Electrical Engineering

Dr. Blake P. Wood

Plasma Physics Group, P-**, MS-E526

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos, NM 87545

Phone: 505-***-****, Fax: 505-***-****

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Education:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley,

1991

M.S., Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, 1989

B.S., Electrical Engineering, U.C. Santa Barbara, 1980

Research Experience:

Blake P. Wood is a staff member in Pulsed Power Weapons

Physics Team of the Plasma

Physics Group (P-24) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He has served as Team Leader of Applied Plasma

Technologies, as Principal Investigator (PI) of P-24's $14M

Plasma Source Ion Implantation (PSII) program with General

Motors, and PI of P-24's involvement in NWT and NMSM programs to

produce cathodic-arc based erbia coatings for fire resistant pits

and pit casting operations. He is currently PI of P-24's research

in vacuum arc and intense ion beam technologies, and is a member

of the physics design team for the Atlas program. Blake has over

a decade of experience in numerical modeling of plasmas and

hydrodynamic experiments using 1-D and 2-D particle-in-cell and

MHD codes. He has received an R&D 100 award and two LANL

awards for "Excellence in Achieving Industrial

Partnerships". He is a member of the American Physical

Society (APS), the American Vacuum Society (AVS), and the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He

serves on the executive committees of the Los Alamos Nuclear and

Plasma Sciences Section of the IEEE, and the New Mexico AVS. He

has served as guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma

Science. He is a contributing author on the book "Plasma

Immersion Ion Implantation and Deposition", to be published

by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Between 1980-1987, he worked in a

variety of staff and supervisory positions in the computer and

telecommunications departments of the Chevron Information

Technology Company. Blake is a U.S. citizen and holds a DOE

"Q" clearance.

Peer-Reviewed Publications (first author):

B.P. Wood, A.J. Perry, L.J. Bitteker, and W.J.

Waganaar, "Cratering behavior in single- and

poly-crystalline copper irradiated by an intense pulsed ion

beam", Surface & Coatings Technology, V108-109, 171

(1998).

B.P. Wood and D. Pesenson, "Cathodic-arc

plasma density, radial profile, and total plasma inventory as

measured by microwave interferometer and Faraday cup", IEEE

Trans. on Plasma Sci. 26, 1718 (1998).

B.P. Wood, K.C. Walter, and T.N. Taylor,

"Plasma Source Ion Implantation to Increase the Adherence of

Subsequently Deposited Coatings", Adv. Plasma Sci., A.

Kobayashi and N.M. Ghoniem, eds., Institute of Applied Plasma

Science, Osaka, Japan 1997.

B.P. Wood, W.A. Reass, and I. Henins,

"Plasma Source Ion Implantation of Metal Ions:

Synchronization of Cathodic-Arc Plasma Production and Target Bias

Pulses", Surf. Coat. Tech. 85, 70-74 (1996).

B.P. Wood, M.A. Lieberman, and A.J.

Lichtenberg, ``Stochastic electron heating in a capacitive rf

discharge with non-Maxwellian and time-varying distributions'',

IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 23, 89 (1995).

B.P. Wood, I. Henins, W.A. Reass, D.J. Rej,

H.A. Davis, W.J. Waganaar, R.E. Muenchausen, G.P. Johnston, and

H.K. Schmidt, ``Large-scale implantation and deposition research

at Los Alamos National Laboratory'', Nuc. Inst. Meth. B. 96, 429

(1995).

B.P. Wood, I. Henins, R.J. Gribble, W.A. Reass,

R.J. Faehl, M.A. Nastasi, and D.J. Rej, ``Initial operation of a

large-scale plasma source ion implantation experiment'', J. Vac.

Sci. Tech. B 12, 870 (1994).

B.P. Wood, A.J. Lichtenberg and M.A. Lieberman,

``Arnold and Arnold-like diffusion in many dimensions'', Physica

D 71, 132 (1994).

B.P. Wood, "Displacement Current and

multiple pulse effects in plasma source ion implantation",

J. Appl. Phys. 72, 4770 (1993).

B.P. Wood, J.T. Scheuer, M.A. Nastasi, R.H.

Olsher, W.A. Reass, I. Henins, and D.J. Rej, "Design of a

large-scale plasma source ion implantation experiment",

Materials Research Society Symposium Series, Vol. 279, pp.

