{"id":203656,"date":"2013-04-04T15:35:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T15:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:46:20","slug":"best-oral-paper-award-for-ph-d-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/04\/best-oral-paper-award-for-ph-d-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Oral Paper Award for Ph.D. Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Heike Brueckner<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/best-phd1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15121 alignright img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/best-phd1.jpg\" alt=\"best phd1\" width=\"197\" height=\"249\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/249;\" \/><\/a>Materials Science &amp; Engineering (MSE) doctoral candidate Jialan Zhang was recently awarded the Best Oral Paper Prize at the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Jialan\u2019s oral presentation focused on her work involving \u201cElectrocaloric Properties of Epitaxial Strontium Titanate Films,\u201d which she is conducting in collaboration with her thesis advisor, Dr. S. Pamir Alpay, and associate advisor, Dr. George A. Rossetti, Jr., both MSE professors at UConn, as well as alumnus Dr. I. Burc Misirlioglu (Ph.D. \u201905), a professor at Sabanci University in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She explains that, when exposed to an external electric field, a polarizable material undergoes a temperature variation. \u00a0This is called the electrocaloric effect, and materials with high electrocaloric responses have the potential to be used as on-chip heating and cooling elements in microelectronics. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jialan\u2019s work demonstrates how the choice of polarizable material, substrate, growth or annealing temperature, and electrode configuration can be used to optimize the electrocaloric properties.<\/p>\n<p>The consortium, involving seven Connecticut colleges and universities, was held at Yale University in New Haven on March 13, 2013.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials Science &amp; Engineering (MSE) doctoral candidate Jialan Zhang was recently awarded the Best Oral Paper Prize at the 22nd Connecticut Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 05:48:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224594,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203656\/revisions\/224594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203656"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203656"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}