Zeljkovic receives 2017 DARPA Young Faculty Award

Ilija Zeljkovic, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, has won the 2017 Young Faculty Award (YFA) from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The objective of the YFA program is to identify rising stars in junior faculty positions in the US and introduce them to the Department of Defense current and future needs.

Zeljkovic will use the two-year ~ $500,000 grant to create new high-temperature superconductors using molecular beam epitaxy film growth and study these materials using scanning tunneling microscopy and electrical transport. The award will support the addition of state-of-the-art synthesis and characterization equipment, as well as two graduate students who will work on the project.

“By stacking different two-dimensional materials with distinct properties, our project aims to create new systems with superior superconducting properties that a single bulk material cannot achieve”, Zeljkovic says. “We are extremely grateful to DARPA for supporting this project and to Boston College for providing the necessary internal framework to jumpstart the project.”