MRSEC: Materials Research Science and Engineering Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena

界面结构和现象研究中心[CRISP]是一个单一的IRG中心，专注于复杂的氧化物界面及其提供的丰富的新科学和应用。该中心利用包括原子尺度成像在内的三个机构的实验和理论资源，研究复合氧化物及其界面的电子、磁性和化学性质，以及在磁存储、“自旋电子学”、化学传感和电子设备等领域的可能应用。该中心还探索了场效应的新表现形式，即通过施加强电场来改变氧化物表面性质的能力。该中心开展了广泛的教育和外联活动，利用材料科学作为提高科学素养的手段。其中包括为当地纽黑文高中理科教师提供研究经验；本科生、研究生、教职员工和行业合作伙伴共同开展材料科学项目的暑期研究项目；公开讲座；面向非理科专业本科生的科学课程；以及互动博物馆展示。

The Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena [CRISP] is a single-IRG Center that focuses on complex oxide interfaces and the wealth of new science and applications that they offer. Using the experimental and theoretical resources of three institutions, including atomic-scale imaging, the Center addresses the electronic, magnetic and chemical properties of complex oxides and their interfaces, along with possible applications in areas such as magnetic storage, "spintronics", chemical sensing and electronic devices. The Center also explores new manifestations of the field effect, the ability to modify the properties of an oxide surface by application of a strong electric field. The Center has extensive education and outreach activities that use materials science as a vehicle for enhancing scientific literacy. They include providing research experience to local New Haven high-school science teachers; a summer research program in which undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and industrial partners work together on materials science projects; public lectures; science courses for undergraduate non-science majors; and interactive museum displays.