Materials Science and Engineering's
External Interactions
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Embedded mini-reactor design. |
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MSE faculty have close interactions and collaborations with entities outside the University of Maryland, including other universities, government laboratories, professional societies, and consortia. These are described briefly in the list below. These interactions provide substantial benefit to the research and to the educational experience of the students and postdocs involved.
You can also learn more about the department's industry-related interactions.
Government Laboratories |
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| National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) | G. W. Rubloff - collaborations and support for chemical sensors, metrology, and process control in semiconductor manufacturing |
| Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS/NSA) | R. Phaneuf - collaborations and support for investigations of patterning for directed sel-assembly, LEEM development, and surface sensitive electron microscopies for device characterization |
| NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) | A. Christou - surface analysis of contamination on optical coatings; degradation of high power semiconductor laser diodes; VCSEL arrays for LIDAR applications |
| Army Research Laboratory (ARL) - Adelphi | A. Christou - processing of VCSEL arrays; finite element analysis of thermomechanical stresses in biased devices; diamond substrate metallization; modulator design on non-(100) InP |
| Army Research Laboratory (ARL) - Aberdeen | A. Christou - high g loaded microelectronics and packaging; FEM simulation |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | |
| ITC-irst FCS Division Trento, Italy |
G. W. Rubloff, R. Briber - surface and thin film nanomaterials, biomaterials/bioMEMS, and combinatorial approaches to materials research |
Other Universities and Consortia |
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| NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), U. Maryland and Rutgers University | R.J. Phaneuf and L Salamanca-Riba |
| NSF I/UCRC Center for Optoelectronic Devices, Interconnects, and Packaging | A. Christou - Director |
| NSF/SRC Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor Manufacturing, U. Arizona, MIT, ASU, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cornell, Lincoln Labs, U. Maryland | G. W. Rubloff - co-PI, Thrust C, integrated ESH impact assessment |
Professional Societies and Journals |
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| Federation of Materials Societies | A. Christou - Vice-President and President-Elect 2004 |
| Neutron Scattering Society of America | R. Briber - President |
| Journal of Polymer Science | R. Briber - Associate Editor, Polymer Physics Edition |
| IEEE Transactions on Materials and Device Reliability | A. Christou - Editor |
| Quality and Reliability International (Wiley) | A. Christou - Associate Editor |
| AVS - the Science and Technology Society | G. W. Rubloff - founding Chairman, Manufacturing Science and Technology Topical Group |
Professional Honors |
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| National Science Foundation | I. Takeuchi - Career Award |
| Office of Naval Reseach | I. Takeuchi - Young Investigator Program Award 2000 |
| AVS - the Science and Technology Society | G. W. Rubloff, G. S. Oehrlein - Fellows |
| G. W. Rubloff - Gaede-Langmuir Prize 2000 | |
| Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | A. Christou - Fellow |
| Department of Commerce | R. Briber - Bronze Medal 1990 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | R. Briber, G. W. Rubloff - Fellows |
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