Amit Misra

Scientist, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Science Thrust: Nanoscale Electronics & Mechanics

Phone: 505-667-9860
Fax: 505-665-9030
amisra@lanl.gov

MPA-CINT, MS K771
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545


 

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Research

Synthesis of nanostructured and nanolayered materials via physical vapor deposition; Nanomechanical behavior of materials; Radiation effects in nanostructured materials; Dislocation theory; Transmission electron microscopy of atomic scale defects in materials. His current activities involve studying mechanical behavior and radiation effects in metallic nanolayered composites, nanotwinned metals and nanoporous metals.

Selected Publications

  • Synthesis and Mechanical Properties of Nanoporous Pt-Ni Alloys, Hongqi Li, Amit Misra, Jon K. Baldwin, Samuel T. Picraux, Appliyed Phsics Letters, in press.
  • Controlled nanoporous Pt morphologies by varying deposition parameters, A. Antoniou, D. Bhattacharrya, J. K. Baldwin, P. Goodwin, M. Nastasi, S. T. Picraux, A. Misra, Applied Physics Letters, v.95, 073116 (2009).
  • High Strength and Ductile Nanostructured Cu-Multiwall CNT Composite, Hongqi Li, Amit Misra, Yuntian Zhu, Carl C. Koch, Zenji Horita, Applied Physics Letters, v. 95, 071907 (2009).
  • Superelastic Response of [111] and [101] Oriented NiTi Micro-Pillars, R.M. Manjeri, S. Qiu, N.A. Mara, A. Misra and R. Vaidyanathan, Scripta Materialia, submitted.
  • Significant enhancement of the strength-to-resistivity ratio by using nanotwins in epitaxial Cu films, O. Anderoglu, A. Misra, F. Ronning, X. Zhang, Journal of Applied Physics, v. 106, 024313 (2009).
  • Epitaxial nanotwinned Cu films with high strength and high conductivity, O. Anderoglu, A. Misra, F. Ronning, X. Zhang, Applied Physics Letters, v. 93, 083108 (2008).

Selected User Projects

  • Synthesis and Mechanical Behavior of Metallic Thin Films with Nanoscale Growth Twins, Xinghang Zhang, Texas A&M University.
  • Investigating Shape-Memory Behavior at Reduced Length Scales, Raj Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida.
  • Determining the mechanisms of plastic deformation of metallic nanofoams by atomistic simulations, Michael J. Demkowicz, MIT.