Current Members

Name	Title	Office	Phone	Fax	Email
Joost Vlassak	Professor	Pierce Hall 311	(617) 496-0424	(617) 495-9837	vlassak’at’esag_harvard_edu
Patrick McCluskey	Graduate Student (G6)	ESL 112	(617) 496-8145	(617) 495-9837	patrickm’at’deas_harvard_edu
Han Li	Graduate Student (G4)	ESL 112	(617) 496-8145	(617) 495-9837	hanli 'at' fas.harvard.edu http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hanli/
Xiaodong Zhang	Postdoc	ESL 112	(617) 496-8145	(617) 495-9837	xdzhang@seas.harvard.edu
Baiba Menke	Administrative Assistant	Pierce Hall 314	(617) 496-1461	(617) 495-9837	menke'at'deas_harvard_edu

Former Members

Ph.D. Students

Name	Thesis and Graduation Date	Current Address
Yong Xiang	“Plasticity in Cu thin films: an experimental investigation of the effect of microstructure”, March 2006	Intel

Youbo Lin

“Structure, Mechanical Properties and Fracture Behavior of Organosilicate Glass Thin Films”, March 2007

CCB, Harvard

Xi Wang

“Crystallization and Martensitic Transformation Behavior of NiTi Shape Memory Alloy Thin Films”, May 2007

Johns Hopkins University

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Post-Doctoral Researchers

Name	Current Address
Jun-Hyun Han	han'at'deas_harvard_edu
Jae-Hyun Kim	jaehkim'at'deas_harvard_edu

Johan Hoefnagels

j.p.m.hoefnagels'at'tue_nl

Professor Prita Pant 2005.1-2005.12

Dept. of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science IIT-Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076 INDIA E-mail: pritapant'at'iitb_ac_in Tel: +91-22-2576 7616 Fax: +91-22-2572 3484

Professor Xi Chen 2001.7-2003.8

Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 628 S.W.Mudd Building, 500 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027-6699 Phone: (212) 854-3787 Fax: (212) 854-6267 Email: xichen'at'civil_columbia_edu, chen'at'esag_harvard_edu

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Visitors and Associates

Name	Current Address
Hyun-Jong Kim Visiting Graduate Student (2004.7-2005.7)	khj2001’at’snu_ac_kr
Professor Christopher C. Chama 2004	Department of Metallurgy & Mineral Processing School of Mines University of Zambia P.O. Box 32379 10101 Lusaka, Zambia Phone: +260-1-294086 Fax: +260-1-253952 E-mail: CChama’at’mines_unza_zm
Dr. Yuki Sugimura 2001-2004	sugimura’at’esag_harvard_edu
Professor Zhiliang Zhang 2000-2002	SINTEF Materials Technology N-7465 Trondheim, Norway Phone: +47-73592530 Fax: +47-73592931 Email: Zhiliang.Zhang’at’matek_sintef_no

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Undergraduate Students

Name	School	Project
Ofer Shopen 2005 summer	Technion University (2006), Israel	Time-Dependent Adhesion in Organosilicate Glass Coatings
Michael Albert III 2005 summer	North Carolina A&T State University (2007), USA	Hysteresis of the Martensitic Reaction in a Ternary TiNiZr Alloy
Iping Lam 2004 summer	Lehigh University (2005), USA	In-situ stress measurement during the crystallization of Amorphous NiTi thin films
Iran Zvulun 2004 summer	Technion University (2005), Israel	An Investigation of the Fe-Pd-X Shape Memory Alloys Using a Combinatorial Approach
Tzahi Cohen 2003 summer	Technion University (2004), Israel	The Deposition of Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Fe-Pd Thin Films and Their Thermo-Mechanical Properties
Ann Lai 2003 summer	Harvard University (2005), USA	Effect of Annealing Conditions on Shape Memory Behavior of Ti-rich Thin Films
Roy Kaiser 2003	Harvard University (2004), USA	M-BOSS: A Multi-Beam Optical Sensor System using Diffraction Heads
Christopher Mercaldi 2002 summer	Harvard University (2004), USA	Investigation of Stress in ZnO Films
Emily Cofer 2001 summer	MIT (2004), USA	Design and Construction of an Electrochemical Cell for In-Situ Adhesion Studies
Uri Lev 2001 summer	Technion University (2002), Israel	Origin of Anomalous Stress Development in Sputtered ZnO Coatings
Alexandre Favre-Bulle 2000-2001	University of Lausanne, (2001), Switzerland	Development of an Sample Preparation Method for Bulge Test
Kyle Clark 2000-2001	Harvard University (2004), USA	Development of an Apparatus to Measure Mechanical Properties of Thin Films
Anat Samoilov 2000 summer	Technion University (2001), Israel	Growth and Characterization of ZnO Films

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Last revised: 2/10/2009