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Donald Tennant
Interim Director, Director of Operations
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250 Duffield Hall
CNF
Ithaca,
NY 14853-2700
General Phone: 607-255-2329
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| Cubicle: |
262 Duffield Hall |
| Direct Phone: |
607-254-6203 |
| Email: |
tennant(at)cnf.cornell.edu |
| Short Biographical Statement:
Donald M. Tennant is the newly appointed Director of Operations at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (CNF) leaving a 27 year career at Lucent Bell Labs. At Bell Labs Don was a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff where he managed the Advanced Lithography Group in the Nanofabrication Research Department. Since 1979 he worked at Bell in the area of high resolution electron beam lithography and related nanostructure technology. His work has had significant impact on a wide range of disciplines, including: soft x-ray imaging and extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL), high precision grating production for DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplexing), and gate technology for both high performance circuit applications and the exploration of the practical limits of silicon technology. His collaborative efforts with SUNY Stonybrook and Brookhaven National Laboratories have resulted in important advances in the field of x-ray optics and microscopy. He has authored or co-authored over 200 articles in these fields, organized major international conferences on the subjects, presented numerous invited technical talks and posters, and has been awarded 11 U.S. patents. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee and is the Financial Trustee for the International Conference of Electron, Ion, and Photon Beams and Nanotechnology (EIPBN). He has served on a number of scientific review panels for the National Labs. He is a Past Chairman of the Nanoscale Science and Technology Division of the AVS, is currently serving a three year term on the JVST Editorial Board and has served as a panelist for the National Research Council of the National Academies. |
| The focus of his efforts at Cornell’s CNF will be to lead this comprehensive nanofabrication and characterization facility into new and expanded areas of expertise and to offer frontier capabilities to researchers for interdisciplinary projects and education.
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