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Daniel
Gall Professor |
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Prof.
Daniel Gall joined RPI in 2002. He leads the Thin Films and Office:
MRC 204 Email:
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Ruopeng
Deng Ph.D.
Candidate |
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Ruopeng
joined our group in Fall 2009. His work is on nitride nanostructured
coatings for novel device applications. Office:
MRC 130A Email:
dengr@rpi.edu |
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Paul Papi Ph.D.
Candidate |
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PJ
joined our group in Fall 2010. He works on nanoporous
self-lubricating hard coatings. Office:
MRC 130A Email:
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Paul
Jamison Ph.D.
Candidate |
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Paul
joined our group in Fall 2010. He studies the effect of atomic shadowing and
directional ion bombardment on nanostructure development. Office:
MRC 130A Email:
jamisp@rpi.edu |
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Dan Guan Ph.D.
Candidate |
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Dan
joined our group in Fall 2011. He studies electron transport in
nanostructures. Office:
MRC 130A Email:
guand@rpi.edu |
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Christopher
P. Mulligan Visiting
Scientist |
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Chris
Mulligan joined our group as a visiting scientist in 2009, while
simultaneously holding a research staff position at Benet Laboratories. He
also received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in our group (see below). His
current interest is in various high-temperature solid lubricious coatings. Email:
c.mulligan@us.army.mil |
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Sarah
Evans Undergraduate
Student |
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Sarah
joined our group in spring 2011. She works on coatings for novel x-ray
generation. Email:
evanss4@rpi.edu |
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Jessica
DiFazio Undergraduate
Student |
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Jessica
joined our group in spring 2012. She works on electron transport measurements
of single crystal layers. Email:
difazj@rpi.edu |
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Jasmeet S.
Chawla Ph.D. 2011 |
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Jasmeet
joined our group in Fall 2007. His work focused on electron transport in nanoscale structures. He has joined the Intel Component
Research Division. Email:
jasmeetchawla@gmail.com |
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Xunyuan
Zhang Ph.D. 2011 |
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Xunyuan
joined our group in Fall 2007. He studied the electronic structure of CrN by optical and electronic transport measurements. He has
joined Global Foundries. Email:
zhangx11@rpi.edu |
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Srijit
Mukherjee Ph.D. 2009 |
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Srijit
Mukherjee joined our group in Spring 2007. He developed scaling relationship
models for nanorod growth under extreme shadowing and
at elevated temperature. He has joined Intel to work on interconnect
deposition. Email:
srijit.mukherjee@gmail.com |
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Michael D.
Gasda Ph.D. 2009 |
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Mike
joined our group in Fall 2007. He has designed various new nanostructured electrodes for PEM fuel cells (patent
pending). After his graduation, he has joined Bloom Energy to work on solid
oxide Fuel Cells. Email:
mikegasda@gmail.com |
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Christopher
P. Mulligan M.S. 2004,
Ph.D. 2009 |
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Chris
Mulligan joined our group in 2003, and obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees while
simultaneously holding a research staff position at Benet Laboratories. His
thesis research focused on CrN-Ag self-lubricating nanoporous hard-coatings. Chris continues to work at
Benet Labs and also continues his collaboration with our group as a Visiting
Scientist (see above) Email:
c.mulligan@us.army.mil |
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Ph.D. 2008 |
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Jaya
Purswani joined our group in Fall 2004. She developed a method to grow atomically
smooth single-crystal Cu layers, studied their surface morphology by in-site
STM, and demonstrated specular electron scattering
at their surfaces. Email:
purswj@alum.rpi.edu |
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Ph.D. 2007 |
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Email:
Chunming.Zhou@NOVELLUS.com |
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Sree Ranga Ph.D. 2006 |
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Sai
joined our group in Spring 2003. He developed various nanostructures by
glancing angle deposition including branched nanorods
and nano pressure sensors. After his Ph.D., he
joined Novellus Inc. as a process engineer and then moved on to become a
Product Manager at Applied Materials Inc.
