Angus Rockett is a Full Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois. He is a Fellow of AVS and was a rotating Senior Program Director at the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy in 2000. He holds a Sc.B. in physics from Brown University (1980) and a Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Illinois (1986). He has worked in ion-assisted growth of semiconductors and fundamental science of growth of materials by molecular beam epitaxy. This was extended to theoretical treatments of the same subject by lattice Monte Carlo and density functional theory methods. At the same time he worked on sputtered hard coatings deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering. He has studied the basic science of solar cell materials and the operation of solar cell devices for 20 years using virtually all of the common materials microchemical and microstructural analysis techniques from SIMS and TEM to STM and photoluminescence. He has also worked on self-assembled nanostructures, MEMS devices, silicide reactions for VLSI contacts, Si-Ge oxidation kinetics for gate dielectrics, superconducting cavity resonators as temperature probes, and optical spectroscopic analysis of combustion. Angus has been a member of AVS since 1982 and has been involved in virtually every aspect of the Society. He has served as a Chapter Chair and Secretary (current Prairie Chapter Executive Committee), as a Division Chair and current Secretary of EMPD, as founding co-chair of the Student Issues Committee, as the EMPD representative to the IUVSTA, as the Chair of the AVS International Interactions Committee, as the Vice-Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the International Symposium, as Vice-Chair of the Program Committee, and in many other ways. He still serves on the Symposium Steering Committee. He has served on numerous program committees of the AVS International Symposium and the International Vacuum Congress and has organized many local meetings. He has also served as proceedings editor for the IVC and the ICTF. He is an AVS Short Course Instructor for the Sputter Deposition of Thin Films short course and will be teaching a new short course on Photovoltaics this year.
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