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Ph.D. in Mechanical
Engineering, UIllinois (2012, expected)
- "Nanoscale tribology with application to
magnetic storage"
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M.S. in Mechanical
Engineering,
UIllinois (2008)
- "Two-dimensional biomechanical analysis of the
extremely
fast strikes of trap-jaw ant mandibles"
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B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering, NJIT (2005)
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Technician Engineer in Mechanical
Engineering, HTI, Cyprus (2000)
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Research
- Formulation, implementation and experimental
validation of a dynamic contact model for the complex interface between
realistic, rough, lubricated nanoscale surfaces through a systems
approach, applied to the head-disk interface in magnetic storage
- Modeling of moleculalry thin lubricant layer
morphology and behavior under shear to predict shear and normal
(bearing) forces during 'lubricant contact,' accounting for viscosity
stiffening and interfacial slip
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Peer Reviewed Publications
Vakis, Eriten and Polycarpou
– Modeling bearing and shear forces in molecularly thin lubricants, Tribology Letters, in review
Vakis and Polycarpou
– Head-disk
interface nanotribology for Tbit/in2 recording
densities: near-contact and contact recording, Journal of
Physics D: Applied Physics, 2010, 43(22)
Vakis and Polycarpou
– Optimization
of thermal fly-height control geometry for Tbit/in2 recording,
Microsystem Technologies, 2010, 16(6)
Vakis, Lee and Polycarpou
– Dynamic
Head-Disk Interface Instabilities with Friction for Light (Surfing)
Recording, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2009, 45(11)
Spagna, Vakis et al.
– Phylogeny, scaling, and the generation of extreme forces in
trap-jaw ants, Journal of Experimental Biology,
2008, 211(14)
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