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Professor Paul A. Salvador
Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Ph.D., Northwestern University

149 Roberts Engineering Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

Email address:
Phone: (412) 268-2702
Fax: (412) 268-7596

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Research Interests

Professor Salvador's research interests lie in the areas of thin film synthesis/growth, characterization, and architectural design of inorganic crystalline materials. His current focus is on the design of materials having structural features engineered from the sub-nanometer to the micron length scale. His group uses pulsed laser deposition and molecular beam epitaxy to grow crystals of oxides, nitrides, oxynitrides, metals, and composites (or heterostructures) of those materials for a variety of applications in the fields of energy, information storage, hard coatings, and RF electronics. Examples include chiral surface engineering for chiral molecular separations and sensing; thin film synthesis of metastable and artificially layered ferroelectric, dielectric, and magnetic crystals; nanostructured superlattice thin films for hard coatings, fuel cells electrolytes, RF circuits, and information storage; heterostructured films for probe data storage and solar hydrogen production; and the design of multifunctional (and/or multiferroic) materials using chemical principles and thin film processing.

Biography

Professor Salvador received his B.S.E. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and his Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University in 1997. He then spent two years in France as a post-doc at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs (ENSI) de Caen, ISMRA (Laboratoire Crismat), working in the area of Materials Science and Solid State Chemistry. He joined Carnegie Mellon in 1999 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where he is currently an Associate Professor.

Recent Publications

"Chirally oriented heteroepitaxial thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition: Pt(621) on SrTiO3(621)," A. J. Francis and P. A. Salvador, J. Appl. Phys. 96, 2482 (2004).

"Thin Pt films on the polar SrTiO3(111) surface: an experimental and theoretical study," A. Asthaghiri, C. Niederberger, A. J. Francis, L. M. Porter, P. A. Salvador, and D. Sholl, Surf. Sci. 357, 134 (2003).

"In-situ monitoring of the growth and characterization of (PrMnO3)n(SrMnO3)n superlattices," B. Mercey, P. A. Salvador, Ph. LeCoeur, W. Prellier, M. Hervieu, Ch. Simon, D. Chippaux, A.M. Haghiri-Gosnet, and B. Raveau, Journal of Applied Physics 94, 2716 (2003).

"Surface engineering along the close packed direction of SrTiO3," T. D. Doan, J. Giocondi, G. S. Rohrer and P. A. Salvador, J. Cryst. Growth 225, 178 (2001).

"Thin film synthesis of metastable perovskites: YMnO3," A. J. Francis, A. Bagal and P. A. Salvador, in Innovative Processing and Synthesis of Ceramics, Glasses and Composites, N. Bansal, Ed., The American Ceramic Society, Inc., 565 (2000).