Contact
Office: Cook 4043
Phone: (847) 491-2447
Email: s-barnett@northwestern.edu
Education
1982 Ph.D. Metallurgy, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
1976 B.S. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
Experience
Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University 9/1/86 – present
Associate Department Chair, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 9/1/98 – 8/31/03
Chief Technical Consultant, Functional Coating Technology LLC, 1/1/02 – present.
Founder and Chief Technical Consultant, Applied Thin Films Inc, 1/1/98 – 12/31/01
Visiting Scientist, Center for Materials Science, Los Alamos National Laboratories, 6/15/99 – 8/15/99
Visiting Professor, Department of Physics and Measurement Technology, Linkoping University, Sweden, 6/1/85 – 8/31/86
Research Professor, Department of Metallurgy and Mining Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 8/1/82 – 5/31/85
Awards
Fellow, Electrochemical Society (ECS), 2017
Fulbright award, 2015
Otto Mønsted Guest Professorship, Danish Technical University, 2013
Cheng Tsang Man Endowed Professorship, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2008
Fellow, American Vacuum Society (AVS), 1998
Department Teacher of the Year, 1993
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 1986
Professional Societies and Activities
Member, American Vacuum Society
Member, Electrochemical Society
Member, American Ceramic Society
Member, Materials Research Society
Courses taught
201 Introduction to Materials Science
314 Applications of Thermodynamics
340 Ceramic Processing
355 Electronic Materials
351-1 Introductory Physics of Materials I
351-2 Introductory Physics of Materials II
382 Electrochemical Devices
401 Chemical Thermodynamics
405 Physics of Materials
415 Fundamentals of Thin Film Materials