Also Electrical and Computer Engineering electromagnetic field interactions with materials -- microwave and RF processing of materials (e.g., ceramics, semiconductors); see Using microwaves to speed materials processing, UW-Madison College of Engineering Annual Report, 2000. -- rapid thermal annealing of silicon and wafer bonding -- microwave vacuum electronics (especially linearity and understanding mechanisms of nonlinear distortions) -- micromachined terahertz vacuum electronic devices -- innovative teaching methods, especially for electromagnetics -- computer visualization for teaching electromagnetics
Center for Plasma-Aided Manufacturing
Also Electrical and Computer Engineering Biotechnology: DNA synthesis, DNA microarrays, oligomer synthesis, synthetic biology, DNA arrays, stem cells, and gene synthesis -- Nanotechnology: nanostructure fabrications, processing, and patterning -- Lithography: Optical lithography, electron beam lithography, extreme ultraviolet lithography, modeling, masks, and imaging -- Optics: Modeling, design, analysis, systems and components, lithography, and imaging theory -- Semiconductors: Fabrication, process modeling, and process design -- X-rays: Optics, modeling, synchrotron radiation, applications to imaging, microscopy, lithography, and spectroscopy
Center for NanoTechnology, Genome Center
Also Engineering Physics continuum mechanics analyses of behavior of modern materials -- nonlinear fracture mechanics of ductile materials (single- and poly-crystalline) and interfaces -- nonlocal constitutive models of composite materials -- dynamic fragmentation -- nanoscale fracture -- nanoscale shape-memory alloys -- discontinuities and shock waves in solids -- applied mathematics
Center for Mathematical Sciences, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics and Materials Research Group
Also Chemistry physical and chemical propertes of molecular-based materials -- molecular electronics -- nanoscale assembly techniques for molecular systems -- chemical and structural characterization of surfaces -- interfaces between inorganic materials and organic/biological materials
Also Materials Science and Engineering synthesis -- characterization and application of electrical ceramics -- solid electrolytes -- high-temperature oxide superconductors
Also Mechanical Engineering Nanomanufacturing -- Electric Field and Laser Tweezer Manipulation of Nanoscale Objects -- Directed Self-Assembly -- Atomic Force Microscopy
Also Electrical and Computer Engineering Simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices -- Nanowire thermoelectrics. Heat transport on the nanoscale -- Decoherence and relaxation in nanostructures; transient and high-frequency response -- Transport in curved 2D electron systems -- Solid-state-based quantum information processing
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Lagally, Max G. - Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science
Also Materials Science and Engineering, Physics Nanoscale properties of surfaces, interfaces, thin films, and dimensionally confined structures -- Atom-scale mechanisms of film growth: Group IV semiconductors, nano-strain engineering, silicon nanomembranes -- relationship of nanostructure to localized electronic and optoelectronic properties, quantum dots -- Development of advanced instrumentation for growth and surface and interface studies, in particular diffraction, imaging, and scanned-probe microscopies -- Bioarrays and biomolecular surface modification
Laboratory for Thin-Film Deposition, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Also Mechanical Engineering Micro/Nano-Scale Enabled Manufacturing Systems (e.g. distributed micro/nano sensors/actuators to achieve significantly enhanced process understanding, monitoring, and adaptive control at micro/nano-scale for Precision Manufactruing), Ultrasonic Cavitation Based Nano-elements Dispersion for Solidification Processing of Light Metals (Mg, Al, and Ti) Nanocomposites for High Energy Efficiency (e.g. processing/nanostrcutures/properties, including physics of nanopaticle dispersion , metallurgy, mechanical properties, process control and optimization, nanoscale interface, nanomechanics and strengthening mechanisms), and laser materials processing (e.g. laser micropolishing, laser micromachining, micro/nano-sensors for thermomecanical study)
Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program
Also Electrical and Computer Engineering Fast/RF flexible electronics, high-speed thin film transistors, MMIC circuits transferrable to flexible or other foreign substrates for radar and communications, hybrid integration of organic and inorganic flexible electronics -- SiGe HBT and RF CMOS device physics and applications in high frequency/mm-wave power amplification -- Single-crystal and polycrystalline semiconductor nanomembrane physics and applications, including displays, flexible solar cells, energy conversion, environment protection, imaging, information storage, lighting, sensing, health care and bio devices -- Si nanophotonics, high-speed multispectral imaging -- CMOS-compatible optoelectronic devices and OEIC -- 3-D integration, heterogeneous integration, MEMS/NEMS integration with CMOS -- III-V heterostructure device and application -- Nanoscale SiGe bipolar transistors and quantum effect devices
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Wisconsin Center for Applied Microelectronics
Also Chemistry Syntheses of new classes of amphiphilic block copolymer surfactants and attendant characterization of their bulk and solution phase behavior for applications as rheological modifiers and novel biomedical materials -- Development of new catalysts for the mild synthesis of polyolefins containing polar functionalities possessing unknown monomer sequence distributions and new properties -- Explorations of new organometallic strategies for rational syntheses of semiconducting and metallic nanoparticles with well-defined shapes and catalytic activities
Also Physics Condensed Matter: Quantum coherence and entanglement of superconducting integrated circuits, quantum-limited amplifiers, application of SQUIDs to magnetic resonance detection.
