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Joost J. Vlassak

Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Engineering

Harvard University Center for the Environment
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Center for Nanoscale Systems

Office: Pierce 311
Assistant: Baiba Menke (617) 496-1461
Email: jvlassak@seas.harvard.edu
Web: http://www.seas.harvard.edu/vlassak_group/

Research Interests

Mechanical behavior of thin metal films; the effect of environmental species on the adhesion and delamination of multilayered structures containing low-k dielectrics.

Environmental Courses

Applied Physics 190: Materials Physics
ES 190: Introduction to Materials Science

Related Publications

Fracture of organosilicate glass thin films: environmental effects. (2005)
Heteroepitaxial Nucleation and Oriented Growth of Manganese Oxide Islands on Carbonate Minerals under Aqueous Conditions. (2005)
Environmental effects on subcritical delamination of dielectric and metal films from organosilicate glass (osg) thin films. (2003)