Michael F. Crommie

Michael Crommie
Born	December 1961 (age 49) Beverly, Massachusetts
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Condensed Matter Physics
Institutions	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	B.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Notable awards	2007 APS Fellow

Michael F. Crommie (born December 1961) is an American physicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

Biography

Crommie did his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1984. He did his doctoral studies under Alex Zettl at UC Berkeley, receiving a Ph.D. in 1991, and was a postdoctoral fellow at IBM under Don Eigler. In 2007 he was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society.^[2]

Research

Crommie's research group currently does scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Crommie is known for demonstrating the quantum corral in 1993 with Lutz and Eigler by using an elliptical ring of cobalt atoms on a copper surface. The ferromagnetic cobalt atoms reflected the surface electrons of the copper inside the ring into a wave pattern, as predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics.

See also

• Quantum mirage

References

1. ^ Faculty profile, UC Berkeley, retrieved 2011-05-05.
2. ^ "Michael Crommie". http://www.lbl.gov/msd/investigators/investigators_all/crommie_investigator.html. 

External links

• The Crommie Research Group at UC Berkeley

Persondata
Name	Crommie, Michael F.
Alternative names
Short description	Condensed Matter Physicist
Date of birth	1961
Place of birth	Beverly, Massachusetts
Date of death
Place of death