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RESEARCHING THIN FILMS By Stephen Hudson, M.Ed The Design and Technology Academy @ Roosevelt High School North East ISD, San Antonio With Faculty Mentor Haiyan Wang, PhD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Haiyan Wang – Functional Thin Film Processing and Characterization Group

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Page 1: By Stephen Hudson, M.Ed The Design and Technology Academy @ Roosevelt High School North East ISD, San Antonio With Faculty Mentor Haiyan Wang, PhD Department.

RESEARCHING THIN FILMSBy Stephen Hudson, M.Ed

The Design and Technology Academy @ Roosevelt High School

North East ISD, San Antonio

With Faculty Mentor Haiyan Wang, PhDDepartment of Electrical and Computer

EngineeringDr. Haiyan Wang – Functional Thin Film Processing and

Characterization Group

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IMAGINE…

A PC as thin as a piece of paper with more computing power than

today’s devices…

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IMAGINE…A home where the roof tiles no

longer need replacing AND which generate enough electricity for 100% of the family’s needs…

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IMAGINE…Nuclear Energy Plants with fewer

maintenance issues on critical parts…

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These are just a few of the upcoming applications based on the research being done in Dr. Wang’s labs at

Texas A&M

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WHAT IS THIN FILM?

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•SYNTHESIS

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•CHARACTERIZATION

•STRUCTURE – PROPERTY CORRELATION

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SYNTHESIS

Pulsed Laser Deposition

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FORMS OF SYNTHESISPVD (Physical Vapor Deposition)• Thermal Evaporation• Electro-deposition• Magnetron sputtering (DC, RF) • Pulsed Laser Deposition• MBE (molecular beam epitaxy)CVD (Chemical Vapor Deposition)• APCVD (atmospheric CVD)• LPCVD (low-pressure CVD)• PECVD (Plasma-enhanced CVD)• LECVD (Laser-enhanced CVD)• MOCVD (Metal-organic CVD)Solution based deposition techniques• Sol-gel• PAD (Polymer assisted deposition)

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CHARACTERIZATIONCharacterization, when used in

materials science, refers to the use of external techniques to probe into the internal structure and properties of a material. Characterization can take

the form of actual materials testing, or analysis, using, in our case, a

Scanning Electron Microscope (non-destructive) or a Transmission Electron

Microscope (destructive).

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Dr. Haiyan Wang – Functional Thin Film Processing and Characterization Group

ScanningElectron

Microscope

(Non-destructive

)

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In-situ Transmission Electron Microscope

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STRUCTURE – PROPERTY CORRELATION

Once the synthesis and analyses are complete, Dr. Wang’s team looks for desirable properties

for applications such as:

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•High temperature tolerance•Radiation tolerance•High temperature super- conductivity•Ferroelectric materials

•Thin Film Solid Oxide Fuel Cells•Metallic Thin Films •Bio-compatible films•Soft Films

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES•Participate in all aspects of the research objective:

•Synthesis, •Characterization, •Property Correlation

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES•Familiarization with the tools used in this research:•Synthesis: Pulsed Laser, Sputter Magnetron•Characterization: Transmission Electron Microscope, In-situ TEM, Scanning Electron Microscope, X-Ray Diffraction, •Structure-Property Correlation: Vibrating Sample Magnetometer, Physical Property Measurement System, Deposition for High Temp Superconductor

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RESEARCH ACTIVITIES•Data Generation• and interpretation

•2 Weeks with Dr. Zhang, using the same plan, primarily focusing on Mechanical properties.

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Synthesis

Character-

ization

Structure –

Property

Corr.

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LESSON PLAN

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Simple Cubic Face Center Cubic(FCC)

Body Center Cubic(BCC)

Hexagonal Close Packed(HCP)

Diamond(Cubic)

Perovskite(cubic)

Simple Cubic Face Center Cubic(FCC)

Body Center Cubic(BCC)

Hexagonal Close Packed(HCP)

Diamond(Cubic)

Perovskite(cubic)

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LESSON PLAN IDEAS•First week: What I did with Math this Summer PPT

•I will do one, too, to introduce the idea of Thin Films•Special Right Triangles Unit: use the Simple Cube structure of the lattice to ‘measure’ the distance between atoms. Given a specific desirable property related to density, which lattice would you pick? Why?•Circle Unit: Planar Density. Deciding Fracture points.•Volume Unit: Build models of the three basic Cube structures. Decide which model is densest and provide accurate calculations. When is porosity desirable?

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I WISH TO THANK:Dr. Haiyan Wang and Dr. Xinghang Zhang

Joon Hyan Lee, PhD CandidateZhenxing Bi, PhD Candidate

Logan Lu, PhD CandidateChenfong Tsai, PhD Candidate

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Nuclear Power

Institute

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