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Materials Science and Engineering Program
Program in the Department of Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics, sharing teaching and research with the faculty of the
Henry Krumb School of Mines.
200 S. W. Mudd, MC 4701
Phone: 212-854-4457
www.apam.columbia.edu
www.seas.columbia.edu/matsci
In Charge of
Materials Science and
Engineering
Professor James S. Im
1106 S. W. Mudd
In Charge of Solid-
State Science and
Engineering
Professor Siu-Wai Chan
1136 S. W. Mudd
Professor Irving P. Herman
208 S. W. Mudd
Committee on
Materials Science and
Engineering/ Solid-State
Science and Engineering
William E. Bailey
Associate Professor of
Materials Science
Katayun Barmak
Professor of Materials
Science
Simon J. Billinge
Professor of Materials
Science
Louis E. Brus
Professor of Chemistry
Siu-Wai Chan
Professor of Materials
Science
Paul F. Duby
Professor of Mineral
Engineering
Christopher J. Durning
Professor of
Chemical Engineering
Irving P. Herman
Professor of Applied Physics
James S. Im
Professor of Materials
Science
Chris A. Marianetti
Assistant Professor of
Materials Science
Richard M. Osgood Jr.
Professor of Electrical
Engineering
Aron Pinczuk
Professor of Applied Physics
and Physics
Ponisseril Somasundaran
Professor of Mineral
Engineering
Yasutomo Uemura
Professor of Physics
Wen I. Wang
Professor of Electrical
Engineering
Chee Wei Wong
Associate Professor of
Mechanical Engineering
Materials Science and
Engineering (MSE) focuses on
understanding, designing, and
producing technology-enabling materials
by analyzing the relationships among the
synthesis and processing of materials,
their properties, and their detailed
structure. This includes a wide range
of materials such as metals, polymers,
ceramics, and semiconductors. Solidstate
science and engineering focuses
on understanding and modifying the
properties of solids from the viewpoint
of the fundamental physics of the
atomic and electronic structure.
Undergraduate and graduate
programs in materials science
and engineering are coordinated
through the MSE Program in the
Department of Applied Physics and
Applied Mathematics. This program
promotes the interdepartmental
nature of the discipline and involves
the Departments of Applied Physics
and Applied Mathematics, Chemical
Engineering and Applied Chemistry,
Electrical Engineering, and Earth and
Environmental Engineering (EEE) in
the Henry Krumb School of Mines
(HKSM) with advisory input from the
Departments of Chemistry and Physics.
Students interested in materials
science and engineering enroll in the
engineering 2011–2012
materials science and engineering
program in the Department of Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics.
Those interested in the solid-state
science and engineering specialty enroll
in the doctoral program within Applied
Physics and Applied Mathematics or
Electrical Engineering.
The faculty in the interdepartmental
committee constitute but a small
fraction of those participating in this
program, who include Professors
Bailey, Barmak, Billinge, Chan, Herman,
Im, Marianetti, Noyan, and Pinczuk
from Applied Physics and Applied
Mathematics; Brus, Durning, Flynn,
Koberstein, O’Shaughnessy, and Turro
from Chemical Engineering; Duby,
Somasundaran, and Themelis from
EEE; Heinz, Osgood, and Wang from
Electrical Engineering and Wong from
Mechanical Engineering.
Materials science and engineering
uses optical, electron, and scanning
probe microscopy and diffraction
techniques to reveal details of
structure, ranging from the atomic
to the macroscopic scale—details
essential to understanding properties
such as mechanical strength, electrical
conductivity, and technical magnetism.
These studies also give insight
into problems of the deterioration
of materials in service, enabling
designers to prolong the useful life of
their products. Materials science and
engineering also focus on new ways
to synthesize and process materials,
from bulk samples to ultrathin films
to epitaxial heterostructures to
nanocrystals. This involves techniques
such as UHV sputtering; molecular
beam epitaxy; plasma etching; laser
ablation, chemistry, and recrystallization;
and other nonequilibrium processes.
The widespread use of new materials
and the new uses of existing materials
in electronics, communications,
and computers have intensified the
demand for a systematic approach
to the problem of relating properties
to structure and necessitates a
multidisciplinary approach.
Solid-state science and engineering
uses techniques such as transport
measurements, X-ray photoelectron
spectroscopy, inelastic light scattering,
luminescence, and nonlinear optics
to understand electrical, optical, and
magnetic properties on a quantum
mechanical level. Such methods are
used to investigate exciting new types
of structures, such as two-dimensional
electron gases in semiconductor
heterostructures, superconductors,
and semiconductor surfaces and
nanocrystals.