André Anders

is a Senior Scientist and the Leader of the Plasma Applications Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.  He studied physics in Poland, Germany, and Russia.  He holds an M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. degree (1987) in physics from Humboldt University, Berlin.  He worked at the Academy of Sciences, (East) Berlin, until he moved to Berkeley, California, in 1992.  His research includes coatings by sputtering and cathodic arcs, plasma immersion ion implantation, and plasma and ion source development.  He has authored/co-authored three books, over 250 papers in refereed journals, and holds several patents. He serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics, on several international advisory committees, and on the Editorial Boards of Applied Physics Letters, the Journal of Applied Physics, and Surface and Coatings Technology.  He was elected Fellow of APS, IEEE and IoP (UK) and received the Chatterton Award (1994), two R&D 100 Awards (1997, 2009), and the 2010 Merit Award of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Societies.

Gary S. Ash

is President of Castle Brook Corporation, Dartmouth, MA. The company provides technical and management consulting services for the vacuum and cryogenics industry. He has had more than 35 years of experience in vacuum systems, pumps and other components, deposition processes ranging from evaporation to sputtering to molecular beam epitaxy. Engineering experience includes equipment and process design, manufacturing process development, materials and failure analysis, and applications support. In addition, he has had extensive experience in product strategy, development, and manufacturing planning for industrial products and services. He was previously employed by the CTI-Cryogenics division of Helix Technology Corporation, ASTeX, RIBER division of Instruments SA, Optical Coating Laboratory Inc., Spectrum Systems division of Barnes Engineering Co., AAI Corporation, and American Electronic Laboratories. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a PhD in optical physics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Ralf Bandorf

received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2002 from Fraunhofer IST / Carolo-Wilhelmina Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.  Ralf continued at Fraunhofer IST as a scientist, specifically as Project leader in Group Micro and Sensor Technology with a Focus on PVD and PACVD coatings.  Since 2007, he has worked as Head of Group Sensoric Functional Coatings at Fraunhofer IST, with a focus on highly ionized pulse plasma processes (HIPP processes) like HiPIMS and MPP, additionally Gas Flow Sputtering, PACVD, reactive deposition, plasma characterization (OES, RFA) sputter strain gauges, magnetic films, electrical films, and MAX-Coatings. In addition to his work at Fraunhofer IST, Ralf is Action Chair of COST Action MP0804: Highly ionized pulse plasma processes (HIPP processes, 2009-2013. He is the Chair of the HIPIMS Sessions at ICMCTF and SVC TechCon, and Conference Chairman of the International Conference on Fundamentals and Industrial Applications of HIPIMS.

Hana Baránková

is Professor at the Angstrom Laboratory, Uppsala University and Director of the interdisciplinary program/center on environmental applications of plasma. She received her PhD from the Czech Academy of Science.  Her primary interests are innovation in coating technology, development of plasma sources, plasma processing and plasma treatment of surfaces and gases. She has published over 140 scientific papers and conference contributions  and holds several industrial patents on plasma systems. She is an inventor of metastable assisted deposition and co-inventor of the Linear Arc Discharge (LAD) source, the Magnets-in-Motion concept in plasma sources and Fused Hollow Cathode and Hybrid Hollow Electrode Activated Discharge (H-HEAD) cold atmospheric plasma sources. Hana Baránková has been serving 6 years on the SVC Board of Directors, and as TAC Chair of Emerging Technologies over the years. She is Secretary of SVC, organizer of Atmospheric Plasma Technologies session and Heuréka sessions and member of the Education, Strategic Planning, International Relations, Scholarship, and Student Sponsorship Committees. Hana is 2006 Mentor Award recipient for the development of numerous novel plasma sources. She acts as a consultant and is a co-founder of two companies, BB Plasma HB and BB Plasma Design AB.

