Metallurgical Sciences

We have worked at the Metallic Corrosion and Oxidation Laboratories (now part of the Institute for Microstructural Sciences) at the National Research Council of Canada.  Our work involved characterization of the bonding environment of iron using Moessbauer spectroscopy techniques.  We were also involved in a study that characterized intergrain diffusion of dopant ions in stainless steel alloys by means of TEM and EELS.

In addition, we have worked extensively in the field of thin-metal films, primarily studying the use of such films as electrode layers for devices made from microelectronic and optoelectronic materials such as barium strontium titanate (BST) and indium phosphide.  This work involved the use of a variety of analytical techniques to study phenomena such as intergrain and interface diffusion, as well as metal-to-substrate adhesion.

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