Tzy-chung Terry Wu

Senior Process Engineer
Applied Komatsu Technology
3101 Scott Blvd, M/S 9156
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Tel:408-563-4778; FAX:408-5633-0685
e-mail:wu_terry@amat.com

    Education

B.S., National Taiwan (Geology), 1986
Ph.D., Cornell (Geophysics, Material Sciences, Inorganic Chemistry), 1995

    Current Project

Developing Plasma Etch System for TFT flat panel display

    Experiences

    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cornell U., June. 1995 - Sep. 1995
Conducted research on: P-V-T Equation of states of carbon dioxide

    Graduate Research Assistant, Cornell U., Aug. 1989 - May 1995
Conducted research on projects include:
'The mechanism of olivine to spinel phase transformation and deep earthquakes',
'In-situ study of phase transformation kinetics under hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic pressure using Synchrotron Radiation',
'Distribution of deviatoric stresses in a non-hydrostatic diamond-anvil cell',
'In-situ investigation of equations of states of carbonates at high temperatures and pressures', and
'Dehydration and rehydration of clay in H2O and NaCl-H2O solution at high pressures studied by in-situ X-ray diffraction'.

    Teaching Assistant, Cornell U., Various semesters between Fall. 1991 - Spring 1994
Assisted in lectures and taught laboratory sessions of courses including Physical Geology, Oceanography, Mineralogy, and Physics and Chemistry of the Earth.

    Publications

Wu, T.-C., W. A. Bassett, P. C. Burnley and M. S. Weathers, Shear-promoted olivine to spinel transitions in Mg2SiO4 and Fe2SiO4 and the mechanism of deep earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 19767-19778, 1993.

Wu, T.-C., and W. A. Bassett, Deviatoric stress in a diamond anvil cell using synchrotron radiation with two diffraction geometries, Pure and Applied Geophysics, "Special Volume of E. Schreiber Memorial Symposium", 141, 509-519, 1993.

Wu, T.- C. and W. A. Bassett, Measuring deviatoric stress in the diamond anvil cell using two X-ray diffraction geometries, High Pressure Science and Technology-1993, pp.1625, AIP Press, New York, 1994.

Wu., T.-C., A. H. Shen, M. S. Weathers, W. A. Bassett and I.-M. Chou, Anisotropic thermal expansion of calcite at high pressures: an in-situ X-ray diffraction study using hydrothermal diamond anvil cell, American Mineralogist, 80,941-946, 1995.

Wu, T.-C., W.A. Bassett, Huang, W.L., Guggenheim, S., and van Groos, A., Montmorillonite under high H2O pressures : stability of hydrate phases, rehydration hysteresis and the effect of interlayer cations, American Mineralogist, in press.

Wu, T.-C., W.A. Bassett, Huang, W.L., Guggenheim, S., and van Groos, A., Dehydration and rehydration of montmorillonite in brine at high pressures and temperatures, in preapration.

Bassett, W. A., M. S. Weathers, T.-C. Wu and T. Holmquist, Compressibility of SiC up to 68.4 GPa, Journal of Applied Physics, 74, 3824-3826, 1993.

Burnley, P. C., W. A. Bassett, and T.-C. Wu, Diamond-anvil cell study of the transformation mechanism from the olivine to spinel phase in Co2SiO4, Ni2SiO4 and Mg2GeO4, Journal of Geophysical Research , 100, 17715-17723, 1995.

Huang, W.-L., W. A. Bassett, and T.-C. Wu, Dehydration and hydration of montmorillonite at elevated temperatures and pressures monitored using synchrotron radiation, American Mineralogist, 79, 683-691, 1994.