Courses
General Physics I and II; Material Physics I; Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics

Research Interests

Professor Kelton's research interests include the study and production of titanium-based auasicrystals and related phases, fundamental investigations of time-dependent nucleation processes, modeling of oxygen precipitation in single crystal silicon, and the structure of supercooled liquids and the crystal nucleation barrier.

Selected Publications:

“First x-ray scattering studies on electrostatically-levitated metallic liquids -- demonstrated influence of local icosahedral order on the nucleation barrier,” K. F. Kelton, G.W. Lee, A. K. Gangopadhyay, R. W. Hyers, T. J. Rathz, J. R. Rogers, M. B. Robinson, D. S. Robinson, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, 195504-1 (2003).

“Time-dependent nucleation in partitioning transformations,” K. F. Kelton, Acta Materialia, 48, 1967 (2000).

“The effect of phase separation on subsequent crystallization in Al18Gd6La2Ni4,” Acta Materialia, 48, 4035 (2000).

“Stable Ti-based quasicrystal,” K. F. Kelton, W. J. Kim, R. M. Stroud, Appl. Phys. Lett., 70, 3230 (1997).

“Hydrogenation of titanium-based quasicrystals,” A. M. Viano, R. M. Stroud, P. C. Gibbons, A. McDowell, M. S. Conradi, and K. F. Kelton, Phys. Rev. B. Rapid Comm., 51, 12026 (1995).

“Crystal nucleation in liquids and glasses,” K. F. Kelton, in Solid State Physics, (H. Ehrenreich and D. Turnbull, eds.), Vol. 45, p. 75-178, Academic Press (1991).

“Transient nucleation in condensed systems,” K. F. Kelton, A. L. Greer and C. V. Thompson, J. Chem. Phys., 79, 6261 (1983).