Tony Heinz

Tony Frederick Heinz
Born(1956-04-30)April 30, 1956
Palo Alto
NationalityAmerican
Known forNanoscience, two-dimensional materials, laser physics
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University, Columbia University, IBM - Thomas J. Watson Research Center
ThesisNonlinear optics of surfaces and absorbates (1982)
WebsiteStanford profile

Tony Frederick Heinz (born 30 April 1956 in Palo Alto) is an American physicist.[1]

Biography

Heinz studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics.[2] From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. He was a professor at Columbia University and is now a professor at Stanford University. He served as president of The Optical Society in 2021.[3]

Research

His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy (femtosecond pulses) and thus investigates dynamics at surfaces. His group investigates electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems (such as graphene or ultrathin crystals of transition-metal di-chalcogen compounds). His significant contributions to the condensed matter and materials physics includes discovery of room temperature excitons in 1D and 2D materials.[4]

Heinz is one of the most cited scientists. Since 2019, the media group Clarivate counts him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize (Clarivate Citation Laureates).[5]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

  • Wang, Feng; Dukovic, Gordana; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F. (2005). "The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons". Science. 308 (5723): 838–841. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..838W. doi:10.1126/science.1110265. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15879212. S2CID 11778836.
  • Mak, Kin Fai; Sfeir, Matthew Y.; Wu, Yang; Lui, Chun Hung; Misewich, James A.; Heinz, Tony F. (2008). "Measurement of the Optical Conductivity of Graphene". Physical Review Letters. 101 (19): 196405. arXiv:0810.1269. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.101s6405M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196405. PMID 19113291. S2CID 6050585.
  • Mak, Kin Fai; Lee, Changgu; Hone, James; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2010). "Atomically Thin MoS2 A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor". Physical Review Letters. 105 (13): 136805. arXiv:1004.0546. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105m6805M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.136805. PMID 21230799. S2CID 40589037.
  • Lee, Changgu; Yan, Hugen; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hone, James; Ryu, Sunmin (2010). "Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS2". ACS Nano. 4 (5): 2695–2700. arXiv:1005.2509. doi:10.1021/nn1003937. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 20392077. S2CID 6543876.
  • Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2012). "Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity". Nature Nanotechnology. 7 (8): 494–498. arXiv:1205.1822. Bibcode:2012NatNa...7..494M. doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.96. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 22706698. S2CID 23248686.
  • Butler, Sheneve Z.; Hollen, Shawna M.; Cao, Linyou; Cui, Yi; Gupta, Jay A.; Gutiérrez, Humberto R.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hong, Seung Sae; Huang, Jiaxing; Ismach, Ariel F.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel (2013). "Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene". ACS Nano. 7 (4): 2898–2926. doi:10.1021/nn400280c. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 23464873.
  • Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Lee, Changgu; Lee, Gwan Hyoung; Hone, James; Heinz, Tony F.; Shan, Jie (2013). "Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2". Nature Materials. 12 (3): 207–211. arXiv:1210.8226. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..207M. doi:10.1038/nmat3505. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 23202371. S2CID 205408065.
  • van der Zande, Arend M.; Huang, Pinshane Y.; Chenet, Daniel A.; Berkelbach, Timothy C.; You, YuMeng; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; Heinz, Tony F.; Reichman, David R.; Muller, David A.; Hone, James C. (2013). "Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide". Nature Materials. 12 (6): 554–561. arXiv:1301.1985. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..554V. doi:10.1038/nmat3633. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 23644523. S2CID 36712829.
  • Xu, Xiaodong; Yao, Wang; Xiao, Di; Heinz, Tony F. (2014). "Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides". Nature Physics. 10 (5): 343–350. Bibcode:2014NatPh..10..343X. doi:10.1038/nphys2942. ISSN 1745-2481. S2CID 85510443.
  • Lee, Chul-Ho; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; van der Zande, Arend M.; Chen, Wenchao; Li, Yilei; Han, Minyong; Cui, Xu; Arefe, Ghidewon; Nuckolls, Colin; Heinz, Tony F.; Guo, Jing (2014). "Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces". Nature Nanotechnology. 9 (9): 676–681. arXiv:1403.3062. Bibcode:2014NatNa...9..676L. doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.150. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 25108809. S2CID 9066135.

References

  1. ^ American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale. 2004.
  2. ^ Heinz, Tony (1982). Nonlinear optics of surfaces and absorbates (Thesis). OCLC 729538318. Retrieved 2022-08-12.
  3. ^ a b "Biographies: Tony F. Heinz". The Optical Society.
  4. ^ Wang, Gang; Chernikov, Alexey; Glazov, Mikhail M.; Heinz, Tony F.; Marie, Xavier; Amand, Thierry; Urbaszek, Bernhard (2018-04-04). "Colloquium : Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides". Reviews of Modern Physics. 90 (2). arXiv:1707.05863. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.90.021001. ISSN 0034-6861.
  5. ^ "The 2019 Clarivate Citation Laureates" (PDF). Clarivate Analytics. We recognize Heinz for contributions to understanding classes of nanoscale materials including carbon nanotubes, graphene, and two-dimensional semiconductors such as molybdenum disulfide.
  6. ^ "William F. Meggers Award". The Optical Society.
  7. ^ "Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics". springer.com. Retrieved 2019-12-04.