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211 Agricultural Engineering Building
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309 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building
Thin film piezoelectrics offer a number of advantages in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), due to the large motions that can be generated, often with low hysteresis, the high available energy densities, as well as high sensitivity sensors with wide dynamic ranges, and low power requirements. The Trolier-McKinstry group has explored a wide range of perovskite thin films for these applications, and has developed new characterization tools for measurement of thin film piezoelectric properties.
The coming decades present a host of challenges for our built environments: a rising global population combined with increasing urbanization; crumbling infrastructure and dwindling resources to rebuild it; and the growing pressures of a changing climate, to name a few.
Please save October 20 and 21 for Materials Day 2022, the annual marquee event for materials-related interdisciplinary science and engineering at Penn State. Held by the Materials Research Institute, this year’s event theme is "Materials Impacting Society." Breakout sessions and topics will address a perennial issue in university research: Researchers translating their discoveries in the lab to a point that they can be transitioned into the marketplace where they can benefit society.
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N-354 Millennium Science Complex
Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter University Research Alliance
Erwin Müller served on the faculty of Penn State’s Department of Physics from 1952-1976. The German-born and -educated physicist is known as the “first man to see the atom.” A brilliant experimentalist, Müller’s invention of the field emission microscope (1936), the field ion microscope (1951), and the atom probe (1967) were seminal contributions to the fields of materials science and nanotechnology.