Tianxiang Du

PhD Student, Materials Science and Engineering

Bio

Tianxiang Du is a PhD student in Material Science and Engineering Department and also a member of DSSC. He got an undergraduate degree in Material Science and Engineering in Shandong University, China and a master degree in Material Science and Engineering in CMU. He has a solid background in thin film fabrication and material characterization as well as experience in COMSOL Multiphysics simulation.

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Research

Tianxiang’s research interests lie in the Near Field Transducer material design in Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording. He is currently doing research on durable plasmonic material design to increase the thermal stability of NFT. Some material characterization techniques such as XRD and TEM are used to characterize the property of plasmonic thin films. Experiment results are combined with COMSOL simulation results to better study the optical property of fabricated thin films.

Publications

Tianxiang Du, B.S.D.C.S. Varaprasad, Zhitao Guo, Andrew J. Gellman, Jian-Gang Zhu, David E. Laughlin, TEMbased study of oxidation of FeCo high moment alloy at elevated temperatures, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 539 (2021), Article 168347, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168347