| Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (G-LAM) is a new Independent Laboratory formally established on September 1, 1999. Its mission is to support collaborative research programs on advanced materials and foster interdisciplinary research and education for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students. It is not, however, an academic department, nor does it grant degrees. Prospective graduate students must apply to respective academic departments for admission.
LAM consists of about 30 faculty members from 7 academic departments gathered under the same roof and whose primary research interest is in the general area of advanced materials. LAM faculty and their research groups occupy the two-building complex of the recently renovated McCullough Building and the newly built McCullough Annex which provides state-of-the-art research facilities for the 220-strong G-LAM community. The current research programs include activities associated both with organized centers and with individual researchers. The organized centers operate under the LAM umbrella and include the Center for Materials Research (CMR) and the Center for Research on Information Storage Materials (CRISM).
Under the leadership of R. White, CRISM includes B. Clemens, Z.-X. Shen, P. McIntyre, K. Moler, A.Kapitulnik and S. Wang as active LAM members. Moreover, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering continues an active search for a new appointment in information storage materials (with B. Clemens as chair). The members of CRISM have a common interest in materials and phenomena related to data recording and storage. Currently, seven out of the ten faculty associated with CRISM are in LAM, and most of CRISM’s research is in magnetism, magnetic thin films, spin structures and phenomena associated with writing, reading and storing data in a magnetic medium. CRISM receives support from domestic and overseas companies involved in magnetic data storage and much of the support is devoted to facilities infrastructure.
The Center for Materials Research (CMR) has a 39 year old history in supporting multidisciplinary research on campus leading to the fundamental understanding, development and application of advanced materials. It is currently in a phase out mode to sunset on August 31, 2000 due to the loss of its NSF-MRSEC grant.
Besides these organized centers, the individual faculty activities in LAM and their groupings include:
Computational Materials Research (K. Cho, C. Musgrave)
Electronic Materials (J. Harris, P. McIntyre, M. McGehee, Hari Manoharan)
Magnetic Materials (B. Clemens, S. Wang, R. White, Hari Manoharan)
Materials Physics (M. Beasley, T. Geballe, M. Greven, A. Kapitulnik, K. Moler, Z-X. Shen, Hari Manoharan)
Materials Synthesis (R. Feigelson, M. Greven, I. Fisher)
Nanofabrication and nanotechnology (K. Cho, H. Dai, T. Kenny, K. Moler, Hari Manoharan)
Theoretical Materials Physics (S. Doniach, A. Fetter, W. Harrison, R. Laughlin, S. Zhang)
Optical Materials (R. Byer, M. Fejer, R. Feigelson, M. McGehee)
Polymeric Materials (M. McGehee)
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