345-350, (1993).

B.P. Wood, M.A. Lieberman and A.J. Lichtenberg,

``Sheath motion in a capacitively coupled radio frequency

discharge", IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 19, 619 (1991).

B.P. Wood, A.J. Lichtenberg and M.A. Lieberman,

``Arnold diffusion in weakly coupled standard maps'', Phys. Rev.

A 42, 5885 (1990).

Peer-Reviewed Publications (collaborating

author):

M. Hakovirta, K.C. Walter, B.P. Wood, and M. Nastasi,

"Graphite macroparticle filtering efficiency of three different magnetic

filter designs used in the filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition of

tetrahedral amorphous carbon films", J. Vac. Sci. Tech. A 17(5),

3077 (1999).

D.T.K. Kwok, P.K. Chu, B.P. Wood, and C. Chan,

"Particle-in-cell and TAMIX simulation of hydrogen plasma

immersion ion implantation process", J. Appl. Phys. 86, 1817 (1999)

H.A. Davis, B.P. Wood, C.P. Munson, L.J.

Bitteker, M. Nastasi, D.J. Rej, W.J. Waganaar, K.C. Walter, D.M.

Coates, H.M. Schleinitz, "Ion Beam and Plasma Technology

Development for Surface Modification at Los Alamos National

Laboratory", Materials Chemistry and Physics, V54, 213

(1998).

K.C. Walter, M. Nastasi, N.P. Baker, C.P.

Munson, W.K. Scarborough, J.T. Scheuer, B.P. Wood, J.R. Conrad,

K. Sridharan, S. Malik, and R.A. Bruen, "Advances in PSII

Techniques for Surface Modification", Surface & Coatings

Technology, V104, 205 (1998).

A.H. Hamdi, X. Qiu, G.W. Malaczynski, A.A.

Elmoursi, S. Simko, M.C. Militello, M.P. Balough, B.P. Wood, K.C.

Walter, M.A. Nastasi, "Microstructure Analysis of Plasma

Immersion Ion Implanted Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings",

Surface & Coatings Technology, V104, 395 (1998).

C.P. Munson, R.J. Faehl, I. Henins, M. Nastasi,

W.A. Reass, D.J. Rej, J.T. Scheuer, K.C. Walter, and B.P. Wood,

"Recent Advances in Plasma Source Ion Implantation at Los

Alamos National Laboratory", Surf. Coat. Tech. 84, 528-536

(1996).

M. Nastasi, A.A. Elmoursi, R.J. Faehl, A.H.

Hamdi, I. Henins, G.W. Malaczynski, J.V. Mantese, C. Munson, X.

Qiu, W.A. Reass, D.J. Rej, J.T. Scheuer, C.E. Speck, K.C. Walter,

B.P. Wood, "Materials Science Issues of Plasma Source Ion

Implantation", Materials Research Society Symposium Series,

Vol. 396, pp. 455-466, (1996).

K.C. Walter, H. Kung, T. Levine, J.T. Tesmer,

P. Kodali, B.P. Wood, D.J. Rej, M. Nastasi, J. Koskinen, and

J.-P. Hirvonen, "Characterization and Performance of

Diamond-Like Carbon Films Synthesized by Plasma- and

Ion-Beam-Based Techniques", Surf. Coat. Tech. 74-75, 734-738

(1995).

K.C. Walter, M. Nastasi, H. Kung, P. Kodali, C.

Munson, I. Henins, and B.P. Wood, "Diamond-Like Carbon

Deposition for Tribological Applications at Los Alamos National

Laboratory", Materials Research Society Symposium Series,

Vol. 383, pp. 411-422, (1995).

D.P. Butt, K.C. Walter, M. Nastasi, A.L.

Campuzano, B.P. Wood, D.J. Rej, and G.G. Miller, "Corrosion

of Diamond-Like Carbon Coated Nickel in 0.25-M Sodium

Chloride", Phil. Mag. Lett. 70, 385 (1994).

D.J. Rej, B.P. Wood, R.J. Faehl, and H.H.

Fleishmann, ``Magnetic insulation of secondary electrons in

plasma source ion implantation'', J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 12, 861

(1994).

