Materials Science Division

Actinides and Lanthanide Science Group

We are dedicated to closing knowledge gaps in actinide and lanthanide research while delivering technology for the national interest.

Vision: Develop and deploy next-generation materials for emerging technologies.

Mission: Developing advanced actinide- and lanthanide-containing materials and understanding their properties to address national, environmental, and economic security.

We address our mission space through:

  • Computational thermodynamics and kinetics
  • Material synthesis
  • Advanced characterization
  • Optimization of material properties

In the news

Our capabilities

Our capabilities include:

  • Expertise working with toxic, radioactive, and flammable materials
  • Production of flowable custom metal, alloy, and ceramic powders
  • Advanced manufacturing of functional materials
  • Surface science expertise
  • Thermophysical characterization, including magnetic properties
  • Phase stable, high purity, controlled doping
  • Production of functionally graded and spatially structured transparent ceramic scintillators and laser gain media via additive manufacturing
  • High-performance computing for materials design
  • Design of optimal alloys through the development of The Alloy Optimization Software (TAOS)
  • CALPHAD database and software development for thermodynamics and microstructure evolution

Our team

Leadership

Perron, Aurelien Pierre Philippe
Cherepy, Nerine J.
Moore, Emily Elaine
Emily Moore

Group members

Amon, Alfred
Alfred Amon
Barnett, Annie
Annie Barnett
Bocklund, Brandon Joseph
Clarke, Evan Michael
Evan Clarke
Elder, Kate Lauren Maud
Kate Elder
Gonzales, Adrian Rios
Adrian Gonzales
Harris, Sharee Lynae
Sharee Harris
Huang, Kevin
Kevin Huang
Kostogiannes, Alexandros Anthony
Alexandros Kostogiannes
Lim, Rachel Elizabeth
Rachel Lim
Long, Olivia Grace
Olivia Long
Mccall, Scott K.
Mirkarimi, Paul B.
Paul Mirkarimi
Osborne, Ross Allen
Ross Osborne
Peters, Scott Michael
Scott Peters
Phillips, Ian Robert
Ian Phillips
Rubink, William Shen-Jeh
William Rubink
Rudzik, Thomas John
Thomas Rudzik
Sanner, Bob
Bob Sanner
Seeley, Zachary
Siekhaus, Wigbert J.
Wigbert Siekhaus
Smith, Harry Thomas
Harry Smith
Stillwell, Ryan
Ury, Nicholas Eugene DuyKhang
Nicholas Ury
Winston, Logan David
Logan Winston

Our publications

All-ceramic channel waveguides fabricated via 3D printing

Optics Letters, 2026

R. Osborne, J. Zhang, M. Dubinskii, N. Cherepy, S. Payne

Controlling homogenization length scales and microstructure in additively manufactured Ti-Ta functionally graded materials

Materials & Design, 2026

B. Ellyson, B. Bocklund, J. Glerum, N. Ury, M. Juhasz, R. Seede, A. Perron, K. Bertsch

Critical Review of Brazil Disk Techniques for Tensile Strength Characterization With an Emphasis on High Explosive Materials

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2026

P. B. Mirkarimi

Deposition of very thick Mo/Al multilayer films using magnetron sputtering

Thin Solid Films, 2026

P. B. Mirkarimi, R. Flores, W. L. York, D. B. Bober

Early-stage uranium-hydrogen corrosion kinetics and mechanism

npj Materials Degradation, 2026

J. Shittu, W. Siekhaus, T.-C. Sun, Y. Idell, B. Childs, J. Boro, A. Loui, M. Bagge-Hansen, S. Donald, J. McKeown, K. Blobaum, A. Saab, and W. McLean II

Focused ion beam milling of polycrystalline diamond

Diamond and Related Materials,2026

S.J. Shin, L.B. Aji, E.J. Kim, D.C. Goodelman, J.B. Forien, S.O. Kucheyev

Low-energy ion beam sputtering of polycrystalline diamond

Journal of Applied Physics, 2026

L.B. Bayu Aji, D.C. Goodelman, E. Kim, J.B. Forien, S.O. Kucheyev, S.J. Shin

Oxygen Effects and Selective Oxidation of Group IV Alloying Additions in Group V-Based Refractory Multi-principal Element Alloys