Also Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering Computational materials science for materials design -- Ab initio electronic structure methods and multiscale techniques for large time / length scales and thermokinetics -- Statistical and data mining techniques for materials property prediction -- Physics of nanoscale phenomena in ceramic and biochemical systems -- Application areas: Nuclear materials, Battery and fuel cell electrodes, Earth mantle materials, Spin transition ceramics, Sorption at water mineral interfaces
Also Mechanical Engineering Multibody Dynamics Simulation (applications to vehicle simulation, biomechanics) -- Computational Mechanics -- Numerical Methods for Time Domain Analysis of Mechanical Systems -- Vibrations -- CAD/CAE and Virtual Environments as applied in Mechanical Engineering -- High Performance Computing
Also Biomedical Engineering Lineage Commitment of Stem Cells -- In vivo Organogenesis -- Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine -- Cardiac Transplantation in Infancy -- Mechanical Optimization of Engineered Tissues
Also Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering Atomistic simulations: Massively parallel molecular dynamics and ab initio-based simulations. -- Nanocrystalline materials: Computational design of materials with superior mechanical properties; Grain boundary nanoengineering; Nanoindentation. -- Fundamentals of friction & adhesion at the nanoscale -- Coupling between surface/interface chemistry and mechanical properties: Materials for MEMS applications in extreme environments. -- Nano-bio-mechanics: Viscoelastic response of mechanical bio-sensors. -- Materials for nuclear applications: Radiation damage resistance, multi-scale modeling of defect and impurity kinetics.
Also Materials Science and Engineering electron microscopy: atomic resolution Z-contrast STEM -- electron energy loss spectroscopy -- growth, structure, and defects in electronic and photonic materials -- nanoscale order in glassy materials
Also Food Microbiology and Toxicology, Food Science Identification, characterization and detection of enterotoxins of Bacillus cereus and Staphylococcus aureau. -- Biofilm formation and control.
Also Geology and Geophysics Nano-structured nanoporous materials for environmental management, heterogeneous photocatalytic materials, biomimetic growth of crystals, and applications of transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy in materials research.
Also Materials Science and Engineering The use of cluster/site approximation for alloy phases to calculate multicomponent phase diagrams and coherent inter-phase and anti-phase boundary energies. -- High-temperature materials beyond the nickel based superalloys, a combined computational/experimental approach. -- Calculated multicomponent phase diagram as a tool to identify alloys as potential bulk amorphous materials as well as to study their phase transformation. -- Fundamental approaches to design of new structural magnesium alloys. -- Novel nanostructures of MTJ’s obtained by selective oxidation to study their interfacial structure, chemistry and properties. -- Intermixing at the atomic scales in multilayered nanostructures of M1/M2 when they are immiscible in bulk form -- Phase transformation of metastable disordered phases in the thin-film forms to their stable antiferromagnetic state as applied to spin valve systems. -- The growth of silicide nanowires as related the stability of the rare earth silicides
Conrad, John R. - Wisconsin Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Also Biological Systems Engineering, Food Research Institute, Food Science Plasma-enhanced synthesis and surface modification of materials -- Immobilization of active biomolecules onto plasma-functionalized surfaces -- Deposition of anti-fouling and anti-microbial surface layers -- Plasma-enhanced synthesis of nanoparticle systems -- Development of novel non-equilibrium plasma tools.
Also Materials Science and Engineering crystallography -- crystal defects -- X-ray diffraction -- electron microscopy -- radiation damage -- alloys -- ion implantation -- corrosion
Larbalestier, David C. - Grainger Professor of Superconducting Materials and L.V. Shubnikov Professor Emeritus
Also Materials Science and Engineering, Physics The structure-property relationships of superconducting materials and their applications to superconducting magnets -- We study both the conventional low temperature superconductors such as Nb-Ti and Nb3Sn, the new medium temperature superconductor MgB2 and the cuprate high temperature superconductors such as (Bi,Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox and YBa2Cu3Ox
Also Forest Ecology and Management plasma modification of natural and synthetic materials -- bonding and adhesion in composite materials -- new wood pulping methods -- chemistry of natural products
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