R. Steve Sellers

Engineer. Hardware. Products.

I'm Steve Sellers and this is my webpage, containing some personal and professional works. I live in the Northern California (Silicon Valley) and lead product & technology at Hexagon Wireless, where we build innovative wireless PropTech with newly unlicensed spectrum, to connect the unconnected and fill mobile coverage gaps. Prior, I helped launch 7 generations of Pixel phone at Google including numerous innovative hardware & software features, and worked on ambitious energy projects at X, the moonshot factory, specifically Makani and Malta. Previous to that I worked to bring enormous concentrated solar power projects to life, engineering Asia's largest CSP plant.

I hold a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering.

Literature

A collection of publications, master's degree work and proud undergraduate projects.

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Novel approach to structural health monitoring applied to a class of lightweight tensile members commonly used in high performance applications.

Proceedings of The International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring (IWSHM), Stanford University, Stanford CA, (2017) 1945-1952
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Master's degree thesis from The University of Wisconsin-Madion, completed in August 2012.

Impact of Reduction-Oxidation Agents on the High Temperature Corrosion of Materials in LiF-NaF-KF. 112 pages.
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An experimental study on reduction-oxidation chemistry effect on high temperature alloy corrosion in molten fluoride salts.

Wei-Jen Cheng, Robert S. Sellers, Mark H. Anderson, Kumar Sridharan, Chaur-Jeng Wang, Todd R. Allen, Zirconium Effect on the Corrosion Behavior of 316L Stainless Steel Alloy and Hastelloy-N Superalloy in Molten Fluoride Salt, Nuclear Technology. 183 (2013) 248-259.
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Conference presentation regarding molten fluoride salt corrosion.

Robert S. Sellers, Wei-Jen Cheng, , Mark H. Anderson, Kumar Sridharan, Chaur-Jeng Wang, Todd R. Allen, Materials corrosion in molten LiF-NaF-KF eutectic salt under different reduction-oxidation conditions, Proceedings of the International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants 2012, ICAPP 2012, June 24, 2012 - June 28, 2012. 2 (2012) 953–961.
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What happens when things go wrong at 850°C in a corrosive environment.

R. S. Sellers, M. H. Anderson, K. Sridharan, T. R. Allen, ‘Failure Analysis of 316L Stainless Steel Crucible by Molten Fluoride Salt Interaction with Clay Bonded Silicon Carbide,’ Engineering Failure Analysis, 42 (2014) 38-44.
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An experimental study on nuclear graphite interaction with molten fluoride salts

R. S. Sellers, W. J. Cheng, B. Kelleher, M. H. Anderson, K. Sridharan, C. J. Wang, T. R. Allen, ‘Corrosion of 316L and Hastelloy-N in molten eutectic LiF-NaF-KF salt and interaction with graphite,’ Nuclear Technology, 188 (2014) 192-199.
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This report developes a numercal solution to the laminar Navier-Stokes equation for parallel plate driven cavity boundary conditions, using semi-implicit methods. Written for MAE 5440, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Spring 2010.

Decetralized telecommunication infrasturcture, San Francisco 2023



Huizhou, China 2018



No longer have time to catch a bigger fish.



AREVA Solar building on Sandia’s molten salt expertise. [pdf]
Image credit Randy Montoya, Copyright Sandia National Laboratories 2014
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Holi 2015, Jodhpur India



Reliance 125MW CSP Project, Dhursar, Rajasthan, India