Carl V. Thompson

  • Title: Professor
  • Department: Department of Material Science and Engineering

Collaborators

  • W. Bao, Prof.  National
  • U. of Singapore (NUS)
  • W.C. Carter, Prof., MIT
  • W.K. Choi, Prof.,, NUS
  • J.A. del Alamo, Professor, MIT
  • B.M. Gallant, student, MechE, MIT
  • R. Enright, postdoc, MechE, MIT
  • F. Gao, student, EECS, MIT
  • C.L. Gan, Prof., Nanyang Technical University
  • G.D. Nessim, Lecturer, Bar-Ilan U.
  • T. Palacios, Prof., EECS, MIT
  • W. Sasangka, Postdoc, SMART
  • Y. Shao-Horn, Prof. MSE,
  • Mech. E, MIT
  • D.J. Srolovitz, Prof., U. Penn.
  • S.C. Tan, Postdoc, MSE, MIT
  • E.N. Wang, Prof., MechE, MIT
  • K. Wang, Postdoc, SMART

Graduate Students

  • A. Al-Obeidi, NSF Fellow, MSE
  • T. Batcho, Res. Asst., MSE
  • G. H. Kim, Res. Asst., MSE
  • C.Q. Lai, SMA Fellow, NUS
  • D. Li, Res. Asst. MSE
  • P. Lianto SMA Fellow, NUS
  • R. Mitchell, Res. Asst., MSE
  • H. Yu, Res. Asst., MSE
  • Z. Wen, Res. Asst., MIT
  • L.T. Ye, SMA Fellow, SMART
  • H. Zhao, Res. Asst., MechE
  • R. Zucker, Res. Asst., MSE
  • D. Perego, Visiting Student, MSE

Support Staff

  • K. Fitzgerald, Admin. Asst. II

Publications

R.I. Made, C.L. Gan, L. Yan, K.H. Boon Kor, H.L. Chia, K.L. Pey, and C.V. Thompson, Experimental characterization and modeling of the mechanical properties of Cu–Cu thermocompression bonds for three-dimensional integrated circuits, Acta Materialia 60, 578 (2012).

L. Li, J. Joh, J.A. del. Alamo, and C.V. Thompson,Spatial distribution of structural degradation under high-power stress in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, Appl. Phys. Letts. 100, 172109 (2012).

G.D. Nessim, A. Al-Obeidi, H. Grisaru, E.S. Polsen, C.R. Oliver, T. Zimrin, A.J. Hart, D. Aurbach, and C.V. Thompson, Enhanced synthesis of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes via in-situ generation of water vapor by preheating of added oxygen, Carbon 50, 4002 (2012).

C.V. Thompson, Solid State Dewetting of Thin Films, Ann. Rev. of Materials Research 42, 299-334 (2012).

A.L. Giermann and C.V. Thompson, Three-dimensional graphoepitaxial alignment resulting from solid-state dewetting of Au films on surfaces with monoperiodic topography, Applied Physics Letters 101, 051904 (2012).

W. Jiang, W. Bao, C.V.Thompson, and D.J. Srolovitz, Phase Field Approach for Simulating Solid-State Dewetting Problems, Acta Materialia 60, 5578–5592 (2012).

C.Q. Lai, C.V. Thompson, and W.K. Choi, Uni-, Bi- and Tri-Directional Wetting Caused by Nanostructures with Anisotropic Surface Energies, Langmuir 28(30), 11048–11055 (2012).

F. Gao, D. Chen, B. Lu, H.L. Tuller, C.V. Thompson, S. Keller, U.K. Mishra, and T. Palacios, Impact of Moisture and Fluorocarbon Passivation on the Current Collapse of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, Electron Device Letters 33, 1378 – 1380 (2012).

R. Enright, N. Miljkovic, A. Al-Obeidi, C.V. Thompson, and E.N. Wang,Superhydrophobic condensation: The role of pinning barriers and size-scale, Langmuir 28, 1442 (2012).

B.M. Gallant, R.R. Mitchell, D.G. Kwabi, J. Zhou, L. Zuin, C.V. Thompson, and Y. Shao-Horn, Chemical and Morphological Changes of Li-O2 Battery Electrodes Upon Cycling, J. Phys. Chem. C 116(39), 20800-20805 (2012).

P. Lianto, S. Yu, J. Wu, C.V. Thompson and W.K. Choi, Vertical etching with isolated catalysts in metal-assisted chemical etching of silicon,

Faculty & Topics