Thomas Pichler (physicist)
Thomas Pichler (born June 25, 1966 in Klagenfurt ) is an Austrian physicist .
Pichler received his doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1993 with Hans Kuzmany (Master's degree 1990). He then worked there as an assistant at the Institute for Solid State Physics and completed his habilitation in 2002 at the Institute for Materials Physics . From 2002 to 2008 he was head of the "Molecular Nanostructures" working group at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden . Afterwards he was professor for quantum and solid state physics at the University of Vienna.
He deals with carbon nanotubes , graphene and fullerenes (generally low-dimensional carbon solid-state structures) and their electronic, optical and mechanical properties. In 2016 he and his colleagues achieved a breakthrough in the production of carbines , one-dimensional chains made of carbon. Until then, their production was limited to fewer than 50 carbon atoms, as they are very reactive and therefore unstable. By synthesizing them in double-walled carbon nanotubes, Pichler's group succeeded in producing a chain of over 6000 carbon atoms after years of work (theoretically only limited by the length of the carbon nanotube enclosing the chain).
From 1996 to 1998 he was a Marie Curie Fellow.
Fonts (selection)
- with J. Kastner u. a .: Resonance Raman and Infrared-Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubues, Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 221, 1994, pp. 53-58
- with R. Smalley u. a .: Localized and Delocalized Electronic States in Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 80, 1998, p. 4729
- with P. Ayala, A. Rubio a. a .: The doping of carbon nanotubes with nitrogen and their potential applications, Carbon, Volume 48, 2010, pp. 575-586
- with D. Haberer u. a .: Tunable band gap in hydrogenated quasi-free-standing graphene, Nano Letters, Volume 10, 2010, pp. 3360-3366
- with Lei Shi, Philip Rohringer, Kazu Suenaga, Yoshiko Niimi, Jani Kotakoski, Jannik C. Meyer, Herwig Peterlik, Marius Wanko, Seymur Cahangirov, Angel Rubio, Zachary J. Lapin, Lukas Novotny, Paola Ayala: Confined linear carbon chains as a route to bulk carbyne, Nature Materials, Volume 15, 2016, pp. 634-639
Web links
- Website University of Vienna
- Marion Wittfeld: Thomas Pichler: Creative approaches in the quantum physics of solids , University of Vienna, November 24, 2010
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Pichler, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klagenfurt |