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Title
Division Leader, Materials Science Division -
Email
ibo@llnl.gov -
Phone
(925) 424-6762 -
Organization
PLS-PLS PADO-PHYSICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES PAD OFFICE
Dr. Manyalibo (“Ibo”) Matthews leads the Materials Science Division (MSD) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he oversees an organization of more than 550 staff. The division is organized into 22 scientific capability groups, who together execute research and development projects to support a multitude of LLNL’s science and technology missions. The division’s research includes synthesis and the development of tools to study energetic materials, optical materials, quantum materials, materials for energy applications, ceramics, actinides, and materials for extreme environments.
Prior to taking on the division leader role in 2021, Matthews served as a group leader in MSD, which is part of LLNL’s Physical and Life Sciences Directorate. He also served as a program group leader in LLNL’s National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate, where he led a team of 40 staff charged with developing new methods in laser materials processing and studying laser-matter interactions in a variety of materials. His research interests include understanding and optimizing metal 3D printing processes, laser materials processing, high-power-laser damage mechanisms, laser-based nanoscale surface modification, vibrational spectroscopy, confocal microscopy, and in situ characterization of transient processes. His scientific work has been featured in more than 200 peer-reviewed publications with >18,000 citations (Google h-index=58) including more than a dozen featured covers, and in three book chapters. His technical contributions have also led to 24 U.S. patents.
Matthews is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Optical Society of America (Optica) and an alumnus of the Frontiers of Engineering Program, sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering. In 2022 he was recognized as one of Electro Optic’s “Photonics100” innovators. Matthews has served on several advisory boards including the National Science Foundation, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UC Berkeley’s National Nuclear Science Consortium, University of Illinois’s Chicago/DOE Alliance Center and Norfolk State University. He also regularly serves as a reviewer for several high impact journals (Nature, Science, PRL, Acta Materialia, APL) and regularly reviews both domestic and international science foundation research proposals. In 2021- 2022, he was tasked by the lab director to lead an LLNL task force aimed at improving employee development opportunities at the Laboratory, and he continues to invest his time to develop mentorship programs and expand outreach to students at minority-serving institutions, inspiring the next generation to consider careers in science. Matthews has directly mentored dozens of undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and early career staff throughout his career, many of whom have excelled to become professors, group leaders or program leaders in the field.
Prior to joining LLNL in 2006, he was member of the technical staff for eight years at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he developed advanced methods for optical materials characterization and led a research team in advanced broadband access networks. His work there was instrumental in developing a deeper understanding the effects of dopants in optical waveguides on residual stress and birefringence, ultimately leading to an intuitive optimization model that was used to improve optical waveguide performance. He also made a series of high resolution, high sensitivity measurements of chemical bonding and electron density distributions in silica glass and GaN materials respectively, using a custom confocal scanning Raman microscope, that elucidated the role of defects on material properties in both materials.
Matthews earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in experimental condensed matter physics under the direction of Prof. Mildred Dresselhaus, supported by an NSF Fellowship. He earned his B.S. in Applied Physics with a concentration in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of California at Davis.
Ph.D., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., Applied Physics, University of California, Davis
(selected only, for complete publication list see google scholar)
- J.R. Tempelman, A.J. Wachtor, E.B. Flynn, P.J. Depond, J.-B. Forien, G.M. Guss, N.P. Calta, M.J. Matthews, Detection of keyhole pore formations in laser powder-bed fusion using acoustic process monitoring measurements, Additive Manufacturing (2022) 102735.
- T.U. Tumkur, T. Voisin, R.P. Shi, P.J. Depond, T.T. Roehling, S. Wu, M.F. Crumb, J.D. Roehling, G. Guss, S.A. Khairallah, M.J. Matthews, Nondiffractive beam shaping for enhanced optothermal control in metal additive manuf., Sci Adv 7(38) (2021). - COVER
- J. Berry, A. Perron, J.L. Fattebert, J.D. Roehling, B. Vrancken, T.T. Roehling, D.L. Rosas, J.A. Turner, S.A. Khairallah, J.T. McKeown, M.J. Matthews, Toward multiscale simulations of tailored microstructure formation in metal additive manufacturing, Mater Today 51 (2021) 65-86. - COVER
- S.A. Khairallah, A.A. Martin, J.R.I. Lee, G. Guss, N.P. Calta, J.A. Hammons, M.H. Nielsen, K. Chaput, E. Schwalbach, M.N. Shah, M.G. Chapman, T.M. Willey, A.M. Rubenchik, A.T. Anderson, Y.M. Wang, M.J. Matthews, W.E. King, Controlling interdependent meso-nanosecond dynamics and defect generation in metal 3D printing, Science 368(6491) (2020) 660-665.
