345:. The rebirth of the CDW field has been associated, from one side, with the interest in layered quasi-2D van der Waals materials and, from another side, with the realization that some of these materials reveal CDW effects at room temperature and above. Balandin group demonstrated the first CDW device operating at room temperature. Balandin and co-workers used original low-frequency noise spectroscopy to monitor
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176:(MS&E) Program and as a Director of the Nanofabrication Facility (NanoFab) at UCR. Presently, he serves as a Director of the UCR's Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials (POEM) Center. Professor Balandin is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief for
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of phonon engineering; investigation of low-frequency electronic noise in materials and devices; and demonstration of the first charge-density-wave quantum devices operating at room temperature.
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