Michael F. Crommie

Michael F. Crommie (born December 1961) is an American physicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. World-renowned for his research on condensed-matter physics, he is a recipient of both the Newcomb-Cleveland Prize and the Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic Physics. Crommie currently directs the Crommie Research Group.[1]

Michael Crommie
Crommie in 2011
BornDecember 1961 (age 61)
Beverly, Massachusetts
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materB.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Known forScanning Tunneling Microscopy
AwardsNewcomb Cleveland Prize (1993)
APS Fellow (2007)
Davisson–Germer Prize (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
InstitutionsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Education

Crommie completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984. He completed 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 uses 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

References
  1. Faculty profile, UC Berkeley, retrieved 2011-05-05.
  2. "Michael Crommie". Archived from the original on 2011-05-19.


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