MMI Faculty Research Interests

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Characterization and modeling of mechanical properties of crystalline solids, especially anisotropies related to crystal structure and crystal defects, e.g., dislocations, and in-situ characterization using diffraction

Contact Sean Agnew

Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Joint Appointment, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Density Functional Theory, Materials Informatics, Machine Learning for Materials Discovery, Adaptive Learning, Bayesian Inference

Contact Prasanna Balachandran

Associate Dean, Academic Affairs Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Applying microfabrication techniques for the development of millimeter-wave and terahertz-frequency micro-electromechanical systems

Contact Scott Barker

Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Photonic devices and integrated photonic technologies for optical communications, sensing, and microwave photonics

Contact Andreas Beling

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Development of advanced radio frequency integrated circuits and electromagnetics to enable smaller, faster, and lower power wireless devices with greater connectivity and efficiency to increase performance while improving battery life

Contact Steven M. Bowers

Associate Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Joint Appointments, Materials Science & Engineering and Physics

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Computational Materials Science, charge and heat transport modeling, High-temperature materials and their properties

Contact Keivan Esfarjani

Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Pulsed laser deposition and plume dynamics, mechanical and electrochemical investigations of additively manufactured components, nanoscale powder coatings, thin films for drug delivery, magnetic and luminescent properties, surface engineering, corrosion mitigation strategies

Contact James Fitz-Gerald

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Synthesis, processing and characterization emphasizing nanoscale self-assembly in electronic materials for nanoelectronic, ferromagnetic, and thermoelectric applications

Contact Jerrold Floro

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Joint Appointment, Physics

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Computational Materials, Quantum transport for charge, spin and heat transport, low power electronics, neuromorphic computing, 2D materials, thermal modeling, topological excitations, magnetic memory and logic, modeling of photodetectors  

Contact Avik Ghosh

Research Scientist, Materials Science & Engineering

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Characterization of materials and devices with Transmission Electron Microscopy; Modification of devices and 3D characterization of materials with Focused Ion Beam processing; Surface analysis with X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Contact Helge Heinrich

Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Thermal transport in materials and across interfaces.  Electron and phonon heat transfer and coupling. Ultrashort pulsed laser interactions with materials, and resulting heat transfer and structural properties

Contact Patrick Hopkins

Thomas Goodwin Digges Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

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Phase transformations, interphase boundaries at atomic scale, in-situ high-resolution and analytical transmission electron microscope techniques, nanoscale materials, plasmons and electron energy loss spectroscopy

Contact James Howe

Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Joint Appointment, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Synthesis, processing, and integration science of electronic oxides; processing/microstructure effects on electronic, thermal, and optical properties

Contact Jon Ihlefeld

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Joint Appointment, Materials Science

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Thin-film optoelectronics, Neuromorphic Computing, Flexible electronics, 2D materials, Advanced epitaxy, Heterogeneous Integration, Smart Image sensor

Contact Kyusang Lee

Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy for surface and interface analysis, Electronic Structure, surface reconstruction, metal passivation, 2D semiconductor growth, atomic layer deposition, correlating interface chemistry with device properties, e-beam deposition

Contact Stephen McDonnell

Executive Dean Frederick Tracy Morse Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

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Characterization and modeling of phonon transfer across the interface of dissimilar material systems

Contact Pamela Norris

Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Engineering Systems & Environment

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Characterization and modeling of shape memory alloys, and their applications to civil infrastructure; nano-reinforced cementitious composites; 3D concrete printing; bio-based fiber reinforced composites

Contact Osman Ozbulut

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Director, Multifunctional Materials Integration Initiative

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Electronic structure and reactions at surfaces and interfaces, corrosion and oxidation, nanomaterials synthesis, atomic scale imaging, in-situ and operando studies of surface funtionalization and reactions 

Contact Petra Reinke

Charles Henderson Chaired Professor and Chair, Materials Science & Engineering

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Multi-scale and multi-physics characterization and elucidation of material surface behavior and properties focusing on electrochemically driven oxidation, dealloying, hydrogen interactions, and dissolution/passivation

Contact John R. Scully

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Near-data processing, specialized processor architectures, and power and thermal management for microprocessors

Contact Kevin Skadron

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Power-aware and temperature-aware design, machine learning architecture, wearout and recovery, emerging memories, spintronics and nanoelectronics, processing in memory

Contact Mircea Stan

Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Submillimeter-wave and terahertz electronics, integrated circuits, antennas, and quasi-optical components. High-frequency devices based on heterogeneous integration and phase-change materials

Contact Robert Weikle

Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Multiscale-mechanics, Nanomanufacturing, soft-hard material integration, functional structures by design,flexible sensors and biomedical devices,mechanics and thermal transport in heterostructures

Contact Baoxing Xu

Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Joint Appointment, Materials Science & Engineering

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Characterization and modeling of electron and phonon transport, materials design for thermoelectric, thermionic and thermomagnetic devices

Contact Mona Zebarjadi

Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Computational Materials Science, materials processing far from equilibrium, structure and properties of nanostructured materials, phase transformations, acoustic activation of surface processes

Contact Leonid Zhigilei