Current Characterization Research Projects
John Bilello
- Fabrication of High Performance Coating Systems via Novel In-situ and Ex-situ Characterization Technology
- Growth and Characterization of Tl-based Superconducting Films (with Chris Grovenor, Oxford University and Pavel Diko, Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice Slovak Republic)
- Real-Time In-situ Characterization of the Structure of Amorphous Metallic Alloys
Amit Ghosh
- Cavitation during superplastic deformation of modified 5083 Al
- Novel lightweight open cell metal foam process and resulting properties
- Fabrication and creep studies on open cell nickle structures
- MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION DURING SEVERE DEFORMATION OF AZ31 MAGNESIUM ALLOY UNDER NON-ISOTHERMAL PROCESSING CONDITIONS
Rachel S. Goldman
- Fundamental Phenomena in Semiconductors: Diffusion and Segregation
- Fundamental Phenomena in Semiconductors: Alloy Formation
- Fundamental Phenomena in Semiconductors: Strain Relaxation
- Structure-Property Correlations: Effects of Dislocations on Electron Mobility
- Structure-Property Correlations: Impurities in Semiconductors
- Structure-Property Correlations: Confined States in Nanostructures
- Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures: Semiconductor Quantum Dots
- Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures: Directed Matrix-Seeding of Nanostructures
- Synthesis of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures: Fabrication of Nanopillar Arrays
John Halloran
- Rapid Investigations of Ultra-high Temperature ceramics
- Ultra-wideband Conformal Antennas / Miniaturized Antennas with Electromagnetic Metamaterials
- Intergrally Cored Ceramic Mold fabricated by Ceramic Stereolithography (CerSLA)
- Commercialization of Portable Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- HECAM: "hydrogen energy with carbon materials"
- UHTC: Convection Patterns in Liquid Oxide Films on ZrB2-SiC Composites Oxidized at High Temperature
J. Wayne Jones
- Focused Research Group (FRG): Fundamental Approaches to Design of New Structural Magnesium Alloys
- Rapid Assessment of the Role of Microstructural Variability in the Fatigue Behavior of Structural Alloys Using Ultrasonic Fatigue
- GOALI: Investigation by Ultrasonic Methods of the Very Long Life Fatigue Behavior of Structural Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys
- Rapid Assessment of the Role of Microstructural Variability in the Fatigue Behavior of Structural Alloys Using Ultrasonic Fatigue
- Rapid Characterization of Fatigue Behavior in Cast Structural Material by Ultrasonic Fatigue
- Alloys for 1000C Service in the Next Generation Nuclear Plant
- MURI: Hyperspectral and Extreme Light Diagnostics for Defense-Critical Advanced Materials and Processes
- Creep, Bolt Load Retention (BLR) and Microstructural Analysis of Mg Alloys for Automotive Powertrain Applications
Richard Laine
- Corrosion resistant coatings
- Advanced Silesquioxane Research Program
- Silsesquioxane Materials for Flip/Chip No Flow Underfill
- Creep Resistant YAG Oxide Fibers
- Processing of Oxide nanopowders for Transparent Ceramics
- Porous bodies for filters and insulation using nanocomposite binders
- Oxygen Barrier Membranes
Joanna Millunchick
- Atomic Surface Structure in Compound Semiconductor Alloys: Mechanisms for Surface Segregation in Compound Semiconductor Thin Films
- Focused Ion Beams for Nanomanufacturing: Anisotropic Collodoidal Nanofludic Manufacturing
- The Materials Science of Metamorphic Buffer Layers for High Performance Device Applications
- Self-Assembly of Compound Semiconductor Nanostructures: Nucleation and Growth of GaSb/GaAs(001) Quantum Dots
- Atomic Surface Structure in Compound Semiconductor Alloys: Step Edge Diffusion in Compound Semiconductors
- Atomic Surface Structure in Compound Semiconductor Alloys: Novel Reconstructions in InGaAs Alloys
- Electrochemical etching of ultrasharp STM tips
