Email:
Phone:
814-863-9957
Office Address:
325 Steidle Building
Title:
Research Professor
Unit:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Research Interests:
- First-principles modeling for all kinds of properties of materials
- Linear-response/supercell phonon approach to thermodynamics
- First-principles approach to self-diffusion and impurity diffusion
- Interfacial enegetics of precipitation, antiphase boundary, domain wall, etc.
- Magnetism and magnetic phase transition at finite temperatures
- First- and second-order phase transformations
- Modeling of Fe-based superconductivity, thermodynamics of rare earth metals and compounds
- Thermodynamics of actinide metals and compounds
- Mg, Al, and Ni alloys
- Ferrielectric and ferroelectric materials
- Elasticity at finite temperatures
- Calculation of phase diagrams
- Finite element analysis