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Materials in a New Era

Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum

Solid State Sciences Committee

Board on Physics and Astronomy

Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications

National Research Council

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This project was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-9802308, the U.S. Department of Commerce under Grant No. 43SBNB867063, and the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-FG02-96ER45554. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations or agencies that provided support for the project.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Engineering

Institute of Medicine

National Research Council

The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors engineering programs aimed at meeting national needs, encourages education and research, and recognizes the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. William A. Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering.

The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences by its congressional charter to be an adviser to the federal government and, upon its own initiative, to identify issues of medical care, research, and education. Dr. Kenneth I. Shine is president of the Institute of Medicine.

The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government. Functioning in accordance with general policies determined by the Academy, the Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Bruce M. Alberts and Dr. William A. Wulf are chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the National Research Council.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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SOLID STATE SCIENCES COMMITTEE

THOMAS P. RUSSELL,

University of Massachusetts–Amherst,

Chair

MYRIAM P. SARACHIK,

CUNY/City College of New York,

Vice Chair

PAUL A. FLEURY,

University of New Mexico,

Past Chair

GABRIEL AEPPLI,

NEC Research Institute

FRANK S. BATES,

University of Minnesota

MARC A. KASTNER,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GERALD D. MAHAN,

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

DAVID MONCTON,

Argonne National Laboratory

CHERRY A. MURRAY,

Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

VENKATESH NARAYANAMURTI,

Harvard University

JULIA M. PHILLIPS,

Sandia National Laboratories

JAMES ROBERTO,

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J. MICHAEL ROWE,

National Institute of Standards and Technology

DALE W. SCHAEFER,

University of Cincinnati

KEVIN D. AYLESWORTH, Program Officer

BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY

ROBERT C. DYNES,

University of California, San Diego,

Chair

ROBERT C. RICHARDSON,

Cornell University,

Vice Chair

GORDON BAYM,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

WILLIAM BIALLEK,

NEC Research Institute

VAL FITCH,

Princeton University

RICHARD D. HAZELTINE,

University of Texas at Austin

JOHN HUCHRA,

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

JOHN C. MATHER,

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

CHERRY A. MURRAY,

Lucent Technologies

ANNEILA I. SARGENT,

California Institute of Technology

JOSEPH H. TAYLOR, JR.,

Princeton University

KATHLEEN C. TAYLOR,

General Motors Research and Development Center

J. ANTHONY TYSON,

Lucent Technologies

CARL WIEMANN,

University of Colorado/JILA

PETER G. WOLYNES,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director

ROBERT L. RIEMER, Associate Director

KEVIN AYLESWORTH, Program Officer

JOEL PARRIOTT, Program Officer

NATASHA CASEY, Senior Administrative Associate

GRACE WANG, Senior Project Associate

MICHAEL LU, Project Associate

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS

PETER M. BANKS,

Veridian ERIM International, Inc.,

Co-chair

W. CARL LINEBERGER,

University of Colorado/JILA,

Co-chair

WILLIAM F. BALLHAUS, JR.,

Lockheed Martin Corporation

SHIRLEY CHIANG,

University of California, Davis

MARSHALL H. COHEN,

California Institute of Technology

RONALD G. DOUGLAS,

Texas A&M University

SAMUEL H. FULLER,

Analog Devices, Inc.

JERRY P. GOLLUB,

Haverford College

MICHAEL F. GOODCHILD,

University of California, Santa Barbara

MARTHA HAYNES,

Cornell University

WESLEY T. HUNTRESS, JR.,

Carnegie Institution

CAROL JANTZEN,

Westinghouse Savannah River Company

PAUL KAMINSKI,

Technovation, Inc.

