Materials Research Laboratory Program (Materials Research)

该奖项是对斯坦福大学Theodore H. Geballe指导下的材料研究实验室（MRL）的再次支持。MRL有三个主要目标：支持材料研究的多学科努力，这需要几个研究人员的参与才能取得进展；资助一套重要的中心设施，以支持校园内各种各样的材料研究；并通过使用“种子基金”，迅速而明智地启动杰出的新研究工作。在目前活跃于MRL的60多名教职员工中，有37人参与了重点领域的研究或直接接受了MRL项目的支持。现有研究生32人，博士后4人，通过合作研究与工业和政府研究实验室保持密切联系。计划的研究方向包括光电与红外材料、聚合物结构与动力学、薄膜结构与性能、利用自由电子激光和同步加速器源研究光子材料表面和界面的电子特性。斯坦福MRL的一个特别优势是它能够跨越从基础科学到工程的各个推力领域以及整个项目的范围。重点研究互动性强，师资力量一流，学生和博士后的素质很高。MRL装备精良，正在解决科学上具有挑战性和技术上重大的研究问题。光电和红外材料、聚合物、薄膜的电学和磁学性能的研究往往走在前沿；关于光子材料科学的研究，包括自由电子激光和表面化学的同步辐射研究，是一个令人兴奋的新创举。种子基金得到了有效的利用，并且与工业研究团体有了新的有希望的互动。提供为期一年的支持，使MRL管理人员有机会重新组织MRL推力区域，并继续在斯坦福大学科学和工程当前长期规划的背景下定义MRL的角色。

This award is for renewed support of the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL) under the direction of Theodore H. Geballe at Stanford University. The MRL has three major objectives: to support multidisciplinary efforts in materials research which reqire the participation of several investigators to make progress; to fund an important set of central facilities which support a wide range of materials research on campus; and to start outstanding new research efforts rapidly and intelligently through the use of "seed money". Of the 60 or so faculty members currently active in the MRL, 37 participate in thrust area research or receive direct MRL project support. There are 32 graduate students and 4 postdoctoral research associates in the program, which maintains strong links with industrial and government research laboratories through cooperative research. The planned research includes major thrust areas in optoelectronic and infrared materials, polymer structure and dynamics, structure and properties of thin films, and photon materials research using free electron laser and synchrotron sources to investigate electronic properties of surfaces and interfaces. A particular strength of the Stanford MRL is its ability to span the range from basic science to engineering in the individual thrust areas as well as in the program as a whole. The thrust research is strongly interactive, faculty are first-rate and the quality of students and postdoctoral associates is very high. The MRL is well equipped and is addressing scientifically challenging and technologically significant research problems. Research on optoelectronic and infrared materials, polymers, and electrical and magnetic properties of thin films is often at the forefront; research proposed on photon materials science involving the free electron laser and synchrotron radiation studies of surface chemistry makes an exciting new initiative. Seed funding has been used effectively, and there are promising new interactions with industrial research groups. Support for one year is provided to give MRL management the opportunity to reorganize the MRL thrust areas and continue to define the role of the MRL in the context of current long-range planning for science and engineering at Stanford.