Tony Heinz

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Tony F. Heinz (born April 30, 1956 in Palo Alto ) is an American physicist.

Heinz graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received his PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley , in 1982 . From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM . He was a professor at Columbia University and is a professor at Stanford University.

In 2008 he received the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics . In 1996 he received the Humboldt Research Award . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society . Heinz is one of the highly cited scientists. Since 2019 the media group Clarivate has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Clarivate Citation Laureates ). For 2020, Heinz was awarded the William F. Meggers Award from the Optical Society of America .

He deals with ultra-fast laser spectroscopy (femtosecond pulses) and uses it to investigate dynamics on surfaces. His group studies the electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems (such as graphene or ultra-thin crystals made of transition metal di- chalcogen compounds).

Fonts (selection)

  • with F. Wang u. a .: The optical resonances in carbon nanotubes arise from excitons, Science, Volume 308, 2005, pp. 838-841
  • with KF Mak u. a .: Measurement of the optical conductivity of graphene, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 101, 2008, p. 196405
  • with KF Mak u. a .: Atomically Thin MoS 2 : A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett., Volume 105, 2010, p. 136805
  • with C. Lee et al. a .: Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS 2 , ACS Nano, Volume 4, 2010, pp. 2695-2700
  • with KF Mak u. a .: Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity, Nature Nanotechnology, Volume 7, 2012, p. 494
  • with SZ Butler u. a .: Progress, challenges, and opportunities in two-dimensional materials beyond graphene, ACS Nano, Volume 7, 2013, pp. 2898–2926
  • with KF Mak u. a .: Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS 2 , Nature Materials, Volume 12, 2013, p. 207
  • with AM Van Der Zande u. a .: Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide, Nature Materials, Volume 12, 2013, p. 554
  • with X. Xu u. a .: Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides, Nature Physics, Volume 10, 2014, p. 343
  • with CH Lee u. a .: Atomically thin p – n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces, Nature Nanotechnology, Volume 9, 2014, p. 676

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates for American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Springer Prize
personal data
SURNAME Heinz, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinz, Tony F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Palo Alto