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People Judith C. Yang

Associate Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
BP America Faculty Fellow

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Phone: 412-624-8613
Fax: 412-624-8069
Office: BENDM 837

Website: Thin Film Oxidation (TFOx) Simulation Software

Education

PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell, 1993.

Professional Interests

Professor Yang's research interests include gas-metal reactions, oxidation, high temperature corrosion, surface chemistry and physics, interfaces, catalysis, nanoparticles and nanostructured materials, as well as the use and development of advanced electron microscopy techniques, such as in situ, Z-contrast, and EELS. Her current focused research topic is the fundamental kinetics of surface oxidation reactions of metallic systems by in situ high vacuum controlled environment electron microscopy. Another area of interest is the determination of the supported structure of nanoparticles, that are used in heterogeneous catalysis, by Z-contrast, EDS and HREM.

Selected Publications

*G. W. Zhou and J. C. Yang, "Formation of Quasi One-Dimensional Cu2O Structures by Oxidation of Cu(100)", Physical Review Letters, accepted in 2002.

*J. C. Yang, D. Evan and L. Tropia, "The Nucleation to Coalescence Behavior of Cu2O Islands Due to In situ Oxidation of Cu(001)", Applied Physics Letters, (2002), 81, p. 241-3.

*M. D. Bharadwaj and J. C. Yang, "The Reduction of Cu2O by Water Vapor", Scripta Materialia (2001), 44, p.2557-2561.

*A. Kuznetsova, G. Zhou, X. Chen, J. Yang, J. T. Yates, Jr., "Making a Superior Oxide Corrosion Passivation Layer on Al Using Ozone", Langmuir, (2001), 17, p. 2146-2152.

J. C. Yang, M. Yeadon, B. Kolasa and J. M. Gibson, "Self-limiting Oxidation of Copper", Applied Physics Letters, 73 (19) p.2841-2843, 9 November 1998.

J. C. Yang, M. Yeadon, B. Kolasa and J. M. Gibson, "Homogeneous Nucleation of Cu2O on Cu(001)", Scripta Materialia, 38 (8) (1998), p. 1237-1242.

J. C. Yang, E. Schumann, I. Levin and M. Rühle, "Transient Oxidation Stages of NiAl", Acta Materialia, (1997) 46 (6), p. 2195-2201.

J. C. Yang, M. Yeadon, B. Kolasa and J. M. Gibson, "Oxygen Surface Diffusion for 3-Dimensional Cu2O Growth on Cu(001) Thin Films", Applied Physics Letters, 70 (26) 30 June 1997, p.3522-4.

A. Singhal, J. C. Yang and J. M. Gibson, "STEM-based Mass Spectroscopy of Supported Re Clusters", Ultramicroscopy, 67 (1997), p.191-206.

J. C. Yang, E. Schumann, H. Müllejans and M. Rühle, "Chemistry and Bonding Investigations of NiAl/γ-Al2O3 Interfaces", Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 29 (1996), p.1716-1724.

E. Schumann, J. C. Yang, M. Rühle and M. Graham, "High Resolution SIMS and Analytical TEM Evaluation of Alumina Scales on β-NiAl Containing Zr or Y", Oxidation of Metals, 46 (1/2) (1996), p.37

Curriculum Vitae

Professor Judith C. Yang joined the faculty in January 1999. She received her PhD in Physics from Cornell University in October, 1993. She was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Metallforschung in Stuttgart, Germany for nearly two years. Afterwards, she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer at the Materials Research Laboratory at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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