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Professor David E. Laughlin
ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy
Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Department
Editor, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Roberts Engineering Hall 236
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Email:
Phone: (412) 268-2706
FAX: (412) 268-3113
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Biography
David Laughlin is the ALCOA Professor of Physical Metallurgy, a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and also has an courtesy appointment on the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of CMU. He is also the Editor, Metallurgical and Materials Transaction. David is a graduate of Drexel University (1969) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973). He is the recipient of the G. T. Ladd Teaching Award (1975) and the B. R. Teare Award for Excellence in Engineering Education (1999). He
is a co-recipient of the outstanding research award in 2003 in the college of Engineering. He has authored more than 400 technical publications in the field of phase transformations, physical metallurgy and magnetic materials, and has coedited five books.
Research Interests
The research interests of David E. Laughlin have centered on the investigation of phase transformations and the structure of materials by means of transmission electron microscopy. He has studied spinodal decomposition and ordering processes in several aluminum, copper and nickel based alloys as well as in III-V compounds by detailed analysis of their microstructure as well as electron diffraction patterns. Since 1986 he has been investigating the magnetic properties and microstructure of soft magnets (HITPERM), hard magnets (FePt and CoPt) and magnetic thin films for recording media and heads.
Recent Publications
“Transmission electron microscopy study of large field induced antiostropy (Co1-xFex)(89)Zr7B4 nanocomposite ribbons with dilute Fe-contents,”
P.R. Ohodnicki, Jr., Y.L. Qin, M.E. McHenry, D.E. Laughlin, V. Keylin, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (2010)
“On the Relation Between Oxide Ridge Evolution and Alloy Surface Grain Boundary Disorientation in Fe-22 wt% Cr Alloys,”
J. Zhu, L.M. Fernandez Diaz, G.R. Holcomb, P.D. Jablonski, C.J. Cowen, D.E. Laughlin, D. Alman, and S. Sridhar, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, (2010)
“Characterization of Oxide Materials for Exchange Decoupling in Perpendicular Thin Film Media,”
V.M. Sokalski, J-G. Zhu, Fellow, IEEE, and D.E. Laughlin, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, (2010)
“Co-7% Ir Soft Magnetic Intermediate Layer for Perpendicular Media,” S. Park, D.E. Laughlin, and J-G. Zhu, Fellow, IEEE, IEEE Transaction of Magnetics, (2010)
“Buffer Layers of Highly Ordered L1_0 FePt-Oxide Thin Film Granular Media at Reduced Processing Temperature,” E. Yang and D.E. Laughlin, IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, (2010)
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