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Gregory Exarhos
Physical Sciences Division
Laboratory Fellow, TL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
MSIN: K2-01
Richland, WA 99352
509/371-6243
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Biography
Dr. Gregory J Exarhos is an associate director within the Chemical and Materials Sciences Division and leads the Materials Sciences group. He is the Laboratory Coordinator for the suite of fundamental materials sciences projects funded through the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering and is the lead investigator for programs dealing with defects in TCO films, growth of hierarchically ordered composite materials, in situ Raman studies of materials under extreme conditions, nonlinear optical materials, and studies of pulsed laser-solid interactions. His pioneering materials processing approaches have been recognized internationally and have opened up new venues in optical coatings, nano-architectured materials, multifunctional ceramics, and hybrid polymer composites.
Dr. Exarhos is actively involved in the scientific community. For example, he has served as the Chair of the Long-Range Planning Committee for the American Vacuum Society (AVS), served on the AVS Board of Directors (elected position), and served as Chair of the AVS Publications Committee with oversight responsibilities for several AIP journals. He also launched the
Research Interests
- Developing innovative approaches for the deposition of dielectric films
- Post-deposition modification of dielectric films
- Structure/property relationships in transparent conducting oxides
- Inorganic polymer design, synthesis, and characterization
- Preparation of molecularly architectured nanocomposite materials
Education and Credentials
- Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Brown University
- A.B. in Chemistry, magna cum laude (Physics minor), Lawrence University
Affiliations and Professional Service
- President, American Vacuum Society (2008-2010)
- Fellow, American Vacuum Society
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Chemical Society
- American Physical Society
- Materials Research Society
- SPIE (Optical Engineering Society)
- Sigma Xi
- Chairs the Annual Symposium on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers
Awards and Recognitions
- Adjunct Professor of Physics at Washington State University (WSU), Pullman,WA
- Board of Visitors for the College of Sciences and Engineering at WSU
- R&D100 award in 1992 and a Federal Laboratory Consortium award in 1993 for the Glycine-Nitrate Process for Producing Ultrafine Metal Oxide Powders
- R.F. Bunshah Award, from Advanced Surface Engineering Division, AVS (2002)
- Eight patents, involving combustion approaches for preparing advanced ceramic oxide powders, thin film deposition and modification technology, transparent conducting polaron oxides, and processing routes to polymer composites