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Professor<\/p>\n

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\"Gerd<\/div>\n
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Contact Information<\/h3>\n

166 IAMM,
\n2641 Osprey Vista Way,
\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2100<\/p>\n

Phone<\/b>
\n865-974-5319<\/p>\n

Email<\/b>
\ngduscher@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Research Areas<\/h3>\n
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  • Electrical activity at interfaces and crystal defects<\/li>\n
  • Atomic and electronic structure at interfaces<\/li>\n
  • Atomic resolution Z-contrast imaging<\/li>\n
  • Atomic resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy<\/li>\n
  • Atomic structure calculations with density functional theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    Biography<\/h2>\n

    Gerd Duscher earned his master\u2019s degree (Diplom) in Physics from the University of Regensburg, Germany in 1990, and his Dr. Sci. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Stuttgart in 1996. His dissertation research was performed at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, where he held a Fellowship. He used analytic TEM methods at both his masters and his doctoral research to investigate the reslationship between the atomic structure\u00a0 and macroscopic properties. In his dissertation research he studied the influence of oxide precipitates on the electrical activity of grain boundaries in silicon. In 1997, Duscher joined the group of Steve Pennycook in the Solid State Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate where he studied grain boundaries in oxides. In 1998, Duscher was a staff member of the Max-Planck Institute and in 1999 he accepted a position as a Research Assistant Professor for Theoretical Physics with Sokrates Pantelides at Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 There he taught Quantum Mechanics II and advanced the simulation of Energy Loss Near Edge Structure in Electron Energy Loss Spectra. In 2001 Duscher joined the faculty at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, and in 2006 he became the director of the Silicon Wafer Engineering and Defect Science a NSF IUCRC center. In 2008 Duscher joined the faculty at The University of Tennessee . He\u00a0 has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers\u00a0 and has contributed to over 50 (25 invited) technical presentations at national and international conferences.<\/p>\n

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    Education<\/h3>\n
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    • PhD, Stuttgart
      \nInterfaces in Electronic and Structural Materials, Analytic Transmission Electron Microscopy<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Professional Service<\/h3>\n
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      • Member: Materials Research Society (MRS)\u00a0, Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Elektronenmikroskopie (DGE) Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG) \u00a0, American Physical Society (APS)<\/li>\n
      • Faculty Advisor for MRS student chapter at NCSU<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for TMS\/ACERS Spring Meeting 2006, Symposium: Interfaces in Oxides<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for MRS Spring Meeting 2005, Symposium R: Magnetic Nanostructures<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for APS (FIAP) Meeting 2005: Gate Stacks<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for EMSA Meeting 2003: EELS with an Aberration Corrected TEM<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for APS (FIAP) Meeting 2003: Nanostructured Interfaces<\/li>\n
      • Symposium Organizer for MRS Spring Meeting 2002, Symposium R: Nanostructured Interfaces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Awards & Recognitions<\/h3>\n
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        • 2011 Research Fellow Award UT College of Engineering<\/li>\n
        • 2008 George H. Bessis Outstanding Undergraduate Advisor Award, NCSU<\/li>\n
        • 2004\u00a0Nano Technology Industrial Impact Award<\/li>\n
        • 2001\u00a0R.F. Bushaah Award (best paper at international AVS meeting)<\/li>\n
        • 1995\u00a0Early promotion to Research Scientist<\/li>\n
        • 1993\u00a0Research Fellowship of the Max-Planck-Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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          Research Publications<\/h2>\n
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          1. Liu, F., and\u00a0G. Duscher<\/strong>, Chemical Composition Changes Across the Interface of Amorphous LaScO3 on Si (001) , Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, Art. No. 152901, 2007<\/li>\n
          2. Zhao, W,\u00a0G. Duscher<\/strong>, M.A. Zikry, S. Chopra, M.C. Ozturk, and G. Rozgonyi Correlation of Strain in a TEM sample and in Bulk for a Recessed SiGe CMOS Test Structure,\u00a0 Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, Art. No. 191907, 2007<\/li>\n
          3. Rhuo, S. V.,\u00a0G. Duscher<\/strong>, and D. A. Bonnell: Low-Temperature Resistance Anomaly at SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries: Evidence for an Interface-Induced Phase Transition, Phys. Rev. Lett., 95: Art. No. 197601, 2005<\/li>\n
          4. Duscher, G<\/strong>., M. F. Chisholm, U. Alber, and M. Ruhle: Bismuth Induced Embrittlement of Copper Grain Boundaries, Nature Materials, 3: 621-626, 2004<\/li>\n
          5. Kim M.,\u00a0G. Duscher<\/strong>, R. F. Klier, N. D. Browning, S. J. Pennycook, K. Sohlberg and S. T. Pantelides: Non-Stoichiometry and Electrical Activity of Grain Boundary in SrTiO3, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86: 4056-4059, 2001<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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