Elucidating the response of microstructures to overlapping extreme conditions via combinations of in situ electron microscopy techniques.
Utilizing film growth and ion beam modification techniques to produce nanostructured systems with tailored thermal, electrical, and mechanical properties.
2015 - Present | Principle Member of the Technical Staff
2008 - 2015 | Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Awards
2020, Arab American Foundation “40 Under 40” Award
Sandia National Laboratories Inventor Award for "Single Crystal Micromechanical Resonator"
2018 Sandia National Laboratories Spot Award for "The 2016 Tritium Grand Challenge Proposal"
2016 R&D 100 Award for "Triplet-Harvesting Plastic Scintillators"
2014 Sandia National Laboratories Employee Recognition Award (Individual Nomination) for "In-situ ion irradiation TEM"
2013 Sandia National Laboratories Employee Recognition Award (Team Nomination) for "Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (AC-STEM) Realization Team"
2012 Sandia National Laboratories Spot Award for "I3TEM"
2011 Sandia Employee Recognition Award (Team Nomination) for "Grain Growth of Nanograined Metals Team", 2010
Professional Societies
SPIE, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2010-present
Society for the Advanced of Material and Processing Engineering (SAMPE), 2010- 2012
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008-present
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 2003-present
Tau Beta Pi, 2003-present
Materials Research Society (MRS), UIUC chapter IT Officer, 2003-present
American Chemical Society (ACS), 2003-present
ASM International, 1995-present
Publications
Jawaharram, G.S., P.M. Price, C.M. Barr, K. Hattar, R.S. Averback, and S.J. Dillon. “High temperature irradiation induced creep in Ag nanopillars measured via in situ transmission electron microscopy." Scripta Materialia (2018).
Zhang, Xinghang, Khalid Hattar, Youxing Chen, Lin Shao, Jin Li, Cheng Sun, Kaiyuan Yu et al. "Radiation damage in nanostructured materials." Progress in Materials Science (2018).
Taylor, Caitlin Anne, Daniel Charles Bufford, Brittany Rana Muntifering, David Senor, Mackenzie Steckbeck, Justin Davis, Barney Doyle, Daniel Buller, and Khalid Mikhiel Hattar. "In Situ TEM Multi-Beam Ion Irradiation as a Technique for Elucidating Synergistic Radiation Effects." Materials 10, no. 10 (2017): 1148.
Muntifering, Brittany, Sarah Jane Blair, Cajer Gong, Aaron Dunn, Rémi Dingreville, Jianmin Qu, and Khalid Hattar. "Cavity Evolution at Grain Boundaries as a Function of Radiation Damage and Thermal Conditions in Nanocrystalline Nickel." Materials Research Letters 4, no. 2 (2016): 96-103.
Bufford, D. C., F. F. Abdeljawad, S. M. Foiles, and K. Hattar. "Unraveling irradiation induced grain growth with in situ transmission electron microscopy and coordinated modeling." Applied Physics Letters 107, no. 19 (2015): 191901.
Chee, See Wee, Sarah H. Pratt, Khalid Hattar, David Duquette, Frances M. Ross, and Robert Hull. "Studying localized corrosion using liquid cell transmission electron microscopy." Chem. Commun. 51, no. 1 (2014): 168-171.
Hattar, Khalid, Daniel Charles Bufford, and Daniel L. Buller. "Concurrent in situ ion irradiation transmission electron microscope." Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 338 (2014): 56-65.
Li, N., K. Hattar, and A. Misra. "In situ probing of the evolution of irradiation-induced defects in copper." Journal of Nuclear Materials 439, no. 1 (2013): 185-191.
Hoppe, Sarah M., Darryl Y. Sasaki, Aubrianna N. Kinghorn, and Khalid Hattar. "In-situ transmission electron microscopy of liposomes in an aqueous environment." Langmuir 29, no. 32 (2013): 9958-9961.
Höchbauer, T., A. Misra, K. Hattar, and R. G. Hoagland. "Influence of interfaces on the storage of ion-implanted He in multilayered metallic composites." Journal of applied physics 98, no. 12 (2005): 123516.
Matt Eichenfield, Jeremy Moore, Thomas A. Friedmann, Roy H. Olsson, Michael Wiwi, Camille Padilla, James Kenneth Douglas, Khalid Mikhiel Hattar. Second harmonic generation in resonant optical structures. U.S. Patent 18/9865987 filed June 5, 2017, and issued January 9, 2018.
Khalid Mikhiel Hattar, Jon-Erik Mogonye, Somuri V. Prasad. Ion beam modification of noble metals for electrical contacts. U.S. Patent 2016/0027547 filed July 16, 2015, and issued January 28, 2016.
Roy H. Olsson, Thomas A. Friedmann, Sara Jensen Homeijer, Michael Wiwi, Khalid Mikhiel Hattar, Blythe Clark, Todd Bauer, Stuart B. Van Deusen. A single crystal micromechanical resonator and fabrication methods thereof. U.S. Patent 2014/288,236 filed May 27, 2014, and issued December 20, 2016
Patents Pending
Thomas Edwin Beechem III, Khalid Mikhiel Hattar, Jon Ihlefeld, Edward S. Piekos, Douglas L. Medlin, Luke Yates and Patrick E. Hopkins. Ion-implanted thermal barrier. U.S. Patent Application 16/107,470 filed August 21, 2018.
Timothy J. Boyle, Khalid Mikhiel Hattar, Fernando Henry Garzon and Stephen J. Bauer. Tattletale ion-implanted nanoparticles. U.S. Patent Application 16/107,792 filed August 21, 2018.
K.L. Jungjohann, W.M. Mook, C. Chisholm, M.J. Shaw, K. Hattar, P.C. Galambos, A.J. Leenheer, S.J. Hearne. Active mechanical-environmental-thermal MEMS device for nanoscale characterization. U.S. Patent Application 15/925,118 filed March 19, 2018.
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