Curriculum Vitae --Lawrence Rozier Holland
Institution: Alabama A&M University Research Institute
Normal, Alabama 35762 Phone (home): (256) 837-9612
E-mail: holland@cim.aamu.edu E-mail: hollandl@bellsouth.net
In Brazil: São José dos Campos, São Paulo
E-mail: lholland@directnet.com.br
Educational Background:
Ph.D., Physics & Mathematics, 1962 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
A.M., Experimental Physics, 1957 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
A.B., Engineering Physics, 1952 Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
Health & Hobby
Dr. Holland still enjoys excellent health, and is an avid aviator, with current Commercial and Flight Instructor ratings and second class (commercial) medical certificate. He has flown frequently from the U.S. to Brazil and back. He has flown in every nation of the western hemisphere as well as in the United Kingdom.
Professional Experience :
In July 1998 Dr. Holland retired from active teaching in the Department of Physics at Alabama A&M University, and became a part time Consultant/Professor in materials engineering at UNIVAP in São José dos Campos in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Holland now divides his time between Huntsville, Alabama and São José dos Campos, São Paulo (seat of Embraer aircraft manufacturing and INPE, the National Space Institute).
1984 - 1998: Professor of Physics, Alabama A&M University; Consulted at Wyle Laboratories on the science requirements for the U.S Space Station Materials Processing Laboratory. At A&M Dr. Holland has studied melt growth of II-VI semiconductors, and for this work he has developed a system for fabricating pure polymeric ("glassy") carbon (GPC) crucibles which can be directly heated by radio frequency induction. With these active crucibles precise thermal control of Bridgman growth interfaces is now possible for the first time. This has led to major work in the field of graphite and polymeric carbon with Dr. G.M. Jenkins of Swansea, Wales. Drs. Holland and Jenkins have produced a variety of GPC artifacts, both pure and doped, particularly hollow ware useful at extremely high temperatures, resistant to chemical attack, and biocompatible.
1979 - 1984: Research Professor (Physics), University of Alabama at Huntsville on full time contract at the materials processing branch, Space Science Laboratory, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, AL. 35812, teaching and doing NASA funded research on II-VI crystal growth. Earlier work with NASA includes contracts as Senior Physicist, Advanced Materials Division, Guest Associates, Inc., and Universities' Space Research Association fellow at NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Space Science Division (1977 - 1979). Dr. Holland was author and co-investigator of the flight experiment MPS77F069, to study the effect of microgravity on the melt growth of mercury cadmium telluride. In the course of his research at NASA, Dr. Holland devised a method for measuring the thermal properties of HgCdTe melts, and made the first reliable experimental measurements of thermal diffusivity and expansion of these alloys at high temperatures. In 1978 - 79 and 1979 - 80 Dr. Holland taught physics and materials at Athens State College, Athens, AL..
1966 - 1977: Professor of engineering physics at the Brazilian Air Ministry engineering school (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, where he also consulted in engineering physics for the Brazilian aviation industry. On leave from ITA in 1970 - 71, he was Associate Professor, Engineering, Colorado School of Mines.
1962 - 66: Assistant Professor, Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA., and a Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Accelerator Development Department.
While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1954 he was awarded a Letter of Citation of the Secretary of the Navy with medal and ribbon for service connected research in explosion physics and personnel armor.
He is currently a member of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, the British and the American Associations for Crystal Growth, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Sigma Xi. In the last decade his presented papers include the Eighth International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials, Heidelberg, Germany, September 1992, and the Fifth International Conference on II-VI Compounds, Tamano, Okayama, Japan, September 1991.
Recent funded research includes: "Fullerene Production Reactor", U.S. Army Missile Command, $100,000 over 18 months, "Fluorescent Materials and Bonding, Extended Energy", U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command. $301,000 over twenty-one months, "Fluorescent Materials and Bonding", U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, $100,000 over nine months, and various university related projects with NSF totalling more than $6 million.
Selected research publications:
"Determining the Shortest Production Time for Glassy Carbon Ware", Carbon,
Vol. 35, No. 2, p. 227, 1997.
"Maximum Heating Rates for Producing Undistorted Glassy Carbon Ware Determined by Wedge Shaped Samples", J. Materials Research, Vol. 11, p. 2368, 1996.
"A New Process for the Production of Long Glassy Polymeric Carbon Hollow Ware with Uniform Wall Thickness Using a Spray Technique", Carbon, Vol. 34, p. 789, 1996.