R.J. Faehl, B.G. DeVolder, and B.P. Wood,

``Application of particle-in-cell simulation to plasma source ion

implantation'', J. Vac. Sci. Tech. B 12, 884 (1994).

D.J. Rej, J.R. Conrad, R.J. Faehl, R.J.

Gribble, I. Henins, N. Horswill, P. Kodali, M. Nastasi, W.A.

Reass, M. Shamim, K. Sridharan, J.R. Tesmer, K.C. Walter, and

B.P. Wood, ``First results from the Los Alamos plasma source ion

implantation experiment'', Materials Research Society Symposium

Series, Vol. 316, pp. 593-598, (1994).

A.J. Lichtenberg and B.P. Wood, ``Diffusion on

two space and time scales'', Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2213 (1989).

A.J. Lichtenberg and B.P. Wood, ``Diffusion

through a stochastic web'', Phys. Rev. A 39, 2153 (1989).

Patents:

"Process for the formation of wear- and

scuff-resistant carbon coatings", Patent Number 5,458,927,

October 17, 1995.

Recent Conference Presentations:

"Development and Applications of an Ion Beam-Based

Intense Pulsed Neutron Source", contributed poster at the Nuclear

Explosives Design Physics Conference (NEDPC), Los Alamos, NM, 10/26/99.

"Liner Implosions for High Pressure Physics

Research", invited talk at the International Conference on High

Pressure Science and Technology, Honolulu, HI, 7/27/99.

"Shock Compression Experimental Capabilities of the Atlas

Facility", contributed talk at the APS Topical Conference on Shock

Compression of Condensed Matter, Snowbird, UT, 7/2/99.

"Use of an Intense Ion Beam as a Flash

Neutron Source for Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy of Temperature

in a Dense Plasma Experiment", contributed poster at the APS

Division of Plasma Physics meeting, New Orleans, LA, 11/18/98,

and at the APS Centennial meeting, Atlanta, GA, 3/25/99.

"High Energy Density Physics Experiments

with Atlas", contributed poster at the APS Centennial

meeting, Atlanta, GA, 3/25/99.

"Surface Cratering Behavior of High Power

Ion Beams", contributed poster at the International

Conference for High Power Particle Beams, Haifa, Israel, 6/10/98.

"High Energy Density Physics Experiments

for Atlas", contributed poster at the IEEE International

Conference on Plasma Science, Raleigh, NC, 6/3/98.

"Ion Beam Technologies for Surface

Modification", invited talk at the AVS International

Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films, San Diego,

CA, 4/30/98.

Plasma Source Ion Implantation to Increase the

Adherence of Subsequently Deposited Coatings", invited

talk at the First International Symposium on Applied Plasma

Science, UCLA, CA, 9/24/97. There was an accompanying paper in

the conference proceedings.

"Plasma Produced Erbia Coatings for Waste

Reduction in Plutonium Casting Operations", contributed talk

at the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science, San

Diego, CA, 5/22/97.

"Erbia Coatings to Contain Molten

Plutonium", contributed talk (with Jim Treglio) at the AVS

International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin

Films, San Diego, CA, 4/22/97.

"Experiments in Conformal Metal Plasma Ion

Implantation", poster presented at the IEEE International

Conference on Plasma Science, Boston, MA, 6/3/96.

"Microwave Interferometry of a

Cathodic-Arc Metal Plasma", contributed talk at the 42nd AVS

National Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, 10/17/95.

"Implantation and Deposition of

Metal-Oxide Ceramic Coatings from a Cathodic-Arc Metal

Plasma", contributed talk at the IEEE International

Conference on Plasma Science, Madison, WI, 6/8/95.

"Metal-Ion Plasma Source Ion

Implantation", contributed talk at the 2nd International

Workshop on Plasma Based Ion Implantation, Sydney, Australia,

2/14/95.

"Carbon and Nitrogen Implantation in a

Large-Scale PSII Facility", contributed talk at the 41st AVS

National Symposium, Denver, Co, 10/27/94.

"Plasma Source Ion Implantation Research

at LANL", invited talk at the Ion

Implantation Technology '94 International Conference, Catania,

Italy, 6/14/94.

"Design and Operational Issues in

Large-Scale PSII", invited talk at the 30th

Annual Symposium of the NM Chapter of AVS, Albuquerque, NM,

4/20/94.

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