Harper, Hurd, and Mark Will Chair 1994 MRS Spring Meeting
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Harper, Hurd, and Mark Will Chair 1994 MRS Spring Meeting April 4-8,1994, San Francisco, California
James M.E. Harper
James M.E. Harper, Alan J. Hurd, and James E. Mark will serve as meeting chairs for the MRS 1994 Spring Meeting in San Francisco. According to Harper, "This meeting will continue to fulfill the recognized role of MRS meetings as true interdisciplinary events at which engineers and scientists advance the state of understanding in their own fields, while gaining perspective and exposure to related topics. Symposia are planned in fields which have a strong history at the Spring Meeting, such as microelectronic materials, reliability, semiconductors, ceramics, and intermetallic composites. Other current research areas represented include high-temperature superconductors, polycrystalline thin films, and novel forms of carbon such as fullerenes. In addition, there will be tutorial talks on traditional areas of materials science, in Symposium X. Several important new meeting topics relevant to display materials and related applications are flat panels, electroluminescent and liquid crystal polymers, scintillators, and phosphor materials. "This year, MRS is putting a strong emphasis on two areas of growing importance to the broad range of MRS members: manufacturing aspects and environmental aspects of materials science. The interplay between materials and manufacturing issues is being addressed in many of the individual symposia, such as Advanced Metallization for Devices and Circuits, Flat Panel Display Materials, and Rapid Thermal and Integrated Processing. Environmental aspects are being introduced in two new symposia covering Materials and Manufacturing Processes /Fuels and Power Generation, and CO 2 Chem-
Alan J. Hurd
istry/New Materials for Engine Exhaust Gas Conversion. The many interconnections that exist between topics in the Spring 1994 Meeting are evident in the Call for Papers, in which more than ten joint sessions between symposia are either listed or under discussion. "To underscore the theme that materials science plays a role in nearly all of our activities, a new symposium on Materials in Musical Instruments will be introduced this year. We look forward to a fascinating description of the relationship between materials and music, as presented by experts in the field." James M.E. Harper is manager of Thin Film Metallurgy and Interconnections at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he researches deposition processes and reactions between metal and compound thin films. His research emphasis in thin-film deposition and etching ranges from the application of quantitative low-energy ion beam techniques to the modification of thin-film structure and composition. In the area of thin-film reactions, he has examined phase formation sequences in intermetallic compounds and has developed methods to modify phase transformations in metals and silicides. Harper received his BA degree in physics from Harvard University and a PhD degree in applied physics from Stanford University. The author or co
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