| Michael Crommie | |
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| Born | December 1961 (age 50) Beverly, Massachusetts |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Fields | Condensed Matter Physics |
| Institutions | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | B.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Scanning Tunneling Microscopy |
| Notable awards | 2007 APS Fellow |
Michael F. Crommie (born December 1961) is an American physicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
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Crommie did his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1984. He did 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]
Crommie's research group currently does 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.