Fellow, External Research Development Group
Luigi Colombo is a TI Fellow in the External Research Development group at Texas Instruments. He received a B.S. in Physics from Iona College in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University or Rochester in 1980. He joined TI in 1981 to work on infrared detector materials until 1995. Over this period he developed a HgCdZnTe liquid phase epitaxy process which he also put in production. This process is still production today providing material for many DoD applications. Since then he has been responsible for the development of high-k capacitor MIM structures for DRAMs, development of high-k gate/metal gate transistor gate stack using Hf-based dielectrics, and low leakage SiON based 45 nm transistor gate stack development.
He is currently responsible for the development of new materials such as graphene and their integration in new device flows for beyond CMOS device technology as part of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative. Dr. Colombo has authored and co-authored over 120 refereed papers, made over 110 invited and contributed presentations, has written 3 chapters in edited books, and holds 70 US and 18 international patents. He has been the Chairman of the IRIS Materials Specialty Group Meeting for 2 years, has organized, chaired and co-chaired numerous technical conferences.
Albert Fert
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Pr. Albert Fert (1938) is full professor at the Universit Paris-Sud in Orsay and member
of the French Academy of Sciences. He is a renowned world leader in spintronics. He discovered the GMR in 1988 (rated as the 6th most cited article in Phys. Rev. Lett.) and made pioneering contributions in spintronics. He was (co-)awarded several international prizes including the Nobel Prize in physics in 2007. He co-authored more than 300 publications (14.000 citations; h-index 52) and presented more than a hundred invited talks. He has been involved in 13 EU projects.
Andre (Konstantin) Geim, FRS
Prof. Andre K. Geim (born in Russia, 21 Oct 1958) is the Director of Manchester Centre for Mesoscience & Nanotechnology of the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". Since 2010, he is a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professor. He has published over 180 peer-refereed research papers, including 14 Nature and Science articles and many more in Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology and Physical Review Letters. More than 30 of the papers are cited > 100 times, with 4 of them (Science 2004, Nature 2005, Nature Materials 2007and Rev. Mod. Phys. 2009) being cited >1000 times each. According to ISIs Essential Science Indicators SM, he is responsible for initiating two new research fronts (on graphene and on van-der-Waals adhesives).
Dr. Guinea (Born in Madrid, Jan. 29th, 1953) is a Research Professor in the Department of Condensed Matter Theory of the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, which is part of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC). Francisco Guinea has an extensive record of scientific contributions. As of Apr. 30th 2010, the Web of Science archive shows 307 publications with 10.604 citations, an h index of 48, and 23 articles more than 100 citations. The papers cover many topics in condensed matter and statistical physics, including mesoscopic systems and quantum dissipation, materials science with emphasis on highly correlated systems, non equilibrium pattern formation, magnetism, and superconductor and semiconductor physics. Many articles deal with problems at the interface between these areas, and they show how concepts developed in a given subfield can be usefully applied to others.
The list of scientific articles illustrates the broad reach of the collaborations. The Web of Science identifies about 185 coauthors from 20 countries. There is also a small but constant fraction of single author papers. The bulk of the scientific production deals with theoretical modeling, although about 10%-20% of the papers involve collaborations with experimental groups.
Dr Byung Hee Hong is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Chemistry and SAINT. After completing his Ph. D., Physical Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Adviser: Kwang S. Kim), he worked at Pohang University of Science and Technology and Columbia University (Adviser: Philip Kim). In 2010 he pioneered the development of touch-screen with transparent electrodes made from graphene, opening new horizons for manufacturing these transparent films on a large scale (Roll-to-roll production of 30-inch graphene films for transparent electrodes, Nature Nanotechnology 5, 574578 (2010)). In 2010, he was awarded the Joong-Ang Daily-Yumin Award of Science and the SKKU Young Fellowship.
Prof. Konstantin Novoselov (born in Russia in August 1974) is Professor of Physics and Royal Society Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. He was awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene". Other prizes include the Europhysics Prize, the Technology Review-35 Young Innovator, the International Union of Pure and Applied Science, Young Scientist Prize, the Nicholas Kurti European Prize, and the European Research Council, Starting Grant Physics and Applications of Graphene.
He has published over 90 peer-refereed research papers, including 9 Nature and Science articles and more than 15 papers in Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, PNAS.
Over 100 invited talks at conferences during the last 5 years. Novoselovs two papers in Science 2004 and Nature 2005 are the most cited papers on graphene and have opened up a fast moving front (according to ISIs Essential Science IndicatorsSM). The Science paper has also been acknowledged as one of the most cited recent papers in the field of Physics (according to the ISI citation index).
http://www.fkf.mpg.de/klitzing/
Born on 28th June, 1943, in Schroda. Study of physics at Braunschweig Technical Univ., doctorate Wrzburg Univ. (1972), habilitation Wrzburg Univ. (1978), Professor Munich Technical Univ (1980-1984), Honorarprofessor (part-time prof.) at Stuttgart Univ. (1985), Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (since 1985).
Scientific awards / honours / memberships (selection)
Nobel Prize for Physics (1985)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985 was awarded to Klaus von Klitzing "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect".
Designation of the fundamental constant h/e2 as von Klitzing constant
Honorary Member German Physical Society
Numerous Honorary Doctorates
Short film produced by the European Graphene-Flagship initiative, introducing graphene, the 'wonder substance' set to revolutionise the electronics industry.
Short film introducing the European "Graphene-Flagship" initiative, aimed at bringing together a focused, interdisciplinary European research community targeting a radical technology shift, exploiting the unique properties of graphene and related two-dimensional materials.