- R. Shi, S.A. Khairallah, T.T. Roehling, T.W. Heo, J.T. McKeown, M.J. Matthews, Microstructural control in metal laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing using laser beam shaping strategy, Acta Materialia 184 (2020) 284-305.
- B. Vrancken, R.K. Ganeriwala, M.J. Matthews, Analysis of laser-induced microcracking in tungsten under additive manufacturing conditions: Experiment and simulation, Acta Materialia 194 (2020) 464-472.
- A.A. Martin, N.P. Calta, S.A. Khairallah, J. Wang, P.J. Depond, A.Y. Fong, V. Thampy, G.M. Guss, A.M. Kiss, K.H. Stone, C.J. Tassone, J. Nelson Weker, M.F. Toney, T. van Buuren, M.J. Matthews, Dynamics of pore formation during laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing, Nature Communications 10(1) (2019) 1987.
- Y.M. Wang, T. Voisin, J.T. McKeown, J. Ye, N.P. Calta, Z. Li, Z. Zeng, Y. Zhang, W. Chen, T.T. Roehling, R.T. Ott, M.K. Santala, Philip J. Depond, M.J. Matthews, A.V. Hamza, T. Zhu, Additively manufactured hierarchical stainless steels with high strength and ductility, Nature Materials (2017) doi:10.1038/nmat5021.
- C.A.R. Chapman, L. Wang, J. Biener, E. Seker, M.M. Biener, M.J. Matthews, Engineering on-chip nanoporous gold material libraries via precision photothermal treatment, Nanoscale 8(2) (2016) 785-795. - COVER
- M.J. Matthews, G. Guss, S.A. Khairallah, A.M. Rubenchik, P.J. Depond, W.E. King, Denudation of metal powder layers in laser powder bed fusion processes, Acta Materialia 114 (2016) 33-42.
- M.J. Matthews, G. Petitpas, S.M. Aceves, A study of spin isomer conversion kinetics in supercritical fluid hydrogen for cryogenic fuel storage technologies, Applied Physics Letters 99(8) (2011) 081906.
- H. Akiyama, L.N. Pfeiffer, M. Yoshita, A. Pinczuk, P.B. Littlewood, K.W. West, M.J. Matthews, J. Wynn, Coulomb-correlated electron-hole plasma and gain in a quantum-wire laser of high uniformity, Physical Review B 67(4) (2003) 041302.
- M.J. Matthews, J. Hsu, S. Gu, T. Kuech, Carrier density imaging of lateral epitaxially overgrown GaN using scanning confocal Raman microscopy, Applied Physics Letters 79(19) (2001) 3086-3088.
- M. Matthews, M. Pimenta, G. Dresselhaus, M. Dresselhaus, M. Endo, Origin of dispersive effects of the Raman D band in carbon materials, Physical Review B 59(10) (1999) R6585.
- G.L. Frey, R. Tenne, M.J. Matthews, M. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, Raman and resonance Raman investigation of MoS2 nanoparticles, Physical Review B 60(4) (1999) 2883.
- M. Matthews, M. Dresselhaus, G. Dresselhaus, M. Endo, Y. Nishimura, T. Hiraoka, N. Tamaki, Magnetic alignment of mesophase pitch‐based carbon fibers, Applied Physics Letters 69(3) (1996) 430-432.
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2023-
- Selected to 2023 Photonics100 by ElectroOptics group (2022)
- Fellow, Optical Society of America, 2017-
- National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers in Engineering Alumni (2019)
- LLNL PLS Directorate Award (2017, 2019)
- R&D100 Finalist (2018, 2019)
- LLNL Director’s Award for S&T Excellence in Publication (2018)
- NNSA Defense Programs Award of Excellence (2016)
- Director’s Early Mid-Career Recognition Awardee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2015)
- National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute Award (2014)
- Optical Society of America “Spotlight on Optics” recognition (2014)
- NIF Directorate Awards (2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015)
- MIT Corporation Board of Trustees Membership Nomination (2000)
- NSF Graduate Fellow (1994-1997)
- MIT Physics Department Minority Scholar (1993)
- Ronald E. McNair Scholar (1992)
- University of California President's Undergraduate Fellow (1990)