Tony Heinz

Tony Frederick Heinz
Born	(1956-04-30)April 30, 1956 Palo Alto
Nationality	American
Known for	Nanoscience, two-dimensional materials, laser physics
Scientific career
Institutions	Stanford University, Columbia University, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Thesis	Nonlinear optics of surfaces and absorbates  (1982)
Website	Stanford profile

Tony Frederick Heinz (born 30 April 1956 in Palo Alto) is an American physicist. ^[1]

Biography

Heinz studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics. ^[2] From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. He was a professor at Columbia University and is now a professor at Stanford University. He served as president of The Optical Society in 2021. ^[3]

Research

His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy (femtosecond pulses) and thus investigates dynamics at surfaces. His group investigates electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems (such as graphene or ultrathin crystals of transition-metal di-chalcogen compounds). His significant contributions to the condensed matter and materials physics includes discovery of room temperature excitons in 1D and 2D materials. ^[4]

Heinz is one of the most cited scientists. Since 2019, the media group Clarivate counts him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize (Clarivate Citation Laureates). ^[5]

Awards and honors

• 2020 William F. Meggers Award from The Optical Society "For seminal studies of the properties and dynamics of surfaces, interfaces, and nanoscale materials by diverse spectroscopic techniques, including through the development of powerful new methods." ^[6]
• 2008 he earned the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. ^[7]
• 1996 he earned the Humboldt Prize.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• Fellow of The Optical Society. ^[3]

Selected publications

• Wang, Feng; Dukovic, Gordana; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F. (2005). "The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons". Science. 308 (5723): 838–841. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..838W. doi:10.1126/science.1110265. ISSN   0036-8075. PMID   15879212. S2CID   11778836.
• Mak, Kin Fai; Sfeir, Matthew Y.; Wu, Yang; Lui, Chun Hung; Misewich, James A.; Heinz, Tony F. (2008). "Measurement of the Optical Conductivity of Graphene". Physical Review Letters. 101 (19): 196405. arXiv: 0810.1269 . Bibcode:2008PhRvL.101s6405M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196405. PMID   19113291. S2CID   6050585.
• Mak, Kin Fai; Lee, Changgu; Hone, James; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2010). "Atomically Thin MoS₂ A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor". Physical Review Letters. 105 (13): 136805. arXiv: 1004.0546 . Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105m6805M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.136805. PMID   21230799. S2CID   40589037.
• Lee, Changgu; Yan, Hugen; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hone, James; Ryu, Sunmin (2010). "Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS₂". ACS Nano. 4 (5): 2695–2700. arXiv: 1005.2509 . doi:10.1021/nn1003937. ISSN   1936-0851. PMID   20392077. S2CID   6543876.
• Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2012). "Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS₂ by optical helicity". Nature Nanotechnology. 7 (8): 494–498. arXiv: 1205.1822 . Bibcode:2012NatNa...7..494M. doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.96. ISSN   1748-3395. PMID   22706698. S2CID   23248686.
• Butler, Sheneve Z.; Hollen, Shawna M.; Cao, Linyou; Cui, Yi; Gupta, Jay A.; Gutiérrez, Humberto R.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hong, Seung Sae; Huang, Jiaxing; Ismach, Ariel F.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel (2013). "Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene". ACS Nano. 7 (4): 2898–2926. doi:10.1021/nn400280c. ISSN   1936-0851. PMID   23464873.
• Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Lee, Changgu; Lee, Gwan Hyoung; Hone, James; Heinz, Tony F.; Shan, Jie (2013). "Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS₂". Nature Materials. 12 (3): 207–211. arXiv: 1210.8226 . Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..207M. doi:10.1038/nmat3505. ISSN   1476-4660. PMID   23202371. S2CID   205408065.
• van der Zande, Arend M.; Huang, Pinshane Y.; Chenet, Daniel A.; Berkelbach, Timothy C.; You, YuMeng; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; Heinz, Tony F.; Reichman, David R.; Muller, David A.; Hone, James C. (2013). "Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide". Nature Materials. 12 (6): 554–561. arXiv: 1301.1985 . Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..554V. doi:10.1038/nmat3633. ISSN   1476-4660. PMID   23644523. S2CID   36712829.
• Xu, Xiaodong; Yao, Wang; Xiao, Di; Heinz, Tony F. (2014). "Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides". Nature Physics. 10 (5): 343–350. Bibcode:2014NatPh..10..343X. doi:10.1038/nphys2942. ISSN   1745-2481. S2CID   85510443.
• Lee, Chul-Ho; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; van der Zande, Arend M.; Chen, Wenchao; Li, Yilei; Han, Minyong; Cui, Xu; Arefe, Ghidewon; Nuckolls, Colin; Heinz, Tony F.; Guo, Jing (2014). "Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces". Nature Nanotechnology. 9 (9): 676–681. arXiv: 1403.3062 . Bibcode:2014NatNa...9..676L. doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.150. ISSN   1748-3395. PMID   25108809. S2CID   9066135.

References

1. American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale. 2004.
2. Heinz, Tony (1982). Nonlinear optics of surfaces and absorbates (Thesis). OCLC   729538318 . Retrieved 2022-08-12.
3. "Biographies: Tony F. Heinz". The Optical Society.
4. Wang, Gang; Chernikov, Alexey; Glazov, Mikhail M.; Heinz, Tony F.; Marie, Xavier; Amand, Thierry; Urbaszek, Bernhard (2018-04-04). "Colloquium : Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides". Reviews of Modern Physics. 90 (2). arXiv: 1707.05863 . doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.90.021001. ISSN   0034-6861.
5. "The 2019 Clarivate Citation Laureates" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics. We recognize Heinz for contributions to understanding classes of nanoscale materials including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and two-dimensional semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide.
6. "William F. Meggers Award". The Optical Society.
7. "Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics". springer.com. Retrieved 2019-12-04.

External links

• Heinz Group, Stanford