Ladislav Bárdos

is Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden and Research leader of the Plasma group at the Angstrom laboratory. He received his PhD in 1978 from the Czech Acad. Sci. and a Doctor of Science degree from Charles University in Prague in 1995. In 1984 he was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for outstanding research results in the plasma deposition of thin films. He has more than 25 years of experience in the field of applied plasma physics and thin films. He has published over 200 scientific papers and conference contributions, designed several plasma sources for industry and has 15 Czech, 7 Swedish and several international patents. He runs a consulting company in plasma sources and processing technology. His primary interests are microwave plasmas, including downstream ECR and surface-wave generation, and particularly the radio frequency generated hollow cathodes and hybrid sources at both low and atmospheric pressures. Lad Bardos is Program Chair for 2009 and 2010 SVC TechCons, is currently serving on the SVC Board of Directors and is TAC chair of a special session Heuréka at the SVC TechCon and a member of the SVC Publications and Strategic Planning Committees.

Abe Belkind

has 15 years of research and development experience in industry and more than 30 years in academia. From 1981 to 1996 he was a Lead Scientist for BOC Coating Technology, where he investigated and developed vacuum and plasma technologies for the deposition of thin film coatings. From 1996 to 2005, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical and Materials Engineering and later in the Department of Physics and Engineering Physics at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. In 1997, he created a successful consulting company, now called A. Belkind & Associates, LLC. He is an expert in various technologies for depositing and designing metal alloy, oxide, carbide, nitride and other thin films; plasma surface cleaning and treatment; and methods of film analysis. He has received 10 patents, published a book, and written more than 100 technical papers. Dr. Belkind is the recipient of a BOC Group Technology award and two awards from the Latvian Academy of Science.

Klaus Bewilogua

studied physics at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany, and completed his thesis in 1973. In the following time he was research assistant at the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany, where he worked on structure analyses of amorphous materials and on the plasma assisted deposition of hard coatings. 1983 he qualified for lecturer. In 1990 Klaus Bewilogua joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films in Braunschweig, Germany. As head of a department he is responsible for R&D in the field of hard coatings, especially diamond-like carbon and cubic boron nitride.

Clark Bright is a Senior Staff Scientist and Group Technical Leader with 3M Corporation. He is directing the development and scale-up of processes for vacuum deposition of multilayer organic and inorganic thin film products. He previously was Vice President at Presstek, Inc., and its Delta V Technology subsidiary, where he directed the R&D of transparent conductive oxides, barrier coatings, polymer multilayer (PML) technology, and custom vacuum coating equipment. While at Southwall Technologies, as Director of Product Development he led the development of a web coating process for sputter depositing a durable, conductive (ITO), multilayer antireflection coating on plastic film used on CRT computer monitors. He has published and presented numerous papers on optical coatings and holds 11 patents in the field.

Paul Burrows

is a Science and Technology Consultant based in Kennewick, WA with 22 years of experience in nanoscale research and development. From 2000 – 2008 he was a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA, where he managed a broad research initiative in nanoscience and nanotechnology and organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) for displays and solid state lighting. He was previously a Research Scholar at Princeton University, where he was part of the research team that developed multiple technology platforms around stacked, transparent, phosphorescent and flexible OLEDs. He has also held research appointments at the University of Southern California and the Riken Institute in Saitama, Japan. He graduated with a PhD in Physics from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1989, has co-authored over 110 publications and is named as a co-inventor of 78 issued U.S. Patents.

Greg Caskey

started as an experimental nuclear physicist, then turned to thin film deposition and product development through various R&D efforts in mirror, electrochromic film, optical filter, and transparent conductive oxide coatings. At present, Greg is a Visiting Assistant Professor of  Physics at Grand Valley State University. He has published over 25 papers in professional and technical journals and has several patents and one R&D 100 award.

Tom Christensen

is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1979 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Physics from Cornell University. After several years as a member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque he joined the University of Colorado faculty in 1989. He has worked with vacuum technology, thin film technology and surface characterization since 1980 and has taught local AVS short courses since 1992.