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2026

B. Ellyson, B. Bocklund, K. Elder, S. Atabay, C.J. Rietema, A. Baker, A. Perron, T. Voisin, J.T. McKeown

Texture development in magnetostrictive Fe-Ga alloys processed by laser powder bed fusion

Materials & Design, 2026

A. Amon, E. Kim, A. E. Wilson-Heid, M. T. Islam, A. A. Martin, S. K. McCall, A. A. Baker

The pathfinder X-Ray axion telescope for the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and axion searches at the CERN Axion Solar Telescope (CAST)

JINST, 2026

M.J. Pivovaroff, J. Ruz, J.K. Vogel, N. Brejnholt, B. Budau, V. Burwitz, F.E. Christensen, T. Decker, C.J. Hailey, R. Hill, G. Hartner, A. Jakobsen and R. Soufli

Ultrasound Characterization of Plastic Bonded Explosives With Varied Binder Content and Density

Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, 2026

J. S. Lum, P. B. Mirkarimi, E. L. Robertson, M. Lynch, P. Martinez, J. W. Tringe, K. T. Sullivan

Alloy design for additive manufacturing: Continuously reinforced Al-Ce nanocomposites

Materials & Design, 2025

A. Amon, G.E. Bean, J.B. Forien, T. Voisin, J.A. Hammons, E.E. Moore, E. Simsek, J. Shittu, K.S. Shanks, K.E. Nygren, A. Perron, R. Ott, S.K. McCall, H.B. Henderson

Analysis of correlations between intrinsic ductility and electronic density of states in refractory alloys

Scripta Materialia, 2025

A. Samanta, M. Widom, J. Berry, A. Perron, J. McKeown

Analytical gradient-based optimization of CALPHAD model parameters

Acta Materialia, 2025

C. Kunselman, B. Bocklund, R.Otis, R. Arróyave

Chloride Molten Salt Electrolysis Enables Integrated and Energy-Efficient Process for NdFeB Magnet Fabrication

JOM, 2025

B.P. Holcombe, A. Villalobos, N.S. Sinclair, E.L. Lantz, D.R. Hoffman, E. Kim, A.A. Baker, J. Cui, B.Z. Cui, A.E. Long, R. Akolkar

Combinatorial Deposition of Ultrathick Ta-W-Au-Bi High-Entropy Alloys for Next-Generation Hohlraums by Direct-Current Magnetron Sputtering

Fusion Science and Technology, 2025

D.C. Goodelman, A.M. Engwall-Holmes, G.V. Taylor, B.J. Bocklund, D.J. Strozzi, S.J. Shin, E. Kim, N. Vishnoi, S.O. Kucheyev, L.B. Bayu Aji

Composite as a Cathode for Lithium-Ion Batteries

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025

E. Kim, A.G. Tovar, E.P. Ramos, J.D. Roehling, S.M. Hoover, N.E. Surghani, H.B. Radousky, J.S. Curtis, J. Ye, A.A. Baker

Critical minerals lists for low-carbon transitions: Reviewing their structure, objectives, and limitations

Energy Research & Social Science, 2025

R. Deberdt, N. M. Smith, J. L. Calderon, S. K. McCall

Electrochemical Recovery of Iron from Spent Pickle Liquor by Chloride-Based Molten Salt Electrolysis

ECS Advances, 2025

A. Badalbayli, N. Sinclair, E. Kim, A.A. Baker, R. Akolkar

First principles free energy model with dynamic magnetism for δ-plutonium

Reports on Progress in Physics, 2025

P. Söderlind, A. Landa, L.X. Benedict, N. Goldman, R.Q. Hood, K.E. Kweon, E.E. Moore, A. Perron, B. Sadigh, C.J. Wu, L.H. Yang

FLEX: a 2-9 MeV linac for x-ray detector and x-ray inspection development

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVII, 2025

A. Diego, P. Carriere, R. Berry, R. Foster, N. J. Cherepy, D. Schneberk, C. McNamee, J. Caffrey, H. Zhang

Growth and structure of alpha-Ta films for quantum circuit integration

Journal of Applied Physics, 2025

L.D. Alegria, A. Abelson, E. Kim, S. Im, P.M. Voyles, V. Lordi, J.L. DuBois, Y.J. Rosen