KENNETH H. KELLER,

University of Minnesota

JOHN R. KREICK,

Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company (retired)

DANIEL KLEPPNER,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MARSHA I. LESTER,

University of Pennsylvania

DUSA M. McDUFF,

State University of New York at Stony Brook

JANET NORWOOD,

U.S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics (retired)

M. ELISABETH PATÉ-CORNELL,

Stanford University

NICHOLAS P. SAMIOS,

Brookhaven National Laboratory

ROBERT J. SPINRAD,

Xerox PARC (retired)

NORMAN METZGER, Executive Director (through July 1999)

MYRON F. UMAN, Acting Executive Director (from August 1999)

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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Acknowledgment of Reviewers

These proceedings have been reviewed by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council's (NRC's) Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the authors and the NRC in making the published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The contents of the review comments and the draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their participation in the review of this report:

Gordon A. Baym, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

David Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Charles W. Clark, National Institute of Standards and Technology,

Denis McWhan, Brookhaven National Laboratory,

James J. Rhyne, University of Missouri, and

Nicholas P. Samios, Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Although the individuals listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, the responsibility for the final content of this proceedings rests solely with the authoring committee and the NRC.

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1999. Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9737.
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Contents

   

 Abstract

 

1

   

 Executive Summary
Thomas P. Russell, Chair, Solid State Sciences Committee

 

3

   

 Summary of Articles

 

3

   

 Keynote Address: Unlocking Our Future
Laura Lyman Rodriguez, Office of Representative Vernon Ehlers

 

11

 I:

 

Materials and the Federal Role

 
   

 Perspectives from the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Arthur Bienenstock, Associate Director for Science

 

15

   

 Perspectives from the National Institutes of Health
Marvin Cassman, Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

 

16

   

 Perspectives from the U.S. Department of Energy
Martha Krebs, Director, Office of Science

 

17

   

 Perspectives from the U.S. Department of Defense
Hans Mark, Director of Defense Research and Engineering

 

18

   

 Perspectives from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Raymond G. Kammer, Director

 

20

   

 Perspectives from the National Science Foundation
Robert A. Eisenstein, Assistant Director, Mathematical and Physical Sciences

 

22

 II:

 

Materials R&D in a Changing World

 
   

 Report of the Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics
Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Harvard University

 

25

   

 Materials R&D in Industry
Cherry A. Murray, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

 

26

   

 Changing Roles for Research Universities
J. David Litster, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

29

   

 Changing Roles for Government Laboratories
John P. McTague, Vice President (retired), Ford Motor Company

 

30

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 Panel Discussion of the Future of Materials R&D
Moderator: Tom Russell, Chair, Solid State Sciences Committee
Panel: Cherry A. Murray, Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics; Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Chair, Committee on Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics; Skip Stiles, House Science Committee Minority Staff; William Oosterhuis, Department of Energy; Harlan Watson, House Science Committee Majority Staff; Thomas Weber, National Science Foundation

 

32

 III:

 

Materials Education and Infrastructure

 
   

 Materials Education for the 21st Century
Robert P.H. Chang, Northwestern University

 

35

   

 Meeting the Challenge in Neutron Science
Thom Mason, Scientific Director, Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

 

37

   

 Toward a Fourth-Generation Light Source
David E. Moncton, Associate Laboratory Director, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory

 

38

   

 Smaller Facilities—Opportunities and Needs
J. Murray Gibson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Argonne National Laboratory

 

41

 IV:

 

Materials R&D—A Vision of the Scientific Frontier

 
   

 The Science of Modern Technology
Paul Peercy, SEMI/SEMATECH

 

43

   

 Novel Quantum Phenomena in Condensed-Matter Systems
Steven M. Girvin, Indiana University

 

46

   

 Nonequilibrium Physics
James S. Langer, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

48

   

 Soft Condensed Matter
V. Adrian Parsegian, National Institutes of Health

 

49

   

 Fractional Charges and Other Tales from Flatland
Horst Störmer, Bell Laboratories and Columbia University

 

50

 

 

List of Participants

 
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The 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum, entitled "Materials in a New Era," was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., on February 16-17, 1999. The forum was designed to launch the report entitled Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow 's Technology. That report, part of the decadal survey series, Physics in a New Era, reviews some of the outstanding accomplishments in materials research over the last decade. It indicates some emerging areas and conveys the true excitement in the field from a perspective of basic science and potential societal impact.

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