Awards
- Won the 1996 Department of Energy (DOE) Award for Sustained Outstanding Research in Metallurgy and Ceramics. The award was for "Growth of New Metastable Nitride-Based Ceramic Alloys, Superlattices, and Multilayers With Enhanced Properties".
- My work is featured among the 100 most important discoveries of the DOE Office of Science
- 1994, 1997, and 2002 Bunshah Award for the best paper presented at the "International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films"
- Did this at the age of 53 (1.8 MB)
- First place (age 40-45 category) at the American Vacuum Society 5K run, Orlando, Florida (1993),
Professional Affiliations
Other activities
- Chair of an topical conference on In-Situ Electron Microscopy
- Organizer: June 19-22, 2007 67th Annual Physical Electronics Conference
- Chair of the AVS constitution and by-laws committee, member of the AVS publications committee
- Chair: Nov 14-15, 2005 Gatan Nanofactory Workshop
- Chair: June 9-10, 2005 MMMS05: Dynamics of Materials Revealed by Electron Microscopy
- Chair: June 3-6, 2003 Surface Analysis 2003- The 25th Annual Symposium on Applied Surface Analysis
- Program Chair of "International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films", San Diego 1998
- Proceedings Editor of "International Conference for Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films", San Diego 1995 and 1996
- Guest editor in the international journals of Thin Solid Films and Surface and Coatings Technology
- Member of the Editorial Board of the international journal Vacuum
- Reviewer in J. Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Thin Solid Films, Vacuum, Surface and Coatings Technology, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A and B.
- Ellected and served as an executive board member of the Vacuum Metallurgy Division (VMD) of AVS 1992-95,1997-1998
- Member of the program committee and session chair at the AVS National Symposia 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997
The great physicist Fred Seitz visited our lab in 2001

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