High-rate deposition of ultrathick bismuth films by direct-current magnetron sputtering

Vacuum, 2025

D.C. Goodelman, G.V. Taylor, E. Kim, M.J. Stafford, D.X. Qu, A. Pendse, S.J. Shin, S.O. Kucheyev, L.B. Aji

Homogenization of Dendritic Structures and the High-Temperature Strength of the Refractory High-Entropy Alloy MoNbTaVW

Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2025

C.J. Rietema, K.L. Elder, B. Ellyson, J. Shittu, A.A. Baker, Z.C. Sims, H.B. Henderson, T. Voisin, A.P. Perron, S.K. McCall, J.T. McKeown

Ink-sprayed transparent ceramic multilayer planar waveguides for ribbon lasers

Optics Letters, 2025

R. Osborne, N. Cherepy, R. Gaume, J. Boro, S. Payne

Investigation of In Situ and Ex Situ Passivation of Pyrophoric Uranium–Niobium Alloy Powder

Appl. Sci., 2025

E. M. Clarke, H. B. Henderson, E. S. Elton, T. T. Li, L. D. Winston, I. R. Crystal, O. G. Long, S. L. Harris, R. L. Stillwell, J. R. Jeffries, J. D. Kuntz, K. Huang

Mobility assessment of the BCC and carbide phases in the C-Nb, CU and Nb-U systems

Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2025

N. Ury, K. Kweon, J. Shittu, A.P. Perron, B.C. Childs, E.E. Moore

Molten salt electrolysis in chloride melts for energy-efficient iron metal production (Editors’ choice)

Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 2025

A. Badalbayli, N. Sinclair, E. Kim, A.A. Baker, R. Akolkar

Opportunities for Cerium valorization in the Rare Earth supply chain

In TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, 2025

A. Amon, S. K. McCall

Optimization and scale-up of additively manufactured pixelated transparent ceramic scintillator detector arrays for MeV x-ray imaging

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVII, 2025

A.A. Kostogiannes, D.J. Schneberk, N.J. Cherepy, P. Kerr, C.J. McNamee, R.A. Osborne, S.A. Payne

Plasma Focused Ion Beam Milling of High-Aspect-Ratio Holes in Diamond

Fusion Science and Technology, 2025

S.J. Shin, J.B. Forien, D.C. Goodelman, L.B. Bayu Aji, E. Kim, S.O. Kucheyev

Properties of Ti4+ Li-Garnet Ceramic Scintillator

2025 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS), Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) and Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Conference (RTSD), 2025

J. Glodo, A.A. Kostogiannes, T.J. Rudzik, W.S. Rubink, N.J. Cherepy, S.A. Payne, Y. Wang, M. Muller

The Ce-Fe-Ti system: Phase equilibria in the Fe-rich corner at 1000 C

Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion, 2025

E. Kim, A. E. Wilson-Heid, J. Boro, A. A. Baker, A. N. Lee, M. Kunz, A. Amon

Sputter deposition of ultrathick Bi coatings onto rotating substrates for inertial confinement fusion

Vacuum, 2025

D.C. Goodelman, A.M. Engwall-Holmes, G.V. Taylor, E. Kim, J.B. Merlo, N. Vishnoi, S.J. Shin, R.J. Vargas, S.O. Kucheyev, L.B. Aji

Unravelling Microstructure Selection in an Additively Manufactured Eutectic High‐Entropy Alloy

Advanced Materials, 2025

Zhang S., Li C., Mooraj S., Lai Y., Patel R.S,. Wu M., Zhang Y., Ren J., Guan S., Perron A., Yan W., McKeown J.T., Xie K.Y., Voisin T., Chen W., Chen W.

