Position : Associate Director and Scientist in Physics
Office: 135 ASC I
Phone: (515) 294-7732
E-mail: shanks@iastate.edu
Mr. Shanks received the Masters in Solid State Physics from South Dakota School of
Mines and Technology. He has served as Program Director at the Ames Laboratory; Visiting
Scientist at the Max Planck Institut Fur Festkorperforschung; Visiting Lecturer in the
People's Republic of China; and Research Coordinator at Iowa State University. He played
an active role in establishing the Microelectronics Research Center and initiated its
program in amorphous semiconductors. With several patents and more than 100 publications,
he received the 1981 Department of Energy Materials Science Award for his work on the
local bonding and structure of amorphous silicon. He is currently involved in research on
film deposition techniques as well as work on surfaces and interfaces of amorphous and
microcrystalline semiconductors.
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