Michigan State University
Science at the Edge
Engineering Seminar
December
5th,
2014
11:30
a.m., Room1400
Biomedical and
Refreshments
served
at 11:15 a.m.
Darrell Schlom
Materials
Science and
Engineering
Cornell
University
Playing
the “Strain Game” to Enhance the Properties of Oxides
Abstract
Using epitaxy and
the misfit
strain imposed by an underlying substrate, it is possible to
strain oxide thin
films to percent levels—far beyond where they would crack or
plastically deform
in bulk. Under such
strains, the
properties of oxides can be dramatically altered. For example, materials that
are not
ferroelectric or ferromagnetic in their unstrained state can be
transmuted into
ferroelectrics, ferromagnets, or materials that are both at the
same time. Results of
fundamental scientific importance
as well as revealing the tremendous potential of utilizing
multicomponent oxide
thin films to create devices with enhanced performance will be
shown.
Bio
Darrell Schlom is the Herbert Fisk
Johnson Professor of
Industrial Chemistry and Head of the Department of Materials
Science and
Engineering at Cornell University. After
receiving a B.S. degree from Caltech, he did graduate work at
Stanford University
receiving an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in
Materials Science
and Engineering. He
was then a post-doc
at IBM’s research lab in Zurich, Switzerland in the oxide
superconductors and
novel materials group managed by Nobel Prize winners J. Georg
Bednorz and K.
Alex Müller. He has
received various
awards including young investigator awards from the National
Science Foundation
and the Office of Naval Research, an Alexander von Humboldt
Research
Fellowship, and the MRS Medal.
He is a
Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Materials
Research
Society.
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information
please contact Prof. Richard Lunt, Department of Chemical
Engineering and
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Chemical
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prior to the
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