Laboratory for Materials Modeling 

Objective:

• Design and control of solid-state structures via atomistic and meso-scale simulation

Faculty:

• Mark Lusk

• Tyrone Vincent

• Moneesh Upmanyu

• Cristian Ciobanu

Projects:

• Reconstruction of semiconductor surfaces as a problem of global optimization

• Interactions and self-assembly of steps on crystal surfaces

• Development of stochastic algorithms for structure prediction of surfaces and interfaces

• Interactions of ad-atoms and defects of surfaces

• Structure and electronic properties of silicon nano-wires

Contact Information:

• Mark Lusk:  BB326/BB328D                                                                                               mlusk@mines.edu                                                                                                                         (303)273-3675