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The Center for Materials Science & Engineering provides an integrated interdisciplinary approach to the study of materials. The faculty consist of members of the College of Science and College of Engineering. It offers a graduate program in Materials Science & Engineering. The faculty members conduct research in a large number of areas such as polymer engineering, polymer chemistry, polymer physics, nanomaterials, electronic materials, metallurgy, Theoretical solid state physics, transport phenomena, electron-phonon interactions, nonlinear phenomena, electronic properties of molecular crystals, experimental low temperature physics, large scale computations, parallel processing, superconductivity, low temperature physics, photographic materials, transport phenomena in solids, amorphous (glassy) material stress and adhesion in thin films; surface modification by glow discharge plasma and/or ion bombardment, dislocation theory, x-ray diffraction, sintering, numerical modeling, digital image analysis, computer integrated manufacturing, micromechanics of heteroepitaxial structures, orphological filters in image processing of microstructures, synthesis and characterization of polymers with nonlinear optical properties hybrid organic/inorganic polymers, ferroelectric ceramics and speciality materials, Optical properties of photoreceptor materials, experimental physics, electronics, microcomputer interfacingCharacterization of structure and phase transitions in surfactant systems (micelles, microemulsions and liquid crystals) using scattering techniques; mass and surface fractals in condensed matter systems, theories of liquids; chaos in simple non-linear physical systems, deposition of metals onto polymeric substrates, effects of surface modification of polymer substrates on growth of PVD (physical vapor deposited) films, glow discharge and ion bombardment, stress in sputtered thin films, adhesion of PVD thin films, multilayer optical filters, microlithography, 193 nm lithography, multilayer resist processing, attenuated phase shift mask materials etc.
Dr. Robert Clark, past Dean of the College of Science, Professor Emeritus and one of the key players of the Center for Materials Science & Engineering.
For more information about Materials Science and Engineering contact the Program Director, KSV Santhanam, at (585)-475-2920 or ksssch@rit.edu.
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