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CAREER: Synthesis, Microstructure, and Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Thin Films with Nanoscale Growth Twins Xinghang Zhang, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, DMR 0644835. Unveil the formation mechanisms of fine twins in Cu/Ni multilayers
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CAREER: Synthesis, Microstructure, and Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Thin Films with Nanoscale Growth TwinsXinghang Zhang, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, DMR 0644835 • Unveil the formation mechanisms of fine twins in Cu/Ni multilayers • Reveal thermal stability of differently oriented epitaxial nanotwinned Ag films Formation of twins in Cu/Ni multilayers Epitaxial nanotwinned Ag films Tailoring twin density by layer interface J. Appl. Phys., 2012 Submitted.
CAREER: Synthesis, Microstructure, and Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Thin Films with Nanoscale Growth TwinsXinghang Zhang, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, DMR 0644835 Education Osman Anderoglu and Nan Li (Ph.D. in 09, 10) are postdoctors at Los Alamos. Nan Li won the Acta Mater. Student paper contest award, 2011. Dan Bufford (Ph.D. candidate). NSF IGERT Fellow, Work on nanotwinned Ag films. Yue Liu (defended MS. in 2010). Continue for Ph.D. to work on in situ nanoindentation. Cassie L. Gutierrez is an undergraduate student working on the project. • Broader impact • Trained a minority student, Cassie Gutierrez, to work on TEM sample preparations. • Collaborate with Bob Asaro at UC San Diego. • Journal articles: 1 in J. Appl. Phys., 2 in Scripta Mater., including a review • Host the lab tour of 50 high school students Nanoindentor Sputter lab