UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 22 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Betul Akkopru-Akgun, assistant research professor in Penn State's Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute, has received an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program award to investigate how electricity and heat move through materials used in extreme environments.
When extreme-environment electronics fail in harsh operating conditions, the cause is often not a single flaw or design issue. Instead, failure can emerge from complex interactions among heat, electrical charge, defects, and interfaces within the material. Understanding those interactions is...