Frances Ross

Frances Ross is the TDK Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on using transmission electron microscopy to watch crystals as they grow and react, gaining a better understanding of the physics underlying reactions to suggest new ways of creating materials with a desired set of properties. Ross was a postdoc at Bell Labs and a staff scientist at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Later, at IBM in Yorktown Heights, New York, she worked on the development and application of electron microscope technology to study crystal growth in vapor and liquid environments. She earned a PhD in materials science and metallurgy from Cambridge University.

Selected Publications

• Onen, M., Li, J., Yildiz, B., del Alamo, J. A., Emond, N.,  Wang, B., Zhang, D., Ross. F. M. (2022). Nanosecond Protonic Programmable Resistors for Analog Deep Learning. Science 377,539-543.
• Wang, B., Todorov, T., Rozen, J., Ross, F. (2021). Opportunities of in situ TEM for measuring voltage-driven microstructural changes in memristive devices.  Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 27 (Suppl 1).
• Periwal, P., Thomsen, J. D., Reidy, K., Varnavides, G., Zakharov, D. N., Gignac, L., Reuter, M. C., Booth, T. J., Hofmann, S., Ross. F. M. (2020). Catalytically mediated epitaxy of 3D semiconductors on van der Waals substrates. Applied Physics Reviews.

Media

• July 12, 2020: MIT News, A wizard of ultrasharp imaging.
• November 14, 2019: MIT News, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center welcomes ultra-high vacuum microscopes.
• October 18, 2019: DMSE News, New opportunities from nanoscale materials.