Articles

SPS Fabrication of Tungsten and Tungsten Rhenium Alloys in Support of NTR Fuels Development (with Jonathan A. Webb, Indrajit Charit, Cory Sparks, Darryl P. Butt, and Mark Carroll), Nuclear and Emerging Technologies for Space 2011, NETS-2011, February 7-February 10, 2011, Albuquerque, NM. (2011)

Tungsten metal slugs were fabricated via Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) of powdered metals at temperatures...

 

Pressure Resistance Welding of High Temperature Metallic Materials (with Nathan Jerred, Larry Zirker, Brian Jaques, Troy Bradshaw, James Carrillo, Evan Young, Indrajit Charit, James Cole, Darryl P. Butt, Mitchell Meyer, and K. L. Murty), Proceedings of the Materials Science and Technology Conference and Exhibition (2010)

Pressure Resistance Welding (PRW) is a solid state joining process used for various high temperature...

 

Improving Engineering Students’ Cognitive and Affective Preparedness with a Pre-Instructional E-Learning Strategy (with Seung Youn Chyung, Amy Moll, Brian Marx, and Janet Callahan), Advances in Engineering Education (2010)

During the 2006–2007 academic year, five faculty members from the College of Engineering at Boise...

 

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Effects of Crystallographic Orientation on the Early Stages of Oxidation in Nickel and Chromium (with Louis P. Bonfrisco), Journal of Materials Science (2010)

Surface orientation plays an important role in the oxidation behavior of single crystals where studies...

 

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Microstructural Effects During Chemical Mechanical Planarization of Copper (with Patrick J. Andersen, Mariela N. Bentancur, and Amy J. Moll), Journal of the Electrochemical Society (2010)

Novel die-stacking schema using through-wafer interconnects require vias to be filled with electroplated Cu, resulting...

 

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Influence of Grain Boundary Character on Creep Void Formation in Alloy 617 (with Thomas Lillo, James Cole, and Scott Schlegel), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions a-Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science (2009)

Alloy 617, a high temperature creep-resistant, nickel-based alloy, is being considered for the primary heat...

 

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Precipitate Redistribution During Creep of Alloy 617 (with Scott Schlegel, S. Hopkins, E. Young, James Cole, and Thomas Lillo), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions a-Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science (2009)

Nickel-based superalloys are being considered for applications within advanced nuclear power generation systems due to...

 

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Analysis of Precipitate Redistribution in Inconel 617 Using Integrated Electron Backscatter Diffraction and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (with Scott M. Schlegel, Sharla Hopkins, E. Young, James Cole, and Thomas Lillo), Microscopy and Microanalysis (2009)

Inconel 617 (IN617), a candidate alloy for applications in the Next Generation Nuclear Plant, derives...

 

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Effect of Grain Boundary Engineering on Microstructural Stability during Annealing (with Scott M. Schlegel and Sharla Hopkins), Scripta Materialia (2009)

Grain boundary engineering, which increases the special boundary fraction, may improve microstructural stability during annealing....

 

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Immuno-SEM Characterization of Developing Bovine Cartilage (with Michelle Gerritsen, Julia T. Oxford, Jonathan Henderson, and Janet M. Hampikian), Materials Science and Engineering C (2008)

Collagen is a vital material in the tissues of living organisms. Found almost everywhere in...

 

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Correlation-Space Description of the Percolation Transition in Composite Microstructures (with Christopher A. Schuh), Physical Review E (2007)

We explore the percolation threshold shift as short-range correlations are introduced and systematically varied in...

 

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Simulation of Plasticity in Nanocrystalline Silicon (with M. J. Demkowicz, A. S. Argon, and D. Farkas), Philosophical Magazine (2007)

Molecular dynamics investigation of plasticity in a model nanocrystalline silicon system demonstrates that inelastic deformation...

 

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Determination of Three-Dimensional Grain Boundary Connectivity from Two-Dimensional Microstructures, Scripta Materialia (2007)

The connectivity of so-called “special” and “general” grain boundaries at a quadruple node is known...

