Welcome to our group website. Maria labs are located in the historic and newly renovated Steidle Building. Our labs feature state of the art PVD systems, characterization tools, and powder processing capabilities that enable our team to conduct discovery science and engineering projects that advance technology spaces including IR plasmonics, high entropy materials, nanoenergetics, extreme-low temperature synthesis, exciting new ferroelectric thin films, and extreme refractory coatings. An overview of our labs are shown below. Please take the 3D tour featured on our lab page.

Would you like to join our happy team?  We currently have multiple open positions starting in the 2024-2025 academic year. Please click on the button below for information on exciting new research opportunities…