J.A. (George) Dobrowolski

is currently a guest worker at the National Research Council of Canada. His main interests are optical filters, in general, and the development of theoretical methods for the design and construction of optical multilayer systems, in particular. He also is interested in the development of various new technological and consumer-oriented applications of optical coatings. He is the author or co-author of about 150 publications, eight handbook articles, and 28 patents in the field of optical thin films. He received the 1987 Joseph Fraunhofer Award, the 1996 David Richardson Medal of the Optical Society of America, and the 1997 Medal of Achievement in Industrial and Applied Physics of the Canadian Association of Physicists. In 2005 he was awarded the SVC Nathaniel Sugerman Award. Dobrowolski is the co-inventor of the optical thin film security devices used on all Canadian bank notes of $5 and higher denomination.

Arutiun P. Ehiasarian

joined the Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK in 1998 where he obtained his PhD in Plasma Science and Surface Engineering. His research within NTCPVD has concentrated on development of plasma PVD technologies for substrate pretreatment prior to coating deposition to improve adhesion, deposition of coatings with dense microstructure, low-pressure plasma nitriding and hybrid processes of plasma nitriding/coating deposition. He has experience with cathodic vacuum arc discharges, dc and pulsed magnetron discharges, and radio-frequency coil enhanced magnetron sputtering. He utilizes plasma diagnostics such as optical emission spectroscopy (OES), electrostatic probes, energy-resolved mass spectroscopy and atomic absorption spectroscopy. Materials characterization includes high-resolution TEM, STEM, STEM-EDS, SEM, and XRD as well as mechanical testing available at NTCPVD. Arutiun is one of the pioneers of high power impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS) technology and his work in the field has been acknowledged with the R.F. Bunshah Award (2002), the TecVac Prize (2002) and the Hüttinger Industrial Accolade. He is an author of more than 50 publications, 10 invited lectures, 3 patents and 1 book chapter in the field of PVD and HIPIMS.

David Glocker

is Chief Technology Officer for Isoflux Incorporated, a manufacturer of magnetron equipment, which he founded in 1993. He has more than 20 years’ experience in thin film research, development, and manufacturing and has taken a number of new processes from laboratory-scale feasibility studies through successful production. He is an inventor or co-inventor of 25 U.S. patents and an author of more than 25 research papers in the areas of sputter source design, plasmas and plasma characteristics, sources of substrate heating in sputtering, and the control of sputtering processes and sputtered film properties. He also is the co-editor of The Handbook of Thin Film Process Technology, a major reference work in the field.

Jeremy M. Grace

is currently a senior principal scientist at the Eastman Kodak company.  At Kodak, he has worked in the areas of plasma surface modification, thin-film adhesion, sputter deposition, and organic vapor deposition.  He has written several patents and journal articles in the area of plasma modification of polymers.  He is a member of the Society of Vacuum Coaters and the American Vacuum Society, and served as chair of the Upstate New York Chapter of the AVS (UNY-VAC) from 1998 - 2000.

Joe Greene

is the D.B. Willett Professor of Materials Science and Physics, the Tage Erlander Professor of Materials Physics at Linkoping University, a Chaired Professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Techology, and Past Director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The focus of his research has been the development of an atomic-level understanding of adatom/surface interactions during vapor-phase film growth in order to controllably manipulate microchemistry, microstructure, and physical properties. His work has involved film growth by all forms of sputter deposition (MBE, CVD, MOCVD, and ALE). He was President of the American Vacuum Society in 1989, a consultant for several research and development laboratories, and a visiting professor at several universities. Recent awards include receipt of the Aristotle Award from SRC (1998), the Adler Award from the American Physical Society (1998), Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (1993) and the American Physical Society (1998), and the Turnbull Prize from the Materials Research Society (1999). He was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2003. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Thin Solid Films.

James N. Hilfiker graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Nebraska in 1995. His graduate research involved in situ ellipsometry and optical characterization of magneto-optic thin films. He joined the J.A. Woollam Company upon graduation and has worked in their applications lab for over 11 years. He has authored over 30 technical articles involving Ellipsometry, including a couple of Encylopedia chapters and a recent book chapter on Vacuum Ultraviolet Ellipsometry.

