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Rick Vinci  

Lehigh University

Dr. Richard P. Vinci is a Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Nano- and Micro-Mechanical Behavior Laboratory at Lehigh University. His research focuses on the processing and properties of thin films and small-scale metal structures, with an emphasis on mechanical behavior. He received a PhD in Materials Science from Stanford University in 1990. He received an NSF CAREER Award for a fundamental experimental study of fatigue behavior in free-standing metal thin films for small-scale structures. Other active areas of research include strengthening mechanisms in platinum and gold thin films for microelectronics and MEMS, mechanical behavior of lead-free solder materials, stress relaxation mechanisms in nano-scale thin metal films, and processing of sapphire substrates for improved growth of III-V optical materials.

 


 


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