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  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to our understanding of the electronic properties of free metal clusters and for the studies of the field emission and transport properties of nanotubes

Overview

Walt A. de Heer is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Materials Science and Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena

Walt A. de Heer has authored several recent papers, indicating a consistent output in high-impact journals. These include:

  • Ultrahigh-mobility semiconducting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide, 2024, Nature
  • Highly Ordered Boron Nitride/Epigraphene Epitaxial Films on Silicon Carbide by Lateral Epitaxial Deposition, 2020, ACS Nano
  • An epitaxial graphene platform for zero-energy edge state nanoelectronics, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Non-Invasive Nanoscale Potentiometry and Ballistic Transport in Epigraphene Nanoribbons, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Magnetic nanodoping: Atomic control of spin states in cobalt doped silver clusters, 2023, Physical Review Research

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • ACS Nano
  • Nature Communications
  • Physical Review Research

Collaborations have been an element of their research, with frequent co-authors including Claire Berger, Noel Dudeck, Frédéric Fossard, Annick Loiseau, and Paul L. Voss.

Walt A. de Heer was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003, with a citation noting contributions related to the electronic properties of free metal clusters, as well as studies on the field emission and transport properties of nanotubes.

Best Publications

  • Carbon Nanotubes--the Route Toward Applications

    Ray H. Baughman;Anvar A. Zakhidov;Walt A. de Heer

  • Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene

    Claire Berger;Claire Berger;Zhimin Song;Xuebin Li;Xiaosong Wu

  • Ultrathin epitaxial graphite: 2D electron gas properties and a route toward graphene-based nanoelectronics.

    Claire Berger;Zhimin Song;Tianbo Li;Xuebin Li

  • A Carbon Nanotube Field-Emission Electron Source

    Walt A. de Heer;A. Châtelain;D. Ugarte

  • The physics of simple metal clusters: experimental aspects and simple models

    Walt A. de Heer

  • Carbon nanotube quantum resistors

    Stefan Frank;Philippe Poncharal;Z. L. Wang;Walt A. de Heer

  • Electronic Shell Structure and Abundances of Sodium Clusters

    W. D. Knight;Keith Clemenger;Walt A. de Heer;Winston A. Saunders

  • Electrostatic deflections and electromechanical resonances of carbon nanotubes

    Philippe Poncharal;Z. L. Wang;Daniel Ugarte;Walt A. de Heer

  • Epitaxial graphene

    Walt A. de Heer;Claire Berger;Xiaosong Wu;Phillip N. First

  • Field emission from single-wall carbon nanotube films

    Jean-Marc Bonard;Jean-Paul Salvetat;Thomas Stöckli;Walt A. de Heer

  • Chemical Modification of Epitaxial Graphene: Spontaneous Grafting of Aryl Groups

    Elena Bekyarova;Mikhail E. Itkis;Palanisamy Ramesh;Claire Berger

  • Nanoscale Tunable Reduction of Graphene Oxide for Graphene Electronics

    Zhongqing Wei;Debin Wang;Suenne Kim;Soo Young Kim;Soo Young Kim

  • Exceptional ballistic transport in epitaxial graphene nanoribbons

    Jens Baringhaus;Ming Ruan;Frederik Edler;Antonio Tejeda

  • Room-temperature metastability of multilayer graphene oxide films

    Suenne Kim;Si Zhou;Yike Hu;Muge Acik

  • Large area and structured epitaxial graphene produced by confinement controlled sublimation of silicon carbide

    Walt. A. de Heer;Claire Berger;Ming Ruan;Mike Sprinkle

  • Observing the Quantization of Zero Mass Carriers in Graphene

    David L. Miller;Kevin D. Kubista;Gregory M. Rutter;Ming Ruan

  • Ultrafast Relaxation of Excited Dirac Fermions in Epitaxial Graphene Using Optical Differential Transmission Spectroscopy

    Dong Sun;Zong-Kwei Wu;Charles Divin;Xuebin Li

  • Electronic Shell Structure and Metal Clusters

    Walt A. de Heer;W.D. Knight;M.Y. Chou;Marvin L. Cohen

  • Highly efficient spin transport in epitaxial graphene on SiC

    Bruno Dlubak;Marie-Blandine Martin;Cyrile Deranlot;Bernard Servet

  • Epitaxial graphene transistors on SiC substrates

    Jakub Kedzierski;Pei-Lan Hsu;Paul Healey;Peter Wyatt

Frequent Co-Authors

Claire Berger
Claire Berger Georgia Institute of Technology
Joseph A. Stroscio
Joseph A. Stroscio National Institute of Standards and Technology
Elisa Riedo
Elisa Riedo New York University
Theodore B. Norris
Theodore B. Norris University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
László Forró
László Forró University of Notre Dame
Ermin Malic
Ermin Malic Philipp University of Marburg
Robert C. Haddon
Robert C. Haddon University of California, Riverside
John E. Sipe
John E. Sipe University of Toronto
Elena Bekyarova
Elena Bekyarova University of California, Riverside
Jean-Marc Bonard
Jean-Marc Bonard École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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