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www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin MRS NEWS Materials Research Outreach Arranged for the 2004 MRS Fall Meeting A set of activities designed to pro- mote materials science outreach has been arranged by the 2004 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting Chairs Shefford P. Baker (Cornell University), Bethanie J.H. Stadler (University of Minnesota), Julia Hsu (Sandia National Laboratories), and Richard Vaia (Air Force Research Laboratory). “Science outreach to the public is a national priority right now,” said Baker. “MRS as a society as well as many indi- vidual MRS members have made signifi- cant commitments in this area, and we wanted both to highlight these contribu- tions at our Meeting as well as to gener- ate new opportunities for outreach.” Free Passes to Strange Matter Exhibition Available to Meeting Attendees Attendees of the 2004 MRS Fall Meeting will have the opportunity to visit the MRS pany Fund, Intel Inno- science exhibition Strange Matter, which vation in Education, and will be hosted at Boston’s Museum of the 3M Foundation. The Science October 2, 2004 through January 3, admission passes and 2005. A voucher for free admission will be transportation during provided to each meeting attendee, and a the Fall Meeting are daily shuttle to the museum will be in being provided by operation, free, throughout the week of Raytheon Company. technical talks. Stadler said, “Strange Matter is an High School important new effort on the part of the Teachers to Attend Society to promote science education, the Fall Meeting and materials research in particular, to High school science the public. The results are terrific, both in and math teachers select- terms of attendance and in MRS volun- ed from across the United States will par- teer contributions at the hosting muse- ticipate in the MRS Meeting through a ums. We hope MRS members will see the specially designed educational program. Symposium PP. Shenda Baker, who also exhibition while they’re in Boston.” “High school teachers can strongly chairs the Strange Matter project commit- By providing admissions to the exhibi- influence career decisions, but generally tee, said that her symposium focuses on tion, the Meeting Chairs hope to engage do not have opportunities to experience secondary education and communicat- more MRS members in outreach. An inte- science and engineering first hand, and ing materials science. “It is intended to gral part of Strange Matter is its education- may not be aware of career opportunities bring together educators and researchers al outreach component. Materials scien- in materials research,” said Baker. to discuss the future of science educa- tists volunteering at the hosting science Teachers selected for this program will tion,” she said. centers have an opportunity to lead tutori- work together with an MRS member in The teachers will be introduced to the als and demonstrations or to guide muse- both research and classroom activities. A Strange Matter exhibition along with its um visitors through the exhibition’s set of related activities for the teachers and associated, award-winning Web site hands-on activities. Fall Meeting attendees meeting attendees has been arranged by (http://www.strangematterexhibit.com) can learn more about volunteer opportu- the Meeting Chairs and the organizers of that includes a teacher’s guide. For MRS nities by visiting the Strange Matter display Symposium PP (Communicating Materials members interested in outreach, Sympo- in the Hynes Convention Center, Exhibit Science—Secondary Education for the 21st sium PP offers a tutorial, “Demoworks— Hall C. See also the article “MRS Volun- Century), Shenda Baker (Harvey Mudd The Fine Art of Materials Science Demon- teers Explain ‘Strange Matter’” in MRS College), Fiona Goodchild (University of strations,” designed with guidelines on Bulletin 29 (8) (August 2004, p. 590) California, Santa Barbara), Wendy Crone how to conduct successful outreach pro- (www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin). (University of Wisconsin—Madison), and grams, as well as a “recipe book” of effec- The Strange Matter exhibition and its Susan Rosevear (Massachusetts Institute tive materials science demonstrations for tour are made possible by the generous of Technology). use in secondary schools. The high school support of the National Science Founda- Teachers can attend special workshops teacher program is sponsored by the tion, Alcan Inc., Dow, Ford Motor Com- at the Museum of Science as well as National Science Foundation. MRS BULLETIN/NOVEMBER 2004 855 www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin MRS NEWS Nick Holonyak Jr. to Receive 2004 MRS Von Hippel Award for Contributions to the Field of Semiconductors The 2004 Von Hippel Award, the mixing of QW heterostructure