Treasurer
IBM Research Division
T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 218
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Bus. Tel. 914-945-1503
Fax. 914-945-2141
Email. steve_rossnagel(at)avs.org*
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STEPHEN M. ROSSNAGEL is a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York since 1983. His work centers on materials and process technology for interconnect and packaging applications, based mostly on PVD and ALD. The most recent work has focused on ultra-thin films. He has been instrumental in various innovations in sputtering, including inventing hollow cathode-enhanced magnetrons and collimated sputtering, understanding gas rarefaction, the development of ionized magnetron sputtering, or I-PVD (1990s) and more recently, plasma-enhanced ALD (2000-). Steve was awarded the AVS Peter Mark Memorial Award in 1990 for the early magnetron work, and was made an AVS Fellow in 1994. Prior to IBM, Steve was at Penn State University (B.S. and M.S.) followed by work at Princeton with plasma-surface interactions. He returned to graduate school at Colorado State University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1982. Steve has published more than 155 papers and chapters, been awarded 14 patents, and edited seven books. Steve is an editor of the Noyes Materials Science Series and of the Physics of Thin Films Series (Academic). He has served as an Associate Editor and Head of the Editorial Board for JVST. Steve was the Chair of the 1996 AVS Annual Symposium and was responsible for the upgrade to a fully electronic abstract submission database and program system. He was Chair of the Publications Committee overseeing JVST from 1991-1995, in which time he instituted the switch to CD-ROM publishing, a full electronic page, and other various improvements. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors (1991-1992), the Long Range Planning Committee (1992-1996, 2001-present; Chair from 2001-2003) and has also been active in various division committees, serving as PSTD Chair in 1990 and on the Executive Committee of the Thin Films Division for the past several years. Steve was the Program Chair of the 1990 ICMC and ICTF. He joined AVS as a student in the mid-1970's, served as AVS President in 1999 and for the past three years has been leading the volunteer side of the marketing efforts for AVS.