Three QMC-affiliated research teams have been awarded funds to enhance quantum materials research from the $10 million UMD Research Instrumentation Fund, created to support faculty and core facilities through significant investments to replace or upgrade research equipment. Awards include support for a Advanced Thin-Film Deposition Suite (J. Paglione, physics), Single-Crystal X-Ray Instrumentation (E. Rodriguez, chemistry), and an Aberration Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope (L. Salamanca-Riba, materials science). Congratulations!! See more details here.