The Department of Materials Science and Engineering is concerned with the relation between the structure and properties of materials, factors which control the internal structure, and processes for altering the structure and properties. It brings together in a unified discipline the developments in physical metallurgy, ceramics, and the physics and chemistry of solids.
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MSE has received a grant from the
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
to fund summer research projects
for Stanford undergraduates during the summer of 2008. Click here for more information.
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Prof. William Nix awarded
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Mike McGehee receives MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award - April 2007 |
In September 2007, Ye (Mike) Chen won the Best Paper Award for process modeling and memory research at the Semiconductor Research Corporation?s TECHCON meeting in Austin, TX. Mike received the award for his presentation entitled "Comparative Study of Pb(Zr,Ti)O3/Electrode Interface Layer Engineering of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory Capacitors with Pt and IrO2 Top Electrodes." This work, which is supported by Texas Instruments and Stanford's Non-volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative, has also been reported in two recent papers in Applied Physics Letters. Mr. Chen will be defending his Ph.D. thesis, done under the supervision of Prof. Paul McIntyre, in early 2008.
In April 2007, Hemant Adhikari won the Ross Tucker Award of TMS, awarded annually to the top student at Stanford who is engaged in research on electronic materials. Hemant was a doctoral student in Professor Paul McIntyre's laboratory, and was coadvised by Prof. Christopher Chidsey of the Chemistry department. He completed a thesis on epitaxial germanium nanowire growth from nano-scale gold catalysts at deep sub-eutectic temperatures in 2007. Dr. Adhikari is now a staff member of Advanced Micro Devices and is an AMD research asignee at SEMATECH in Austin, TX.