Email:
skesapragada@gmail.com |
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Trevor
Keller M.S. 2011 Trevor
joined our group in Fall 2009. He worked on nanostructured
materials for inorganic thin film solar cells. He continued his Ph.D. studies
with Prof. Lewis. Email: kellet@rpi.edu |
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Kenneth
Girardin B.S. 2006;
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Ken
joined our group in spring 2003. He developed various nanostructures
including his famous nanocucumbers. Ken came back
to our group in 2008 to finish his M.S. degree, working on 1-D nanostructure
arrays. Email:
griark@gmail.com |
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Joanna
Frederick-Lynch M.S. 2003 |
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Joanna
is the first graduate student of our group. She built an ultra-high vacuum deposition
system and studied surface morphology and nanostaircases
in single crystal CrN layers. After her degree, she
did some work in our group on hybrid carbon nanotube
structures, then left to work for Picatinny Arsenal
and then for Benet Laboratories as a research engineer. Email:
jrladybug22@yahoo.com |
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Donya
Thomas Undergraduate
Student |
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Donya
joined our group in spring 2011. She worked on the next generation of the
“Materials Machine”. Email:
thomad6@rpi.edu |
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Marco
Balducci B.S. 2011 |
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Marco
joined our group in fall 2010. He worked on ZnMgO
layers for solar cell applications. Email:
baldum@rpi.edu |
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Adam Bross B.S. 2011 |
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Adam
joined our group in fall 2008. He worked on a quantitative micrograph
analysis of metallic nanorod arrays and also developed
a thin film growth simulator. Email:
brossa@rpi.edu |
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Eric
Conway B.S. 2011 Eric
joined our group in fall 2008. He worked on Ag-diffusion in hard coatings, for
applications in high-temperature lubrication. Email:
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Heather A.
Bowman B.S. 2009 |
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Heather
joined our group in fall 2007. She is the initial developer of a Thin Film
Growth Simulator, using ping-pong balls as atoms, which will ultimately be
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Quinn P.
McAllister B.S. 2008 |
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Quinn
joined our Email:
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Evan J. Laprade B.S. 2008 |
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Evan
joined our Email:
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Siddharth
P. Pathi B.S. 2007 |
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Siddharth
joined our group in fall 2005. He used reactive magnetron co-suputtering to develop multi-layer lubricious coatings. After
his degree, he joined the Ph.D. program at Email:
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Nicholas Dolisky B.S. 2006 |
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Nick
joined our group in fall 2004. He was utilizing in-situ scanning tunneling
microscopy to study graphite surfaces and was designing and testing a rod-fed
e-beam evaporator. After his degree, he joined the Franklin Pierce Law Center
law-school. Email:
ndolinsky@piercelaw.edu |
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Joseph
Riendeau B.S. 2006 |
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Joe
joined our group in fall 2003. He developed a method for cross-sectional
transmission electron microscopy sample preparation. He joined the graduate
program in mechanical engineering at RPI.
Email:
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Sun Kyu
Kim Visiting
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Sun
Kyu Kim has joined our group to work on novel concepts of hard coatings. He
received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Utah in 1981 and held industrial
positions at Exxon and Kia Motors Co. He currently holds a professor position
at the University of Ulsan in Korea, working on superhard
nanocomposites, aqueous corrosion resistant
coatings, high temperature oxidation resistant thin films, and biomaterials. Email:
skim@ulsan.ac.kr |
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Visiting
Professor, 2007 |
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Prof.
Singh has visited our group in the summer of 2007. He has developed various
experimental skills in our laboratory, including measuring the heat transport
between nanorod layers and air, and doing tunneling
spectroscopy on single crystal CrN surfaces. JP is
a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Email: jpsingh@physics.iitd.ac.in |
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Qing Zhao Graduate
Student, 2008 |
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Qing
joined our group in Fall 2007. His research focused on the deposition of
BTO-based nanostructured composite layers with extreme
stiffness. He left the group to
continue his graduate studies with Prof. L. Huang at RPI. Email:
zhaoq2@rpi.edu |
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Summer
Student, 2007 |
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Xiao
has joined our group as a summer student in 2007. She has grown Ti nanorod arrays which will be used as electrodes in organic
solar cells. She is a student at Email: xmzhao@email.smith.edu |
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Summer student
2003 |
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Email:
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