CURRICULUM VITAE
Jeffrey
A. Collett, Ph.D.
Home Address:
4514 Mohawk Court Telephone: (920)
832-7014
Place of
Birth:
Citizenship:
College:
Ph.D.
Thesis: X‑ray Scattering Study of
Liquid Crystal Thin Films
Postdoctoral
Work:
Industrial
Work: IBM
APPLICATION BUSINESS SYSTEMS DIVISION,
Teaching:
Taught Modern Physics
course in pre‑engineering curriculum.
Teaching(cont.): ST. CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY, ST. CLOUD,
MN, 1992‑1994.
Assistant Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Engineering Science. Fixed term appointments teaching introductory physics for biomedical science majors, advanced E&M for Physics and Electrical Engineering majors, and Modern Physics.
Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Physics, Division of Natural Sciences.
Taught
Introductory Physics sequence.
Assistant Professor of Physics
(1995-2001), Associate Professor of Physics (2001--). Teaching in all areas of the Physics
Department
Other Appointments:
Visiting
Scholar, Physics Department
Used
optical techniques to study phase diagrams of binary mixtures of liquid
crystals in the hexatic phase.
Professional
Organizations:
American
Physical Society Division of
Condensed Matter Physics
Division
of Materials Physics
Forum
on Education
Forum
on Physics and Society
Group
on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Council
on Undergraduate Research
Physics
Councilor (1999-- )
Chair
of Physics/Astronomy Division
(2001-2003)
Research
Interests: Studies of
hexatic ordering in liquid crystals with X-ray Diffraction. I have developed an X-ray scattering system based on a Bruker
GADDS. Software developed locally allows
visualization of scattering in three dimensions in reciprocal space. With IDL utilities we can extract data along
any line or in any plane in reciprocal space. This system is used to measure
order in hexatic phases of liquid crystals.
Research Support: Received $5000.00 Research and Training
Grant from Exxon Educational Foundation for use in 1996.
$30,000.00
University Startup Funds
Research
Corporation Departmental Development Grant
Petroleum
Research Fund Type G grant for $20,000 (June, 1996)
CUR Materials
Science Linkage Grant for $800.00 (June, 1999)
W. M. Keck
Foundation, $400,000 (Jan., 2002) with
J. Brandenberger & D. Cook
NSF-NUE
(Nanoscience in Undergraduate Education), $100,000 (June, 2003), with Karen
Nordell and David Hall.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. "Synchrotron X‑Ray Study of Novel
Crystalline‑B Phases in Heptyloxybenzylidene
Heptylaniline (7O.7)", J. Collett,
L.B. Sorensen, P.S. Pershan, J.D. Litster, R.J.
Birgeneau, and J. Als‑Nielsen,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 553 (1982).
2. "Synchrotron X‑Ray Study of the
Thickness Dependence of the Phase Diagram of Thin Liquid
Lett. 52, 356 (1984), and 52,
2190(E) (1984).
3. "Dislocation Model for Restacking Phase
Transitions in Crystalline‑B Liquid Crystals",
J.P. Hirth, P.S. Pershan, J. Collett, and
L.B. Sorensen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 53,
473
(1984).
4. "X‑Ray Scattering Study of
Restacking Transitions in the Crystalline‑B Phases of
Heptyloxybenzylidine
Heptylaniline (7O.7)", J. Collett, L.B. Sorensen, P.S. Pershan, and
J. Als‑Nielsen, Phys. Rev. A 32, 1036 (1985).
5. "X‑ray Studies of Tilted Hexatic
Phases in Thin Liquid Crystal Films", E.B. Sirota, P.S.
Pershan, L.B. Sorensen, and J. Collett,
Phys. Rev. Let. 55, 2039 (1985).
6. "X‑ray and Optical Studies of the
Thickness Dependence of the Phase Diagram of Liquid
36,
2890 (1987).
7. "SMT Solder Joint Reliability on
Flexible Circuitry", J. A. Collett, Proceedings of the
IPC Semi‑annual Meeting,
8. “Structural Study of the Smectic-I to Smectic-F Transition in Freely Suspended Liquid Crystal Films”, J. A. Collett, P. T. Kondratko, and M. E. Neubert, Phys. Rev. E 62, 6760 (2000).
1.
“Three Dimensional Visualization of Diffuse Scattering in Liquid
Crystals”, James Truitt, J. A. Collett, and Michael Stenner, March Meeting of the American Physical
Society, Los Angeles, March, 1998.
2.
“Study of the Smectic-I to Smectic-F
Transition in TB10A”, P. T. Kondratko and J. A. Collett, March Meeting of the
American Physical Society,
3.
“Structures of Smectic-I and Smectic-F
Phases of TB10A”, J. A. Collett, presented as the weekly research seminar at
the Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center,
4.
“Structural Study of the Smectic-I and
Smectic-F Phases in Freely Suspended Films”, P. T. Kondratko, J. A. Collett,
M.E. Neubert, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis,
March, 2000.
5.
“X-ray Measurements of Correlation
Lengths in Hexatic Phases Using an Area Detector”, Joshua D. Cross, Jeffrey A.
Collett , and Mary E. Neubert, March
Meeting of the American Physical Society, Minneapolis, March, 2000.
6.
“Signature Laboratories as a Tool for
Integrating Research and Education”, Jeffrey Collett & John
Brandenberger, Council on Undergradate
Research—Tenth National Conference, University of