Jianyu Huang

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

Phone: 505-284-5963
Fax: 505-284-7778
Email jhuang@sandia.gov

CINT, MS 1303
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185


 

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Education and Training

Ph.D., Materials Physics, 1996, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
M.S., Materials Physics, 1993, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
B.S., Physics, 1990 Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China             

Research

Huang’s research interests have focused on in-situ electron microscopy. His current activities center on using a TEM-SPM (including STM, AFM, Nanoindentor) platform to study structure and property correlations of individual nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, nanowires, and graphene. His specific interests include: 1. Nanomechanics: deformation and strengthening mechanisms of nanomaterials; 2. Nanobattery: using a MEMS-based, TEM compatible platform, and the TEM-SPM platform to study battery process in-situ; 3. Thermal/ Thermoelectric Materials: developing a MEMS platform to enable atomic scale microstructure  and thermal/thermoelectric property correlations; 4. Light Emitting Materials: how defects are affecting the physical properties of GaN nanowires and related materials. 

Research

Huang’s research interests have focused on in-situ electron microscopy. His current activities center on using a TEM-SPM (including STM, AFM, Nanoindentor) platform to study structure and property correlations of individual nanostructures such as carbon nanotubes, nanowires, and graphene. His specific interests include: 1. Nanomechanics: deformation and strengthening mechanisms of nanomaterials; 2. Nanobattery: using a MEMS-based, TEM compatible platform, and the TEM-SPM platform to study battery process in-situ; 3. Thermal/ Thermoelectric Materials: developing a MEMS platform to enable atomic scale microstructure  and thermal/thermoelectric property correlations; 4. Light Emitting Materials: how defects are affecting the physical properties of GaN nanowires and related materials. 

Selected Publications

  • J.Y. Huang, F. Ding, B.I. Yakobson, P. Lu, Q. Liang, and J. Li, In-situ Observation of Graphene Sublimation and Multi-Layer Edge Reconstructions, PNAS 106, 10103-10108 (2009)
  • T. Westover, R. Jones, J.Y. Huang, G. Wang, E. Lai, and A.A. Talin, Photoluminescence, Thermal Transport and Breakdown in Joule-Heated GaN Nanowires, Nano Lett. 9, 257-263 (2009)
  • J.Y. Huang, F. Ding, and B.I. Yakobson, Dislocation dynamics in multiwalled carbon nanotubes at high temperatures, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 035503 (2008)
  • J.Y. Huang, F. Ding, J. Kun, B.I. Yakobson, Real time microscopy, kinetics, and mechanism of giant fullerene evaporation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99,175503 (2007)
  • J.Y. Huang et al., Enhanced ductile behavior of tensile-elongated individual double- and triple-walled carbon nanotubes at high temperatures”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 185501 (2007)
  • J.Y. Huang et al., Kink formation and motion in carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 075501(2006)
  • J.Y. Huang et al., Superplastic carbon nanotubes, Nature439, 281 (2006)
  • J.Y. Huang et al., Atomic scale imaging of wall-by-wall breakdown and concurrent transport measurements in multiwall carbon nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 236802 (2005)

Selected User Projects:

  • In-situ TEM on deformation process of metallic nanowires, Scott Mao, University of Pittsburgh
  • Scalable, Nanowire-based Architectures for in-situ TEM Electrochemical Investigations within Nanoscale Batteries, and Ultracapacitors, Arunkumar Subramanian, Sandia National Lab.
  • Patterning Multiple Layers of Graphene, Ju Li, University of Pennsylvania