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Materials Chemistry and Physics, Environment, Energy, Carbon Sequestration
Prof. Expert has set up a laboratory where he determines the high temperature property of materials such as melting, thermal expansion and high temperature behavior at extreme conditions. The key word is high temperature refractory material (alloys,ceramics) synthesis and properties.…
Materials Science and Condensed Matter Physics
Expert's research has centered on materials science, including such major topics as: Growth, structure, properties, and processing of heteroepitaxial material systems; Atomic-scale modeling of metal and semiconductor surfaces and interfaces; Thermodynamics and modeling of mechanical and chemical response to extreme…
Surface Technology, Coatings, Thin Film Deposition, PVD, Physical Vapour Deposition, Sputtering, PLD
He studied materials science with a focus on thin film materials, focussing in his PhD on process equipment and design of room-temperature deposited coating. As post-doc, he was employed to scale up deposition process from laboratory to industrially useable process…
Surface Engineering, Diamond like hard coating, material science, Medical device, hard disk
Most of Expert's scientific career has been devoted to the development of surface modification and thin film deposition technologies, including plasma nitriding, plasma carbonization, boriding, chromizing, cathodic arc, filtered cathodic arc, pulsed laser ablation, magnetron sputtering, pulsed mid-frequency dc magnetron…
Thin Film Deposition, Specializing in Reactive Sputtering
Expert D. Expert has extensive experience in magnetron sputtering of aluminum and in the high-rate reactive sputtering of aluminum compounds such as aluminum oxide. He was the first to show that aluminum oxide with excellent film properties can be reactively…
Tribology, Wear, Coatings, Materials Selection, Materials Testing, Computer Modeling, Lubrication
Expert has experience with numerous types of abrasive wear problems, including the design of optimal surface topography to minimize abrasive wear. This includes surface design, wear testing, and the use of coatings in abrasive wear environments to enhance system life…