Brian J. J. Zelinski

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor
The University of Arizona
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Harshbarger Bldg., Room 338C
Tucson, AZ 85721
Campus Phone: (520) 621-8115
FAX: (520) 621-8059
E-mail: bzelinski@mse.arizona.edu

Teaching Interests

• Introduction to Solid State Chemistry (MSE 110)
• Glass Science, including Crystalization, Densification and Relaxation.
• Processing of Ceramics with emphasis on Wet Chemical or Sol-Gel Approaches.
• Kinetic Process in Materials Science.

Current Research

• Wetting Characteristics of Glass-Ceramic and Glass-Metal Interfaces.
• Effects of Compositional Inhomogeneties on Glass Crystalization Behavior.
• Wet Chemical Approaches for the Generation of Electronic and Opto-electronic Materials.
• Sol-Gel Synthesis of Optical Waveguides and Gratings.

Principal Publications

• S. R. Kennedy, J. P. Cronin, M. Denesuk, B. J. J. Zelinski and D. R. Uhlmann, "Effect of Oxalic Acid Dihydrate on the Physical Nature and Electrochromic Properties of Peroxotungtsic Ester-Derived Tungsten Oxide Thin Films," to be published.
• J. T. Dawley, G. Teowee, B. J. J. Zelinski and D. R. Uhlmann, "Piezoelectric Characterization of Bulk and Thin Film Ferroelectric Materials Using Fiber Optics," Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc., 433, 317-324 (1996).
• D. R. Uhlmann, J. T. Dawley, B. J. J. Zelinski, G. Teowee and J. M. Boulton, "Sol-Gel Derived Pyroelectric and Piezoelectric Thin Films," to be published in J. Non-Cryst. Sol. (1996).
• D.P. Birnie III, B. J. J. Zelinski, David L. Perry, "Infrared Observation of Evaporative Cooling During Spin-Coating Processes", Opt. Eng., 34, 1782-1788 (1995).
• B.D. Fabes, D.P. Birnie III, B.J.J. Zelinski, "Porosity and composition effects in sol-gel derived interference filters," Thin Solid Films, 254, 175-180 (1995).
• L. Weisenbach, B. J. J. Zelinski, R. L. Roncone and J. J. Burke, "The Wet-Chemical Fabrication of a Single Leakage Channel Grating Coupler," Opt. Lett., submitted, 1994.
• D. R. Uhlmann, S. Motakef, T. Suratwala, J. Young, B. J. J. Zelinski, Z. Gardlund, G. Teowee and J. Cronin, "Optical Thin Films by Wet Chemical Processing," SPIE, 2288, 2-13 (1994).
• R. L. Roncone, L. Li, K. Bates, J. J. Burke, L. Weisenbach and B. J. J. Zelinski, "The Design and Fabrication of Single-Leakage-Channel Waveguide Grating Couplers," Appl. Opt., 32, 4522-4528 (1993).
• M. Denesuk, B. J. J. Zelinski and D. R. Uhlmann, "Disperson Energy of a Spherical Cap on a Semi-Infinite Solid," J. Colloid and Interfacial Sci., 155, 520-521 (1993).
• M. Denesuk, G. L. Smith, B. J. J. Zelinski, N. J. Kreidl and D. R. Uhlmann, "Capillary Penetration of Liquid Droplets into Porous Materials," J. Colloid and Interfacial Sci., 158, 114 (1993).
• M. Denesuk, J. P. Cronin, B. J. J. Zelinski, N. J. Kreidl and D. R. Uhlmann, "Predictive Modelling of Liquids Spreading on Solid Surfaces," Phys. Chem. Glass., 1993.
• B. J. J. Zelinski, J. P. Cronin, M. Denesuk and D. R. Uhlmann, "High-Temperature Wetting Behavior of Inorganic Liquids," Chapter 28 in Wettability, ed. J. Berg, Marcel Dekker, Surfactant Science Series, 465-524, 1993.
• D. P. Birnie III, S. M. Melpolder, B. D. Fabes, B. J. J. Zelinski and J. J. Hanrahan, "Laser Processing of Chemically-Derived Dichroic Filters," Opt. Eng., 32, 2960-2965, 1993.
• B. D. Fabes, Brian J. J. Zelinski and D. R. Uhlmann, "Sol-Gel Derived Ceramic Coating," Ceramic Films and Coatings, ed. by Wachtman, Noyes Publications, 1992.