Eric Kay spent 35 years with the IBM Research Division in San Jose, CA, heading up the Surface, Thin Film, and Plasma Science Groups. From 1991 to 1998 he was on the Stanford University Faculty in the Material Science and Engineering Department. His personal research throughout his career has been intimately involved with all aspects of plasma science in the context of thin film science and technology. He is the author of 7 book chapters, 160 technical papers, and 12 patents. He is a Fellow of the APS and AVS and was the first recipient of the John Thornton Memorial AVS Award as well as the recipient of US Senior Scientist von Humboldt Award. He is presently the Editor of —Critical Reviews- JVST.

Gerry van der Kolk

has studied physics and has received his Ph.D at Delft University. His working experience is partly R&D in Nuclear Reactor Physics (Delft Reactor Institute), thin films (Philips Research) and partly in equipment manufacturing (former director of Hauzer). His present position is Chief Technology Officer of Ionbond.

Robert (Bob) A. Langley

retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1994 and Sandia National Laboratories in 1999. He has performed research in the fields of atomic and molecular physics, solid state physics, material science, vacuum science and technology, upper atmospheric phenomena, fusion power research, and high-energy accelerators, published over 130 scientific papers and is a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society. He obtained his BS, MS and PhD in physics at Georgia Tech and accepted visiting academic positions at Princeton University and University of New Castle, Australia. He is associate editor of Vacuum Technology and Coating magazine, teaches vacuum related courses for the American Vacuum Society and the Society of Vacuum Coaters, served on the Board of Directors of the AVS, and at present consults on vacuum science and technology, and microwave material processing.

H. Angus Macleod

has more than 40 years of experience in optical coatings, both in manufacturing and in research. He was born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland, and worked both in industry and academia in Great Britain before joining the University of Arizona as Professor of Optical Sciences in 1979. Since 1995, he has been full time with the Thin Film Center, Inc., a software, training and consulting company in Tucson, AZ, that he co-founded in 1986. He is the author of Thin Film Optical Filters, 3rd edition (IoP Publishing, 2001).

Peter Martin

worked at Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNNL) for over 29 years where he currently holds an Emeritus Laboratory Fellow appointment At PNNL he developed thin film coatings for energy, biomedical, space and defense applications. He is currently President of Columbia Basin Thin Film Solutions LLC and recent Past President of SVC.   He has written over 400 technical publications, three R&D 100 Awards, two Federal Laboratory Consortium awards, and voted Battelle 2005 Inventor of the Year.  He has over thirty US patents, and teaches short courses on Smart Materials and Energy Materials and Applications.

Allan Matthews

is Professor of Surface Engineering, and Head of the Department of Engineering Materials at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been working on plasma-assisted PVD processes for about 30 years. He spent his early career in the aerospace industry and subsequently carried out research into enhanced plasma-based coating and treatment processes as well as test and evaluation methods. He holds eight patents in these fields and has authored or co-authored over 330 publications, including the book, Coatings Tribology (Elsevier, 2009). He is a SVC Board Member and a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Advanced Surface Engineering Division of the AVS. He is a former Chairman, Symposium Committee member and  Proceedings Editor for the ICMCTF Conference. He a member and past Chair of the British Vacuum Council and a Co-Editor of the Elsevier journal, Surface and Coatings Technology.

Donald J. McClure

founded Acuity Consulting and Training to continue his love affair with vacuum coating and vacuum web coating in particular. Don retired from 3M's Corporate Research Laboratory after spending twenty five years working on a broad range of products and projects that utilized vacuum roll coating and processing. He served the Society of Vacuum Coaters in many roles including President and Secretary. He has offered his courses on the "Basics of Vacuum Web Coating" and "Sputter Deposition onto Flexible Substrates" for many years. His presentation, "A Wizard's Guide to Vacuum and Vacuum Coating," has received rave reviews from attendees. He was the SVC's 2004 Nathaniel Sugerman Award recipient.

