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Horn, Mark W.

Horn, Mark W.

Professor

Office phone: (814) 865-0332
Office address: 305C Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
E-mail: mwh4@psu.edu
Homepage: http://www.esm.psu.edu/horn

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1989
  • M.S., Engineering Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, 1985
  • B.S. (High Distinction/ Honors), Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University, 1982

Years of Service with Penn State (14 years)

  • June 1998 – Present Associate Professor

Other Related Experience — Teaching, Industrial, Etc.

  • June 1988 – May 1998 Member of Technical Staff, Submicrometer Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

Recent Principal Publications

  • Fan Zhang, Jian Xu, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Sean M. Pursel, Mark W. Horn, and Andrew Wang (2007) “Circularly polarized emission from colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots confined in microcavities formed by chiral mirrors,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, pp. 023102 (2007)., 91, pp. 023102.
  • J. RaviPrakash, A. McDaniel, M. W. Horn, L. Pilione, P. Sunal, R. Messier, R. T. McGrath, and F. K. Schweighardt (2007) “Hydrogen Sensors: Role of Palladium Thin Film Morphology,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 120,, pp. 39–446.
  • T. J. Mullen, C. Srinivasan, J. N. Hohman, S. D. Gilmore, M. J. Schuster, Mark W. Horn, A. M. Andrews, and P. S. Weiss (2007) “Microcontact insertion printing,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, pp. 1.
  • C. Srinivasan, J. N. Hohman, M. E. Anderson, P. S. Weiss, and Mark W. Horn (2007) “Nanostructures using self-assembled multilayers as molecular rulers and etch resists,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B(24), pp. 1985–1988.
  • Sean M. Pursel and Mark W. Horn (2007) “Prospects for Nanowire Sculptured Thin Film Devices,” J. Vac. Sci. Technol., B(25), pp. 2611–2615.
  • C. Srinivasan, T. J. Mullen, J. N. Hohman, M. E. Anderson, A. A. Dameron, A. M. Andrews, E. C. Dickey, M. W. Horn, and P. S. Weiss (2007) “Scanning electron microscopy of nanoscale chemical patterns,” ACS Nano, 1, pp. 191–201.
  • Sean M. Pursel, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, and M. W. Horn (2007) “Tuning of sculptured-thin-film spectral-hole filters by postdeposition etching,” Optical Engineering, 46,, pp. 040507–1–040507–3.
  • H. Tan, O. K. Ezekoye, J. Van Der Schalie, Mark W. Horn, Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Jian Xu, and W. D. Burgos (2006) “Biological reduction of nanoengineered iron(III) oxide sculptured thin films,” Envir. Sci. and Tech., 40, pp. 5490–5495.
  • P. Sunal, R. Messier, and M. W. Horn (2006) “Reactive co-deposition of TiNx/SiNx nano-composites using pulsed direct current magnetron sputtering,” Thin Solid Films, 515, pp. 2185–2191.
  • Mark W. Horn, M. D. Pickett, R. Messier, and Akhlesh Lakhtakia (2004) “Blending of Nanoscale and Microscale in Uniform Large-area Sculptured Thin-film Architectures,” Nanotechnology, 15, pp. 303–310.

Consulting, Patents, and Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

  • American Vacuum Society, member (2007 – Present)
  • Materials Research Society, member (2007 – Present)
  • SPIE, member (2007 – Present)

Honors and Awards

  • PSES Outstanding Teaching Award, PSES (Apr 2008)

Recent Institutional and Professional Service

  • Member, Engineering Faculty Council (Aug 2006 – Present)
  • Section Head, Session Chair, Program Committee, International Conference on Electron, Ion, and Photon Beam Technology & Nanofabrication (2005 – 2008)

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