Materials Science is an interdisciplinary program under the direction of the Materials Science Advisory Committee, composed of faculty from Physics, Chemistry, and the College of Engineering. The Program Leads to both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. Some areas of research in the Materials Science Program are: superconductivity materials, particularly high critical temperature materials, and devices made from them; compound semiconductor interfaces; Si integrated-circuit design and fabrication, including research in large-scale integration and submicron structures; physical vapor deposition of thin films and research into their structural, electrical, and chemical properties; molecular beam epitaxy, catalysis; corrosion; nucleation and supercooling of alloys; studies of bulk and surface defects; phase transitions in two and three dimensions; structural and kinetic properties of polymers, photoelectrochemistry; radiation effects in metals and polymers; and materials for fusion and plasma research.