- Thermodynamic Phase Stability and Disorder of Surface Structure in Compound Semiconductor Alloys
Xiaoqing Pan
- Artifically Engineered Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
- NIRT Supplement: Artifically Engineered Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
- Focused Research Group (FRG): Piezoelectric Micromachined Transducers Using Epitaxial PMN-PT Films for Medical Ultrasound
- Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoscale Metal Oxide Heterostructures for Chemical Sensing
- Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT): Complex Epitaxial Magnetic Oxide Structures for Nanoscale Spin Devices
- Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT) Supplement: Artificially Engineered Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
- Epitaxial Heterostructures of Piezoelectric/Metallic Oxides for Medical Ultrasound Transducer Applications
- NIRT: Artificially Engineered Nanoscale Ferroelectrics
- CAREER Supplement: Processing/Structure/Property Relationships of Nanocrystalline Oxide Films for Gas Sensors
- Deactivation Mechanisms of High - Temperature - Stable Automotive Exhaust Catalysis
- Epitaxial Heterostructures of Piezoelectric / Metallic Oxides for Medical Ultrasound Transducer Applications
- Microstructural Instabilities of Nanocrystalline Oxide Thin Films for Gas Sensors
- CAREER: Processing - Structure Property Relationships of Nanocrystalline Oxide Films for Gas Sensors
- Acquisition of a Field Emission Gun Analytical Electron Microscope for the University of Michigan Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory
- Semiconductive Oxide Thin Films for Electrochemical and Optical Applications
- Transparent Semiconductive Oxide Thin Films
- Metal Oxide Heterostructures for Next Generation Memory Devices
Tresa Pollock
- Bond Coats and Thermal Barrier Coatings
- Rapid Assessment of the Role of Microstructural Variability in the Fatigue Behavior of Superalloys Using Ultrasonic Fatigue
- Focused Research Group onFundamental Aspects of Design of New Structural Magnesium Alloys
- Ruthenium Aluminides: Deformation Mechanisms and Substructure Development
- Local Strain Development and Property Variability in B2 Aluminides
- Development of Microstructure and Micromechanism-Sensitive Property Models and Their Integration into the Design of Advanced Disk and Blade Turbine Systems
- Defects Associated with Solidification of Melt-Processed Superalloys for the Aerospace Industry and Their Impact on High-Temperature Mechanical Properties
- Knowledge-Oriented Materials Engineering of Layered Thermal Protection
- Hold Time Dwell Fatigue in Advanced Disk Alloys
- MURI: Hyperspectral and Extreme Light Diagnostics for Defense-Critical Advanced Materials and Processes
- Mechanisms of Deformation and Structure-Property Models for Creep in Rotor Materials
- Tools for 3-D Microstructural Characterizaion
Max Shtein
- Fiber-Based Organic Solar Cells
- Ordered Multi-Phase systems
- Three level systems for energy conversion
- See this page: http://www.umich.edu/~lnecd/temp/projects.html
- Carrier Gas-Assisted Purification and Printing of Organic Semiconductors
- Energy Harvesting Woven Fibers and Composites
- Electrically Pumped OLED NanoProbes for Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy
- Electrically Pumped Organic Solid-State Surface Plasmon Amplifier
- Nanoscale scanning energy probe microscopy
- http://www.umich.edu/~lnecd/temp/projects.html
Gary Was
- Design of Radiation-Tolerant Alloys for Generation IV
- Developing and Evaluating Candidate Materials for Generation IV
- Stress Corrosion Cracking and Corrosion of Candidate Alloys for the Supercritical Water Reactor Concept
- BWRVIP Highly Irradiated Stainless Steel Crack Growth
- Localized Deformation as a Primary Cause of Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking
- Candidate Materials Evaluation for the Supercritical Water-cooled Reactor
- Alloys for 1000C Service in the Next Generation Nuclear Plant