Professor
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University, UT, United States
Matthew Linford graduated with a B.S. in chemistry from BYU in 1990 and received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science and chemistry, respectively, from Stanford in 1996. At Stanford, he published the first two papers on monolayers on hydrogen-terminated silicon. By Google Scholar these two papers have been cited more than 950 and 1450 times. After a post-doc at a Max Planck Institute in Germany studying polyelectrolyte multilayers, Linford worked in industry for three years – one year with Rohm and Haas and two years with two start-up companies (in biotech and textiles). In 2000, he took a position at BYU and is now a full professor there. Linford has 525 publications of various types and more than 40 patents. He was an editor for Applied Surface Science from 2015 - 2023. He is a contributing editor for Vacuum Technology & Coating on surface and material characterization and data analysis. Linford was an associate editor for Surface Science Spectra from 2003 – 2019, and was made a member of the editorial board in 2019. In 2014 he became an AVS fellow. In 2015, he was named an Alcuin Fellow at BYU (a teaching award). By Google Scholar, he has more than 15,600 citations, his h-index is 55, and his i10-index is 221. While at BYU, Linford has studied various aspects of XPS, including peak fitting, reproducibility issues, and statistical methods for improving XPS data analysis, thin film characterization with XPS and spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE), statistical methods for data analysis in general, e.g., PCA and MCR, atomic layer deposition, new materials for separations science (chromatography), and new materials for long-term digital data storage, and silicon surface modification. His hobbies include tennis, piano/organ, and learning languages (especially Spanish and German).
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