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Ismail

Ismail El Baggari, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
ismail.elbaggari [at] ubc [dot] ca

Previous Members

Yang Zhang, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Duke University

Suk Hyun Sung, PhD

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Staff Scientist, University of Michigan

Carly Grossman

Undergraduate Reseacher
Tufts University
Major: Chemistry & Math Current Position: Researcher, University of Michigan

Travis Burke

Undergraduate Reseacher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Ari Firester

Undergraduate Reseacher
Harvard University
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Emily (EmJ) Rennich
Undergraduate Researcher
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Current Position: Stanford University

Sarah McDonald
Undergraduate Intern
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Hesham El Sherif
Post-Doctoral Fellow
PhD, McMaster University

Patrick Singleton
Undergraduate Researcher
A.B. Physics and Mathematics, Harvard College
Current Position: University of Chicago

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Latest Posts

Cryogenic STEM reveals phenomenon of inverse melting in doped ferroelectric

A cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy (cryo-STEM) study reveals the phenomenon of inverse melting in Zr-doped BaTiO3.

Variable temperature cryogenic STEM reveals charge order melting in new publication

A cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscope reveals the atomic-scale mechanism that disrupts the charge-ordered state in a manganite material. The visualizations were performed at the atomic scale and across variable temperatures. This work by Noah Schnitzer was published in Physical Review X.

Higher resolution in a second prototype liquid helium holder

Following initial demonstration of a novel liquid helium flow cryogenic TEM holder in 2023, our team assembled subsequent prototypes that have shown sub-Angstrom HRTEM imaging, low sample drift (less than 0.4 Angstrom per second), and low millikelvin-level temperature fluctuations.