Marc A. Kastner

Aaron Marc Kastner ( born November 20, 1945 in Toronto ) is a Canadian- American solid-state physicist.

Kastner studied at the University of Chicago with a bachelor 's degree in chemistry in 1967, the master's degree in physics in 1969 and his doctorate in physics in 1973, while he was Research Fellow at Harvard University 1972/73. In 1973 he was assistant professor and later professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is Donner Professor of Science since 1989. From 1983 to 1987 he was head of the department at MIT nuclear, solid state and plasma physics from 1998 to 2007 he was head of the physics faculty at MIT and in 2007 he became dean of the School of Science.

Kastner dealt initially with amorphous semiconductors, which led to alternating valence model of localized defect states. Later he studied magnetic and electric properties of high- temperature superconductors and semiconductor nanostructures. Among other things, he studied single-electron transistors ( SET), are localized in which electrons in nanostructures by electrostatic forces in semiconductors. Then show quantization effects in analogy to artificial atoms, and ( for an odd number of electrons ) the Kondo effect analogous to magnetic impurities in metals. He examined with his group also regular arrays of nanocrystals (in collaboration with chemists at MIT ) and quasiparticle excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect by tunneling in suitably designed nanostructures.

From 1983 to 1987 he was at MIT Associate Director of the Consortium for Superconducting electronics, which brings together scientists and engineers in the field of electronics superconducting thin films.

In 2000 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Gerald Dolan and Theodore A. Fulton for pioneering work on Einelektroneneffekten in mesoscopic systems. In 2008 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the David Adler in 1995 he was a lecturer.

Writings

  • Artificial Atoms, Physics Today, January 1993
  • The single electron transistor, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 64, 1992, p 849
  • With RJ Birgeneau, G. Shirane, Y. Endoh Magnetic, transport, and Optical Properties of monolayer copper oxide, Reviews of Modern Physics, Vol 70, 1998, p 897
  • Single electron transistor and artificial atom, Annals of Physics, Volume 9, 2000, p 885
  • With Goldhaber - Gordon, Kondo Physics with Single Electron transistor, Solid State Communications, Volume 119, 2001, pp. 245-252
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