A comparative study of predicting high entropy alloy phase fractions with traditional machine learning and deep neural networks

npj Computational Materials, 2024

S. Liu, B. Bocklund, J. Diffenderfer, S. Chaganti, B. Kailkhura, S. K. McCall, B. Gallagher, A. Perron, J. T. McKeown

Additively manufactured β-Ti5553 with laser powder bed fusion: Microstructures and mechanical properties of bulk and lattice parts

Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2024

M. Wu, M. Linne, J.B. Forien, N.R. Barton, J. Ye, K. Hazeli, A. Perron, K. Bertsch, Y.M. Wang, T. Voisin

Additively manufactured Ni-20Cr to V functionally graded material: Computational predictions and experimental verification of phase formations

J. Alloys. Comp., 2024

B. Tonyali, H. Sun, B. Bocklund, J. P. Borgonia, R. A. Otis, S.-L. Shang, Z.-K. Liu, A. M. Beese

Aluminothermic reduction of CeO2: mechanism of an economical route to aluminum–cerium alloys

Mater Horiz, 2024

A. Amon , E.E. Moore , H.B. Henderson , J. Shittu , M. Kunz , S. Kastamo , N. Huotari , A. Loukus , R. Ott, D. Weiss, and S.K. McCall

Analytically differentiable metrics for phase stability

Calphad, 2024

C. Kunselman, B. Bocklund, A. van de Walle, R. Otis, R. Arróyave

Automated path planning for functionally graded materials considering phase stability and solidification behavior: Application to the Mo-Nb-Ta-Ti system

Comp. Mat. Sci., 2024

N. Ury, B. Bocklund, A. Perron, K. M. Bertsch

Bismuth-loaded plastic scintillators

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVI, 2024

S.P. O’Neal, N. Cherepy, S. Hok, S. Payne, C. Hurlbut

Cross-quality few-shot transfer for alloy yield strength prediction: a new materials science benchmark and a sparsity-oriented optimization framework

Conference on Parsimony and Learning, 2024

X. Chen, T. Chen, E.Y. Olivares, K. Elder, S. McCall, A. Perron, J. McKeown, B. Kailkhura, Z. Wang, B. Gallagher

Deposition of ultrathick heavy-metal alloys on rotating substrates by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering: Target erosion effects

J. Appl. Phys, 2024

S. J. Shin, J. H. Bae, A. M. Engwall, L. B. Bayu Aji, A. A. Baker, G. V. Taylor, J. B. Merlo, L. R. Sohngen, J. D. Moody, and S. O. Kucheyev

Effects of growth rate and dynamic substrate tilt on properties of Au-Ta alloy films deposited by high-power impulse magnetron sputtering

Surface and Coatings Technology, 2024

E. Kim, A.M. Engwall, J.B. Merlo, S.J. Shin, D.C. Goodelman, A.A. Baker, G.V. Taylor, S.O. Kucheyev, L.B. Bayu Aji

Electrolysis in Chloride Molten Salts for Sustainable Critical Metals Production and Recovery

ECS Interface, 2024

B. Holcombe, N. Sinclair, A. A. Baker, E. Kim, S. K. McCall, R. Akolkar

ESPEI for Efficient Thermodynamic Database Development, Modification, and Uncertainty Quantification: Application to Cu–Mg

Zentropy, 2024

B. Bocklund, R. Otis, A. Egorov, A. Obaied, I. Roslyakova, Z.K. Liu

Hot-Roll Fabrication of Anisotropic Nanograin Nd-Fe-B Magnet

JOM, 2024

C. Pan, G. Ouyang, W. Tang, X Liu, R. Ott, I. Nlebedim, E. Kim, S. K. McCall, A. A. Baker and J. Cui

Implementation of an extensible property modeling framework in ESPEI with applications to molar volume and elastic stiffness models

Calphad, 2024

B. Bocklund, A. Perron, J. T. McKeown, K. M. Bertsch

Influence of atomic ordering and cerium doping on magnetostrictive Fe-Al alloys

J Magn Magn Mater, 2024

A. Amon , A. A. Baker , J. Shittu , E. E. Moore , E. Kim , C. Rietema , H. B. Henderson , A.M. M. Abeykoon , S. K. McCall

MaterialsMap: A CALPHAD-based tool to design composition pathways through feasibility map for desired dissimilar materials, demonstrated with resistance spot welding joining of Ag-Al-Cu

Materialia, 2024

H. Sun, B. Pan, Z. Yang, A. M. Krajewski, B. Bocklund, S.-L. Shang, J. Li, A. M. Beese, Z.-K. Liu

Microstructural, phase, and thermophysical stability of CrMoNbV refractory multi-principal element alloys

