Carnegie Mellon University

Robert M. Suter

Emeritus Professor of Physics
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (Courtesy)

Condensed Matter Experiment
Wean Hall 7410

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Prof. Bob Suter

Education & Professional Experience

Ph.D.: Clark University (1978)

Professional Societies:
American Physical Society, AAAS, Materials Research Society, Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

 

Curriculum Vitae

Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996–
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering (Courtesy), 2006–
Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987–96
Visiting Scientist, Schlumberger-Doll Research, 1986
Visiting Scientist, IBM Research, 1985
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981–87
Post-doctoral Research: IBM T.J. Watsen Research Center, 1979–81

Research Interests

In collaboration with scientists at Sector 1 of the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron, we are developing a high energy x-ray diffraction microscope (HEDM). This new type of microscope allows for non-destructive mapping of internal microstructure components (crystalline grains and defect fields) in three dimensions inside polycrystalline and even polyphase materials. Being non-destructive, the technique makes it possible to watch the response of microstructures to thermal and/or mechanical treatment well away from the influence of surfaces. A wide range of applications are possible, including questions of basic science (grain growth or phase transformation dynamics) and of industrial interest (fatigue and cracking phenomena).

Both the measurements and the reconstruction of microstructures are challenging. My group at CMU has developed advanced computational techniques and software for generating the microscope output through analysis of hundreds of detector images of diffraction patterns. Computations are performed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and on a dedicated cluster in the Physics Department. Interpretation of obtained three dimensional data sets is aided by interaction with other participants in the CMU MRSEC.

I also run the Physics Department's x-ray scattering laboratory where measurements are carried out on a wide variety of materials systems including thin solid and fluid films and biologically relevant lipid membranes.

Recent Publications

A. Bhattacharya, K. Dayal, D. Kinderlehrer, S K. Naghibzadeh, X. Peng, G.S. Rohrer, R. M. Suter, Comparison of simulated and measured grain volume changes during grain growth, Phys. Rev. Materials, 6, 033402 (2022)

A. Bhattacharya, C.M. Hefferan, C.E. Krill, S.F. Li, J. Lind, G.S. Rohrer, Y.F. Shen, R.M. Suter, Grain boundary velocity and curvature are not correlated in Ni polycrystals, Science, 374, 189-193 (2021)

J.W. Aroh, B. Amin-Ahmadi, J.V. Bernier, A.C. Chuang, B.J. Gould, R.E. Lim, S.A. Oh, P.C. Pistorius, A.D. Rollett, T. Sun, R.M. Suter, High speed synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments resolve microstructure and phase transformation in laser processed Ti-6Al-4V, Materials Research Letters 9, 429-436 (2021)

J.D. Almer, J. Bernier, A.D. Rollett, R.M. Suter, High energy X-ray diffraction microscopy in materials science, Annual Reviews of Materials Research, 50, 395-436 (2020)

H. Liu, Y-F. Shen,and R.M. Suter, Voxel-based strain tensors from near-field High Energy Diffraction Microscopy, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science; 2020

J.L. Beuth, H. Liu, H. Chen, R.W. Cunningham, J.V. Gordon, S.P. Narra, A.D. Rollett, R.M. Suter, Defect structure process maps for laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, Additive Manufacturing 36, 101552 (2020)

Yu-Feng Shen et al., The Importance of Outliers: A Three Dimensional Study of Coarsening in in Alpha Phase Iron, Phys. Rev. Mat. 3, 063611 (2019)

Aditi Bhattacharya et al., Three-dimensional observations of grain volume changes during annealing of polycrystalline Ni, Acta Mat. 167, 40 (2019)

Yu-Feng Shen et al., Determining Grain Boundary Energies from Triple Junction Geometries without Discretizing the Five-Parameter Space, Acta Mat. 166, 126 (2019)

John P. Hanson et al., Crystallographic character of grain boundaries resistant to hydrogen-assisted fracture in Ni-base alloy 725, Nature Comm. 9, 3386 (2018)

Reeju Pokharel et al., Non-Destructive Characterization of UO2+x Nuclear Fuels, Microscopy Today, 25, 42 (2017)

Robert M. Suter, Multiscale measurements for materials modeling, Science, 356, 704 (2017)

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