Lucas A Pressley

Bio

Dr. Lucas A. Pressley is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Nanomaterials Chemistry Group in the Chemical Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Pressley has a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. under the supervision of Prof. Tyrel M. McQueen. He obtained a B.S. in Chemistry w/Honors from Presbyterian College in Clinton, South Carolina. Dr. Pressley has research interests in areas including quantum materials, X-ray μ-computed tomography, advances in floating zone crystal growth, developing desired structure-property relationships using tunable defects His current focus is on the development of novel inorganic materials in the areas of quantum materials for quantum computing application under the supervision of Dr. Craig Bridges.

Publications

• Chae, S., Pressley, L. A., Paik, H., Gim, J., Werder, D., Goodge, B. H., Kourkoutis, L. F., Hovden, R., McQueen, T. M., Kioupakis, E., (2022). “Germanium dioxide: A new rutile substrate for epitaxial film growth.” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films 40.5, p. 050401.
• Pressley, L. A., Sinha, M., Vivanco, H. K., Chamorro, J., Das, S., Ramesh, R., McQueen, T. M., (2022). “Optimization of PbTiO3 Single Crystals with Flux and Laser Floating Zone Method.” Crystal Growth & Design 22.9, pp. 5629–5638. doi: 10.1021/acs.cgd.2c00716.
• Chamorro, J. R., Chauhan, P., Sun, C., Varnava, N., Winiarski, M. J., Ng, N., Vivanco, H. K., Pressley, L. A., Pasco, C. M., Vanderbilt, D., Li, Y., Armitage, N. P., McQueen, T. M., (2021). Anomalous Residual Surface Conductivity in a Superconductor with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling. doi: 10.48550/ARXIV.2112.10840.
• Sinha, M., Vivanco, H. K., Wan, C., Siegler, M. A., Stewart, V. J., Pogue, E. A., Pressley, L. A., Berry, T., Wang, Z., Johnson, I., Chen, M., Tran, T. T., Phelan, W. A., McQueen, T. M., (2021). “Twisting of 2D Kagom´e Sheets in Layered Intermetallics.” ACS Central Science 7.8, pp. 1381–1390. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.1c00599.
• Wright, C. J. “., Dooryh´ee, E., Pressley, L. A., Phelan, W. A., Khalifah, P. G., Billinge, S. J. L., (2021). “Toward In Situ Synchrotron Mapping of Crystal Selection Processes during Crystal Growth.” Chemistry of Materials 33.9, pp. 3359–3367. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater. 1c00602.
• Berry, T., Pressley, L. A., Phelan, W. A., Tran, T. T., McQueen, T. M., (2020). “Laser-Enhanced Single Crystal Growth of Non-Symmorphic Materials: Applications to an Eight-Fold Fermion Candidate.” Chemistry of Materials 32.13, pp. 5827–5834. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater. 0c01721.
• Pressley, L. A., Torrejon, A., Phelan, W. A., McQueen, T. M., (2020). “Discovery and Single Crystal Growth of High Entropy Pyrochlores.” Inorganic Chemistry 59.23, pp. 17251–17258. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02479.