Leonard Brillson

Len Brillson holds a joint appointment between the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Department of Physics, and the Center for Materials Research leading an interdisciplinary research effort in Electronic Materials. Before joining the faculty at the Ohio State University, he was a director of Xerox Corporation's Materials Research Laboratory and had responsibility for Xerox's long-range physical science and technology programs at the company's research headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. A.B., Princeton University and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, both in physics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), the AVS Science & Technology Society, the Materials Research Society (MRS) and a former Governing Board member of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). He has served on the editorial boards for numerous technical journals, and has more than 350 professional publications including technical articles, invited reviews, monographs and books as well as over 10,000 citations to his work (h-index = 52), including the ISI Citation Classic, The Structure and Properties of Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces. His research group pursues a broad science and engineering program in the structure and properties of electronic materials surfaces and interfaces at the atomic and nanometer scales, emphasizing wide band gap semiconductors for microelectronics and optoelectronics, semiconductor heterostructures for renewable energy generation, semiconductor transistors for bioelectronics sensors, thin film dielectrics for insulating gate structures, and complex oxides for spintronic, communications, radar, and ultrasensitive antenna applications.  His awards include Xerox Corporation?s Outstanding Achievement Award, Surface Science Magazine?s Excellence Award, Citation Classic recognition by the Institute for Scientific Information, IEEE Columbus? Technical Achievement Award, the 2006 AVS Science and Technology Gaede-Langmuir award, and a 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellowship (2010). In 2017, he received the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. His textbook - Surfaces and Interfaces of Electronic Materials, L.J. Brillson (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2010) is intended for a broad audience of electrical engineering, materials science, and physics students as well as professionals in the field of solid state physics and electronics.  His newest textbook ? An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces, L.J. Brillson (Wiley, Hoboken, 2016) is an introductory-to-intermediate level textbook suitable for students of physics, electrical engineering, materials science, and other disciplines engaged in surface and interface research, semiconductor processing, or electronic device design.