Fred Lange

Professor

Materials
Chemical Engineering

Fred Lange

Contacts

Materials
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: (805) 893-8248
flange@engineering.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Fred Lange's research concerns interrelations between processing, phase relations, microstructure and properties leading to either new or improved structural ceramics and their composites. Lange's research has emphasized processing and properties of continuous fiber reinforced ceramics and single crystal thin films processed from solutions.

Research Groups

Biography

Professor Lange received his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Technology at Pennsylvania State University in 1965. Subsequently, he has worked at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Research Establishment (to 1967), at the Westinghouse Research Laboratory as a Fellow Scientist (to 1976) and at Rockwell International Science Center as Group Manager and Principal Scientist (to 1986). At Rockwell International, he was named Engineer of the Year (1980) for his work on the Space Shuttle Tile Problem. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1986 with a joint appointment as Professor of Materials, and Professor of Chemical Engineering. His research concerns interrelations between processing, phase relations, microstructure and properties leading to either new or improved structural ceramics and their composites. Lange's principal contributions have been in the processing of ceramic microstructures that produce higher crack growth resistance, and colloidal powder processing methods leading to improved processing reliability by minimizing flaw populations. More recently, Lange's research has emphasized processing and properties of continuous fiber reinforced ceramics and single crystal thin films processed from solutions. His research has resulted in awards from the American Ceramic Society that include: Fellow (1974), Ross Coffin Purdy Award (1982), Richard M. Fulrath Award (1982), Kraner Award (1989), John Jeppson Award (1988), and Sosman Memorial Lecturer (1987). In 1991 he was elected a member of the Academy of Ceramics, an international organization, and in 1992 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the USA and was awarded a Humboldt Senior Fellow (1993), and he was presented the 1997 Max-Planck Research Award. Professor Lange is a co-author of more than 255 papers and 20 patents.


Awards/Honors

  • Max Planck Research Award, 1997
  • Centennial Fellow Award, 1996
  • Humboldt Senior Fellow, 1993
  • Memorial Lecture, 1993
  • Distinguished Dow Lecturer, 1992
  • National Academy of Engineering, 1992
  • Academy of Ceramics, 1991

Selected Publications

  • Effect of Lattice Mismatch on the Epitaxy of Sol-Gel LiNbO3 Thin Films, J. Mat. Res., 12 [5], 1997, 1391-1400, T. A. Derouin, C.D.E. Lakeman, X.H. Wu, J. S. Speck, and F. F. Lange
  • Epitaxial Growth and Structure of Highly Mismatched Oxide Films with Rock-Salt Sturcture on MgO, Symposium, 1997, 193-8, P.A. Langjahr, T. Wagner, F.F. Lange, and M. Rühle
  • Epitaxial Growth of Beta-SiC Thin Films on a 6H-SiC Substrate Using the Solution Precursor Method, J. Mat. Res., 12 [11], 1997, 3099-3101, D. Heimann, T. Wagner, J. Bill, F. Aldinger and F. F. Lange
  • Hydrothermal Heteroepitaxial of Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 at 90-150 deg.C, J. Mat. Res., 12 [5], 1997, 1176--8, A.T. Chien, J.S. Speck, and F.F. Lange
  • Li and 6Li Solid State NMR Studies of Structure and Dynamics in LiNbO3-WO3 Solid Solution, J. Phys. Chem. B, 101, 1997, 9180-7, Yin Xia, Nobuya Machida, Zuehua Wu, Charles Lakeman, Leo van Wüllen, Fred Lange, Carlos Levi and Hellumut Echert
  • Plastic-to-Brittle Transition of Consolidated Bodies: Effect of Counterion Size, J. Colloid and Interface Sci., 193, 1997, 96-103, George V. Franks, Miroslav Colic, Matthew L. Fisher and Fred F. Lange
  • Chemical Solution Routes to Single-Crsytal Thin Films, Science, 273 [5277], 1996, 903-9, F. F. Lange
  • Microstructural Instability in Single-Crystal Thin Films, J. Mater. Res, 11 [6], 1996, 1470-82, A. Seifert, A. Vojta, J. S. Speck, and F. F. Lange
  • Epitaxial Growth of PbTiO3 Thin Films on (001) SrTiO3 from Solution Precursors, J. Mat. Res., 10 [3], 1995, 680-91, Andreas Seifert, Fred F. Lange and James S. Speck
  • Low Temperature/Low Pressure Hydrothermal Synthesis of Barium Titanate: Powder and Heteroepitaxial Thin Films, J. Mat. Res., 10 [7], 1995, 1784-9, A. Chien, J.S. Speck, F.F. Lange, A. Daykin, and C.G. Levi