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Prof. Carl V Thompson

Stavros V and Matoula S Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Primary DLC

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

MIT Room: 13-5069
(617) 253-7652
https://dmse.mit.edu/people/faculty/carl-v-thompson/

Assistant

Ryan Kendall
(617) 258-9790
rkendall@mit.edu
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Areas of Interest and Expertise

Energy and the Environment
Semiconductors
Device Fabrication
Synthesis and Processing

Research Summary

Professor Carl V. Thompson and his students carry out research on thin films and nanostructures for use in microsystems and nanosystems, especially electronic, electromechanical, and electrochemical systems. All projects focus on kinetic phenomena that control structure evolution and include both experiments and modeling. Research topics include templated solid-state dewetting of thin films and nanostructures for plasmonic and photonic devices, the reliability of GaN-based high electron mobility transistors and light emitting diodes, and interconnected reliability in both 2D and 3D integrated circuits, as well as heterogeneously integrated systems more broadly. Other recent research includes new materials and designs for integrated thin film batteries and morphological stability of single crystal nanowires.

Recent Work

  • Video

    11.4.20-MRL-Digital-Welcome-Schuh

    November 4, 2020Conference Video Duration: 40:31
    Over the past several decades the iterative trial-and-error approach to alloy design has become dramatically ‘digitally enhanced’.  Physically-motivated computational models that incorporate thermodynamics, kinetics, and processing pathways can substantially narrow the search for optimum alloy compositions and configurations, while high-throughput experimental methods accelerate iteration. In advanced research areas where the controlling physics are not always known, computation can be augmented with data science and machine learning methods to span vast compositional spaces where few experiments exist. This talk will highlight projects of MIT faculty contributing to the digital transformation of the innovative ‘front-end’ of the metals industry—the design and reduction-to-practice of new alloys.

    10.14.20-MRL-After-Moores-Thompson

    October 14, 2020Conference Video Duration: 16:15
    MIT’s Interdisciplinary Materials Research Laboratory

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Keisuke Nagao

Graduate Student

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