Leon McCrary

was the Marketing Manager at Denton Vacuum, LLC, and was President of DynaVac for a number of years. He has over 46 years of experience in vacuum technology and coating development. He holds a patent for the "Ivadizer" process (ion plating of aluminum for corrosion protection onto steel and aluminum alloys) and for a broad beam ion source used for ion-assisted deposition. His current specialty is in optical coaters used primarily for precision optics and telecommunications. He has specialized in the reactive sputtering of oxide coatings on a large scale and the development of applying new coating technology to production equipment. He was on the Board of Directors of the SVC for a number of years and was the Treasurer of the Society for six years.

Dale E. Morton

has retired as the Process R&D Manager of the High Vacuum Equipment Division of Denton Vacuum, LLC. He also was Product Manager for the cold cathode ion source product line. He has 35 years of experience in design and process development for optical thin film applications with a strong emphasis on the characterization of the optical properties of thin film materials. He is a past director of the SVC (1994 to 2000) and is a former Optical Coating TAC Chair (1993 to 1995) and Program Chair (1997 to 1999) for the SVC Annual Technical Conference.

Holger Nörenberg is founder and Managing Director of Technolox Ltd., which specializes in novel permeation measurement equipment. During his time as Academic Director of Research at the University of Oxford, Oxford-Toppan Center, he was responsible for the development of permeation measurement equipment. He has a physics degree from the University of Rostock and worked in Germany, Japan and the UK. He has about 50 scientific and technical publication as well as several patent applications.

John F. O’Hanlon

is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Arizona. He retired from IBM Research Division in 1987, where he was involved in thin-film deposition, vacuum processing, and display technology. He retired from UA in 2002, where he directed the NSF Ind./Univ. Center for Microcontamination Control. His research focused on particles in plasmas, cleanrooms, and ultrapure water contamination. He is the author of A User’s Guide to Vacuum Technology, 3rd edition. (John Wiley & Sons, 2003).

Jim Oliver

is founder and owner of Vacuum Innovations, LLC and is a research engineer at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics.  A graduate of the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics, his work has focused on process design and modeling for precision evaporated coatings.  Thin-film uniformity control is of particular interest, having developed advanced distribution models and planetary rotation systems.  He also teaches optical coating design at the Institute of Optics as well as at the Institute’s annual thin film summer school program. 

Rutger Schlatmann

is director of PVcomB, the Competence Center for Thin Film and Nanotechnology in Photovoltaics Berlin.  He obtained his PhD at the FOM Institute in Amsterdam, From 1999 until 2008 he worked as R&D manager at flexible thin film Si solar cell producer Helianthos, formerly owned by Akzo Nobel and Shell Solar.

Thomas Schuelke

holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and has worked for the Fraunhofer Society for over 16 years. He gained industrial experience in the semiconductor industry. Currently he manages Fraunhofer USA’s activities in advanced industrial coating technologies. His team performs applied R&D projects for industry and government with a focus on carbon-based materials.

S. Ismat Shah

graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.  He worked for the DuPont Company as senior Staff Scientist for 12 years before joining the University of Delaware in 1999, where he has a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.  He has been involved in the field of thin films and nanostructured materials for 22 years.  He has over 174 publications in the field and six patents awarded.  He is the Chair of the SVC Education Committee.  He teaches the first on-line course offered by the SVC, in collaboration with the University of Delaware, on Vapor Deposition Processes.

Volker Sittinger

is a senior scientist at Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films (IST) in the Large Area Coating department. He works on magnetron sputtering for photovoltaic applications. Formerly he was a scientific assistant at the Institute of Solar Energy Research GmbH (ISFH). Volker Sittinger received his doctoral degree in optical and electrical characterisation of electrodeposited CuInSe₂ solar cells from the University of Oldenburg in 2003 and studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe.

Bill Sproul

is the founder and owner of Reactive Sputtering, Inc. Prior to starting his own company, he worked at Advanced Energy Industries, the Borg-Warner Corporation, Northwestern University, and Sputtered Films, Inc. Throughout his career he has been involved with the sputter deposition and reactive sputter deposition of hard materials for wear and corrosion applications. He is the author or co-author of more than 175 technical papers. He has 11 patents to his credit, and he is the inventor of the high rate reactive sputtering process. He is a past president of the American Vacuum Society, and he chaired the International Conference on Metallurgical Coating and Thin Films (ICMCTF) three times.  He also served on the SVC Board of Directors.  He is an AVS Fellow and Honorary Member, and in 2003 he received the SVC Mentor Award and the AVS Thornton Award.  In 2011 he was awarded the SVC Nathaniel H. Sugerman Memorial Award.

