Suneel Kumar Kodambaka, Virginia Tech | Advanced Materials

High Entropy Alloy Nitride Crystals: This is a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image showing surface morphology of reactively sputter-deposited thin film of (VNbTaMoW)N. This is a highly refractory compound with potential applications as structural components in hypersonics. In our efforts to grow single-crystalline thin film, we obtained highly-oriented crystals with unexpected orientation. Contributors: Dr. Hicham Zaid, Dr. Koichi Tanaka, and Prof. Suneel Kodambaka