Cassidy Atkinson

Education: B.S. Materials Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2020

Bio: Cassidy has been involved with this research group since the fall of her sophomore year and even earned a Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) award that year. She has worked with Army Research Laboratory (ARL) on several projects including looking at defects in SiC and currently looking at CaLaS.

Current Research: defects in functional ceramics

Favorite computer command: cmd-c

Outside the Lab: weight lifting, cooking

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cassidy-m-atkinson/

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Bulk SiC structure

Sigma 9 Grain Boundary of SiC with potential interstitial doping sites highlighted.

Publications

First Principles Analysis of Impurities in Silicon Carbide Grain Boundaries
C. M. Atkinson, M.C. Guziewski, S.P. Coleman, S.K. Nayak, S.P. Alpay, Acta Materiala 221, 117421 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117421