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Paul Voyles

Harvey D. Spangler Professor

My research focuses on the structure of materials. My two major research themes are (1) studies of the structure of amorphous materials using fluctuation electron microscopy, a technique my group has developed based on coherent electron nanodiffraction; and (2) studies of defects and interfaces in crystalline materials and devices using extreme high-resolution imaging and microanalysis. Within these themes, my group works on a variety of materials systems, spanning metals, semiconductors, superconductors, and complex oxides, and a variety of functional structures, including nanoelectronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices, catalysts, and functional interfaces.

Department

Materials Science & Engineering

Contact

219, Materials Sci And Eng Bldg
1509 University Ave
Madison, WI

  • PhD 2001, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  • MS 1999, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
  • BS 1996, Oberlin College

  • electron microscopy, including aberration-corrected Z-contrast STEM, microanalysis by EDS and EELS, and coherent electron nanodiffraction
  • growth, structure, and defects in functional materials, including spintronics, oxide interfaces, and nanostructures
  • nanoscale order in glassy materials

  • 2019 College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvey D. Spangler Professorship
  • 2016 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Beckwith-Bascom Professorship
  • 2015 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Mid-Career Research
  • 2015 Microscopy and Microanalysis Journal, Best Technique and Instrumentation Paper
  • 2013 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Associate
  • 2012 Applied Physics Letters, Referee Acknowledgement
  • 2011 Microscopy and Microanalysis , Best Techniques Poster
  • 2009 College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvey Spangler Award for Technology-Enhanced Instruction
  • 2004 Microscopy and Microanalysis Journal, Journal Cover Image
  • 2004 Microscopy and Microanalysis, Best Materials Paper
  • 2004 National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
  • 2003 Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Top Paper

  • Muley, S. V., Nachlas, W. O., Moy, A., Voyles, P., & Fournelle, J. H. (2024). Characterizing oxidation, thickness, and composition of metallic glass thin films with combined electron probe microanalysis and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Applied Surface Science, 665, 160377 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.160377
  • Huang, S., & Voyles, P. (2024). Momentum transfer resolved electron correlation microscopy. Ultramicroscopy, 256(November 2023), 113886 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2023.113886
  • Schmidt, K., Scourtas, A., Ward, L., Wangen, S., Schwarting, M., Darling, I., Truelove, E., Ambadkar, A., Bose, R., Katok, Z., Wei, J., Li, X., Jacobs, R., Schultz, L., Kim, D., Ferris, M., Voyles, P., Morgan, D., Foster, I., & Blaiszik, B. (2024). Foundry-ML - Software and Services to Simplify Access to Machine Learning Datasets in Materials Science. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(93), 5467 https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05467
  • Ju, J., Chatterjee, D., Voyles, P., Bock, H., & Ediger, M. D. (2023). Vapor-to-glass preparation of biaxially aligned organic semiconductors. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 159(21) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0174819
  • Zhang, H., Liu, Q., Deng, L., Ma, Y., Daneshmandi, S., Cen, C., Zhang, C., Voyles, P., Jiang, X., Zhao, J., Chu, C., Gai, Z., & Li, L. (2023). Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Bilayer FeSb/SrTiO 3 (001) Terminated with a Kagome Lattice. Nano Letters, 3(001) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03415
  • Du, D., Thoutam, L. R., Genser, K. T., Zhang, C., Rabe, K. M., Samanta, T., Jung, T., Jalan, B., Voyles, P., & Kawasaki, J. K. (2023). Effect of Pt vacancies on magnetotransport of Weyl semimetal candidate GdPtSb epitaxial films. Physical Review Materials, 7(8), 084204 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.084204
  • Wei, J., Blaiszik, B., Scourtas, A., Morgan, D., & Voyles, P. (2023). Benchmark Tests of Atom Segmentation Deep Learning Models with a Consistent Dataset. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 29(2), 552-562 https://doi.org/10.1093/micmic/ozac043
  • Chatterjee, D., Huang, S., Gu, K., Ju, J., Yu, J., Bock, H., Yu, L., Ediger, M. D., & Voyles, P. (2023). Using 4D STEM to Probe Mesoscale Order in Molecular Glass Films Prepared by Physical Vapor Deposition. Nano Letters, 23(5), 2009-2015 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c00197
  • Duan, T., Shen, Y., Imhoff, S. D., Yi, F., Voyles, P., & Perepezko, J. H. (2023). Nucleation kinetics model for primary crystallization in Al–Y–Fe metallic glass. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(6), 064504 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0135730
  • Yu, J., Chen, Z., Fatina, C., Chatterjee, D., Bock, H., Richert, R., Voyles, P., Ediger, M. D., & Yu, L. (2023). Engineering the glass structure of a discotic liquid crystal by multiple kinetic arrests. Journal of Chemical Physics, 158(20) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0149886

  • M S & E 790 - Master's Research or Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • M S & E 758 - Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory (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 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • M S & E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • M S & E 748 - Structural Analysis of Materials (Fall 2023)
  • M S & E 758 - Transmission Electron Microscopy Laboratory (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)