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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For developing novel spectroscopic methods to characterize the structure and electronic properties of defects, interfaces, and superlattices of semiconductors

Overview

Pierre Petroff is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. The work is primarily situated within the field of physical sciences, focusing on the study of semiconductors and their properties.

Their academic and research contributions include recognized advancements in the characterization of semiconductor materials, specifically through the development of novel spectroscopic methods. These methods are designed to analyze the structure and electronic properties of defects, interfaces, and superlattices within semiconductor systems.

Throughout the career, Pierre Petroff has received notable recognition from established scientific organizations. In 1989, they were awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with an official citation highlighting their work on innovative spectroscopic techniques applied to semiconductor research.

Further acknowledgment came in 2009 when they were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Performance of the ATLAS trigger system in 2015

    M. Aaboud;G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah

  • A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device

    P. Michler;A. Kiraz;C. Becher;W. V. Schoenfeld

  • Generalized synthesis of periodic surfactant/inorganic composite materials

    Qisheng Huo;David I. Margolese;Ulrike Ciesla;Pingyun Feng

  • Muon reconstruction performance of the ATLAS detector in proton–proton collision data at √ s =13 TeV

    G. Aad;B. Abbott;J. Abdallah;O. Abdinov

  • Direct formation of quantum‐sized dots from uniform coherent islands of InGaAs on GaAs surfaces

    D. Leonard;M. Krishnamurthy;C. M. Reaves;S. P. Denbaars

  • Luminosity determination in pp collisions at √s = 8 TeV using the ATLAS detector at the LHC

    Morad Aaboud;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Topological cell clustering in the ATLAS calorimeters and its performance in LHC Run 1

    Georges Aad;Alexander Kupco;Peter Davison;Samuel Webb

  • Cooperative Formation of Inorganic-Organic Interfaces in the Synthesis of Silicate Mesostructures

    Alain Monnier;F. Schüth;F. Schüth;F. Schüth;Q. Huo;D. Kumar

  • The upgraded DØ detector

    V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins;B. S. Acharya

  • ATLAS detector and physics performance : Technical Design Report, 1

    A. Airapetian;V. Dodonov;L. Micu;D. Axen

  • ATLAS: Technical proposal for a general-purpose p p experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

    W.W. Armstrong;W. Burris;D.M. Gingrich;P. Green

  • Critical layer thickness for self-assembled InAs islands on GaAs.

    D. Leonard;K. Pond;P. M. Petroff

  • Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Lattices and Circuits

    Nicholas A. Melosh;Nicholas A. Melosh;Akram Boukai;Akram Boukai;Frederic Diana;Brian Gerardot

  • Optical emission from a charge-tunable quantum ring

    R. J. Warburton;R. J. Warburton;C. Schäflein;D. Haft;F. Bickel

  • Spectroscopy of nanoscopic semiconductor rings.

    Axel Lorke;R. Johannes Luyken;Alexander O. Govorov;Jörg P. Kotthaus

  • Mesostructure Design with Gemini Surfactants: Supercage Formation in a Three-Dimensional Hexagonal Array

    Qisheng Huo;Rosa Leon;Pierre M. Petroff;Galen D. Stucky

  • Entangled Photon Pairs from Semiconductor Quantum Dots

    N. Akopian;N. H. Lindner;E. Poem;Y. Berlatzky

  • Spectroscopy of quantum levels in charge-tunable InGaAs quantum dots.

    H. Drexler;D. Leonard;W. Hansen;J. P. Kotthaus

  • Deterministic Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Single Nanocavity Modes

    Antonio Badolato;Kevin Hennessy;Mete Atatüre;Jan Dreiser

  • Observation of single top-quark production

    V. M. Abazov;B. Abbott;M. Abolins;B. S. Acharya

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
Kaushik De
Kaushik De The University of Texas at Arlington
Bobby Samir Acharya
Bobby Samir Acharya King's College London

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