Yonggang Huang

2011-06-27

Yonggang Huang
Joseph Cummings Professor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University

Scientific Profile

B.S., Peking University, Major: Mechanics
S.M., Harvard University, Major: Engineering Science
Ph.D., Harvard University, Major: Engineering Science

Research Interests

Mechanics of materials and structures; fracture mechanics; composite materials; micromechanics; atomistic-based continuum mechanics; mechanics of stretchable electronics.

Selected Publications

• Gao H, Huang Y, Nix WD, and Hutchinson JW, "Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity. I. - Theory," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, v 47, pp 1239-1263, 1999
• Huang Y, Gao H, Nix WD, and Hutchinson JW, "Mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity. II. - Analysis," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, v 48, pp 99-128, 2000.
• Zhang P, Huang Y, Geubelle PH, Klein PA, and Hwang KC, "The elastic modulus of single-wall carbon nanotubes: A continuum analysis incorporating interatomic potentials," International Journal of Solids and Structures, v 39, pp 3893-3906, 2002.
• Huang Y, Qu S, Hwang KC, Li M, and Gao H, "A conventional theory of mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity," International Journal of Plasticity, v 20, pp 753-782, 2004.
• Khang D-Y, Jiang H, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, "A stretchable form of single crystal silicon for high performance electronics on rubber substrates," Science, v 311, pp 208-212, 2006.
• Meitl MA, Zhu Z, Kumar V, Lee KJ, Feng X, Huang Y, Adesida I, Nuzzo RG, and Rogers JA, "Transfer printing by kinetic control of adhesion to an elastometric stamp," Nature Materials, v 5, pp 33-38, 2006 (Cover feature article).
• Sun Y, Choi WM, Jiang H, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, "Controlled buckling structures in semiconductor nanoribbons with application examples in stretchable electronics," Nature Nanotechnology, v 1, pp 201-206, 2006.
• Jiang H, Khang D-Y, Song J, Sun Y, Huang Y, and Rogers, "Finite deformation mechanics in buckled thin films on compliant supports," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science v 104, pp 15607-15612, 2007.
• Kim D-H, Ahn J-H, Choi W-M, Kim H-S, Kim T-H, Song J, Huang Y, Liu Z, Lu C, and Rogers JA, Stretchable and foldable silicon integrated circuits, Science, v 320, pp 507-511, 2008.
• Kim D-H, Song J, Choi W-M, Kim H-S, Kim R-H, Liu Z, Huang Y, Hwang KC, Zhang YW, and Rogers JA, Materials and non-coplanar mesh designs for integrated circuits with linear elastic responses to extreme mechanical deformations, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v 105, pp 18675-18680, 2008 (cover feature article).
• Ko HC, Stoykovich MP, Song J, Malyarchuk V, Choi WM, Yu C-J, Geddes JB III, Xiao J, Wang S, Huang Y, and Rogers JA, “A hemispherical electronic eye camera based on compressible silicon optoelectronics,” Nature, v 454, pp 748-753, 2008 (cover feature article).

Contact Details

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