Faculty Profile for Dr. Mark Holtz

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Dr. Mark Holtz
Professor — Physics
RFM 3240
phone: (512) 245-2131
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Siddique, A., Ahmed, R., Anderson, J. W., Holtz, M. W., & Piner, E. L. (2021). Improved Electrical Properties of AlGaN/GaN High-Electron-Mobility Transistors by In Situ Tailoring the SiNx Passivation Layer. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 13, 18264–18273. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c01241
  • Ahmed, R., Siddique, A., Anderson, J. W., Gautam, C., Holtz, M. W., & Piner, E. L. (2020). Integration of GaN and Diamond Using Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, 12(35), 39397–39404. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c10065
  • Ahmed, R., Siddique, A., Saha, R., Anderson, J. W., Engdahl, C., Holtz, M. W., & Piner, E. L. (2020). Effect of precursor stoichiometry on morphology, phase purity, and texture formation of hot filament CVD diamond films grown on Si (100) substrate. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, 31, 8597–8606. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03395-7
  • Nazari, M., & Holtz, M. W. (2018). Near-ultraviolet Raman and micro-Raman analysis of electronic materials. Applied Physics Reviews, 5(4), 041303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5054660
  • Ahmed, R., Nazari, M., Hancock, B. L., Simpson, J., Engdahl, C., Piner, E. L., & Holtz, M. W. (2018). Ultraviolet micro-Raman stress map of polycrystalline diamond grown selectively on silicon substrates using chemical vapor deposition. Applied Physics Letters, 112(18), 181907. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5027507

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Pi Sigma. May 1977 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Texas Tech Ex-Student Association's New Faculty Award. 1995
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Virginia Tech's Outstanding Dissertation Award in Arts and Sciences. 1987

Selected Grants

  • Haque, Ariful, Droopad, Ravindranath, Holtz, Mark W, Piner, Edwin L, Geerts, Wilhelmus J, Chen, Yihong, Hudnall, Todd W, Wistey, Mark A, Miyahara, Yoichi, Smith, Casey Eben, Mahato, Dip Narayan, Rastogi, Shiva Kumar, Kim, Namwon. Acquisition of a state-of-the-art Photoluminescence Spectrometer for Materials Characterization in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $434519. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: 2024 - 2025). Grant.
  • Miyahara, Yoichi (Principal), Satchell, Nathan David (Co-Principal), Holtz, Mark W (Co-Principal), Kim, Namwon (Co-Principal), Martin, Benjamin (Co-Principal), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Haque, Ariful (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Mahato, Dip Narayan (Supporting), Smith, Casey Eben (Supporting). MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of state-of-the-art lithography system for micro/nanometer scale device fabrication in research and education, National Science Foundation, Federal, $569780. (Submitted: November 14, 2023, Funded: September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Holtz, Mark W (Principal), Chen, Yihong (Supporting), Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Supporting), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Li, Jian (Co-Principal), Myers, Thomas H (Supporting), Piner, Edwin L (Supporting), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Supporting), Zakhidov, Alexander (Supporting). System of Integrated Characterization of Electronic Devices and Materials, U.S. AFOSR, Federal, $332086. (Funded: August 15, 2017 - August 14, 2018). Grant.
  • Holtz, Mark (Principal), Theodoropoulou, Nikoleta (Co-Principal), Myers, Thomas (Co-Principal), Beall, Gary (Co-Principal), Droopad, Ravi (Co-Principal), Piner, Edwin (Co-Principal), Yu, Qingkai (Co-Principal). X-Ray Diffraction System for Advanced Materials Analysis in Research and Education, Department of Defense, Federal, $397330. (Submitted: December 1, 2014, Funded: February 15, 2015 - January 31, 2016). Grant.
  • Piner, Edwin L (Principal), Holtz, Mark W (Co-Principal). Integrated GaN HEMT on Diamond: Heterointerface and Thermal Transport Fundamentals, U. S. Army, Federal, $596000. (Funded: 2014 - 2017). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Chair
Department of Physics
September 1, 2014-July 15, 2023
Co-Chair
New Mexico State University Department of Physics External Advisory Board
2016-May 10, 2022
Reviewer / Referee
National Science Foundation - for individual grants and panels
1998-2018
Member
Mechanical Engineering Department Graduate Program Review Team, TTU
2009
Reviewer / Referee
Applied Physics Reviews
September 13, 2024-October 6, 2024