Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Director, UMN High Temperature & Plasma Laboratory, 2005-present
Director of Graduate Studies, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UMN, 2000-2006
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 1995-present
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 1991-1995
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UMN, 1985-1991

Selected Publications

B. Zhang, Y.-C. Liao, J. Roberts and S. Girshick, "Growth of Coatings on Nanoparticles by Photoinduced Chemical Vapor Deposition," Journal of Nanoparticle Research, DOI 10.1007/s11051-007-9238-2 (2007)

S. L. Girshick and J. Hafiz, "Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Nanostructured Silicon Carbide Films," Journal of Physics D 40, 2354-2360 (2007)

J. Hafiz, R. Mukherjee, X. Wang, M. Cullinan, J. V. R. Heberlein, H. McMurry and S. L. Girshick, "Nanoparticle-Coated Silicon Nanowires," Journal of Nanoparticle Research 8, 995-1002 (2006)

N. Rao, S. Girshick, J. Heberlein, P. McMurry, M. Bench, S. Jones, D. Hansen, and B. Micheel, "Nanoparticle Formation Using a Plasma Expansion Process," Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing 15, 581-607 (1995)

S. L. Girshick, C.-P. Chiu, R. Muno, C. Y. Wu, L. Yang, S. Singh, and P. H. McMurry, "Thermal Plasma Synthesis of Ultrafine Iron Particles," Journal of Aerosol Science 24, 357-382 (1993)

W. W. Gerberich, W. M. Mook, C. R. Perrey, C. B. Carter, M. I. Baskes, R. Mukherjee, A. Gidwani, J. HeĀberlein, P. H. McMurry, and S. L. Girshick, "Superhard Silicon Nanospheres," Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 51, 979-992 (2003)

U. Bhandarkar, M. T. Swihart, S. L. Girshick, and U. Kortshagen, "Modeling of Silicon Hydride Clustering in a Low-Pressure Silane Plasma," Journal of Physics D 33, 2731-2746 (2000)

M. T. Swihart and S. L. Girshick, "Thermochemistry and Kinetics of Silicon Hydride Cluster Formation during Thermal Decomposition of Silane," Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103, 64-76 (1999)

B. W. Yu and S. L. Girshick, "Atomic Carbon Vapor as a Diamond Growth Precursor in Thermal Plasmas," Journal of Applied Physics 75, 3914-3923 (1994)

S. L. Girshick and C.-P. Chiu, "Kinetic Nucleation Theory: A New Expression for the Rate of Homogeneous Nucleation from an Ideal Supersaturated Vapor," Journal of Chemical Physics 93, 1273-1277 (1990)