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Paul Evans

Paul Evans

Professor
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Department

Materials Science & Engineering

Contact

1105, Engineering Research Building
1500 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
p: (608) 265-6773

  • PhD 2000, Harvard University
  • MS 1996, Harvard University
  • BS 1994, Cornell University

  • 2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Surface Science and Technology Bascom Professorship
  • 2019 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Associate Award
  • 2014 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award
  • 2006 College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Polygon Engineering Student Council’s Outstanding Instructor Award

  • Masteghin, M. G., Gervais, T., Clowes, S. K., Cox, D. C., Zelyk, V., Pattammattel, A., Chu, Y. S., Kolev, N., Stock, T. J., Curson, N. J., & others, (2024). Benchmarking of X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy with Ion Beam Implanted Samples Showing Detection Sensitivity of Hundreds of Atoms. Small Methods, 2301610.
  • Sri Gyan, D., Li, N., Mannix, D., Carbone, D., Gepr"ags, Stephan,, Gross, R., Haskel, D., Strempfer, J"org,, Sun, Y., Hoffmann, M., & others, (2024). Detection of Magnetization Dynamics in Metal/Ferrimagnetic Insulator Heterostructure using Ultrafast Resonant Hard X-ray Magnetic Diffraction. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Wang, S., Li, W., Deng, C., Hong, Z., Gao, H., Li, X., Gu, Y., Zheng, Q., Wu, Y., Evans, P., & others, (2024). Giant electric field-induced second harmonic generation in polar skyrmions. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1374.
  • Zhou, T., Reinhardt, A., Bousquet, M., Eymery, J., Leake, S., Holt, M. V., Evans, P., & Sch"ulli, Tobias, (2024). High-resolution spatio-temporal strain imaging reveals loss mechanisms in a surface acoustic wave device. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00054.
  • Zhuang, S., Zhang, X., Zhu, Y., Sun, N. X., Eom, C., Evans, P., & Hu, J. (2024). Hybrid magnon-phonon cavity for large-amplitude terahertz spin-wave excitation. Physical Review Applied, 21(4), 044009.
  • Liu, R., Lobato, C., Savage, D., Kuech, T., Christensen, D., & Evans, P. (2024). Large-Area Growth of Perovskites on $gamma$-Al 2 O 3: A Route to Oxide Electronic Materials. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • Betancourt-Ponce, M. A., Liu, R., Sun, J., Evans, P., & Gopalan, P. (2024). Patterning and epitaxy of large-area arrays of nanoscale complex oxide epitaxial heterostructures. APL Materials, 12(5).
  • Yu, X., Wu, L., Lin, Y., Diao, J., Liu, J., Hallmann, J"org,, Boesenberg, U., Lu, W., M"oller, Johannes,, Scholz, M., & others, (2024). Ultrafast Bragg coherent diffraction imaging of epitaxial thin films using deep complex-valued neural networks. npj Computational Materials, 10(1), 24.
  • Li, N., Lee, H. J., Sri Gyan, D., Ahn, Y., Landahl, E. C., Carnis, J., Lee, J. Y., Kim, T. Y., Unithrattil, S., Jo, J. Y., & others, (2024). Ultrafast Optically Induced Perturbation of Oxygen Octahedral Rotations in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films. Nano Letters.
  • Evans, P. (2023). Order from disorder: guiding nanoscale crystallization of amorphous solids. In APS March Meeting Abstracts (pp. M50–005).

  • M S & E 551 - Structure of Materials (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 648 - Advanced X-ray Scattering Methods in Materials Science and Engineering (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (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 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 551 - Structure of Materials (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 260 - Materials Experience (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2023)