Szlufarska, Izabela

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Izabela Szlufarska
Assistant Professor

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Room 242, Materials Science and Engineering
1509 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706-1595

Tel: 608/265-5878
Fax: 608/262-8353
E-mail: izabela@engr.wisc.edu

Program Affiliations

Education

Postdoctoral Researcher, CACS, University of Southern California 2002-2004
Ph.D. Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2002
MS. Physics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland 1999

Fields of Interest

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.

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

2008 NSF CAREER Award to study Molecular Basis for Viscoelastic Response of Nano-Mechanical Biosensors.
2006 AFOSR Young Investigator Program award for studies of Tribology of Nanostructured Silicon Carbide for MEMS and NEMS Applications in Extreme Environments.
2006 Placed on the National Academy of Engineering's list of the Frontiers of Engineering
2002 The Fowler-Marion Outstanding Graduate Student Award for accomplishments in graduate research, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2002 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1999 Best MS thesis Arkadiusz Piekara Award, Polish Physical Society
1997, 1998, 1999 Scholarships of the Polish Ministry of National Education

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles
Friction Laws at the Nanoscale , Y. Mo, K. T. Turner, I. Szlufarska, Nature 457 , 1116 (2009)
Competition between strain and chemistry effects on adhesion of Si and SiC , Y. Liu and I. Szlufarska , Phys. Rev. B 79 , 094109 (2009)
Invited: Recent Advances in Single-Asperity Nanotribology, I. Szlufarska , M. Chandross, R. W. Carpick, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 41 , 123001 (2008)
Multimillion-Atom Nanoindentation Simulation of Crystalline Sillicon Carbide: Orientation Dependence and Anisotropic Pileup , H.-P. Chen, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, I. Szlufarska, J. Appl. Phys. 102 , 063514 (2007)
A Molecular Dynamics Study of Nanoindentation of Amorphous SiC, I. Szlufarska , R. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, J. Appl. Phys. 102, 023509 (2007)
Simultaneous Enhancement of Toughness, Ductility, and Strength of Nanocrystalline Ceramics , Y. Mo, I. Szlufarska , Appl. Phys. Lett. 90 , 181926 (2007)
Transition of nc-SiC Powder Surface into Grain Boundaries during Sintering by Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Neutron Powder Diffraction , M. Wojdyr, Y. Mo, E. Grzanka, S. Stelmakh, S. Gierlotka, Th. Proffen, T. W. Zerda, B. Palosz, I. Szlufarska , Zeitschrift fur Krystallographie, Suppl. 26 , p. 255 (2007)
Invited: Atomistic simulations of nanoindentation, I. Szlufarska , Materials Today 9 42 (2006)
A crossover in the mechanical response of nanocrystalline ceramics, I. Szlufarska , A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Science 309, 911 (2005).
Atomistic mechanisms of amorphization during nanoindentation of SiC: A molecular dynamics study , I. Szlufarska , R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Phys. Rev. B 71 , 174113 (2005)
Atomistic processes during nanoindentation of amorphous silicon carbide , I. Szlufarska , R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 , 021915 (2005)
Nanoindentation-induced amorphization in silicon carbide , I. Szlufarska , R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85 , 378 (2004). Paper recognition : Selected for a special publication in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology , 10 (4), (July 26 2004).
Reversed-spin quasiparticles in fractional Quantum Hall systems and their effect on photoluminescence , I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Physica E 12 , 59 (2002)
Nuclear spin relaxation in integral and fractional Quantum Hall systems , I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B 66 , 165318 (2002)
Negatively charged excitons and photoluminescence in asymmetric quantum well , I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B 63 , 085305 (2001)
Energy, Interaction, and Photoluminescence of spin-reversed quasielectrons in fractional quantum hall systems , I. Szlufarska , A. Wojs, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B. 64 , 165318 (2001)
Electron-hole systems in narrow quantum wells: excitonic complexes and photoluminescence , J. J. Quinn, A. Wojs, K-S. Yi, I. Szlufarska , Physica E 11 , 209 (2001)
Composite Fermion Picture for Multi-component Plasmas in 2D Electron-hole Systems in a Strong Magnetic Field , A. Wojs, I. Szlufarska , K.-S. Yi, P. Hawrylak, J. J. Quinn, Physica E 6, 60 (2000)
Two-dimensional Electron-hole Systems in a Strong Magnetic Field: Composite Fermion Picture for Multi-component Plasmas , A. Wojs, I. Szlufarska , K.-S. Yi, J. J. Quinn, Phys. Rev. B 60, R11 273 (1999)
Books and Book Chapters
Two-dimensional Electron-Hole Systems in a Strong Magnetic Field , J. J. Quinn, A. Wojs, I. Szlufarska , K.-S. Yi, Optical Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures (edited by M. L. Sadowski et al., page 19-25, Kluwer Academic Publishers, the Netherlands, 2000)
How to Solve Problems in Physics (undergraduate course-book with problems and solutions), K. Jezierski, K. Sieranski, I. Szlufarska (Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza Scripta, Wroclaw, Poland, 1997, 198 pages)
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Experimental and Simulation Insight on the Transport of Silver Fission Product in SiC , TJ Gerczak, LZ Tan, TR Allen, S Khalil, D Shrader, Y Liu, D Morgan, I Szlufarska, Proceedings of the 4th International Topical Meeting on High Temperature Reactor Technology 2 , pp. 715-723, 2009
Multimilion-Atom Nanoindentation Simulation of Crystalline Silicon Carbide: Orientation Dependence and Anisotropic Pileup , H.-P. Chen, R. K. Kalia, A. Nakano, P. Vashishta, I. Szlufarska in Surface and Interfacial Nanomechanics, edited by R. F. Cook et al. (Materials Research Society Proceedings 1021E , Warrendale, PA, 2007), 1021-HH03-08
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation of High Strain-Rate Deformation in Nanocrystalline Silicon Carbide , Y. Mo, I. Szlufarska , in Surface and Interfacial Nanomechanics, edited by R. F. Cook et al. (Materials Research Society Proceedings 1021E , Warrendale, PA, 2007), 1021-HH04-02
Large scale atomistic simulations of nanoindentation and crack propagation , R. Kalia, A. Nakano, I. Szlufarska , P. Vashishta, in Proceedings of the 2004 User Group Conference (IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamos, CA, 2004), pp. 17-19

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