Fundamental understanding of ion-solid interaction and radiation effects in ceramics and reactor materials, interfacial and nanostructure evolution of semiconductors, radiation detector materials, and development and application of multi-scale computer simulation for materials modeling.
Multi-scale computer simulations of microstructure evolution of solids under irradiation employing various computational methods, including density functional theory (DFT), ab initio molecular dynamics, time-dependent DFT, and tight-binding calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, long-time dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, and cluster dynamics.
Degradation of spent nuclear fuel canisters
Swift heavy ion damage in materials
Ceramics for nuclear waste forms, fuels and fusion reactor applications
Radiation response and signal generation in detector materials
