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Jason Kawasaki

Jason Kawasaki

Associate Professor
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Department

Materials Science & Engineering

Contact

2152, Engineering Centers Building
1550 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
p: (608) 262-3233

  • PhD 2014, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • BS 2009, Princeton University

  • Heteroepitaxy of novel materials
  • Heusler compounds
  • magnetism
  • topological states
  • shape memory alloys
  • surfaces and interfaces
  • MBE
  • STM
  • ARPES

  • 2024 American Vacuum Society, Peter Mark Memorial Award
  • 2024 Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Associate Award
  • 2022 AVS Prairie Chapter, Early Career Award
  • 2021 Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFOSR Young Investigator Award
  • 2019 College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvey D. Spangler Assistant Professorship
  • 2019 DARPA , DARPA Young Faculty Award
  • 2019 North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference (NAMBE), Young Investigator Award
  • 2018 American Vacuum Society, Holloway Young Investigator Award, Thin Films Division
  • 2018 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2017 Army Research Office, ARO Young Investigator
  • 2014 Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Kavli Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • 2013 American Vacuum Society, Russell and Sigurd Varian Award
  • 2013 American Physical Society, Iris Ovshinsky Student Award, Division of Materials Physics
  • 2012 Materials Research Society , Graduate Student Gold Award, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting
  • 2011 North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy Conference, Best Student Oral Presentation
  • 2010 NDSEG, Graduate Fellowship
  • 2010 NSF, Graduate Fellowship
  • 2009 Princeton University, 1st Prize, Donald Janssen Dike Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

  • Du, D., Manzo, S., Zhang, C., Saraswat, V., Genser, K. T., Rabe, K. M., Voyles, P. M., Arnold, M. S., & Kawasaki, J. (2024). Author Correction: Epitaxy, exfoliation, and strain-induced magnetism in rippled Heusler membranes. nature communications, 15.
  • Samanta, T., LaDuca, Z., Du, D., Jung, T., Manzo, S., Genser, K., Su, K., Rabe, K., Arnold, M., & Kawasaki, J. (2024). Strain-gradient driven superconductivity in GdAuGe hexagonal Heusler membranes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • LaDuca, Z., Samanta, T., Jung, T., Xi, T., Genser, K., Xiao, J., Rabe, K., & Kawasaki, J. (2024). Synthesis and Strain Gradient Induced Flexomagnetism in Rippled GdAuGe Heusler Membranes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Saraswat, V., Way, A. J., Zheng, X., Jacobberger, R. M., Manzo, S., Tiwale, N., Dwyer, J. H., Kawasaki, J., Nam, C., Gopalan, P., & others, (2023). Bottom-up synthesis of mesoscale nanomeshes of graphene nanoribbons on germanium. APL Materials, 11(4).
  • LaDuca, Z., Su, K., Manzo, S., Arnold, M. S., & Kawasaki, J. (2023). Control of ternary alloy composition during remote epitaxy on graphene. Physical Review Materials, 7(8), 083401.
  • Wang, W., Strohbeen, P. J., Lee, D., Zhou, C., Kawasaki, J., Choi, K., Liu, M., & Galli, G. (2023). Correction: The Role of Surface Oxygen Vacancies in BiVO4. Chemistry of Materials, 35(19), 8321--8322.
  • Du, D., Thoutam, L. R., Genser, K. T., Zhang, C., Rabe, K. M., Samanta, T., Jung, T., Jalan, B., Voyles, P. M., & Kawasaki, J. (2023). Effect of Pt vacancies on magnetotransport of Weyl semimetal candidate GdPtSb epitaxial films. Physical Review Materials, 7(8), 084204.
  • Manzo, S., Su, K., Arnold, M. S., & Kawasaki, J. (2023). Nucleation Selectivity and Lateral Coalescence of GaAs over Graphene on Ge (111). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15(51), 59905--59911.
  • Du, D., Hu, J., & Kawasaki, J. (2023). Strain and strain gradient engineering in membranes of quantum materials. Applied Physics Letters, 122(17).
  • Ash, R., Abhari, Z., Candela, R., Welke, N., Murawski, J., Gardezi, S. M., Venkatasubramanian, N., Munawar, M., Siewert, F., Sokolov, A., & others, (2023). X-FAST: A versatile, high-throughput, and user-friendly XUV femtosecond absorption spectroscopy tabletop instrument. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94(7).

  • M S & E 570 - Properties of Solid Surfaces (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 362 - Synthesis & Characterization Lab (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 299 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 570 - Properties of Solid Surfaces (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 362 - Synthesis & Characterization Lab (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 699 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Summer 2023)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)