Kaushik Dayal

Research Interests

Publications

Researchers

Real-Space Phase-Field Simulation of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy Accounting for Stray Electric Fields. Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  Preprint.

Continuum Mechanics of Line Defects in Liquid Crystals and Liquid Crystal Elastomers. Amit Acharya and Kaushik Dayal. Preprint.

Free Surface Domain Nucleation in a Ferroelectric under an Electrically Charged Tip. Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  J. Appl. Phys., 111:014106, 2012.

Microstructure and Stray Electric Fields at Surface Cracks in Ferroelectrics. Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  To appear in Int. J. Fract.

Design of viscometers corresponding to a universal molecular simulation method. Kaushik Dayal and Richard D. James.  J. Fluid Mech., 691:461, 2012.

Symmetry-Adapted Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics of Chiral Carbon Nanotubes under Tensile Loading. Amin Aghaei and Kaushik Dayal.  J. Appl. Phys., 109:123501, 2011.

A Completely Iterative Method for the Infinite Domain Electrostatic Problem with Nonlinear Dielectric Media. Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  J. Comput. Phys., 230:7821, 2011.

Effect of Lattice Orientation, Surface Modulation, and Applied Fields on Free-Surface Domain Microstructure in Ferroelectrics.  Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  Acta Mater., 59:6594, 2011.

Linear Instability Signals the Initiation of Motion of a Twin Plane Under Load.  Chang-Tsan Lu and Kaushik Dayal.  Phil. Mag. Lett., 91:264, 2011.

Formulation of phase-field energies for microstructure in complex crystal structures. Lun Yang and Kaushik Dayal.  Appl. Phys. Lett., 96:081916, 2010.

Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics for bulk materials and nanostructures. Kaushik Dayal and Richard D. James.  J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 58:145, 2010.

Active tuning of photonic device characteristics during operation by ferroelectric domain switching. Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya.  J. Appl. Phys., 102:064102, 2007.

A real-space non-local phase-field model of ferroelectric domain patterns in complex geometries. Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya.  Acta Mater., 55:1907, 2007.
Recognized for the Acta Materialia Student Award 2008.

Graded ferroelectric capacitors with robust temperature characteristics. Mohamed El-Naggar, Kaushik Dayal, David Goodwin, and Kaushik Bhattacharya.  J. Appl. Phys., 100:114115, 2006.

Kinetics of phase transformations in the peridynamic formulation of continuum mechanics. Kaushik Dayal and Kaushik Bhattacharya.  J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 54:1811, 2006.

Ferroelectric nanophotonic devices. Harry Atwater, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Kaushik Dayal, Matthew Dicken, Demetri Psaltis, Axel Scherer, Guruswami Ravichandran. US Patent 7,346,248 B2. Issued Mar 18, 2008.