 

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Influence of Microstructure on Aggressive Chemical Mechanical Planarization Processes for Thick Copper Films (with Patrick J. Andersen), MRS Proceedings (2007)

Novel die-stacking schema using through-wafer vias may require thick electrodeposited copper and aggressive first-step chemical...

 

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Correlations Beyond the Nearest-Neighbor Level in Grain Boundary Networks (with C. A. Schuh), Scripta Materialia (2006)

Correlations among ‘special’ and ‘general’ grain boundaries are studied on two-dimensional networks, by examining the...

 

Presentations

Comparison of Microstructural Evolution of Nickel during Conventional and Spark Plasma Sintering (with Matthew Luke and Darryl Butt), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)

Spark plasma sintering (SPS) is a rapid powder consolidation technique that uses pulsed electric current...

 

Role of Grain Boundary Character Distribution on Dynamic Recrystallization Using Monte Carlo Simulations (with Jared Stein), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)

Monte Carlo simulations are commonly applied to study microstructural evolution, including abnormal grain growth and...

 

The Effects of Stress and Temperature on the Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior and Microstructural Evolution of Alloy 230 (with Jatu Burns), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)

Alloy 230, a nickel-based superalloy, is a candidate material for heat exchangers in very high...

 

Three-Dimensional Grain Boundary Networks: Modeling and Connections to Experimental Data, TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)

The grain boundary network that makes up a microstructure plays an important role in determining...

 

Weldability Characteristics of Oxide Dispersion Strengthened Alloys: An Overview (with Kalyan Chitrada, Ramprashad Prabhakaran, Jiye Wang, Larry Zirker, Mitchell Meyer, James Cole, Korukonda Murty, Rajiv Mishra, Darryl Butt, and Indrajit Charit), TMS 2010 139th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (2010)

Oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys are considered an important class of structural materials for various...

 

Effects of Surface Orientation on High-Temperature Oxidation Behavior (with Louis Bonfrisco), 2008 TMS Annual Meeting (2008)

Surface orientation plays an important role in oxidation behavior; studies of single crystals suggest that...

 

Microstructural Modification of Thick Copper Films to Optimize Chemical-Mechanical Planarization of Through-Wafer Interconnects (with Patrick Andersen and Mariela Bentancur), 2008 TMS Annual Meeting (2008)

Large through-wafer interconnects may be required for high current applications or novel devices like backside...

 

Microstructural Stability in Grain Boundary Engineered Materials (with Scott Schlegel), 2008 TMS Annual Meeting (2008)

Grain boundary engineering (GBE) is a thermomechanical process in which sequential straining and annealing cycles...

 

Thermal Stability of Cu-Sn Metal-Metal Interconnects (with Jemima Fernandez and Amy Moll), 2008 TMS Annual Meeting (2008)

Cu-Sn is currently being investigated as an alternative to Pb-Sn solders. It is especially interesting...

 

Influence of Copper Microstructure on Aggressive Chemical Mechanical Planarization Processes (with Patrick Andersen), MRS Spring Meeting 2007 (2007)

Novel die-stacking schema using through-wafer vias may require thick electroplated copper and aggressive first-step CMP....

 

Characterization of Developing Bovine Cartilage Using Immuno-SEM (with Michelle Gerritsen, Janet Hampikian, Julia Oxford, and Jonathan Henderson), Materials Science & Technology 2006 Conference and Exhibition (2006)

Collagen is an important material in tissues of living organisms. Found almost everywhere in the...

 

Percolation Theory for Two-Phase Materials with Nonrandom Topologies, TMS Annual Meeting (2006)

Percolation theory is commonly used to develop microstructure-property relationships for two-phase materials. Although many composite...

 

Length Scale of Correlations in Grain Boundary Networks, Materials Research Society (2005)

Statistical descriptions of grain boundary networks tend to focus upon the connectivity among “special” grain...

 

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Knowledge Surveys, CTL Teaching Gallery (2009)

"A knowledge survey consists of course learning objectives framed as questions and is given before...