Senior Technical Staff
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Greg Haugstad is technical staff member and director of the Characterization Facility (CharFac), a core research facility at the University of Minnesota. The CharFac serves industry as well as both UMinnesota and external academics by providing analytical services, training for hands-on use, and methods development. The CharFac is part of two NSF networks: the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (nnci.net) and the Materials Research Facilities Network (mrfn.org). It has also served an integral role in an industry-academic consortium for nearly 35 years, now known as IPRIME (Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering, iprime.umn.edu).
Greg is a condensed matter physicist with BA and Ph.D. degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College and the University of Minnesota, respectively. Prior to his Ph.D. he had research fellowships at Ames Lab (high-temp I-V measurements) and 3M (vector network analysis of electromagnetically absorptive, i.e., "stealth", materials). His Ph.D. research characterized electronic properties at metal and semiconductor interfaces with synchrotron-based soft X-ray/UV photoelectron spectroscopy in situ (thin film growth with cryo methods). After postdoctoral research with DuPont in a NSF Engineering Research Center, developing atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods to study polymer-inorganic interfaces, he joined the CharFac in 1994; here he continued industry research as both principal investigator and hands-on researcher. He added full responsibility for core labs in AFM as well as ion beam analysis (IBA), which includes Rutherford backscattering (RBS), particle-induced X-ray/gamma-ray emission (PIXE/PIGE) and other methods for elemental, depth-dependent, and epitaxial assessments.
For 31+ years Greg has collaborated with industry on such topics as inkjet printing and micro/nano-spray coatings; adhesion/release media; personal care films; biomedical device surface modification; polymer-drug nanoparticles and coatings; ultrafiltration media; and nanocomposites. He has further provided proprietary analytical services for hundreds of clients. Since 2001 he has served on the UMinn graduate faculty, providing a materials/bio characterization methods emphasis.
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Photothermal AFM-IR interrogation of polymeric materials
Thursday, July 27, 2023
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM US CST