Christian Binek

Charles Bessey Professor of Physics

Director Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience (NCMN)
Director Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF)
Scientific Director Nebraska EPSCoR RII Track-1: Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies (EQUATE)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
N201A Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center
JH 310G
Lincoln, NE 68588-0299

Email: cbinek@unl.edu
Phone: (402) 472-5231
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BINEK GROUP NEWS

» January 2024: Our work is featured on the cover of the Journal of Advanced Physics Research

» August 2023: Co-director of the UNL grand challenges catalyst award “Quantum Approaches Addressing Global Threats” https://research.unl.edu/blog/11-projects-funded-through-grand-challenges-competition/

» Another paper just got published today: Ather Mahmood, Jamie L. Weaver, Syed Qamar Abbas Shah, Will Echtenkamp, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Peter A. Dowben, and Christian Binek, "Post Deposition Interfacial Néel Temperature Tuning in Magnetoelectric B:Cr2O3," Adv. Physics Res., 2300061 (2023). 

» Our paper was published in Phys. Rev. B: Syed Q. A. Shah, Ather Mahmood, Arun Parthasarathy, and Christian Binek, "Search for magnetoelectric monopole response in Cr2O3 powder,"  Phys. Rev. B 108, 054437 (2023). Editor’s Suggestion.

» Congratulations Will on successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Will Echtenkamp. All the best at the University of Minnesota! (July 27, 2021)

» Our paper just got published today, 15 March 2021, in Nature Communications (Vol.12, Article number 1674): "Voltage controlled Néel vector rotation in zero magnetic field".

» Nebraska Nanoscale Facility gets five-year renewal

» Congratulations Mike on successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr. Mike Street. All the best at Seagate! (Nov. 1, 2018)

» Our paper was published in Phys. Rev. Mater.. A. Mahmood, M. Street, W. Echtenkamp, C.P. Kwan, J. P.  Bird, and Ch. Binek, "Dielectric properties of thin Cr₂O₃ films grown on elemental and oxide metallic substrates," Phys. Rev. Mater. 2 (4),  044401 (2018).