Lauren Nuckols
R&D Associate, Fusion Plasma-Facing Component Physicist
Bio
Lauren joined ORNL in August 2024 as a Research and Development Associate in the Power Exhaust and Particle Control Group in the Fusion Energy Division. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022-2024) stationed at ORNL as part of the DOE Fusion Energy Sciences Postdoctoral Research Program. Her research interests include plasma-material interactions, high and ultra-high temperature ceramics, and plasma-facing component development.
Lauren completed a Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2021 and a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in 2016. Her dissertation focused on ion irradiation studies of silicon carbide.
Other Publications
Kinsler-Fedon C, Nuckols L, Nelson C T, Qi Z, Huang Q, Mandrus D, Zhang Y, Weber W J and Keppens V 2022 Effects of Au2+ irradiation induced damage in a high-entropy pyrochlore oxide single crystal Scripta Materialia 220 114916
Zhang Y, Silva C, Lach T G, Tunes M A, Zhou Y, Nuckols L, Boldman W L, Rack P D, Donnelly S E, Jiang L, Wang L and Weber W J 2022 Role of electronic energy loss on defect production and interface stability: Comparison between ceramic materials and high-entropy alloys Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 26 101001
Nuckols L, Crespillo M L, Yang Y, Li J, Zarkadoula E, Zhang Y and Weber W J 2021 Effects of recoil spectra and electronic energy dissipation on defect survival in 3C-SiC Materialia 15 101023
Lapano J, Nuckols L, Mazza A R, Pai Y-Y, Zhang J, Lawrie B, Moore R G, Eres G, Lee H N, Du M-H, Ward T Z, Lee J S, Weber W J, Zhang Y and Brahlek M 2020 Adsorption-controlled growth of \mathrmMnTe(\mathrmBi_2\mathrmTe_3)_n by molecular beam epitaxy exhibiting stoichiometry-controlled magnetism Phys. Rev. Mater. 4 111201
Nuckols L, Crespillo M L, Xu C, Zarkadoula E, Zhang Y and Weber W J 2020 Coupled effects of electronic and nuclear energy deposition on damage accumulation in ion-irradiated SiC Acta Materialia 199 96–106