Technical Core Competencies

Processing at the Nanoscale

• Electrochemical process
• Lithographic processing
• Semiconductor nanowire growth and properties characterization
• Combinatorial and multilayer thin film growth
• Theory and modeling
• Nanomanipulation
• Electrical measurements

Mechanical Property Measurements and Standards

• Hardness metrology
• High-rate deformation coupled with high heating rates
• Local stress measurements in bulk and thin film materials
  

Magnetic Measurements

• Absolute magnetic measurements
• Lorentz microscopy
• Nanoscale processing for magnetic sensors
• Magnetic domain imaging
• Magnetic nanoparticles
• Theory and modeling
• Magnetoresistance and tunneling

Phase Transformation in Materials

• Multicomponent and multiphase thermodynamics
• Multicomponent diffusion theory
• Computational and theoretical materials science,including posing and solving PDEs
• Solidification and crystal growth theory
• Potentials for atomistic modeling