CAREER: Atomic-Scale Microscopy and Spectroscopy: New Tools for Condensed Matter Physics Research and Interdisciplinary Education

扫描探针显微镜的最新进展是提议的四年职业发展计划的统一动机，该计划将凝聚态物理学的前沿研究与跨学科教育计划相结合。该研究计划提出在超导体物理学的三个关键和相关领域进行实验：磁性和超导性之间的相互作用，二维超导性的抑制，以及非常规超导体与局部扰动的相互作用。正是高分辨率隧道显微镜，以及我们最先进的扫描隧道显微镜（STM）的成像和原子操作能力，使所提出的研究成为可能。有了这个工具，我们可以为超导的研究做出重大贡献，而且，我们可以解决凝聚态物理中广泛的问题。该计划的教育部分包括开发一门新课程，为从物理学到生物学等广泛学科的高级本科生和初级研究生提供STM和相关仪器的理论和实践知识。使用新开发的扫描探针显微镜，现在可以在很短的长度尺度上对从半导体到生物样品等各种材料的特性进行成像、操作和探测。使用这些技术，实验将在超导体物理学的三个关键领域进行。这个研究项目是由扫描探针显微镜新课程的发展所补充的，该课程将向物理和生物科学领域的研究生和本科生介绍最先进的技术。＊＊＊

9875565Yazdani The recent advances in scanning probe microscopies are the unifying motivations for the proposed four-year CAREER development program, which integrates research at the forefront of condensed matter physics with an interdisciplinary educational program. The research program proposes experiments in three critical and related areas of the physics of superconductors: the interplay between magnetism and superconductivity, the suppression of superconductivity in two-dimensions, and the interactions of an unconventional superconductor with local perturbations. It is the high-resolution tunneling microscopy, together with the imaging and atomic manipulation capabilities of our state-of-the-art scanning tunneling microscope (STM), that make the proposed research possible. With this tool, we can make significant contributions to research in superconductivity and, moreover, we are in a position to address a wide range of problems in condensed matter physics. The educational component of this program involves the development of a new course to provide theoretical and practical knowledge of STM and related instruments to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in a wide range of disciplines, from physics to biology. %%%Using the newly developed scanning probe microscopes, it is now possible to image, manipulate, and probe properties of a variety of materials, from semiconductors to biological samples on very short length scales. Using these techniques experiments will be performed in three critical areas of the physics of superconductors. This research program is complemented by the development of a new course in scanning probe microscopy, which will introduce state-of-the-art techniques to graduate and undergraduate students in a wide range of disciplines in the physical and biological sciences. ***