James L. Smith

Mail Stop K763, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545
phone: 505 667 4476; fax: 505 665 8601; e-mail jlsmith@lanl.gov

EDUCATION:

B.S. in Physics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan,1965.
Ph.D. in Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island,1974.

POSITIONS AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY:

Staff Member, Physical Metallurgy Group, 1973-1982.
Acting Associate Chairman, Center for Materials Science, 1981-1983.
Fellow of the Laboratory, since 1982.
Section Leader, Physics Section, Physical Metallurgy Group,1982-1986.
Director, Center for Materials Science,1986-1987.
Chief Scientist, Superconductivity Technology Center, since 1988.
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1991.
Adjunct Professor of Physics, Boston College, since 1997.

AWARDS:
* Phi Beta Kappa, 1965.
* Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1984.
* "Distinguished Performance Award," Los Alamos National Laboratory, April 1985.
* "E. O. Lawrence Award," U.S. Department of Energy, 1986.
* "Special Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer," Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, 1988.
* "International Prize for New Materials," American Physical Society, 1990.
* "Distinguished Performance Award," Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 1991.
* "Sustained Outstanding Research in Solid-State Physics Award," Division of Materials Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, 1991.
* "Distinguished Alumni Award," Wayne State University, 1993.

JOURNALS:
*Member Editorial Board, Journal of the Less-Common Metals / Journal of Alloys and Compounds, since 1985.
*North American Editor, Philosophical Magazine, 1990-1995.
*Editor, Philosophical Magazine B, since 1995.

PUBLICATIONS AND PATENTS:

Over 350 papers published, 3 patents awarded and 3 pending.  List available on request.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Superconductivity, Magnetism, Actinides, High Magnetic Fields, Electronic Properties of Metals Experimental Physics, and New Materials.

Recent Publications
345. "Microstructure of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Thin Films on (100) LaAlO3 with SrRuO3 as Electrodes,"
                Q. X. Jia, D. S. Zhou, S. R. Foltyn, X. D. Wu, A. T. Findikoglu, and J. L. Smith,
Phil. Mag. B 75, 261 (1997).

346. "NMR and Vortex Lattice Melting in YBa2Cu3O7,"
          C. H. Recchia, J. A. Martindale, C. H. Pennington, W. L. Hults, and J. L. Smith,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3543 (1997).

347. "Electronic Structure of Heavy Fermions:  Narrow Temperature-Independent Bands,"
A. J. Arko, J. J. Joyce, A. B. Andrews, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Smith, E. Moshopoulou, Z. Fisk, A. A. Menovsky, P. C. Canfield, and C. G. Olson,
Physica B 230-232, 16 (1997).

348."Linear and Nonlinear Magnetic Susceptibility of U1-xThxBe13,"
G. M. Schmiedeshoff, M. Torikachvilli, A. Lacerda, C. M. Buford, and J. L. Smith,
Physica B 230-232, 56 (1997).

349."Effect of Pressure on the Electrical Resistivity of CeBe13,"
T. Kagayama, T. Sawamura, G. Oomi, A. Lacerda, and J. L. Smith,
Physica B 230-232, 204 (1997).

350."Thermally Stimulated Luminescence from X-Irradiated Porous Silicon,"
D. W. Cooke, B. L. Bennett, E. H. Farnum, W. L. Hults, R. E. Muenchausen, and J. L. Smith,
Appl. Phys. Lett. 70, 3594 (1997).

351."Magnetic Structure of NpBe13 and NpPd2Al3,"
A. Hiess, M. Bonnet, P. Burlet, E. Ressouche, J.-P. Sanchez, F. Boudarot, J. C. Waerenborgh,
S. Zwirner, F. Wastin, J. Rebizant, G. H. Lander, E. Suard, and J. L. Smith,
Physica B 234, 893 (1997).

352."Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Photoemission and the Single-Impurity Model,"
A. J. Arko, J. J. Joyce, A. B. Andrews, J. D. Thompson, J. L. Smith, D. Mandrus,
M. F. Hundley, A. L. Cornelius, E. Moshopoulou, Z. Fisk, P. C. Canfield, and Alois Menovsky,
Phys. Rev. B56, R7041 (1997).

353."NMR Spin-Echo Experiments as Probes of Vortex Dynamics in YBa2Cu3O7," C. H. Recchia, J. A. Martindale, C. H. Pennington, W. L. Hults, and J. L. Smith,
Physica C 282, 2065 (1997).

354."Characteristics of BaTiO3 Thin Films on Si Deposited by rf Magnetron Sputtering,"
Q. X. Jia, J. L. Smith, L. H. Chang, and W. A. Anderson,
Phil. Mag. B 77, 163 (1998).

355."Dielectric Properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Thin Films with an Epi-RuO2 Electrode,"
Q. X. Jia, A. T. Findikoglu, R. Zhou, X. D. Wu, J. L. Smith, Q. Wang, D. F. Evans,
and W. L. Gladfelter,
to appear Electronics Letters.

356."Vapor Deposition of Thick YBCO Films and Buffer Layers on Flexible Substrates,"
S. R. Foltyn, P. N. Arendt, X. D. Wu, J. F. Bingert, I. H. Campbell, P. C. Dowden,
R. J. Groves, W. L. Hults, Q. X. Jia, H. F. Safar, J. L. Smith, R. Zhou, and D. E. Peterson,
to appear IEEE Transactions Magnetism.

357."Hetero-epitaxial Growth of RuO2 Thin Films on a-Al2O3 Substrates with CeO2 Buffer Layers by Pulsed Laser Deposition,"
C. L. Chen, Q. X. Jia, Y. C. Liu, J. L. Smith, and T. E. Mitchell,
to appear J. Vac Sci and Technol.

358."Evidence of Pair-Breaking by PrBa in Y1-yPryBa2Cu3O7,"
Howard A. Blackstead, Jason C. Cooley, John D. Dow, W. Larry Hults, S. K. Malik,
David B. Pulling, James L. Smith, and William B. Yelon,
to appear J. Phys. Chem. Solids.

359."Structural and Dielectric Properties of Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Thin Films with an Epi-RuO2 Bottom,"
Q. X. Jia, A. T. Findikoglu, R. Zhou, S. R. Foltyn, X. D. Wu, J. L. Smith, Q. Wang,
D. F. Evans, and W. L. Gladfelter,
to appear Integrated Ferroelectrics.

360."PrBa2Cu3O7+d Superconducting Powders,"
J. C. Cooley, W. L. Hults, E. J. Peterson, R. A. Robinson, and J. L. Smith,
to appear International Journal of Modern Physics B.

361."PrBa2Cu3Ox Polycrystalline Superconductor Preparation,"
W. L. Hults, J. C. Cooley, E. J. Peterson, H. A. Blackstead, J. D. Dow, and J. L. Smith,
to appear International Journal of Modern Physics B.

362."NMR Study of U(Be,B)13 in the Normal and Superconducting States,"
E. T. Ahrens, R. H. Heffner, P. C. Hammel, A. P. Reyes, J. D. Thompson,
J. L. Smith, and W. G. Clark,
submitted to Phys. Rev. B.

363."Fermi-Liquid Renormalization in the Superconducting State of UBe13,"
A. P. Ramirez, C. M. Varma, Z. Fisk, and J. L. Smith
to appear Phil. Mag. B.