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Peter M. Martin

Peter M. Martin Dr. Martin worked at Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (BNW) for over twenty nine years where he currently holds an Emeritus Laboratory Fellow appointment, and specializes in developing thin film coatings for energy, biomedical, space and defense applications. He pioneered the use of reactive magnetron sputtering technology to fabricate novel and advanced optical coating materials with improved durability and adhesion, improved optical performance, and reduced mechanical stress. He specializes in large area optical and thin film coating development and has worked with the Thirty Meter Telescope Project to develop durable broad spectrum high reflector coatings on large substrates. He also led development of high performance large area ground based and space based laser mirrors for DOD applications. His team also demonstrated large area solar concentrator panels for residential solar power systems.

The most recent work involves development of advanced reflective coatings for the Thirty Meter Telescope, thermoelectric quantum well structures, photocatalytic coatings for an artificial lung, nanolaminate and superlattice coatings, barrier coatings for flexible flat panel displays, organic light emitting devices, solar control coatings, advanced conductive coatings, protective coatings, piezoelectric coatings for high frequency transducers, large area silicon coatings, and specialized medical coatings.

He has written over 400 technical publications and given over 200 presentations, has won three R&D 100 Awards for his work in microfabrication and barrier coatings for flat panel displays, has two FLC awards, was selected Battelle Technology of the Year (2003) for his work with the photolytic artificial lung, voted Distinguished inventor, and PNNL 2005 Inventor of the Year. He has twenty six US patents and numerous foreign and pending patents in microtechnology, advanced thermoelectric materials, coatings technology and barrier coating areas. He also teaches short courses on smart materials and energy materials and applications.