Michael Crommie

 

 

LBNL Faculty Senior Scientist
Professor of Physics
Univ. of California, Berkeley

crommie@physics.berkeley.edu
phone: 510-642-9392

Education
B.S.    Physics,  UCLA
Ph.D.  Physics,  University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM

Major Awards
2007  APS Fellow
1997  Sloan Foundation Fellowship
1994  NSF Young Investigator Award
1993  AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize

General Research Interests
My main research interests lie in exploring the local electronic, magnetic, and mechanical properties of atomic and molecular structures at surfaces. I am interested in studying how different interactions within molecular-scale structures affect their microscopic behavior, and how quantum mechanical effects influence nanodevice performance at the very smallest lengthscales. My main experimental tool is scanned probe microscopy, which we use in combination with other experimental tools to both fabricate atomic-scale structures and probe them spectroscopically.

STM images of a device consisting of a single monolayer of two-dimensional graphene resting upon an SiO2 wafer with an underlying back-gate electrode (inset shows device). The back-gate can be used to tune the carrier density of the graphene flake during STM measurement. Close-up shows the honeycomb structure of this two-dimensional carbon network.

MSD Research Projects:

Characterization of Functional Nanomachines
Novel sp2-bonded Materials and Related Nanostructures
Helios SERC

Personal website: http://physics.berkeley.edu/research/crommie/