Thursday 4:15pm, Thornton 110
Prof. William King, UIUC M.E.
Thermomechanical Probes at the Nanometer Scale
The properties of materials depend upon temperature, and the ability
to control temperature fields at the nanometer scale enables new
capabilities for nanomechanical characterization and
nano-manufacturing. This talk provides a broad overview on research
into thermal and thermomechanical processing at the nanometer scale.
The first part of the talk describes nanoscale probe tips with
integrated thermal elements capable of measuring
temperature-dependent physical, electrical, and chemical properties
on the 10 nm scale. Such measurements enable quantitative material
identification well below the diffraction limit of conventional
spectroscopy. The second part of the talk describes nanomanufacturing
with these probe tips. Such tips can form three-dimensional features
in polymers, metals, and semiconductors with 10 nm resolution and
include both mechanical forming and thermally-activated chemical
reactions. The properties of these nanostructures will be described,
as will the scale-up of these manufacturing techniques to
conventional scales.
William P. King is Associate Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar in
the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering an affiliate of
the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He received the Ph.D. (2002) degrees in
mechanical engineering from Stanford University. He was worked at the
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and was formerly on the Faculty at
Georgia Tech. Dr. King is the winner of the CAREER award from the
National Science Foundation (2003), the PECASE award from the
Department of Energy (2005), and the Young Investigator Award from
the Office of Naval Research (2007). He was named Young Manufacturing
Engineer by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2006). In 2006,
Technology Review Magazine named him to the TR35-one of the people
under the age of 35 whose innovations are likely to change the world.
In 2007 his innovations were selected for an R&D 100 Award and a
Micro/Nano 25 Award and in 2008 he won his second R&D 100 Award. In
2009 he won the ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Award for Young Investigator in
Heat Transfer. He has authored over 100 journal articles, is
co-founder of two companies, and is a member of the Defense Sciences
Research Council.
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