Peter J. Feibelman

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Peter J. Feibelman (born November 12, 1942 in New York City ) is an American physicist who mainly deals with surface physics.

Life

Feibelman studied physics at Columbia University (BA 1963) and then at the University of California, San Diego , where he received his doctorate in 1967. His dissertation dealt with the excitation of surface waves in atomic nuclei by neutron bombardment. After stays as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay in France (1968/69) and at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (1969 to 1971), during which he reoriented himself from nuclear physics to surface physics, he went in 1971 as Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook . Since 1974 he has been a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque .

In his early work in solid state physics, Feibelman dealt with the electronic normal modes on the surface of metals and dielectrics and developed a theory for surface plasmons . In 1978 Michael L. Knotek and Feibelman discovered the mechanism of electron-stimulated desorption on ionically bound surfaces and derived the principles of radiation damage . The model used is called the Feibelman-Knotek model or the KF model . Feibelman has been working on topics such as the conversion of energy on surfaces ( surface energetics ) since 1980, the first-principles calculation of the relaxation of surfaces, the interaction between adsorbed atoms ( adatoms ), diffusion mechanisms , surface tension . His work with Gary L. Kellogg, in which the authors demonstrated surface diffusion through atomic substitution, was recognized as Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment by the US Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences in 1991 .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • A Ph.D. is not enough! A Guide to Survival in Science . Basic Bookds, 1993, ISBN 978-0-201-62717-6 (English, improved edition 2011, ISBN 978-0-465-02222-9 ).
  • ML Knotek, Peter J. Feibelman: Ion Desorption by Core-Hole Auger Decay . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. tape 40 , 1978, pp. 964 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.40.964 .
  • Aims and recent accomplishments of surface theory . In: Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology . tape 17 , 1980, pp. 176 , doi : 10.1116 / 1.570424 .
  • Surface electromagnetic fields . In: Progress in Surface Science . tape 12 , no. 4 , 1982, pp. 287-407 , doi : 10.1016 / 0079-6816 (82) 90001-6 .
  • GL Kellogg, Peter J. Feibelman: Surface self-diffusion on Pt (001) by an atomic exchange mechanism . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. tape 64 , 1990, pp. 3143 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.64.3143 .
  • Partial Dissociation of Water on Ru (0001) . In: Science . tape 295 , no. 5552 , 2002, pp. 99-102 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1065483 .
  • The first wetting layer on a solid . In: Physics Today . tape 63 , no. 2 , 2010, p. 34 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.3326987 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter J. Feibelman. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics, accessed October 25, 2018.
  2. ^ ML Knotek, Peter J. Feibelman: Ion Desorption by Core-Hole Auger Decay . In: Phys. Rev. Lett. tape 40 , 1978, pp. 964 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.40.964 .
  3. ↑ JL de Segovia, EM Williams: Chapter 15: Desorption induced by electronic transitions DIET at oxide surfaces . In: DP Woodruff (Ed.): Oxide Surfaces . Elsevier, 2001, ISBN 978-0-08-053831-0 , pp. 608-644 (English).
  4. ^ Sandia theorist Peter Feibelman Wins Top Physics Prize. sandia.gov, July 9, 1996; accessed October 25, 2018 .
  5. ^ Prize recipient Peter J. Feibelman. APS, accessed on October 25, 2018 (English, "For his pioneering work in developing the theory of electro-magnetic fields at surfaces").
  6. ^ Medard W. Welch Award. AVS, accessed on October 25, 2018 (English, "For his insightful predications and explanations of surface phenomena based on first principles calculations").
personal data
SURNAME Feibelman, Peter J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City