Team

Tim Brown

Graduate Student (PhD)
Hysteresis and phase transition engineering of martensitic transitions for room-temperature caloric cooling devices
(2014 – present)

• Quantified critical effect of magnetic refrigerant magnetocaloric coupling and hysteresis on caloric device conversion efficiency via irreversible thermodynamic cycle simulations
• Studied role of martensitic symmetry-breaking and lattice compatibility mechanisms in controlling transformation behavior and hysteresis in magnetocaloric (MnFe)2PSi alloys and electrocaloric VO2 nanorods

Heidi Clarke

Graduate Student (PhD)
Microscopic resistance switching mechanisms in HfO2 and VO2
(2014 – present)
Imaging of Conductive Filaments in HfO2

• AFM-based technique to create 3D tomogram of formed nano-scale conductive filaments
• Effects of microstructure on kinetics of Cu transport in metal-insulator-metal structures

Imaging of M-I-T in VO2 single crystals

• Statistics of martensitic nucleation in VO2
• AFM-based techniques to understand nucleation/growth of metal-insulator domains in VO2 single crystals

Yijia Zhang

Graduate Student (PhD)
Size effects on thermoelastic martensitic transformations
(2015 – present)

• Electrochemical deposition of Heusler alloy films
• Microstructure Analysis
• Structure and theory of thermoelastic martensitic transformations

Alison Hoe

Graduate Student (PhD)
Heat transfer and storage in composite heat sinks
(2017 – present)

• Design of composite systems to develop high cooling power / efficient heat sinks
• Theory of composite heat transfer structures
• Numerical and experimental observations of melting in composite systems

Michael Deckard

Graduate Student (PhD)
Conductive Heat Transfer in Composite Heatsinks
(2017 – present)

• FEM of conductive heat transfer in composite phase change media
• Analytical expressions describing motion of phase boundaries in composite phase change problems

Adelaide Bradicich

Graduate Student (PhD)
TBD
(2018 – present)

Aliya Yano

Graduate Student (PhD)
TBD
(2018 – present)

Daniel Galvan

Undergraduate, Senior (CHEN)
Assessing the Performance of Fe2P Alloys Under Various Magnetic Refrigeration Cycle
(2015 – present)

• Model the Hysteric Properties of GMCE Materials
• Microscopic Characterization of Phase Transformations

Laura Deremo

Undergraduate, Senior (ECEN)
Failure in Electrical Resistance Switches
(2017 – present)

Gabriela Lammoglia

Undergraduate, Senior (BMEN)
Machine Learning of Coupled Magneto-Structural Transformations
(2018 – present)

Julia Billman

Clare Booth Luce scholar
Undergraduate, Junior (MEEN)
MFM Imaging of Magnetic Domains in Magnetocaloric Alloys
(2017 – present)

John Moynihan

Undergraduate, Junior (CHEN)
Robust Repeatable Behavior in Salt Hydrate Thermal Energy Storage
(2018 – present)

Jessica Paredez

Undergraduate, Junior (CHEN)
Corrosion of Salt Hydrate Thermal Energy Storage Materials
(2018 – present)

Nathan Turner

Undergraduate, Junior (CHEN)
Synthesis and Characterization of Ternary Salt Hydrate Eutectics
(2018 – present)

Andrew Balog

Undergraduate, Sophomore (MSEN)
Stability of Salt Hydrate Thermal Energy Storage Materials
(2018 – present)