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  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For crystallographic studies of the effects of microstructural defects on materials properties, including advancing the understanding of the effects of crystallographic alignment on current transport in hightemperature superconductors

Overview

Eliot D. Specht is affiliated with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Materials Science, with a focus on subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

Their work covers a range of topics related to optical and magnetic properties of materials, including:

  • Optical Polarization and Ellipsometry
  • Optical Coatings and Gratings
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
  • Shape Memory Alloy Transformations
  • Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity

Specht has contributed publications to several venues, notably:

  • physica status solidi (a)
  • Advanced Physics Research

Two recent papers exemplify the scope of their research. The 2021 paper titled Generalized Ellipsometry Measurements of Crystalline Thin Film and Bulk Tin Oxide was published in physica status solidi (a). In 2023, they co-authored Magnetocaloric Effect in Lightly-Doped Fe5Si3 Single Crystals appearing in Advanced Physics Research.

Frequent collaborators include Thomas Z. Ward, G. E. Jellison, Raphaël P. Hermann, L. A. Boatner, and Andreas Herklotz. These partnerships have supported exploration of topics widely distributed across their main and subfield interests.

In 2012, Eliot D. Specht was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation recognizing work on crystallographic studies of microstructural defects affecting materials properties, particularly concerning crystallographic alignment effects on current transport in high-temperature superconductors.

Best Publications

  • High critical current density superconducting tapes by epitaxial deposition of YBa2Cu3Ox thick films on biaxially textured metals

    A. Goyal;D.P. Norton;J.D. Budai;M. Paranthaman

  • Epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7 on Biaxially Textured Nickel (001): An Approach to Superconducting Tapes with High Critical Current Density

    David P. Norton;Amit Goyal;John D. Budai;David K. Christen

  • Irradiation-free, columnar defects comprised of self-assembled nanodots and nanorods resulting in strongly enhanced flux-pinning in YBa2Cu3O7−δ films

    A Goyal;S Kang;K J Leonard;P M Martin

  • Metallization of vanadium dioxide driven by large phonon entropy

    John D. Budai;Jiawang Hong;Michael E. Manley;Eliot D. Specht

  • Effect of oxygen pressure on the orthorhombic-tetragonal transition in the high-temperature superconductor YBa 2 Cu 3 O x

    E. D. Specht;C. J. Sparks;A. G. Dhere;J. Brynestad

  • In situ observations of lattice expansion and transformation rates of α and β phases in Ti–6Al–4V

    J.W. Elmer;T.A. Palmer;S.S. Babu;E.D. Specht

  • In-situ observations of lattice parameter fluctuations in austenite and transformation to bainite

    Sudarsanam S Babu;Eliot D Specht;Stan A David;Evgenia Karapetrova

  • Molecular beam epitaxy growth of epitaxial barium silicide, barium oxide, and barium titanate on silicon

    R. A. McKee;F. J. Walker;J. R. Conner;E. D. Specht

  • Growth of biaxially textured buffer layers on rolled-Ni substrates by electron beam evaporation

    M. Paranthaman;A. Goyal;F.A. List;E.D. Specht

  • Conductors with controlled grain boundaries: An approach to the next generation, high temperature superconducting wire

    A. Goyal;D. P. Norton;D. M. Kroeger;D. K. Christen

  • X-Ray Diffraction Measurement of the Effect of Layer Thickness on the Ferroelectric Transition in Epitaxial KTaO 3 / KNbO 3 Multilayers

    E. D. Specht;H.-M. Christen;D. P. Norton;L. A. Boatner

  • Direct Observations of Sigma Phase Formation in Duplex Stainless Steels Using In-Situ Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction

    J. W. Elmer;T. A. Palmer;Eliot D Specht

  • Interface stability and the growth of optical quality perovskites on MgO.

    R. A. McKee;F. J. Walker;E. D. Specht;G. E. Jellison

  • Superconducting MgB2 films via precursor postprocessing approach

    M. Paranthaman;C. Cantoni;H. Y. Zhai;H. M. Christen

  • Epitaxial superconductors on rolling-assisted biaxially-textured substrates (RABiTS): a route towards high critical current density wire

    A Goyal;D.P Norton;D.K Christen;E.D Specht

  • Orbital engineering in symmetry-breaking polar heterostructures.

    Ankit S. Disa;Divine P. Kumah;Andrei Malashevich;Hanghui Chen

  • Deposition of biaxially-oriented metal and oxide buffer-layer films on textured Ni tapes: new substrates for high-current, high-temperature superconductors

    Qing He;D.K. Christen;J.D. Budai;E.D. Specht

  • Strain-Driven Oxygen Deficiency in Self-Assembled, Nanostructured, Composite Oxide Films

    Claudia Cantoni;Yanfei Gao;Yanfei Gao;Sung Hun Wee;Eliot D. Specht

  • Enhanced flux pinning by BaZrO3 and (Gd,Y)2O3 nanostructures in metal organic chemical vapor deposited GdYBCO high temperature superconductor tapes

    Yimin Chen;Venkat Selvamanickam;Yifei Zhang;Yuri Zuev

  • Superconducting MgB(2) films via precursor post-processing approach

    M. Paranthaman;C. Cantoni;H. Y. Zhai;H. M. Christen

Frequent Co-Authors

Amit Goyal
Amit Goyal University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Mariappan Parans Paranthaman
Mariappan Parans Paranthaman Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David K. Christen
David K. Christen Oak Ridge National Laboratory
John D. Budai
John D. Budai Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David P. Norton
David P. Norton University of Florida
Todd Palmer
Todd Palmer Pennsylvania State University
Easo P George
Easo P George Oak Ridge National Laboratory
George M. Pharr
George M. Pharr Texas A&M University
Gene E. Ice
Gene E. Ice Oak Ridge National Laboratory
S. Suresh Babu
S. Suresh Babu University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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