Johannes Strümpfel graduated as a physicist at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany in 1973. He developed the main features of the Plasma Emission Monitor (PEM®) to control reactive magnetron sputtering processes. This experience was the basis for sputter deposition of oxide and nitride films at high rates. Now he is responsible as chief scientist of the company VON ARDENNE Anlagentechnik GmbH in Dresden, Germany, which provides sputter coaters for production of large area optical coatings on glass and webs.

Gary Vergason founded Vergason Technology, Inc., in 1986 and has been working with and designing industrial vacuum arc equipment since 1981. His production equipment design experience is reflected in Multi-Arc and Perkin-Elmer coating systems as well as enhanced upgrades on Vac-Tech systems. He is an inventor/co-inventor of five vacuum arc related patents and has performed considerable research in the area of arc travel speed on the cathode as it relates to improved coating quality.

David B. Webb

is a Mechanical Engineer by training and has performed a variety of work functions during his 35 years of experience in the U.S. vacuum industry. He has traveled throughout the United States and Canada, working with a wide variety of technical and commercial firms. From his introduction into the vacuum industry operating a small family business producing laboratory mechanical vacuum pumps, he has performed R&D engineering, manufacturing engineering, product management, sales management, and the organization and management of a Technical Training Group for a variety of companies in the vacuum field. He currently provides application engineering and technical training with his own company, Vacua Techniques Co., in Alamo, CA. He has several patents in his name, has authored technical articles and has provided programs in secondary education.

Ronald R. Willey graduated from the MIT in optical instrumentation, has an M.S. from FIT, and over 35 years of experience in optical system and coating development and production. He is very experienced in practical thin films design, process development, and the application of industrial Design Of Experiments methodology. He is the inventor of a robust plasma/ion source for optical coating applications. He worked in optical instrument development and production at Perkin-Elmer and Block Associates. He developed automatic lens design programs at United Aircraft Research Laboratories. He formed Willey Corporation in 1964 and served a wide variety of clients with consulting, development, prototypes, and production. In 1981 he joined Martin Marietta Aerospace and was Director of the Optical Component Center where he was responsible for optical fabrication, coating, and assembly. He joined Opto Mechanik in 1985 where he was responsible for the development of all new technologies, new instruments, and production engineering. He was a Staff Scientist at Hughes Danbury Optical Systems. He holds four patents and has published many papers and a book on optical coating, optical design, and economics of optical tolerances. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and SPIE and a past Director of the Society of Vacuum Coaters. He now is a consultant in the above-listed technical areas.

Brian Willis

is a professor of Chemical Engineering in the Chemical, Materials and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut.  He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories prior to entering academia.  He has been teaching for 10 years in areas including reactor design, reaction kinetics, surface science, electronic materials and heterogeneous catalysts.  His research is in the area of atomic layer deposition (ALD) applied to nanotechnology, a.k.a. "Engineering when Nanometers Count."  He is the author of more than 20 original research articles on topics related to ALD.

Viacheslav V. Zhurin

is an internationally-recognized specialist in Electric Propulsion and Broad Beam Ion Sources. During 1970-1980’s he presented Review Papers about Electric Propulsion achievements in Soviet Union and Russia. In early 1970’s he worked at Department of Aeronautics, California Institute of Technology for two years. Before coming to USA in 1991 he was in several Academy of Science Research Institutes as a Head of Laboratories, Departments and Deputy Director. Since 1991 he is in USA and working on Electric Propulsion and Ion and Plasma Sources. He was at Kaufman & Robinson Inc. (1991-2004) and Veeco Instruments (2004-2005). He published over 100 scientific articles on fluid dynamics and shock waves, explosions, thrusters, ion sources, low-energy beams, thin film depositions; he is author of 14 US patents.