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Dr. Brian P. Gorman

Brian P. Gorman
Associate Professor
Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics

Degrees:
B.S.     Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla (1996).
M.S.    Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla (1999).
Ph.D.  Ceramic Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla (2003).

Service on this Faculty:
March 2011 - Present                 Associate Professor
Jan 2009 – March 2011              Assistant Professor

Other Related Experience:
2004-2008            Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
2006                     Measurements and Characterization Division, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2001-2004            Texas Instruments and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas
1998                     MST Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
1996-2001            Electronic Materials Applied Research Center, University of Missouri - Rolla

Consulting and Patents
Texas Instruments, Sematech International, Zyvex Corporation, Aerospace Corporation, Siemens Nuclear, General Electric, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, FEI Company, Imago Scientific Instruments, Omniprobe, Inc.

1 patent, 1 patent pending (2008)

Scientific and Professional Societies
                American Ceramic Society
                Materials Research Society
                American Society for Mechanical Engineers
                Microbeam Analysis Society
                Microscopy Society of America

Honors and Awards
                Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (2006)
                Over 40 invited talks at national and international conferences
                 
Institutional and Professional Service in the Last Five Years
Focused Ion Beam Focused Interest Group Chair, Microscopy Society of America
Reviewer for numerous technical journals
International conference symposium organizer for numerous societies (MSA / MAS, ACerS)
Panel member for proposal reviews for NSF, DOE, EPSRC (UK), US-Israel BSF.

Principle Publications in the Last Five Years

T. W. Scharf, D. R. Diercks, B. P. Gorman, S. V. Prasad, M. T. Dugger, “Atomic Layer Deposition of Tungsten Disulphide Solid Lubricant Nanocomposite Coatings on Rolling Element Bearings” Tribology Transactions, 52 (2009) 1-9.

L. A. Giannuzzi and B. P. Gorman, “Particle Induced X-ray Emission from Stainless Steel using a 30keV Ga+ Focused Ion Beam”, Surface Science, in print (2008).

B. P. Gorman, A. Puthucode, D. R. Diercks, M. J. Kaufman, “Cross-correlative TEM and Atom Probe Analysis of Partial Crystallization in NiNbSn Bulk Metallic Glasses”, Materials Science and Technology, 24 (2008) 496-504.  (invited publication)

B. P. Gorman, D. R. Diercks, N. Salmon, E. A. Stach, G. Amador, C. Hartfield, “Hardware and Techniques for Cross-correlative TEM and Atom Probe Analysis”, Microscopy Today, June/July 2008. (invited publication)

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, “Nanocrystalline ZnO Thin Film Synthesis using Glycerol in Aqueous Polymeric Precursor Processing”, J. Am. Ceramic Soc., 91 (2008) 2553.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, “Structural and Optical Properties of Nanocrystallline ZnO Thin Films Synthesized using a Citrate Precursor Route”, J. Luminscence, 128 (2008) 1641-1648.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman “Effects of Annealing on the Room Temperature Photoluminescence of Polymeric Precursor Derived ZnO Thin Films on Sapphire Substrates”, Optical Materials, 31 (2008) 143-148.

T. F. Kelly, D. J. Larson, K. Thompson, R. Alvis, J. Bunton, J. D. Olson, B. P. Gorman, “Atom Probe Tomography of Electronic Materials,” Annual Review of Materials Research, 37 (2007) 681-727.

K. Thompson, D. Lawrence, D. J. Larson, J. D. Olson, T. F. Kelly, B. Gorman, “In-situ site-specific specimen preparation for atom probe tomography,” Ultramicroscopy, 107 (2007) 131-9.

B. P. Gorman, A. G. Norman, Y. Yan, “Atom Probe Analysis of III-V and Si based Photovoltaic Structures”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 13 (2007) 493-502.

W. Brostow, B. P. Gorman, O. Olea-Mejia, “FIB Milling and SEM Characterization of Polymer + Metal Hybrids”, Materials Letters, 36 (2007) 1333-1336.

V. R. Tirumala, R. A. Pai, S. Agrawal, J. J. Testa, G. Bhatnagar, A. H. Romang, C. Chandler, B. P. Gorman, R. L Jones, E. K. Lin, J. A. Watkins, “Mesoporous Silica Thin Films with Long Range Order Prepared from Strongly Segregated Block Copolymer / Homopolymer Blend Templates”, Chem. Mat., 19 (2007) 5868-5874.

U. Choppali and B. P. Gorman, “Controlling the Morphology of Polymeric Precursor Derived ZnO Flower-like Structures”, J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 90 (2) 433–442 (2007).

B. P. Gorman, M. J. Kaufman, M. M. Nowell, T. Anderson, S. Yoon, “Grain Boundary Studies of CuInGaSe2 Using EBSD in the Dual BeamFIB”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 11 (Supplement 2) (2005) 508.

R. J. Cottier, F. Z. Amir, W. Zhao, K. Hossain, B. P. Gorman, and T. D. Golding, N. Anibou and W. Donner, “Molecular beam epitaxial growth of osmium silicides”, J. Vac. Sci. and Tech. B, 24 (3) (2006) 1488-91.

Decio Coutinho, Brian Gorman, John P. Ferraris, Duck J. Yang, Kenneth J. Balkus Jr., “Transformation of mesoporous benzene silica to nanoporous carbon”, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 91 (2006) 276–285.

Arup Neogi, Brian P. Gorman, Hadis Morkoç, Tadashi Kawazoe, Motoichi Ohtsu, “Nearfield Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Self-assembled GaN/AlN nanostructures”, Applied Physics Letters, 86 (2005) 043103.  Also listed in Jan. 31, 2005 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology.

B. P. Gorman and H. U. Anderson, “Processing of Thin Film Composite Solid Oxide Fuel Cells”, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 88, 1747 (2005).

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