Sage Bauers is a staff scientist in the Surface and Interface Science group at NREL. He joined NREL as a postdoctoral researcher in 2017, working on the experimental discovery, design, and integration of energy materials. His research spans both basic and applied topics, for example discovering new compounds using materials design approaches and then working to integrate these new materials into prototype devices. His high-level scientific interests and goals are centered around using nonequilibrium thin-film synthesis approaches both to answer fundamental questions about solid-state chemical processes and to stabilize new compounds that have not—or cannot—be prepared otherwise. Prior to joining NREL, Bauers worked in the semiconductor industry both designing devices and developing manufacturing processes, and his technological interests are still focused on the design and integration of materials for applications in low-energy microelectronics.
Research Interests
Experimental materials discovery and design
Metastable and kinetically stabilized materials
Materials for low-energy computing (e.g., quantum, neuromorphic, spintronic)
Layered materials and chalcogenides
Magnetic materials
Solid-state reaction processes
High-throughput experimental methods
Education
Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Oregon
M.S., Applied Physics, University of Oregon
B.S., Physics, California State University, Sacramento
Featured Work
Experimental Synthesis of Theoretically Predicted Multivalent Ternary Nitride Materials, Chemistry of Materials (2022)
Metal Chalcogenides for Neuromorphic Computing: Emerging Materials and Mechanisms, Nanotechnology (2021)
Synthesis of Tunable SnS-TaS2 Nanoscale Superlattices, ACS NanoLetters (2020)
Ternary Nitride Semiconductors in the Rocksalt Crystal Structure, PNAS (2019)
A Map of the Inorganic Ternary Metal Nitrides, Nature Materials (2019)
COMBIgor: Data-Analysis Package for Combinatorial Materials Science, ACS Combinatorial Science (2019)
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