Christopher Soles

Research Interests

Polymers for high resolution patterning and next generation lithography (optical projection, extreme ultraviolet, nanoimprint), organic semiconducting materials and devices, polymer and glass dynamics in thin films and other confining systems, polymers and organic molecules in thin films and interfaces, mechanisms of moisture and small molecule transport in glassy polymers, nanoporous low-k dielectric materials and characterization techniques, X-ray and neutron based characterization technique, including reflectivity, small angle scattering, grazing incidence scattering, diffraction, inelastic scattering, and near edge X-ray absorption for fine edge structure.

Research Opportunities

• NIST-NRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

Professional Affiliations

• American Physical Society



• Materials Research Society



• American Chemical Society



• The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Awards and Honors

• United States Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (2008)



• ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering, Technical Program Chair (2007-2009)



• National Academy of Sciences, Japan-US Frontiers of Science (2007, Kanagawa, Japan)



• United States Department of Commerce Silver Medal (2006)



• United States Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (2006)



• Presidential Early Career Award for Science & Engineering (2006)



• National Academy of Engineering, Indo-US Frontiers of Engineering (2006, Agra, India)



• National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering (2004, Irvine, CA)



• NIST Sigma Xi Best Postdoctoral Research Poster Award (2002)



• NIST - National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1999-2001)