and super- Materials Research Society’s highest lattice layers. In 1990, his group intro- honor, will be presented to Nick duced Al-bearing III–V native oxides into Holonyak Jr., who holds the John optoelectronics, including its use as a Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and buried oxide aperture to define current Computer Engineering and Physics at the and cavity in lasers, now used in vertical- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). Holonyak is being recognized for “his More recently, in association with other many contributions to research and devel- collaborators, he demonstrated tunneling- opment in the field of semiconductors, not coupled QW-assisted quantum-dot lasers least for the first development of semicon- (quantum one-dimensional to three- ducting lasers in the useful visible portion dimensional coupled systems). of the optical spectrum.” Holonyak will Holonyak has co-authored more than accept the honor during the awards cere- 500 papers and received 33 patents over mony at the 2004 MRS Fall Meeting in the course of his career. He is a member of Boston on December 1 at 6:30 p.m. in the Nick Holonyak Jr. both the National Academy of Science Sheraton Boston Grand Ballroom, where and the National Academy of Engineer- he will also present his award lecture, graduation, Holonyak joined Bell Labs ing. He has received numerous awards “From Transistor to Laser and Light- for a year, then served in the U.S. Army during his distinguished career, including Emitting Diode.” Signal Corps., and next joined General the IEEE Edison Medal and the National Holonyak has worked at the forefront of Electric, where he carried out his seminal Medal of Science. He received the presti- semiconductor science and technology for work on LEDs. In 1963, he joined the gious Japan Prize in 1995. Most recently, more than 50 years. He is best known for University of Illinois. His sustained high in 2003, he received the National Medal of his work on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) level of contribution makes Holonyak’s Technology; the IEEE Medal of Honor, and for the development of the first visible- career one of the most remarkable in the which is the highest award of the Institute spectrum (red) LED. His work laid the history of semiconductors. of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; foundation for fundamental and practical One of Holonyak’s early major develop- and he shared the first Russian Global developments in the field of compound ments was the demonstration of closed- Energy International Prize; and in 2004, semiconductors. These include the first tube vapor transport of GaAsP alloys in the Lemelson-MIT Prize. epitaxial growth of alloy semiconductors 1960, yielding in 1962 the first practical Holonyak has attracted outstanding and heterojunctions, such as those now visible LED, the red GaAs1-xPx LED. This students and supervised the doctoral used in essentially all state-of-the-art com- marks the beginning of the use of III–V studies of more than 60 students, many pound semiconductor devices. Holonyak alloys in semiconductor devices, includ- of whom have continued into distin- demonstrated the first growth of quater- ing in heterojunctions and quantum-well guished careers of their own. Many of his nary alloy semiconductors. He invented heterostructures. Much of the technology former students are members of the impurity-induced disordering in alloy utilized in the multibillion dollar LED National Academy of Engineering (8), semiconductor heterostructures and the industry can be traced back to his early fellows of IEEE, and senior faculty mem- formation of stable oxide layers from Al- work and the later work on quaternary bers at universities or hold key positions containing alloys. He and his students are alloy semiconductors. Another of in major U.S. electronics companies. For the source of the term “quantum-well Holonyak’s early achievements was the his excellence in education, Holonyak laser.” More recently, Holonyak, along invention of the shorted emitter p–n–p–n received the Monie A. Ferst Award from with other collaborators, demonstrated switch, currently used in all thyristor Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society. tunneling-coupled quantum-well-assisted applications. He was the first to make Si The MRS Von Hippel Award includes a quantum-dot lasers. He has always tunnel diodes and observe photon-assisted $10,000 cash prize, honorary membership encouraged collaborations across disci- tunneling, marking the beginning of tun- in MRS, and a unique trophy—a mounted plines addressed by materials and device neling spectroscopy. ruby laser crystal, symbolizing the many- engineering, chemistry, and physics. Holonyak and his students demon- faceted nature of materials research. The Holonyak earned his BS, MS, and PhD strated