Faisal Alamgir

Name: Faisal Alamgir
Title: Mr.
Institution: Lehigh University
Address: Dept. Material Science & Engineering
City, ZIP code: Bethlehem 18015
Country: USA
E-mail: fma2@lehigh.edu
Web page: http://www.lehigh.edu/~fma2/index.html
Interests: Glassy and amorphous systems, Materials science, Combined techniques, Solid solutions, Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS)
Keywords: EXAFS
EXELFS
electron energy-loss spectroscopy
EELS
XPS
BMG
amorphous metals
metallic glass
Brief description of the work:

My work involves the determination of structural criteria for the precipiously high stability of the glassy phase in bulk metallic glass (BMG) systems. This has involved the development of new capabilities of the electron analog of EXAFS, namely, extended energy-loss fine structure (EXELFS) spectroscopy.
Using EXAFS, EXELFS as well as XPS, I have uncovered atomic and electronic structural properties of the prototypical BMG system, Pd-(Ni,Cu)-P that explaing the high glass forming ability of this system.