Daniel Tan joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at GTIIT as an Associate Professor in August 2018. Dr. Tan received a Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1998, and a Ph.D in Solid State Physics from Chinese Academy of Science in 1989 following Academician T.S.Ke. After serving in University of Science and Technology of China for 4 years as a faculty, he moved to the United States as a visiting scientist (Argonne National Laboratory and UIUC) in 1994-1995. He joined Honeywell Corp. in 1998 as a Sr. Scientist to develop high-K ferroelectric materials for semiconductor industry. During 2000-2004, he was recruited to CTS Corp. as a Sr. Staff Engineer to develop high performance piezoelectric transducers and cell phone antenna materials. In the following 12 years, he dedicated his passion, innovation and pioneering efforts in Nanodielectrics and Energy Storage to General Electric. In 2016, he joined W.L.Gore as a Sr. Polymer Dielectric Scientist to further the high performance polymer investigations for capacitor and membrane technology.
Dr. Tan has authored/co-authored over 50 journal papers, 2 college teaching textbooks, 3 book chapters, and 50 corporate internal reports. As an innovator, he holds 50 patents and trade secrets in the field of ceramics, polymers, energy storage and electronic components. He has pioneered development in nanodielectric composites, high temperature and high energy density capacitors as a principal scientist for industry and US government. He is the recipient of 18 various awards including the First Place Prize of Natural Science Award of Chinese Academy of Science (1993) and GE Global Research Innovation Award (2008). He is a member of MRS, ACERS, SPIE, iMAPS and IEEE and reviewers of several journals.
The Tan group focuses on future generation functional materials for energy needs, in particular on the synthesis of nanocomposites with carefully crafted nano to mesoscale structures which lead to emergence of super-dielectric property (capacitive and resistive), advanced electromechanical property (piezoelectric) and thermoelectric properties. The group combines thin film coating and analytical techniques with advanced spectroscopic methods to probe physics of interfaces and dielectric phenomena in materials with non-ideal structures under extreme conditions. The group also has considerable research interests in high temperature capacitor and electrochemical capacitor technologies that rely on high energy-density dielectric films and nano-enabled electrode materials for electronic devices.
Nanodielectric composites and interface phenomena
Energy storage and electrochemical supercapacitors
Polymer film and membrane
Piezoelectric conversion materials
Papers
Daniel Tan, Lili Zhang, Qin Chen, and Patricia Irwin, “High-Temperature Capacitor Polymer Films”. Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 43, No.12, 2014.
Daniel Q. Tan, Yang Cao, Xiaomei Fang, and Patricia C. Irwin, Tunable Nanodielectric Composites, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Advances in Materials Science and Engineering Volume 2014, Article ID 549275.
D. Q. Tan, Q. Chen, X.M. Fang, P. Irwin, Y.U.Wang, Effect of Polar Particles on Polymer Composite Dielectrics, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 08/2013; 60(8):1619-1624.
Daniel Tan, Yang Cao, Enis Tuncer, Patricia Irwin, “Nanofiller Dispersion in Polymer Dielectrics”. Materials Sciences and Applications 4, 6 (2013).
Y.U. Wang, D.Q. Tan, J. Krahn, Computational study of dielectric composites with core-shell filler particles, Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 110, Issue 4, pp. 044103-044103-6 (2011).
Yang Cao, Qin Chen,D. Q. Tan, Irwin, P.C., Nanostructured dielectric materials, IEEE Transactions on Conference publication.
D.Q. Tan, and P. Irwin, Book Chapter “Polymer based nanocomposites”, InTech Online book Advances in Ceramics, Ed. By Costas Sikalidis, (2011).
John R. Krahn, Kristopher J. Frutschy, Narayan Subramanian, William P. Waters, Daniel Q. Tan, William H. Schank, System and method for battery insulation, US Patent 9012060, 2014.
Fengfeng Tao, Yang Cao, Daniel Qi Tan, Antiferroelectric capacitor-enabled power converter, US Patent 8421419, 2013.
Daniel Qi Tan, George T. Dalakos, Yang Cao, Qin Chen, Ri-an Zhao, Coated polymer dielectric film, US Patent 8354166, 2013.
