Faculty and Staff
Nahid Swails, Ph.D.
| Title: | Associate Professor of Physics |
| Department: | Math, Science, Nursing, and Public Health USC Lancaster |
| Email: | shayestn@email.sc.edu |
| Phone: | 803-313-7029 |
| Fax: | 803-313-7106 |
| Office: | Bradley 214 |
| Office Hours: | Please change to By appointment only |
| LinkedIn: | My LinkedIn profile |
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Bio
Dr. Nahid Swails is an Associate Professor of Physics in the Department of Mathematics, Nursing, Science, and Public Health at the University of South Carolina Lancaster. She joined USCL in 2018. Dr. Swails received her B.Sc. in Nuclear Physics from Isfahan
University of Technology, her M.Sc. in Computational Condensed Matter Physics from
Shahrekord University, and her Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University
of South Carolina, Columbia.
Her research interests include shape memory alloys, additive manufacturing and metal 3D printing, nanotechnology, fabrication of small-scale materials, superconductivity, thin films and semiconductors, characterization of novel materials, mathematical modeling, and advanced manufacturing processes.
Dr. Swails has published 14 peer-reviewed journal articles, which have been widely cited, and has served as a reviewer for more than 50 manuscripts across over 10 scientific journals. She is also deeply committed to enhancing physics education and actively involves
undergraduate students in research.
Current Research Interests
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Shape memory alloys and smart materials (including Nitinol)
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Laser-based and metal additive manufacturing
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Microstructure–property relationships in advanced materials
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Nanotechnology and small-scale material fabrication
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Advanced material characterization techniques
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Sustainable and functional materials for engineering applications
Selected Publications
- Ravichander, B.B., Farhang, B., Swails, N., Amerinatanzi, A. and Moghaddam, N.S., (2020, April). Analysis of the deviation in properties of selective laser melted samples fabricated by varying process parameters. Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials IX (Vol. 11377, p. 113771A). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
- Srivathsan, S., Ravichander, B.B., Moghaddam, N.S., Swails, N. and Amerinatanzi, A.,( 2020, April). Investigation of the strength of different porous lattice structures manufactured using selective laser melting. Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials IX (Vol. 11377, p. 113771B). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
- Thakare, S., Ravichander, B.B., Swails, N., Moghaddam, N.S. and Amerinatanzi, A., (2020, April). The effect of support structure geometry on surface topography of selectively laser melted parts. In Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials IX (Vol. 11377, p. 113771D). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
- Dean, C. L., Kunchur, M. N., Shahesteh-Mogaddam, N., Varner, S. D., Knight, J. M., Ivlev, B. I. & Sou, I. K. (2017, May). Superconductivity and oscillatory magnetoresistance at a topological-insulator/chalcogenide interface. AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 1832, No. 1, p. 020001). AIP Publishing.