Other: We study ways to enable electrical control of magnetic order in confined nanoscale ferromagnets using micromagnetic simulations based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation coupled with Maxwell relations. Check our simulation result by clicking here to see the switching the of the vortex state in a 55 nm diameter permalloy disc from counter clockwise to clockwise direction upon application of an electric pulse to the system. The entire process takes about 3 nanoseconds. Part of the results of this work are published in Annalen der Physik 2021 October Issue.

 

Other: The Landau Theory of phase transitions concerning symmetry breaking from a mechanical model perspective: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2008/2008.06269.pdf

 

 

 

Last update 11/02/2024

 

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