RODRIGO A. BERNAL
bernal@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4709
Office: ECSW 4.355E
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: ECW 31
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
ASSociate PROFESSOR
Education
Postdoc. University of Pennsylvania, 2016.
PhD Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2014
Research Interests
Mechanical properties of nanomaterials, Multiphysics phenomena at the nanoscale, Nanoscale metrology, MEMS and NEMS, Electron Microscopy
Five Most Recent Journal Publications, Book Chapters, and Books
- Waliullah, M., A.-M.A. Hossain, B. Ojeda, N. Muzaffar, and R.A. Bernal, “Electromigration Lifetime of Penta-Twinned Gold Nanowires: Implications for Flexible Electronics”. ACS Applied Nano Materials 7, no. 7 (2024): 6906-6915. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.3c05847
- Waliullah, M. and R.A. Bernal, “Adhesive contact mechanics of penta-twinned nanowires”. Extreme Mechanics Letters 66, no. (2023): 102118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2023.102118
- Waliullah, M. and R.A. Bernal, “Current density at failure of twinned silver nanowires”. Nanotechnology 33, no. 30 (2022): 305706. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac64af
- Ojeda, B., M. Waliullah, A.-M.A. Hossain, T. Nguyen, T. Wettstein, Y. Tadesse, and R.A. Bernal, “High-throughput tensile testing of silver nanowires”. Extreme Mechanics Letters 57, no. (2022): 101896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101896
- Bernal, R.A., “On the application of Weibull statistics for describing strength of micro and nanostructures”. Mechanics of Materials 162, no. (2021): 104057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2021.104057
Major Honors and Awards
NSF CAREER Award, 2023