Tommy O. Boykin, II | Inclusive Graduate Education Network

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Tommy Boykin II is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the Atom Scale Device Group. His research focuses on fabricating and characterizing semiconductor single-electron devices for quantum computing and a quantum standard of electric current. Tommy earned his B.A. in physics in 2013 from Berea College, Kentucky, M.S. in physics in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, and Ph.D. in physics in 2019 from the University of Central Florida. During graduate school, he was awarded an international research experience in Tokyo, Japan with the leading telecommunications company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT). Tommy has published a paper in Nature Communications, “Ferromagnetism above 1000 K in a highly cation-ordered double-perovskite insulator Sr3OsO6.” Additionally, Tommy is serving on the National Advisory Board for the American Physical Society Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN).

National Institute of Standards and Technology

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