Commemorating the Career of Gerry Lucovsky

This Special Topic Collection commemorates Gerald Lucovsky, providing a limited measure of the enormous breadth and depth of his scientific and technical contributions. For more than 5 decades, Gerry worked to solve long-standing problems in the chemistry and physics of glasses, crystalline and amorphous semiconductors, thin films, and interfaces. A premier spectroscopist, he used measurements from the infrared to the X-ray region to understand and uncover relationships among the optical, vibrational, and electronic properties of materials, thin films, and interfaces, and to use these to advantage for scientific and technological ends. His contributions spanned chalcogenides, group-IV and III/V semiconductors, metal oxides and nitrides, and dielectric/semiconductor interfaces for advanced semiconductor electronic and photovoltaic systems.

Guest Editors: Gregory Parsons and David Aspnes, North Carolina State University