Research
Metallic glasses
Magnetic tunnel junctions
Density functional theory
Embedded atom method
Elastic properties
Electronic transport
Magnetic properties
Thermal properties
Quantum computing (Cryptography)
ESG
Publications
Bean, J. J., & McKenna, K. P. (2016). Origin of differences in the excess volume of copper and nickel grain boundaries. Acta Materialia, 110, 246–257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.02.040
Bean, J. J., Saito, M., Fukami, S., Sato, H., Ikeda, S., Ohno, H., … McKenna, K. P. (2017). Atomic structure and electronic properties of MgO grain boundaries in tunnelling magnetoresistive devices. Scientific Reports, 7(January), 45594. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45594
Bean, J. J., & McKenna, K. P. (2018). Stability of point defects near MgO grain boundaries in FeCoB/MgO/FeCoB magnetic tunnel junctions. Physical Review Materials, 2(12), 125002. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.125002