Materials Science & Engineering Faculty
Our faculty are leaders in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Solid-State Science.
Materials Science & Engineering Faculty
William E. Bailey, MSE Program Committee Chair
Nanoscale magnetic films and heterostructures, materials issues in spin-polarized transport, materials engineering of magnetic dynamics
Siu-Wai Chan
Metal oxides, crystal-size-related structural changes and properties in nanoparticles, thin films, grain boundaries and interfaces as well as their corresponding electrical properties
Aravind Devarakonda
quantum materials synthesis, nanodevice fabrication, low-temperature physics; superconductivity, strongly-correlated matter, topologically ordered phases
Alexander L. Gaeta
Ultrafast nonlinear optics, nanophotonics, nonlinear propagation in fibers and bulk media, photonic crystal fibers, coherent interactions of laser light with matter, the generation of non-classical light fields, stimulated scattering processes
Oleg Gang
Joint with Chemical Engineering
Soft matter physics, programmable self-assembly of nanoscale systems, soft and biomaterials with tailored functions
James Im
Laser-induced crystallization of thin films, phase transformations and nucleation in condensed systems
Michal Lipson
Joint with Electrical Engineering
Physics and application of nanoscale photonic structures; light confining structures that can slow down, enhance and manipulate light; photonic structures can enhance light-matter interaction by orders of magnitude, enabling the devices optical properties to be controlled externally, either optically or electro-optically
Chris A. Marianetti
Predicting materials properties from first-principles computations; materials with energy related applications; density-functional theory; dynamical mean-field theory; transition-metal oxides; actinides, energy storage and conversion materials
I. Cevdet Noyan
Joint with Earth & Environmental Engineering
Characterization and modeling of mechanical and micromechanical deformation; residual stress analysis and nondestructive testing; x-ray and neutron diffraction, microdiffraction analysis
Michele Simoncelli
Condensed matter physics, quantum transport, computational physics, fluid dynamics, organic electronics and sustainability, supercapacitors, neuromorphic computing
Renata M. M. Wentzcovitch
Joint with Earth & Environmental Sciences
Computational materials physics, simulation of matter at extreme conditions, mineral physics
John Wright
Electrical Engineering - Affiliated Faculty
Yuan Yang
Exploration of novel materials and chemistry for advanced energy storage, thermal harvesting and management, investigation of fundamental structure-property correlations and chemical processes in energy materials and devices
Xueyue (Sherry) Zhang
Quantum devices and their applications, superconducting qubits, solid state spins, quantum light-matter interaction, metamaterials, quantum many-body dynamics, topological photonics, quantum information, quantum networking
Cross-Cutting Research
Our faculty's cross-cutting research addresses key and emerging areas in society, such as energy, environment, and health