Rowland M. Cannon

Materials Sciences Divison, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
796 Evans Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
Ph. (510) 642-9338, Fax (510) 486-6086

Biographical Sketch

Rowland M. Cannon is Staff Scientist and Project Leader, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA and was made Lecturer, in the Mat. Sci. & Min. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California - Berkeley, in 1987. Dr. Cannon received an S.B. in Materials Science, 1966, and an Sc.D. in Ceramics, 1975, both from MIT. Between degree programs he worked at AVCO Corp., Lowell MA. Afterwards he taught ceramics in the Materials Science and Engineering Dept. at MIT, becoming Associate Professor in 1980, before going to Berkeley in 1983. He has enjoyed half-year sabbatical periods at Case-Western Reserve Univ., in 1980, and at the Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany, in 1990, and has been a visiting scientist at the MPI in the subsequent years. He has collaborated on research leading to about 100 scientific papers on topics that include sintering and microstructural evolution, mechanical properties, and interfaces. He has been conducting and directing research at LBNL on adherence of ceramic-metal interfaces, microstructures and interfaces for advanced ceramics, wetting, toughening mechanisms, and oxidation and reliable corrosion protection. He is a fellow of the American Ceramic Society from which he was awarded the Ross Coffin Purdy Award in 1991 (paper of the year) and the Sosman Memorial Lecture in 1997. He was made a fellow of the ACS in 1994. He has given 8 Gordon Conference lectures and was Chair of the Gordon Conference on Ceramics in 1993.

Experience:

1966 - 1971 Senior Scientist & Group Leader, Mat. Sci. Dept., Systems Div., AVCO Corp., Lowell, MA

1971 - 1975 Research Assistant, Mat. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Massachusetts Instit. of Technology

1975 - 1980 Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Mat. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Massachusetts Instit. of Technology

1980 - 1982 Associate Professor of Ceramics, Mat. Sci. & Eng. Dept., Massachusetts Instit. of Technology

1983 - 1984 Associate Research Engineer, Mat. Sci. & Min. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California - Berkeley

1987 - present Lecturer, Mat. Sci. & Min. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California - Berkeley

1985 - present Staff Scientist & Project Leader, Center for Adv. Mat., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Jan-June, 1980 Visiting Associate Professor, Metallurgy & Mat.Sci. Dept., Case-Western Reserve Univ.

Mar-July 1990 Visiting Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, FRG

Selected Publications

W. C. Carter & R. M. Cannon, "Sintering Microstructures: Instabilities and the Interdependence of Mass Transport Mechanisms," Trans. Am. Ceram. Soc., 7 137-163 (1990).

R. M. Cannon, B.J. Dalgleish, R. H. Dauskardt, T.S. Oh & R.O. Ritchie, "Cyclic Fatigue-Crack Propagation Along Ceramic/Metal Interfaces," Acta Metall. Mater., 39 [9] 2145-56 (1991).

R. O. Ritchie, R. M. Cannon, B. J. Dalgleish, R. H. Dauskardt & J. M. McNaney, "Mechanics and Mechanisms of Crack Growth at or Near Ceramic-Metal Interfaces: Interface Engineering Strategies for Promoting Toughness," Mater. Sci. Eng., A166 221-35 (1993).

H.-J. Kleebe, M. K. Cinibulk, R. M. Cannon & M. Rühle, "Statistical Analysis of the Intergranular Film Thickness in Silicon Nitride Ceramics," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 76 [8] 1969-77 (1993).

Y.-M. Chiang, L. A. Silverman, R. H. French & R. M. Cannon, "Thin Glass Film between Ultrafine Conductor Particles in Thick-Film Resistors," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 77 [5] 1143-52 (1994).

J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon & R. O. Ritchie, "Near-Interfacial Crack Trajectories in Ceramic-Metal Layered Structures," Int. J. Fract., 66 227-40 (1994).

B. J. Dalgleish, E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia, R. M. Cannon & R. O. Ritchie, "Interface Formation and Strength in Ceramic-Metal Systems," Scripta Metall. Mater., 31 [8] 1109-14 (1994).

R. H. French, R. M. Cannon, L. K. DeNoyer & Y.-M. Chiang, "Full Spectral Calculation of Non-Retarded Hamaker Constants for Ceramic Systems from Interband Transition Strengths," Solid State Ionics, 75 13-33 (1995).

I. Tanaka, K'i. Igashira, T. Okamoto, K. Niihara & R. M. Cannon, "High-Temperature Fracture Mechanism of Low-Ca Doped Silicon Nitride," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 78 [3] 673-79 (1995).

C.-M. Wang, X. Pan, M. J. Hoffmann, R. M. Cannon & M. Rühle, "Grain Boundary Films in Rare-Earth-Glass-Based Silicon Nitride," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 79 [3] 788-92 (1996).

X. Pan, H. Gu, R. van Weeren, S. C. Danforth, R. M. Cannon & M. Rühle, "Grain-Boundary Microstructure and Chemistry of a Hot Isostatically Presssed High-Purity Silicon Nitride," J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 79 [9] 2313-20 (1996).

J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon & R. O. Ritchie, "Fracture and Fatigue-Crack Growth along Aluminum-Alumina Interfaces," Acta Mater., 44 [12] 4713-28 (1996).

T. L. Becker, Jr., J. M. McNaney, R. M. Cannon & R. O. Ritchie, "Limitations on the Use of the Mixed-Mode Delaminating Beam Test Specimen: Effects of the Size of the Region of K-Dominance," Mech. Mater., 25 291-308 (1997).

J. K. Wright, R. L. Williamson & R. M. Cannon, "Finite Element Analysis of the Effects of Corners on Residual Stresses in Protective Oxide Scales," Mater. Sci. Eng., A230 202-12, (1997).

H. Gu, R. M. Cannon & M. Rühle, "Composition and Chemical Width of Ultrathin Amorphous Films at Grain Boundaries in Silicon Nitride" J. Mater. Res. 13 [2] 376-87 (1998).

R. H. French, H. Müllejans, D. J. Jones, G. Duscher, R. M. Cannon & M. Rühle, "Dispersion Forces and Hamaker Constants for Intergranular Films in Silicon Nitride from Spatially Resolved-Valence Electron Energy Loss Spectrum Imaging," Acta Mater., 46 [7] 2271-87 (1998).

E. Saiz, A. P. Tomsia & R. M. Cannon, "Ridging Effects on Wetting and Spreading of Liquids on Solids," Acta Mater., 46 [7] 2349-61 (1998).
 

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