Lab Publications

Montalbo T, Lee T, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2008. Modeling Costs and Fuel Economy Benefits of Lightweighting Vehicle Closure Panels.
Olivetti E, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2008. Original Equipment Manufacturer End-of-Life Equipment Collection Metrics. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
Dahmus J, Fredholm S, Olivetti E, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2008. Modeling the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
Fredholm S, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2008. Characterizing Architectural Options for Electronic Waste Recycling Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
Alonso E, Field F, Kirchain R. 2008. A Case Study of the Availability of Platinum Group Metals for Electronics Manufacturers. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
Fuchs E, Field F, Roth R, Kirchain R. 2008. Strategic Materials Selection in the Automotive Body: Economic Opportunities for Polymer Composite Design. Composites Science and Technology. 68:1989-2002.
Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2008. A Framework for Evaluating the Economic Performance of Recycling Systems: A Case Study of North American Electronics Recycling Systems. Environmental Sciences and Technology. 42:6800-6808.
Kirchain R, Cosquer A. 2007. Strategies for Maintaining Light Metal Reuse: Insights from Modeling of Firm-wide Raw Materials Availability and Demand. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling. 51:367-396.
Gaustad G, Li P, Kirchain R. 2007. Modeling Methods For Managing Raw Material Compositional Uncertainty In Alloy Production. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling. 52:180-207.
Kirchain R, Kimerling LC. 2007. A roadmap for nanophotonics. Nature Photonics. 1:303-305.
Field F, Kirchain R, Roth R. 2007. Process Cost Modeling: Strategic Engineering and Economic Evaluation of Materials Technologies. Journal of Metals. 49:1543-1581.
Gregory J, Alonso E, Field F, Kirchain R. 2007. Characterizing Sustainable Material Recovery Systems: A Case Study of E-Waste Materials.
Alonso E, Field F, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2007. Material Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses. Environmental Science and Technology. 41:6649-6656.
Gaustad G, Das S, Kirchain R. 2007. Identifying Scrap Friendly Alloys Using Chance Constrained Modeling. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of TMS: Light Metals Division. :1153-1160.
Allen AN, Das S, Field F, Kirchain R. 2007. Robustness of Materials Selection Decisions Using Various Life-Cycle Assessment Methods. Proceedings of the TMS Conference on Materials Science and Technology (MS&T07). :55-66.
Gregory J, Alonso E, Cameron D, Connors S, Field F, Kirchain R. 2006. A Survey of Environmental and Social Pressures on Supply Chains and Responses.
Alonso E, Cameron D, Connors S, Field F, Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2006. Material Availability and the Supply Chain: Risks, Effects, and Responses.
Fuchs E, Bruce E, Ram R, Kirchain R. 2006. Process-based Cost Modeling of Photonics Manufacture: The Cost Competitiveness of Monolithic Integration of a 1550-nm DFB Laser and an Electroabsorptive Modulator on an InP Platform. Journal of Lightwave Technology. 24:3175-3186.
Atlee J, Kirchain R. 2006. Operational Sustainability Metrics Assessing Metric Effectiveness in the Context of Electronics-Recycling Systems. Environmental Science and Technology. 40:4506-4513.
Gregory J, , Kirchain R. 2006. Driving Eco-Efficiency-Informed Decisions: A Process-Based Model of End-of-Life Electronics Recycling. Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment. :138-143.
Gregory J, Kirchain R. 2006. Eco-Efficient Recycling Alternatives for End-of-Life Cathode Ray Tubes. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of TMS: Light Metals Division. :909-918.
Li P, Kirchain R. 2005. Modeling Scrap Sourcing Decisions Given Uncertain Demand. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of TMS: Light Metals Division. :849-854.
Li P, Guldberg S, Riddervold HO, Kirchain R. 2005. Identifying Economic and Scrap Reuse Benefits of Light Metals Sorting Technologies. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of TMS: EPD Congress 2005. :37-51.
Kirchain R. 2005. Overview of the MIT-CTR: Conclusions and Next Steps. Proceedings of Compounding Semiconductor Week 2005.
Kimerling LC. 2005. Microphotonics: Hardware for the Information Age, MIT Communications Technology Roadmap.

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