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  • 2000 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For significant advances in the computational simulation of materials including pioneering work on the embedded atom method and demonstrating the power of simulations to determine important properties

Overview

Stephen M. Foiles is affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Their research spans several topics within the broader fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on materials chemistry. The scientist's work includes contributions to microstructure and mechanical properties, machine learning applications in materials science, solidification and crystal growth phenomena, advanced materials characterization techniques, metallic glasses and amorphous alloys, ion-surface interactions and analysis, and integrated circuits and semiconductor failure analysis.

Recent publications demonstrate a range of applied topics and collaboration across multiple disciplines. Notable papers include:

  • Roadmap on multiscale materials modeling, 2020, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
  • The role of grain boundary character in solute segregation and thermal stability of nanocrystalline Pt-Au, 2021, Nanoscale
  • Multiscale simulations of electron and ion dynamics in self-irradiated silicon, 2020, Physical Review B
  • Dopant binding with vacancies and helium in metal hydrides, 2021, Journal of Nuclear Materials

These publications reflect the scientist's engagement with multiscale modeling, grain boundary phenomena, simulation of radiation effects in silicon, and defect interactions in metal hydrides.

Frequent coauthors listed for this researcher include:

  • E. van der Giessen
  • Peter A. Schultz
  • Nicolas Bertin
  • Vasily V. Bulatov
  • Wei Cai

The venues where this scientist's work has appeared include:

  • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Nanoscale
  • Physical Review B
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials

Stephen M. Foiles' contributions extend across multiple subfields of study such as materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computational mechanics.

An award of note is the Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) designation awarded in 2000. The citation acknowledged advances in computational simulation of materials including pioneering work on the embedded atom method and demonstrated the impact of simulations in determining important material properties.

Best Publications

  • Embedded-atom-method functions for the fcc metals Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pd, Pt, and their alloys.

    S. M. Foiles;M. I. Baskes;M. S. Daw

  • The embedded-atom method: a review of theory and applications

    Murray S. Daw;Stephen M. Foiles;Michael I. Baskes

  • Survey of computed grain boundary properties in face-centered cubic metals: I. Grain boundary energy

    David L. Olmsted;Stephen M. Foiles;Elizabeth A. Holm

  • Calculation of the surface segregation of Ni-Cu alloys with the use of the embedded-atom method

    Foiles Sm

  • Surface Step Effects on Nanoindentation

    J. A. Zimmerman;C. L. Kelchner;P. A. Klein;J. C. Hamilton

  • Application of the embedded atom method to Ni 3 Al

    S. M. Foiles;M. S. Daw

  • Self-diffusion and impurity diffusion of fcc metals using the five-frequency model and the Embedded Atom Method

    J. B. Adams;S. M. Foiles;W. G. Wolfer

  • Atomistic simulations of elastic deformation and dislocation nucleation during nanoindentation

    E.T. Lilleodden;J.A. Zimmerman;S.M. Foiles;W.D. Nix

  • Computing the mobility of grain boundaries.

    Koenraad G. F. Janssens;Koenraad G. F. Janssens;David Olmsted;Elizabeth A. Holm;Stephen M. Foiles

  • How Grain Growth Stops: A Mechanism for Grain-Growth Stagnation in Pure Materials

    Elizabeth A. Holm;Stephen M. Foiles

  • Thermodynamic properties of fcc transition metals as calculated with the embedded-atom method

    S. M. Foiles;J. B. Adams

  • Evaluation of harmonic methods for calculating the free energy of defects in solids.

    Stephen M. Foiles

  • Computation of grain boundary stiffness and mobility from boundary fluctuations

    Stephen M. Foiles;J.J. Hoyt

  • Roadmap on multiscale materials modeling

    Erik van der Giessen;Peter A. Schultz;Nicolas Bertin;Vasily V. Bulatov

  • Comparing grain boundary energies in face-centered cubic metals: Al, Au, Cu and Ni

    Elizabeth A. Holm;David L. Olmsted;Stephen M. Foiles

  • Kinetic phase field parameters for the Cu–Ni system derived from atomistic computations

    J.J. Hoyt;B. Sadigh;M. Asta;S.M. Foiles

  • Dislocation Mechanism for Island Diffusion on fcc (111) Surfaces.

    Hamilton Jc;Daw Ms;Foiles Sm

  • Order-disorder transitions and subsurface occupation for hydrogen on Pd(111)

    T.E. Felter;S.M. Foiles;M.S. Daw;R.H. Stulen

  • Order-disorder transition of Au and Pt(110) surfaces: The significance of relaxations and vibrations.

    Murray S. Daw;S. M. Foiles

  • Phenomenology of shear-coupled grain boundary motion in symmetric tilt and general grain boundaries

    Eric R. Homer;Eric R. Homer;Stephen M. Foiles;Elizabeth A. Holm;Elizabeth A. Holm;David L. Olmsted

  • Ordered surface phases of Au on Cu

    Stephen M. Foiles

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth A. Holm
Elizabeth A. Holm University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark Asta
Mark Asta University of California, Berkeley
Michael I. Baskes
Michael I. Baskes University of North Texas
Wayne E. King
Wayne E. King Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Brad L. Boyce
Brad L. Boyce Sandia National Laboratories
N. W. Ashcroft
N. W. Ashcroft Cornell University
Jeffrey J. Hoyt
Jeffrey J. Hoyt McMaster University
Michael J. Mills
Michael J. Mills The Ohio State University
D. de Fontaine
D. de Fontaine University of California, Berkeley
Christian Kisielowski
Christian Kisielowski Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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