J. Alloys. Comp., 2024

J. Shittu, C. J. Rietema, M. Juhasz, B. Ellyson, K. L. M Elder, B. J. Bocklund, Z. C. Sims, T. T. Li, H. B. Henderson, J. Berry, A. Samanta, T. Voisin, A. A. Baker, S. K. McCall, A. P. Perron, J. T. McKeown

Nd3+→ Cr4+ energy transfer in co-doped Nd,Cr:Y3Al5O12 garnet transparent ceramics

Optical Materials: X, 2024

I.R. Phillips, R.A. Osborne, N.J. Cherepy, A.D. Drobshoff, Z.M. Seeley, W.F. Krupke, S.A. Payne

Phosphor Ceramic Composite for Tunable Warm White Light

Materials, 2024

R. A. Osborne, N. J. Cherepy, P. S. Bleier, R. M. Gaume, and S. A. Payne

Preparation of monodisperse cerium oxide particle suspensions from a tetravalent precursor

Dalton Transactions, 2024

A.M. Hastings, S. Herrera, S. Harris, T. Parsons-Davis, A.J. Pascall, J.A. Shusterman

Processing and microstructure of a Cu-Al-Fe-Mn alloy via droplet-on-demand additive manufacturing

Materials & Design, 2024

K.D. Traxel, E.S. Elton, A.M. Petersen, C.M. Silva, A. Perron, J.R. Jeffries, A.J. Pascall

Self Q-switched Nd, Cr:YAG transparent ceramics

Proc. SPIE, 2024

R. A. Osborne, A. D. Drobshoff, N. J. Cherepy, R. J. Beach, and S. A. Payne

Sustainable and energy-efficient production of rare-earth metals via chloride-based molten salt electrolysis

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2024

B. Holcombe, N. Sinclair, R. Wasalathanthri, B. Mainali, E. Guarr, A.A. Baker, S.O. Usman, E. Kim, S. Sen-Britain, H. Jin, S.K. McCall

Thermodynamics and Magnetism of SmFe12 Compound Doped with Zr, Ce, Co and Ni: An Ab Initio Study

Metals, 2024

A. Landa, P. Söderlind, E.E. Moore, A. Perron

Transparent ceramic scintillators

Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XXVI, 2024

N. Cherepy

Workshop on Radiographic Imaging and Applications Research and Development Recommendations for Field Radiography

ORNL/SPR, 2024

D. Nicholson, P. Hausladen, S. Baker, R. Cao, G. Carini, N. Cherepy, C. Clemett, T. Crane, P. Feng, L. Fabris, C. Geddes, M. G. Kanatzidis, B. Kernen, P. Kerr, A. Leatherland, E.A. Miller, B. Quiter

A comparative study of Kim-Kim-Suzuki (KKS), Partition Coefficient Relaxation (PCR), and Finite Interface Dissipation (FID) phase field models for rapid solidification

Add. Manu.

X. Huang, J. Berry, A. Perron, R. Arróyave

Binder-free cold spray deposition of NdFeB permanent magnets

MRS Comm.

A.A. Baker, R.C. Thuss, A.A. Maich, S.K. McCall, and H.B. Radousky

Computational discovery of ultra-strong, stable, and lightweight refractory multi-principal element alloys. Part I: design principles and rapid down-selection

npj Comp. Mat.

K.L. M. Elder, J. Berry, B. Bocklund, S.K. McCall, A. Perron, and J.T. McKeown

Computational discovery of ultra-strong, stable, and lightweight refractory multi-principal element alloys. Part II: comprehensive ternary design and validation

npj Comp. Mat.

K.L. M. Elder, J. Berry, A. Perron, B. Bocklund, J. Shittu, C.J. Rietema, H.B. Henderson, S.K. McCall, and J.T. McKeown

Enhanced magnetostriction through dilute Ce doping of Fe-Ga

Phys. Rev. Materials

A.A. Baker, A. Amon, E.E. Moore, H.B. Henderson, J. Shittu, C.J. Rietema, A. Perron, and S.K. McCall

Fabrication of engineered dopant profiles in Er/Lu:YAG transparent laser ceramics via additive manufacturing

Optical Materials Express

R.A. Osborne, T.J. Wineger, T.D. Yee, N.J. Cherepy, Z.M. Seeley, R. Gaume, M. Dubinskii, and S.A. Payne

High fidelity model of directed energy deposition: Laser-powder-melt pool interaction and effect of laser beam profile on solidification microstructure

Add. Manu.

