Speaker:Kaushik Dayal, Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Multiscale Atomistics for Defects in Electronic Materials

Abstract: Ionic solids are important for electronic and energy storage/conversion devices. Examples include ferroelectrics and solid oxides.Defects in these materials play a central role in enabling their properties: for example, the electromechanics of ferroelectrics occurs by the nucleation and growth of domain wall defects, and solid oxide ionic conduction is through the motion of point defects. I will talk about our efforts to develop multiscale atomistic methods to understand the structure of defects in these materials. These materials have long-range electrostatic interactions between charges, as well as electric fields that exist over all space outside the specimen. I will describe a multiscale methodology aimed at accurately and efficiently modeling defects in such materials in complex geometries. Our approach is based on a combination of Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps to consistently transform the problem from all-space to a finite domain; the quasicontinuum method to deal with short-range atomic interactions, and rigorous thermodynamic limits of dipole lattices from the literature.

Time: Friday, March 11, 2016, 1:30-2:20 p.m.

Place: Exploratory Hall, Room 4106

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