X-ray diffraction, microscopy, and optics, x-ray probes for ultrafast dynamics, micro-and-nanoscale properties of magnetic materials, magnetism, domains and switching in ferroelectric materials, single-monolayer scale organic electronics
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Materials Science Program
Lagally, Max G. - Erwin W. Mueller Professor and Bascom Professor of Surface Science
Also 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, Materials Science Program
Also Engineering Physics Computational materials science for materials design. -- Ab initio electronic structure methods and multiscale techniques for large time / length scales and thermokinetics. -- Ab initio based modeling of electrochemical systems and processes. -- -- Application areas: Nuclear materials, Battery and fuel cell electrodes, Earth mantle materials, Sorption at water mineral interfaces, electronic materials.
Materials Science Program
Also Engineering Physics 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.
Materials Science Program
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
Materials Science Program
Nanomaterials growth and characterization -- Piezoelectric nanostructures and nanodevices for energy harvesting -- Nanodevices for sensors, optoelectronics, and biomedical devices
Materials Science Program
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
Materials Science Program
rock mechanics -- failure modes in rocks -- true triaxial strength criteria -- borehole instability and breakouts -- strain localization in high porosity sandstones and compaction bands -- rock stress and in situ stress measurements -- hydraulic fracturing
Geoengineering Program, Geological Engineering Program
synthesis -- characterization and application of electrical ceramics -- solid electrolytes -- high-temperature oxide superconductors
Materials Science Program
Larbalestier, David C. - Grainger Professor of Superconducting Materials and L.V. Shubnikov Professor Emeritus
Also 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 Materials Science Program
product liability prevention -- product safety -- ethics and social responsibility
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