- Welcome to the Picoscale Engineering Research Laboratory (PERL) led by Prof. Dennis S. Kim (PI) at the University of Florida! We are an interdisciplinary research laboratory in the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department focused on understanding and enhancing systems performance by manipulating atoms at the picoscale level.
Lab News
- (August 22, 2025) Inaugural Group Meeting!
- (August 22, 2025) Welcome to the group, Quazi, Shaeek, and Adithya! (Team page)
- (July 1, 2024) The Picoscale Engineering Research Lab is live! We are actively recruiting graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (Team page)
Recent Publications
- For further details on other projects we are involved in, please refer to the relevant publications below or in the Publications page.
- Modeling Temperature-Dependent Electron Thermal Diffuse Scattering via Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials and Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics, D.S. Kim‡, M. Xu, and J.M. LeBeau‡, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086301 (2024).
- A comparison of molecular dynamics potentials used to account for thermal diffuse scattering in multislice simulations, X. Chen†, D.S. Kim†, and J.M. LeBeau, Ultramiscroscopy, 244, 244, 113644 (2023).
- Reactivation of chromia poisoned oxygen exchange kinetics in mixed conducting solid oxide fuel cell electrodes by serial infiltration of lithia, H.G. Seo, A. Staerz, D.S. Kim, D. Klotz, C. Nicollet, M. Xu, J.M. LeBeau, and H.L Tuller, Energy Environ. Sci., 15, 10, 4038 (2022).
- Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure, Y. Yuan†, D.S. Kim†, J. Zhou†, D.J. Chang, F. Zhu, Y. Nagaoka, Y. Yang, M. Pham, S.J. Osher, O. Chen, P. Ercius, A.K. Schmid, and J. Miao, Nat. Mater., 21, 1, 95 (2022).
- Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of an amorphous solid, Y. Yang, J. Zhou, F. Zhu, Y. Yuan, D.J. Chang, D.S. Kim, M. Pham, A. Rana, X. Tian, Y. Yao, S.J. Osher, A.K. Schmid, L. Hu, P. Ercius, and J. Miao, Nature, 592, 7852, 60 (2021).
- Temperature-dependent phonon lifetimes and thermal conductivity of silicon by inelastic neutron scattering and ab initio calculations, D.S. Kim‡, O. Hellman, N. Shulumba, C.N. Saunders, J.Y. Lin, H.L. Smith, J.E. Herriman, J.L. Niedziela, D.L. Abernathy, C.W. Li, B. Fultz‡, Phys. Rev. B, 102, 17, 174311 (2020).
- Correlating the three-dimensional atomic defects and electronic properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, X. Tian†,D.S. Kim†, S. Yang†, C.J. Ciccarino, Y. Gong, Y. Yang, Y. Yang, B. Duschatko, Y. Yuan, P.M. Ajayan, J.C. Idrobo, P. Narang, and J. Miao, Nat. Mater., 19, 8, 867 (2020).
- Observing crystal nucleation in four dimensions using atomic electron tomography, J. Zhou, Y. Yang, D.S. Kim, A. Yuan, C. Ophus, F. Sun, A.K. Schmid, M. Nathanson, H. Heinz, Q. An, H. Zeng, P. Ercius, and J. Miao, Nature, 570, 7762, 500 (2019).
- Nuclear quantum effect with pure anharmonicity and the anomalous thermal expansion of silicon, D.S. Kim‡†, O. Hellman†, J. Herriman, H.L. Smith, J.Y.Y Lin, N. Shulumba, J.L. Niedziela, C.W. Lin, D.L. Abernathy, and B. Fultz‡, Proc Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 115, 9, 1992 (2018).