"Temperature Dependent Fluorescence from Gd 2 O 2 S:Tb Induced by 45 MeV Proton Irradiation", J. Nuclear Materials, Vol. 224, p. 314, 1995.
"Proton-induced Fluorescence Properties of Terbium Gallium Garnet", J. Materials Research, Vol. 10, p.1861, 1995.
"Process Dependence of Orientation of Ribbon-like Aromatic Molecules in Glassy Carbon" Materials Research Society Proc. Vol. 349, 1994.
"Measurement of Fluorescence Phenomena from Yttrium and Gadolinium Fluors Using a 45MeV Proton Beam", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A353, 1994.
"A Study of the Thermally Induced Carbonization of Phenolformaldehyde by Combined Ion Beam and Surface Specific Analyses", Vacuum, Vol. 45, p. 451, 1994.
"Thermal Diffusivity Measurement of Near-pseudobinary HgCdTe Solid and Melt, Te-rich HgCdTe Melts, and Pure Te Solid and Melt by the Laser Flash Technique", J. Appl. Phys. Vol.76 (7), p. 4022, 1994.
"Thermal Diffusivity Measurement of Pure Te, (Hg 1-xCd x) 1-yTe y, and
(Hg 1-xZn x) 1-yTe y" Materials Research Society Proc. Vol. 299, p. 127, 1994.
"Spectroscopic Analysis of Proton Induced Fluorescence from Yttrium
Orthosilicate", IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science,Vol. 40, p. 1355, 1993.
"Spectroscopic Analysis of Proton Induced Fluorescence from Cerium Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet" Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, B 80/81, p. 1207, 1993.
"Spectroscopic Analysis of Proton Induced Fluorescence from Yttrium and Gadolinium Oxysulfide Phosphors" IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science, Vol. 39, p. 2295, 1992.
"Development of the Fluorescent Materials Test Chamber", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Vol. B 68, p. 28, 1992.
"Measurement of Accumulated Contaminants in Glassy Carbon by RBS, ERD, and NRA", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Vol. B 64, p. 439, 1992.
"Efficiency and Radiation Hardness of Phosphors in a Proton Beam", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Vol. B56/57, p. 1239, 1991
"Proton Damage Measurement of Rare Earth Oxide Scintillators", 1990 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, 23-27 October 1990, IEEE Transactions in Nuclear Science Vol. 38, p. 184, 1991.
"Tangent Law of Refraction for Heat Conduction through an Interface and Underlying Variational Principle", American Journal of Physics, Vol. 58, p. 988, 1990.
"Crucible Surface, Thermal Refraction, Boundaries, and Interface Shape in Melt Growth", Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 96, p. 577, 1989.
"Thermal Diffusivity Measurements on Some Molten Semiconductors", High Temperatures-High Pressures, Vol. 17, p. 47, 1985.
"Top Level Requirements for Microgravity Science and Application Research on Space Station: Electronic Materials", Proceedings of the First Users' Workshop, Wyle Services and Systems, NASA contract # NAS8- 36117 (Feb. 1985)
"Combined Distillation and Normal Freezing to Purify Elements of Groups II and VI", Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 70, p. 280, 1984.
"Sealed Silica Pressure Ampoules for Crystal Growth", Journal of Crystal Growth,
Vol. 66, p. 501, 1984.
"Density of Liquid Hg 1-xCd xTe", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A,
Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 1620, 1983.
"Measured Thermal Diffusivity of Hg 1-xCd xTe Solids and Melts", Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 1615, 1983.
"High Temperature, High Pressure Optical Cells", Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 54, p. 993, 1983.
"A Thermal Transmission Function for Fused Silica Ampoules", Journal of Crystal Growth, Vol. 49, p. 426, 1980.
"Narrow Zone Heating by a New Radiation Focusing Technique: Toroidal Ellipsoid Furnace", Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 49, p. 1156, 1978.
"Projeto de um Detetor Síncrono de Tipo Chaveamento, com Circuito Integrado de Baixo Custo", with Ildon G. Borchardt, Revista Brasileira de Tecnologia, Vol. 7, p. 253, 1977.
"Techniques of Photodetection", Review paper in the proceedings of the Second Joint Conference: Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt E.C. - Centro Tecnico de Aeronautica, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, 1975.
"Pseudo-Bridge: A Different Way to Compare Resistances", with Ildon G. Borchardt, Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 46, p. 67, 1975.
"Variation of Resistivity and Temperature During Plastic Flow in Copper", Proceedings of the International Conference on the Quantitative Relation Between Property and Microstructure, Haifa, Israel, July 1969.
