John Lawrence Freeouf (born 1947) is a materials scientist on the physics faculty of Portland State University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society. He has patented multiple inventions. Early life and education Freeouf was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1947, the son of Leslie J. Freeouf and Janet Harriet (née Hodges) Freeouf. He married Barbara Curcic in 1975, and they have two daughters, Jennifer and Michellle.
Freeouf earned a baccalaureate degree in physics at the University of Arizona in 1967. At the University of Chicago he completed both a Master of Science in physics in 1968, and also a Ph.D. in physics in 1973, with his dissertation titled Far-Ultraviolet Reflectance of ll-Vl Compounds and Correlation with Penn-Phillips Gap, advised by Hellmut Fritzsche. Career From 1972 to 1973, Freeouf was a research fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was a research staff member at the International Business Machines Corporation Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, for two decades, from 1973 to 1993. He chaired the 1991 Electronic Materials and Photonics Division of the American Vacuum Society, and is a past Chairman of the Division of Electronic Materials and Processing of the American Vacuum Society. Hed became a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 1993.
He left IBM in 1993 to found Interface Studies Inc., in Katonah, New York, serving as president and chief scientist of the company, "that specializes in materials-science problems primarily related to semiconductor technology". He became a Professor on the Physics Department faculty of Portland State University in 2000.
Honors and awards Freehouf, a 1990 recipient of an American Physical Society fellowship, in the Division of Condensed Matter Physics, was cited For application of surface-science techniques to the elucidation of semiconductor interfaces and for contributions to the physics of surface barriers. Freeouf chaired the EMPD division of the American Vacuum Society in 1991, became a Fellow of the American Vacuum Society in 1993, and was listed as a member of the AVS Forty Year Club in 2020. Selected publications
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