S.A. Khairallah, E.B. Chin, M.J. Juhasz, A.L. Dayton, A. Capps, P.H. Tsuji, K.M. Bertsch, A. Perron, S.K. Mccall, J.T. Mckeown

High-Resolution X-ray Spectromicroscopy Reveals Process-Structure Correlations in sub-5-μm Diameter Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite Dry-Spun Yarns

ACS Nano

E.R. Meshot, A. Baker, D. Malone, S. Hayes, H. Hamza, C. Wang, M.A. Marcus, and X. Lepró*

High-Temperature Thermodynamics of Uranium from Ab Initio Modeling

Appl. Sci.

P. Söderlind, A. Landa, E.E. Moore, A. Perron, J. Roehling, and J.T. McKeown

Kinetic Control via Binding Sites within the Confined Space of Metal Metalloporphyrin-Frameworks for Enhanced Shape-Selectivity Catalysis

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

W. Zhang, Z. Lu, L. Wojtas, Y.-S. Chen, A.A. Baker, Y.-S. Liu, A.M. Al-Enizi, A. Nafady, and S. Ma

Multi-mode analysis of surface losses in a superconducting microwave resonator in high magnetic fields

Rev. Sci. Instrum.

T. Braine, G. Rybka, A. A. Baker, J. Brodsky, G. Carosi, N. Du, N. Woollett, S. Knirck, M. Jones, ADMX Collaboration

Performance scaling with an applied magnetic field in indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion implosions

Physics of Plasmas

H. Sio et al.

Probing phase stability in CrMoNbV using cluster expansion method, CALPHAD calculations and experiments

Acta Materialia

S. Zhu, J. Shittu, A. Perron, C. Nataraj, J. Berry, J.T. McKeown, A. van de Walle, A. Samanta

Probing strongly exchange coupled magnetic behaviors in soft/hard Ni/CoFe2O4 core/shell nanoparticles

Nanoscale

J.K. Han, A.A. Baker, J.R.I. Lee, and S.K. McCall

Spheroidization of Nd-Fe-B Particles

J. Appl. Phys

E. Kim, A. A. Baker, J. K. Han, S. K. McCall

Strength mechanisms and tunability in Al-Ce-Mg ternary alloys enabled by additive manufacturing

Materials & Design

S. Nam, E. Simsek, N. Argibay, O. Rios, H.B. Henderson, D. Weiss, E.E. Moore, A.P. Perron, S.K. McCall, R.T. Ott

Structural and magnetic properties of magnetostrictive Fe-Ga-Zr nanocrystalline alloy

Journal of Alloys and Compounds

M.T. Islam, D. Nandwana, J. Healy, J.K. Jaklich, B. Dong, A. Yu, E.E. Moore, Y. Ijiri, S.K. McCall, M.A. Willard

Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Production of Rare-Earth Metals via Chloride-Based Molten Salt Electrolysis

ACS Sus. Chem. Energy

B. Holcombe, N. Sinclair, R. Wasalathanthri, B. Mainali, E. Guarr, A. A. Baker, S. O. Usman, E. Kim, S. Sen-Britain, H. Jin, S. K. McCall, and R. Akolkar

The hydride-dehydride process combined with plasma spheroidization: An alternative route for producing spherical metallic powders of U-6 wt.% Nb

Adv. Powder Tech.

K. Huang, E.S. Elton, H.B. Henderson, N.K. Harward, E.M. Clarke, L.D. Winston, E.M. Sedillo, D.L. Rosas, C.A. Schaeffer-Cuellar, S.A. Simpson, T.T. Li, N.E. Teslich, S.G. Torres, A.L. DeMint, J.A. Cook, J.T. McKeown, J.R. Jeffries, A.V. Hamza, R.L. Stillwell

The kinetics of the PuO2 to Pu2O3 conversion

J. Chem. Phys

L. N. Dinh, S. B. Donald, J. A. Stanford, C. K. Saw, R. Gollott, J. M. Haschke, W. McLean, II

Thermo4PFM: Facilitating Phase-field simulations of alloys with thermodynamic driving forces

Comp. Phys. Comm.

