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With the growing availability of wireless broadband Internet service, Stanford's web-based library offerings help me to write publications and grant proposals, put together new lectures, and follow the latest discoveries in my field practically whenever or wherever I want.
Paul McIntyre, associate professor, Materials Science and Engineering,
in his office in the McCullough Building.
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Among materials scientists and engineers, archival journal publications are the most important channel for disseminating new understanding and following developments in the field. Ours is a very broad discipline that encompasses fundamental research in condensed matter physics, materials chemistry, metallurgy, and soft matter as well as diverse applications in advanced structures and devices. Having access to a large number of top-quality journals is essential and, although it's costly, Stanford's Engineering Library and the other technical libraries provide that access.
My colleagues and I, and our students, are heavy users of on-line journal subscriptions and science and engineering catalogs. The latter are search engines that provide direct links to the most important journal articles that are essential to our scholarship. The move to electronic content is, based on my experience at least, inevitable. The portability and retrieval speed for electronic articles are just too attractive for me to print out "papers" on paper anymore. With the growing availability of wireless broadband internet service, Stanford's web-based library offerings help me to write publications and grant proposals, put together new lectures, and follow the latest discoveries in my field practically whenever or wherever I want. This makes it easier to cope with a busy travel schedule and to continue the elusive search for work-life balance.
Paul C. McIntyre
Paul C. McIntyre earned his BASc from the University of British Columbia, Metals and Materials Engineering (1988), and his ScD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ceramics (1993). His research interests include di∂usion, chemical reactions, and phase transitions in thin films and coatings; materials processing; integrated electroceramic thin films and their electrodes; and materials problems in ULSI. His current research efforts include ferroelectric thin films; metal/oxide semiconductor interfaces; SiGe nanostructures; and materials for low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells. Recent publications include Surface Passivation and Electronic Structure Characterization of PbTiO3 Thin Films and Pt/PbTiO3 Intefaces, co-authored with M. Kurasawa (Journal of Applied Physics, 2005).
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