Michael J. Mehl

Michael Mehl received his B. A. in Physics from the University of Kansas in 1973. He received his M. S. in Physics from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, in 1975. Later that year he began working with Prof. Bill Schaich, who became his research advisor. In 1980 Michael received his Ph.D. from IU. His thesis topic was ``The Van der Waals Interaction Between an Atom and a Cylinder''. In 1979 he became a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, working with Prof. David Langreth on the Density Functional Theory of electrons. This work culminated in the development of the ``Langreth-Mehl'' generalized gradient approximation to Density Functional Theory. In 1981 Michael moved to the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was a postdoc for Prof. Ted Einstein working on inelastic electron scattering in a solid, in particular a theoretical study of the ``Extended Appearance Potential Fine Structure'' method determining atomic positions in a surface layer.

Michael came to the Naval Research Laboratory as a contractor for Sachs-Freeman Associates in 1983, working with the then Theory Section of the Condensed Matter Branch of the Condensed Matter and Radiation Sciences Division (CMRSD). In 1986 he became a government employee, working for what is now the Complex Systems Theory Branch of the CMRSD. He is the author of over 50 papers. In 1991-92 he spent a year at the Institut Romand de Recherche Numerique en Physique de Materiaux (IRRMA) in Lausanne, Switzerland, under the NRL Post-Graduate education program.

• Calculation of Materials Properties from First-Principles Calculations
• Intermetallic Alloys
• Ionic Systems.
• Tight-Binding Hamiltonians and programs
• Embedded Atom parameters for Intermetallic Alloys
• Index of Crystal Lattice Structures

1. ``Easily Implementable Non-local Exchange-Correlation Energy Functions,'' D. C. Langreth and M. J. Mehl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 3124 (1980). See also Phys. Rev. B28, 1809 (1983).

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2. ``Relation Between Shear Instability and Liquid Structure in Alkali Halides,'' M. J. Mehl and L. L. Boyer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1404 (1985).
3. ``Beyond the Rigid-Ion Approximation with Spherically Symmetric Ions,'' L. L. Boyer, M. J. Mehl, J. L. Feldman, J. R. Hardy, J. W. Flocken, and C. Y. Fong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 1940 (1985).
4. ``Structural properties of ordered high-melting-temperature intermetallic alloys from first-principles total-energy calculations,'' M. J. Mehl, J. E. Osburn, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, and B. M. Klein, Phys. Rev. B 41, 10311 (1990). (Erratum)

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5. ``First Principles Calculations of Elastic Properties of Metals,'' M. J. Mehl, B. M. Klein, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, in Intermetallic Compounds, Principles and Practice, Vol. I, J. H. Westbrook and R. L. Fleischer, eds. (John Wiley and Sons, London, 1994), Ch. 9.
6. ``A Tight-Binding Total Energy Method for Transition and Noble Metals,'' R. E. Cohen, M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Phys. Rev. B50, 14694 (1994).
7. ``Application of a new tight-binding method for transition metals: manganese'', M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Europhysics. Lett. 31, 537 (1995).
8. ``First-principles calculation of the structure of mercury'', Michael J. Mehl, MRS Proceedings 408, 383-8 (1996).
9. ``Applications of a new tight-binding total energy method for transition and noble metals: Elastic constants, vacancies, and surfaces of monatomic metals'' M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Phys. Rev. B 54, 4519 (1996).
10. ``Application of a tight-binding total energy method for Al, Ga, and In, S. H. Yang, M. J. Mehl, and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Phys. Rev. B 57 R2013-R2016, (1998).
11. ``Tight-Binding Parametrization of First-Principles Results'', M. J. Mehl and D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Computational Materials Science, C. Fong, ed. (World Scientific Publishing, 1998).

• Electronic Structure and Total Energy of Ordered and Disordered Materials
• Electronic Structure Studies of Solids

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