UH researcher wins
prize for infrared film
Shiv Sharma, researcher and associate director of the University of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, has received the R.F. Bunshah Award from the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films.
Sharma was recognized for the most outstanding paper presented at the annual meeting, reporting development of nickel-cobalt films expected to revolutionize infrared electro-optic devices, including improved night-vision cameras for defense and civilian use.
STAR-BULLETIN / 2002
UH researcher Shiv Sharma has been honored for his work on nickel-cobalt films.
He co-authored the paper, entitled "Conducting Spinel Oxide Films with Infrared Transparency."
Sharma's research ranges over a wide area, including Raman and infrared spectroscopy of meteorites and terrestrial minerals, experimental petrology, mineral physics and materials science, remote sensing with fiber-optic sensors and light direction and ranging (LIDAR) techniques.
The award was established by the conference organizers in 1983 in honor of R.F. Bunshah's achievements in the science and technology of coating and thin film deposition.
A materials science and engineering professor at UCLA, Bunshah was a major contributor to activities of the American Vacuum Society.
The society has sponsored the conference since 1974 to promote international exchange of information by scientists, technologists and manufacturers concerned with materials science, advanced surface engineering and computational methods and applications, and related areas.
Sharma joined UH in 1980 after 2 1/2 years as a Carnegie post-doctoral fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
A researcher and professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, he is on the faculty of Global Environmental Science in the Department of Oceanography, the Department of Geology and Geophysics and Department of Electrical Engineering. He also is a member of the Hawaii Center for Volcanology and the author or co-author of more than 170 research papers.
