Celebrating the Achievements and Life of Joe Greene

This Special Topic Collection honors the seminal and interdisciplinary contributions of Professor Joe Greene to atomic level understanding and controlling of low-temperature film growth to synthesize novel metastable semiconducting layers and ceramic coatings. The Collection focuses on important challenges, new developments, and current understanding in a wide range of topics in Surface Science, Nanoscience, Thin Films Physics, and Surface Engineering and in the many fields Joe Greene influenced and participated in; in fact, spanning the scope of JVST A.

Guest Editors:
Ivan Petrov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Linköping University, Sweden
Lars Hultman, Linköping University, Sweden
Li-Chyong Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Jochen M Schneider, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Stephen Rossnagel, University of Virginia, USA