J.-L. Fattebert, S. DeWitt, A. Perron, J. Turner

Thermodynamic modeling of the Nb-Ni system with uncertainty quantification using PyCalphad and ESPEI

Calphad

H. Sun, S.-L. Shang, R. Gong, B.J. Bocklund, A.M. Beese, Z.-K. Liu

Thermodynamics of Liquid Immiscibility in Iron-Silicate Melt Systems: A Study of Nuclear Fallout Glass

Appl. Sci.
E.E. Moore, T.P. Genda, E. Balboni, Z. Dai, A. Perron, and K.B. Knight

Additively manufactured transparent ceramic thin disk gain medium

Optical Materials Express

T. J. Rudzik, Z. M. Seeley, A. D. Drobshoff, N. J. Cherepy, Y. Wang, S. P. Onorato, M. R. Squillante, and S. A. Payne

Beta Radiation Hardness of GYGAG(Ce) Transparent Ceramic Scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

J.T. Jarrell, N.J. Cherepy, Z.M. Seeley, J.W. Murphy, E.L. Swanberg, L.F. Voss, C.D. Frye, M.A. Stoyer, R.A. Henderson, S.P. O’Neal, R.J. Nikolic

Calcium vapor synthesis of extremely coercive SmCo5

RSC Advances

S.E. Baker, A.A. Baker, C.A. Orme, M.A. Worthington, T.T. Li, E.M. Sedillo, J. Dudoff, J.R. I. Lee, J.D. Kuntza, and S.K. McCall

Counter-ion effect on the diffusion behavior of Yb, Lu, and Nd ions in YAG transparent ceramics

Optical Materials: X

T.J. Rudzik, Z.M. Seeley, F.J. Ryerson, N.J. Cherepy, S.A. Payne

Large transparent ceramic garnet scintillator module

Proc. SPIE

N. J. Cherepy, S. P. O'Neal, R. A. Osborne, T. J. Wineger, Z. M. Seeley, C. J. McNamee, S. A. Payne, F. Liang, H. Brands, L. Hoy, J. Verity, A. Jackson, D. Hook, L. Ruthardt, W. Johnson, T. Zhang, T. Stefanik

3D printed ceramic laser gain media

Proc. SPIE

Z.M. Seeley, N. Cherepy, T. Rudzik, I. Phillips, A. Drobshoff, T. Yee, O. Herrera, F. Ryerson, T. Wineger, Y. Wang, M. Squillante, M. Dubinskiy, and S. Payne

Lens-coupled MeV x-radiography and CT with transparent ceramic GLO scintillators

Proc. SPIE

N. J. Cherepy, Z. M. Seeley, D. J. Schneberk, C. J. McNamee, C. I. Pincus, T. J. Rudzik, R. A. Osborne, I. R. Phillips, J. A. Nicolino, J. Hall, A. Townsend, S. A. Payne

Material jet printing of transparent ceramic Yb:YAG planar waveguides

Optics Letters

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3D printed transparent ceramic YAG laser rods: Matching the core-clad refractive index

Optical Materials

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Additive Manufacturing of Transparent Ceramic Laser Gain Media - Rods, Thin Disks, and Planar Waveguides

Laser Congress 2020

Z. M. Seeley, T. J. Rudzik, I. R. Phillips, T. D. Yee, N. J. Cherepy, A. D. Drobshoff, O. D. Herrera, F. J. Ryerson, and S. A. Payne

New red phosphor ceramic K2SiF6:Mn4+

Optical Materials

R.A. Osborne, N.J. Cherepy, Z.M. Seeley, S.A. Payne, A.D. Drobshoff, A.M. Srivastava, W.W. Beers, W.W. Cohen, D.L. Schlagel

Spectroscopic ellipsometry extraction of optical constants for materials from oxide covered samples: Application to the plutonium/oxides system

J. Appl. Phys.

L. N. Dinh, J. A. Stanford, C. K. Saw, A. J. Nelson, R. Gollott, J. M. Haschke, P. G. Allen, C. Gardner, C. Hrousis, W. J. Siekhaus, W. McLean, II