John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice:first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor;and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
Kenneth Geddes "Ken" Wilson was an American theoretical physicist and a pioneer in using computers for studying particle physics. He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on phase transitions—illuminating the subtle essence of phenomena like melting ice and emerging magnetism. It was embodied in his fundamental work on the renormalization group.
Magnetic semiconductors are semiconductor materials that exhibit both ferromagnetism and useful semiconductor properties. If implemented in devices,these materials could provide a new type of control of conduction. Whereas traditional electronics are based on control of charge carriers,practical magnetic semiconductors would also allow control of quantum spin state. This would theoretically provide near-total spin polarization,which is an important property for spintronics applications,e.g. spin transistors.
Boron arsenide is a chemical compound involving boron and arsenic,usually with a chemical formula BAs. Other boron arsenide compounds are known,such as the subarsenide B12As2. Chemical synthesis of cubic BAs is very challenging and its single crystal forms usually have defects.
Marvin Lou Cohen is an American–Canadian theoretical physicist. He is a physics professor at the University of California,Berkeley. Cohen is a leading expert in the field of condensed matter physics. He is widely known for his seminal work on the electronic structure of solids.
Gallium manganese arsenide,chemical formula (Ga,Mn)As is a magnetic semiconductor. It is based on the world's second most commonly used semiconductor,gallium arsenide,,and readily compatible with existing semiconductor technologies. Differently from other dilute magnetic semiconductors,such as the majority of those based on II-VI semiconductors,it is not paramagnetic but ferromagnetic,and hence exhibits hysteretic magnetization behavior. This memory effect is of importance for the creation of persistent devices. In (Ga,Mn)As,the manganese atoms provide a magnetic moment,and each also acts as an acceptor,making it a p-type material. The presence of carriers allows the material to be used for spin-polarized currents. In contrast,many other ferromagnetic magnetic semiconductors are strongly insulating and so do not possess free carriers. (Ga,Mn)As is therefore a candidate material for spintronic devices but it is likely to remain only a testbed for basic research as its Curie temperature could only be raised up to approximately 200 K.
Positron annihilation spectroscopy (PAS) or sometimes specifically referred to as positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) is a non-destructive spectroscopy technique to study voids and defects in solids.
Stopping and Range of Ions in Matter (SRIM) is a group of computer programs which calculate interactions between ions and matter;the core of SRIM is a program called Transport of Ions in Matter (TRIM). SRIM is popular in the ion implantation research and technology community,and also used widely in other branches of radiation material science.
Nicholas Harrison FRSC FinstP is an English theoretical physicist known for his work on developing theory and computational methods for discovering and optimising advanced materials. He is the Professor of Computational Materials Science in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London where he is co-director of the Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering.
Tom Wilkerson Bonner was an American experimental physicist who developed important instruments and techniques for neutron physics and nuclear physics.
James Stark Koehler was an American physicist,specializing in metal defects and their interactions. He is known for the eponymous Peach-Koehler stress formula.
Adolfo del Campo is a Spanish physicist and a professor of physics at the University of Luxembourg. He is best known for his work in quantum control and theoretical physics. He is notable as one of the pioneers of shortcuts to adiabaticity. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2023.
Eleftherios Ν. Economou is a Greek theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the department of physics of the University of Crete. He has contributed to various areas of theoretical condensed matter physics,starting with the study of surface plasmons during his thesis in 1969.
Arthur Frederic Kip was an American experimental physicist,specializing in solid-state physics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1958–1959.
David Horn is a Professor (Emeritus) of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University (TAU),Israel. He has served as Vice-Rector of TAU,Chairman of the School of Physics and Astronomy and as Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences in TAU. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society,nominated for "contributions to theoretical particle physics,including the seminal work on finite energy sum rules,research of the phenomenology of hadronic processes,and investigation of Hamiltonian lattice theories".
Mark John Bowick is a theoretical physicist in condensed matter theory and high energy physics. He is the deputy director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California,Santa Barbara,and a Visiting Distinguished Professor of Physics in UCSB's Physics Department.
Aron Pinczuk was an Argentine-American experimental condensed matter physicist who was professor of physics and professor of applied physics at Columbia University. He was known for his work on correlated electronic states in two dimensional systems using photoluminescence and resonant inelastic light scattering methods. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society,the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Richard Allan Ferrell (1926–2005) was an American theoretical physicist,specializing in condensed matter physics and statistical physics.
Karl Heinz Bennemann is a German condensed matter physicist. He has contributed to the advance on the understanding of traditional BCS and high Tc superconductors,the magnetic properties of alloys,the magnetic properties of low dimensional systems,the physicochemical properties of surfaces,the physicochemical properties of nanostructured materials,ultrafast phenomena,and non-linear optics,among others. His work was recognized through an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship in 1969.
Leo Radzihovsky is a Russian American condensed matter physicist and academic serving as a professor of Distinction in Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.
