Alex Zettl

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Alexander Karlwalter "Alex" Zettl (* 1956 ) is an American physicist who deals with experimental solid-state physics.

Zettl graduated from the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of California, Los Angeles . He has been on the faculty of the University of Berkeley since 1983, where he became a professor and member of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute in Berkeley and is a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

In 2007 he developed a device with a nanotube on a metal electrode, with which FM radio signals can be detected and converted into audible signals without additional circuits (nanoradio). He is best known for his research on nanotubes and in 1995 he was the first to synthesize boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT). He developed a synthesis system for BNNTs (Extended-Pressure Inductively Coupled Plasma System, EPIC) and also deals with two-dimensional structures such as graphene or hexagonal boron nitride.

He used to work on high-temperature superconductors made of fullerenes and charge density waves .

In 2006 he received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials for the development of new synthetic routes for nanotubes as carbon and boron nitride and pioneering applications for these in sensor technology, electronics and nanomechanics (laudation). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1999), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2014), was a Sloan Research Fellow (1984 to 1986) and received a Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984 to 1989). In 1995 and 2007 he was a Miller Professor at Berkeley.

He is a passionate mountaineer.

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  1. ↑ Zettl u. a., Nano Letters, Volume 7, November 2007, pp. 3508-3511
  2. ↑ For developing novel synthesis pathways for preparing carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and for pioneering applications of these for sensing, electronics and nanomechanics , McGroddy Prize
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter Z. (PDF; 117 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
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SURNAME Zettl, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zettl, Alexander Karlwalter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956