J. A. Panitz

The atom probe is a microscope with three-dimensional, sub-nanometer spatial resolution used in material science that was introduced at the 14th International Field Emission Symposium in 1967 by Erwin W. Müller and J. A. Panitz. For the first time an instrument could “... determine the nature of one single atom seen on a metal surface and selected from neighboring atoms at the discretion of the observer”. Erwin Wilhelm Müller, J. A. Panitz, and S. Brooks McLane.[1] J. A. Panitz is the inventor of the 10-cm atom-probe,[2] the Imaging Atom-Probe,[3][4] the LIFE detector[5] (a liquid field-emission chemical sensor), Isothermal Ramped Field-Desorption Spectroscopy[6] (the electric field analog of Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy), Field-Ion tomography[7] (for non destructive imaging of biological molecules in high electric fields), and the PhotoFEEM technique[8] (for nanoscale mapping of work function variations on a metal surface).

Panitz discovered the field-adsorption phenomenon with Erwin W. Müller and S. B. McLane.[9] The 10-cm Atom-Probe and the Imaging Atom-Probe are the progenitors of all later atom probe instruments including the commercial instruments available today.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Müller, Erwin W.; Panitz, John A.; McLane, S. Brooks (1968). "The Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscope". Review of Scientific Instruments 39 (1): 83–86. Bibcode:1968RScI...39...83M. doi:10.1063/1.1683116. ISSN 0034-6748.
  2. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1973). "The 10 cm Atom Probe". Review of Scientific Instruments 44 (8): 1034–1038. Bibcode:1973RScI...44.1034P. doi:10.1063/1.1686295.
  3. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1974). "The Crystallographic Distribution of Field-Desorbed Species". Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology 11 (1): 207–210. Bibcode:1974JVST...11..206P. doi:10.1116/1.1318570.
  4. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1978). "Imaging Atom-Probe Mass Spectroscopy". Progress in Surface Science 8 (6): 219–263. Bibcode:1978PrSS....8..219P. doi:10.1016/0079-6816(78)90002-3.
  5. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1978). "Biomolecular adsorption and the LIFE detector". Journal de Physique 45 (C9): 285–291.
  6. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1999). "Isothermal ramped field-desorption of benzene from tungsten". Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology 16 (3): 868–874. Bibcode:1979JVST...16..868P. doi:10.1116/1.570103.
  7. ↑ Panitz, John A. (1986). "Field-Ion Tomography". In A. D. Romig and W. F. Chambers. Microbeam Analysis-1986. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Press. pp. 196–198.
  8. ↑ Condon, G. R.; Panitz, John A. (1998). "Nanoscale imaging of the electronic tunneling barrier at a metal surface". Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 16 (1): 23–29. Bibcode:1998JVSTB..16...23C. doi:10.1116/1.589787.
  9. ↑ Müller, Erwin W.; McLane, S. Brooks; Panitz, John A. (1969). "Field adsorption and desorption of helium and neon". Surface Science 17 (2): 430–438. Bibcode:1969SurSc..17..430M. doi:10.1016/0039-6028(69)90110-1.
  10. ↑ Seidman, David N. (2007). "Three-Dimensional Atom-Probe Tomography: Advances and Applications". Annual Review of Materials Research 37: 127–158. Bibcode:2007AnRMS..37..127S. doi:10.1146/annurev.matsci.37.052506.084200.

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