Phd Candidate in the department of Materials science and engineering,Northwestern University.Fall04-date

Brief overview of Robin's research area.

ADVANCED COATING DEVELOPMENT INVOLVING THIN FILM CHARACTERIZATION AND TRIBOLOGY.

GOALS: To develop coatings with tailor made properties to meet some of the current needs of industry.

INDUSTRIES INVOVLED: The Ford Motor Company, The Boeing Company.

COATING TECHNOLGOY USED: Unbalanced magnetron chamber, base pressure 1e-7 torr,

Characterization:Profilometry,Micro-Xam,XRD,SEM,TEM,XPS/ESCA,ToF-SIMS,FT-IR

Tribocharacterization.CSEM_HighTemperatureTribometer@ The Argonne National Labs and The CETR Tribometer