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Richard M. Osgood Jr. joined Columbia University in 1981 and became Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics in 1988. He served as an associate director of Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2000 to 2002 and its acting Nanocenter Director, 2002. Professor Osgood was, with Professor Yang, a cofounder of the Columbia Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories (MSL), and has served as director or codirector of MSL and the Columbia Radiation Laboratory (CRL). He is a member of the ACS and MRS, and a fellow of the IEEE, OSA, and the APS. He was coeditor of Applied Physics (1983~95) and associate editor of the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics (1981~88). Professor Osgood has served as a consultant to numerous research institutions and government agencies including MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He is also on the DARPA Defense Sciences Research Council (Materials Research Council) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Visiting Advisory Board (Chemical Sciences and Technology Division). Professor Osgood has served as councilor of the Materials Research Society, as a member of the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, and the scientific advisory board of Brookhaven National Laboratories. In 1991, Dr. Osgood received the R. W. Wood Award from the Optical Society of America, and was invited to deliver the OIDTA lecture at the Japanese Optical Association.

• Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1973)
• M.S., Physics, Ohio State University (1968)
• B.S., U.S. Military Academy (1965)

• Integrated optical devices and design
• Surface physics of oxides, semiconductors and metals
• New laser sources
• Advanced oxide and optical physics and simulation

• Associate Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2000–2002)
• Visiting Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory (1995, for 3 mos.)
• Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT (1994–95)
• Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany (1989)
• Technical Director, Columbia Radiation Laboratory (1990– )
• Codirector, Columbia Radiation Laboratory (1984–90)
• Director, Columbia Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories (1986–90)
• Acting Director, Columbia Microelectronics Sciences Laboratories (1983–86)
• Project Leader, Direct-Write Processing Program, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT (1980–81)
• Staff Member, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT (1973–80)
• Visiting Scientist, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (August 1976)
• Research Officer (Capt. U.S. Air Force), U.S.A.F. Avionics Laboratory (1966–69)
• Research Officer, U.S.A.F., Materials Laboratory (1965–66)
• Consultant:
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Solid-State Electronics Division (1993–94)
• Allied-Signal (1982–88)
• AT&T Bell Labs (1982–88)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (1985–2000)

N. Camillone, K.A. Khan, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., "The Thermal Chemistry of Model Organosulfur Compounds on Gallium Arsenide," submitted to Surf. Sci. (1999).

J. Fujita, M. Levy, R.U. Ahmad, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., M. Randles, C. Gutierrez, and R. Villareal, “Observation of Optical Isolation Based on Nonreciprocal Phase Shift in a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 998-1000 (1999)

H. Rao, M. J. Steel, R. Scarmozzino, and R.M. Osgood, Jr. “Complex Propagators for Evanescent Waves in Bidirectional Beam Propagation Method.” J. of Lightwave Tech. 18, 1155-1160 (1999).

T. Izuhara, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr. "Direct Wafer Bonding and Transfer of 10 ?m-thick Magnetic Garnet Films onto Semiconductor Surfaces," Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 1261 (2000).

K.A. Khan, N. Camillone III, J..A.. Yarmoff, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Modification of the Surface Termination of GaAs(001) Using Photon-Activated Electron-Transfer Reactions.” Surf. Sci. 458, 53-62 (2000).

M.J. Steel, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “High Transmission Enhanced Faraday Rotation in one-dimensional Photonic Crystals with Defects.” Photon. Tech. Lett. 12, 1171-1173. (2000).

M.J. Steel, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Photonic Band Gaps with Defects and the Enhancement of Faraday Rotation.” J. Lightwave Tech. 18, 1297-1308 (2000).

M.J. Steel, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr, “Large Magnetooptical Kerr Rotation with High Reflectivity from Photonic Band Gap Structures with Defects.” J. Lightwave Tech. 18, 1289-1296. (2000).

J. Fujita, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., "Waveguide Optical Isolator Based on Mach-Zehnder Interferometer," submitted to Appl. Phys. Lett. (February 2000).

A.M.Radojevic, M. Levy, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., "Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity of 10-?m-thick Periodically Poled LiNbO3 Films," submitted to Opt. Lett. (March 2000).

X.J. Shen, H. Kwak, A.M. Radojevic, S. Smadici, D. Mocuta, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Momentum-Resolved Excited-Electron Lifetimes on Stepped Cu(775).” Chem. Phys. Lett. 351, 1, (2002).

N.C. Panoiu and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Numerical Investigation of Negative Refractive Index Metamaterials at Infrared and Optical Frequencies.” Opt. Comm. 223, 331 (2003).

N.C. Panoiu and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Influence of the Dispersive Properties of Metals on the Transmission Characteristics of Left-handed Materials.” Phys. Rev. E 68, 016611 (2003) (also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 8 (5), August 4, 2003).

N. -C. Panoiu, R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Subwavelength Nonlinear Plasmonic Nanowire.” Nano Lett. 4, 2427-2430 (2004) (also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 10 (7), August 16, 2004 and Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science 3 (9), September, 2004).

D. Djukic, R. Roth, J.T. Yardley, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Low-Voltage Planar-Waveguide Electrooptic Prism Scanner In Crystal-Ion Sliced Thin-Film LiNbO3.” Opt. Expr. 12, 6159 (2004)

N. -C. Panoiu, M. Bahl, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Ultrafast Optical Tuning of Superprism Effect in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals.” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, 21, 1500 (2004)

S. Smadici, and R.M. Osgood, “Image-State Electron Scattering on Flat Ag/Pt(111) and Stepped Ag/Pt(997) Surfaces.” Phys. Rev. B, 71, 165424 (2004)

Z. Zhu, T. Andelman, M. Yin, T-L. Chen, S.N. Ehrlich, S.P. O'Brien, R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Synchrotron X-ray Scattering of ZnO Nanorods: Periodic Ordering and Lattice Size.” J. Mater. Res. 20, 1033 (2005)

S. Zhang, W. Fan, K.J. Malloy, S.R.J. Brueck, N. -C. Panoiu, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Experimental Demonstration of Near-Infrared Negative-Index Metamaterials,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 137404 (2005)

R.M. Roth, N. -C. Panoiu, M.M. Adams, R.M. Osgood, Jr. C.C. Neacsu, and M.B. Raschke, “Resonant-Plasmon Field Enhancement from Asymmetrically Illuminated Conical Metallic-Probe Tips.” Opt. Exp 14, 2921 (2006) (also featured in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics 1 (5), May 5, 2006 and in the Virtual Journal for Biomedical Research 11 (10), May 15, 2006)

R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Photoreaction Dynamics of Molecular Adsorbates on Semiconductor and Oxide Surfaces.” Chem. Rev. 106, 4379 (2006)

R.M. Roth, D. Djukic, Y.S. Lee, R.M. Osgood, Jr., S. Bakhru, K. Dunn, H. Bakhru, L. Wu, and M. Huang, “Compositional and Structural Changes in Lithium Niobate Caused By Crystal Ion Slicing Pre-Processing: He+ Ion Implantation and Annealing.” Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 112906 (2006)

I-W. Hsieh, X.G. Chen, J. I. Dadap, N.-C. Panoiu, R.M. Osgood Jr., S. J. McNab, and Y. Vlasov, “Ultrafast-Pulse Self-Phase Modulation and Third-Order Dispersion in Si Photonic Wire-Waveguides.” Opt. Exp. 14, 12380 (2006)

N. C. Panoiu, X.G. Chen, and R.M. Osgood, Jr., “Modulation Instability in Silicon Photonic Nanowires.” Opt. Lett. 31, 3609 (2006) (also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 14 (24), December 11, 2006)