| Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Jiamian Hu Professor of Materials Science & Engineering |
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Research area Materials microstructure modeling, integrated materials and device modeling.
What excites you about your work?
“I create new computer models to design materials and devices. In materials science and engineering, we care about the structural patterns inside the material, at a level you can see through a microscope–the microstructure. At the device level, we’re looking at the geometry and larger-scale architecture formed by the materials. Now, we have a great opportunity to co-design materials and devices. When we design devices, we consider the influence of materials microstructures, making device modeling more accurate and discovering new functionality through the creation and control of interfaces between monolithic materials components. I’m really excited about pursuing such materials and device co-design for optimizing materials properties and device functionalities, discovering new fundamental science phenomena, and exploring new device applications.”
What do you hope to achieve?
“I want to use computer models to create disruptive solutions to important science and engineering problems. For example, with WARF, we created a new solution to generate a narrowband terahertz pulse, which has a frequency sitting between microwave and optical domains and is useful in many applications, particularly security and medical imaging. The energy of terahertz photon is lower than visible light, so it is safe on people, and it can penetrate packaging materials just like an X-ray. It’s also spectrally sensitive, so you can identify chemicals. This technology will eventually be really helpful.”
Professor Hu is a dedicated researcher and inventor. We are excited to partner with industry to commercialize his materials technologies.
– Michael Carey, WARF, Licensing Manager
Want to learn more?
Michael Carey, [email protected], 608.960.9867