Alex Zettl

Alex Zettl

Infobox Scientist


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work_institution = Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
alma_mater = B.A. University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles [http://physics.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_dept_management&act=people&Itemid=299&limitstart=0&task=view&id=238]
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Alex Zettl is an American condensed matter phyicist. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he works on nanoscale devices, including the world's smallest motor and the world's smallest radio, a nanoradio structured around a carbon nanotube. [http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/highlights.html]

Honors and awards

*2004 - R&D 100 Award [http://physics.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_dept_management&act=people&Itemid=299&limitstart=0&task=view&id=238]
*1999 - Fellow of the American Physical Society [http://physics.berkeley.edu/index.php?option=com_dept_management&act=people&Itemid=299&limitstart=0&task=view&id=238]

References

See also

* Nanomotor

External links

* [http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/ The Zettl Research Group at UC Berkeley]

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