Research
Research
Magnetic materials for electric power conversion, and photonic materials and fiber optic sensing for energy and infrastructure.
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Fiber Optic Sensing
Material fabrication and characterization, sensor calibration
Power Magnetics
Soft magnetic ferrites and ferrite/metal nanocomposites, and amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys for power conversion
Ferrite/Metal Nanocomposites
Mn-Zn and Ni-Zn ferrite nanocomposites synthesized to improve saturation flux density for power applications
Additive Manufacturing of Ferrites
Fabrication of soft magnetic ferrites by additive manufacturing, targeting the densification needed for 3D printed components
Field and Strain Annealing
Special heating methods used to tailor properties in amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys
Magnetic Characterization
Saturation flux density, power loss and Curie temperature measurement; magneto-optical-based sensing
Interrogator Development
Fiber optic acoustic and temperature sensing, distributed sensing, signal processing
Pipeline Monitoring
Infrastructure health monitoring using Ultrasonic-NDE and fiber-optic-based sensing
Nuclear Asset Monitoring
Nuclear plant and dry cask storage canisters, using Ultrasonic-NDE and fiber-optic-based sensing
Quantum Sensing
Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Transformer Sensing
Energy grid asset health monitoring using fiber-optic-based acoustic, temperature, and gas sensing
Battery Sensing
Energy grid asset health monitoring integrated with Battery Management Systems, using fiber-optic-based acoustic, temperature, and gas sensing
Bridge Monitoring
Infrastructure health monitoring using passive acoustic sensing with fiber optics
Urban Monitoring
Distributed sensing using existing dark fibers
Edge Computing
Edge ML deployment and edge sensing
Artificial Intelligence
AI analytics, Sci-ML, computer vision, agentic AI