Professor Paul A. Salvador Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D., Northwestern University Department of Materials Science and Engineering Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Roberts Engineering Hall 149 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Email: Phone: (412) 268-2702 Fax: (412) 268-3113 Professor Salvador's Web Site

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 a Professor.

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 of research areas include surface engineering of catalysts used in chiral separations, solid oxide fuel cells, and solar hydrogen composites; determination of structure-property relationships in heterostructured films for probe data storage; design of nanostructured superlattice thin films for hard coatings, RF circuits, and information storage; thin film synthesis of metastable and artificially layered ferroelectric, dielectric, and magnetic crystals; the design of multifunctional (and/or multiferroic) materials using chemical principles and thin film processing; and the determination the evolution of microstructures in thin films and solid oxide fuel cell cathodes.

Recent Publications

"Growth of thin films of the novel Sr_mTiO_2+m series of phases by reactive molecular beam epitaxy," P. Fisher, S. Wang, M. Skowronski, P. A. Salvador, M. Snyder, and O. Maksimov, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 252901, (2007).

"Epitaxial stabilization and structural properties of REMnO₃ (RE = La, Nd, Sm, Gd) compounds in a layered, hexagonal ABO₃ structure," K. R. Balasubramanian, S. Havelia, P. A. Salvador, H. Zheng, and J. Mitchell, Applied Physics Letters, 91, 232901, (2007).

"Electrode influence on the transport through SrRuO3/Cr-doped SrZrO₃/metal junctions," H.-S. Lee, J. A. Bain, S. Choi, and P. A. Salvador, Applied Physics Letters, 90, 202107, (2007).

"Monte Carlo simulations and experimental observations of templated grain growth in thin platinum films," A. J. Francis, C. G. Roberts, Y. Cao, A. D. Rollett, and P. A. Salvador, Acta Materialia, 55, 6159 (2007).

"Chiral surfaces and metal/ceramic heteroepitaxy in the Pt/SrTiO₃(621) system," Andrew J. Francis, A.J. Koritnik, Andrew Gellman, and Paul A. Salvador, Surface Science, 601, 1930 (2007).