MSE Faculty
William Bailey
nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
Daniel N. Beshers
mechanical properties, especially energy loss, mechanical and magnetic hysteresis, damage detection
Simon Billinge
nano-scale structure-property relationships in functional nanomaterials
studied using novel x-ray and neutron scattering techniques coupled
with advanced computing; solving the nanostructure problem
Siu-Wai Chan
transmission electron microscopy, thin films, grain boundaries and interfaces, high Tc superconductors, electronic ceramics
Praveen Chaudhari
structure and properties of amorphous solids, mechanical properties of thin films, defects in solids, quantum transport in disordered systems, superconductivity, liquid crystals, photovoltaics, and magnetic monopole search
Irving P. Herman
laser diagnostics, nanocrystals and nanostructured materials, plasma chemical processing, electrical and optical properties
James S. Im
nucleation in condensed systems, laser-induced crystallization of semiconductor films, thin-film transistors
Chris A. Marianetti
predicting materials properties from first-principles computations;
density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory;
transition-metal oxides; actinides
Gertrude F. Neumark
electrical and optical properties of wide band gap semiconductors.
I. Cevdet Noyan
deformation mechanics in heterogeneous media, local and global stress/strain fields, x-ray and neutron diffraction analyses