In Class Presentations
April 20, 2010
- Ching-Chang Chung (First-principles study of piezoelectricity in PZT)
- Kyle Daniel Crosby (Screening of Materials for Biomedical Implants)
- Ellen K. Lavorato (Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals)
- Chenchen Wang (Different Methods to Calculate Dielectric Constants)
- Gregory Michael Wrobel (High Pressure/Temperature Phase Transformations of Ilmenite Materials)
- Satyesh Kumar Yadav (Algorithm to calculate band structure of crystal within DFT using empirical pseudo-potential)
- Jialan Zhang (DFT calculations of strain effects on ferroelectric films)
- Yang Zhong (Ab initio Study on the Equilibrium Shape of WC Grains)
April 27, 2010
- Sencer Ayas
- Dominique Alain Bolliger (Determining Electron Affinity of m-, o-, and p-Xylene using DFT)
- Yenny Paola Cardona Quintero (Effect of oxygen content and oxygen vacancies in effective work function of Pt/HfO2 )
- Erica Rose Kramer (Cation Substitutions in Hydroxyapatite)
- Yasemin Kutes (Spin Dependent Conductance of Graphene Flakes)
- Chigozie Kenechukwu Muoto (Oxygen Ion Conductivity in Ytrria Stabilized Zirconia )
- Vincent Paul Palumbo (Ab initio studies of defects in PZT )
- Richard Perez Moyet (Bulk Metalic Glass)
- Shanshan Qin (Interface between Metal and Polymer)
- Gregory Scott Santone (DFT and GST, a chalcogenide PCM)
- Sujan Shrestha (Oxygen reduction reaction on Platinum using DFT)
- Ying Sun (Density Functional Analysis of Impurities in Polyethylene)