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Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Troy, New York 12180-3590 USA

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Rensselaer/Sabrina Lee
Sabrina Lee

Research Professor

Education:
University of Michigan, Ph.D. (Physics).
Cornell University, M.S. (Physics).
Post-Doc Fellow, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine (Bio-Physics).

Career Highlights:
General Electric Research and Development Center, Mathematician, 1980-1982.
Texas Instruments Industrial Systems, Design Engineer, 1982-1984.
Veterans Administrations Medical Center, Physicist, 1984-1989.
US Army Research Development and Engineering Center, Benét Labs, Physicist, 1989-present.
State University of New York, Adjunct Professor of Physics, 1992-1998.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Adjunct Professor of Physics, 1999-present.

Research Interests:
Solid State Physics, X-ray Crystallography and Metallography, High Temperature Materials, Refractory Coatings, Thin Solid Films, Electrolytic Deposition, Sputtering Deposition.

Selected Publications:
S.L. Lee, D. Windover, “Surface Structural Anisotropy in Electrolytic and Sputter Deposited Tantalum Films”, IVC-15/AVS-48/ICSS-11 Symposium, San Francisco, CA, Oct 29-Nov. 2, 2001.

S.L. Lee, D. Windover, M. Audino, D.W. Matson, E.D. McClanahan, “High-Rate Sputter-Deposited Tantalum Coatings on Steel for Wear and Erosion Mitigation”, Surface and Coatings Technology (2001), in press.

D.W. Matson, E.D. McClanahan, S.L. Lee, D. Windover, “Properties of Thick Sputtered Ta used for Protective Gun Tube Coatings”, Surface and Coatings Technology (2001), in press.

S.L. Lee, D. Windover, M. Doxbeck, M. Nielsen, A. Kumar, T. -M. Lu, “Image Plate X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Reflectivity Characterization of Coatings and Thin Films”, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 377-378 Dec 1 (2000) 447-454.

D.W. Matson, W.D. McClanahan, S.L. Lee, D. Windover, “Effect of Sputtering Parameters on Ta Coatings for Gun Bore Applications”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 133-134 Nov. (2000) 411-416.

D. Windover, E. Barnat, T. -M. Lu, S.L. Lee, “Thin Film Density Determination By Multiple Radiation Energy Dipsersive X-ray Reflectivity”, Advances in X-ray Analysis Vol. 42 (2000) 590-600.

D. Widnover, E. Barnett, J. Summers, T. -M. Lu, A. Kumer, H. Bakhru, S.L. Lee, “Development of an In-Situ X-ray Reflectivity Technique for Metal Films”, presentation at 2000 International Conf. On Characterization and Metrology for ULSI, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, Jun 26-19 (2000).

D. Windover, T. -M. Lu, S.L. Lee, A. Kumar, H. Bakhru, C. Jin, “Energy Dispersive X-ray Reflectivity Density Measurements in Porous SiO2 Zerogels”, App. Phys. Lett. Vol. 76 (2) (2000), 158-160.

S.L. Lee, M. Cipollo, D. Windover, “Analysis of Magnetron Sputtered Tantalum Coatings Versus Electrochemically Deposited Tantalum form Molten Salt”, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 120-121 Nov. (1999) 44-52.

S.L. Lee, P. Chen, M. Leach, D. Windover, “X-ray Diffraction Technique and Finite Element Modeling to Control Residual Stress in High Temperature Pressure Vessels”, Proceeding of Society for Experimental Mechanics Annual Conference on Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Mechanics, (1999) 379-382.

S.L. Lee, D. Wingover, “Phase, Texture and Residual Stress Determination in Triode Sputtered Tantalum Coatings for High Temperature Wear and Erosion”, Surface and Coating Technology Vol. 108-109, (1998) 65-72.

S.L. Lee, D. Wingover, K. Mello, “Grain Orientation in Electrolytic Chromium Deposition”, Advances in X-ray Analysis, Vol. 41 (1998) 707-717.

S.L. Lee, D. Wingover, “X-ray Determination of Texture and Residual Stress in Low Contraction Electrolytic Chromium Coatings”, Society for Experimental Mechanics Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics and Numerical Methods, (1998) 221-223.

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