"Novo Método de Medida de Permeabilidade Magnética para uma Direcão Transversal", Ciência e Cultura (Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência), Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 140, 1969.
"Diffusion Analysis of the Observed Time Lag in the Thermal Coefficient of Resistivity of Germanium", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 37, p. 4866, 1966.
"Analysis of Temperature Fluctuations in ac Heated Filaments", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 37, p. 4528, 1966.
"A Product-Type Phase Sensitive Detector of Long Integration Time", Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 37, p. 1202, 1966.
"Physical Properties of Titanium, III. The Specific Heat", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 34, p. 2350, 1963.
"Current Marker Pulse Generator for the A.G.S. Proton Synchrotron Magnet", Technical Report of the Accelerator Development Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1956.
"A Method for Obtaining the Force-Time Relationship for Certain Explosive Ordnance", NM 006 - 013.01.17, Vol. VI, 1955.
Book contributions :
"Properties of Mercury Cadmium Telluride", EMIS Datareview Series, Vol. 3, (Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1987), Chapter I, Mechanical and Thermal Properties.
"Properties of Narrow Gap Cadmium-based Compounds", EMIS Datareview Series, Vol. 10, (Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, 1994), Chapter A2.4, Thermal Properties of HgCdTe, and Chapter B2.4, Thermal Properties of Cd/Zn/Te/Se Compounds.
Patents :
1. "Protective Footgear", No. 3,243,898 filed 17 December 1957, granted 5 April 1966, with F. J. Lewis.
2. "A Product-Type Phase Sensitive Detector", No. 3,450,992 filed 27 April 1966, granted 17 June 1969.
3. "Apparatus and Method for Heating a Material in a Transparent Ampoule", No.4,408,658 filed July 1981, granted 11 October 1983.
4. "High Temperature - High Pressure Optical Cells", No. 4,614,428 filed January 1984, granted 30 September, 1986.
5. "Solids Refining Process", No. 4,584,054 filed July 1984, granted 22 April 1986
NASA Tech Briefs:
1. "Toroidal Radiation Focusing Furnace"
2. "Space Processing of Electronic Material"
3. "Radiant Heating of Ampoule Contents" (Fall/Winter 1981)
4. "Holder for Fragile Parts" (Summer 1983)
5. "High-Temperature, High pressure Optical Cells" (Summer 1985)
6. "Measuring Thermal Diffusivity of Molten Semiconductors" (Fall 1985)
7. "Two Step Vapor/Liquid/Solid Purification" (November/December 1986)
Invited Research Presentations:
"Water as a Model Material for Semiconductor Melt Growth", Sixth Brazilian School of Semiconductor Physics, São Carlos, S.P., Brazil, July 1993.
"Crucible Surface, Thermal Refraction, Boundaries, and Interface Shape in Melt Growth", First Alabama Materials Research Conference, Birmingham, AL, September 1987.
"Techniques of Photodetection", Second Joint Conference: Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt E.C. - Centro Técnico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, 1975.
Contributed Research Presentations:
"Agua como modelo para simulação de crescimento de semicondutores", Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil, August 1993.
"Radiation Damage Effects to Candidate WAFFOG Sensing Materials", presented at the NPB Technical Interchange Symposium, San Diego, CA., May 1990. Refereed transactions to appear in TNS, IEEE.
"Proton Damage Measurement on Rare Earth Oxide Scintillators", presented at the 1990 Nuclear Science Symposium, Arlington, VA., October, 1990.
"Efficiency and Radiation Hardness of Phosphors in a Proton Beam", presented at the Eleventh International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry, University of North Texas, Denton TX., November 1990. Refereed transactions to appear in Nuclear Instruments and Methods, April 1991.
"VLS Growth to Purify Te and Cd", presented at the Sixth International Conference on Vapor Growth and Epitaxy/American Conference on Crystal Growth, Atlantic City, NJ, 1984.
"Two Thermophysical Property Measurements of Hg 1-xCd xTe Solids and Melts: Molar Volume and Thermal Diffusivity", presented at the 1983 U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of Mercury Cadmium Telluride, Dallas, Texas, 1983.
"A Teaching Spectrometer for the Visible and Near Infrared", with R. Forneris, presented at the II Simpósio Nacional de Ensino de Física, Sociedade Brasileira de Física, Belo Horizonte, MG., 1973.
"A Low Cost Radio Frequency Heater for Student Use", AAPT annual meeting, New York, 1969. |
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