Silicon Nanomaterials Sourcebook: Low-Dimensional Structures, Quantum Dots, and Nanowires, Volume One

About

Klaus D. Sattler pursued his undergraduate and masters courses at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. He received his PhD under the guidance of Professors G. Busch and H.C. Siegmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich where he was among the first to study spin-polarized photoelectron emission. In 1976 he began a group for atomic cluster research at the University of Konstanz in Germany where he built the first source for atomic clusters and led his team to pioneering discoveries such as magic numbers and Coulomb explosion. He was at the University of California Berkeley for three years as a Heisenberg fellow where he initiated the first studies of atomic clusters on surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope.Dr. Sattler accepted a position as professor of physics at the University of Hawaii Honolulu in 1988. There he initiated a research group for nanophysics which using scanning probe microscopy obtained the first atomic-scale images of carbon nanotubes directly confirming the graphene network. In 1994 his group produced the first carbon nanocones. He has also studied the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and nanoparticles in hydrocarbon flames in collaboration with ETH Zurich. Other research has involved the nanopatterning of nanoparticle films charge density waves on rotated graphene sheets band gap studies of quantum dots and graphene folds. His current work focuses on novel nanomaterials and solar photocatalysis with nanoparticles for the purification of water.He is the editor of the sister reference Carbon Nanomaterials Sourcebook (CRC Press 2016) Fundamentals of Picoscience (CRC Press 2014) and the seven-volume Handbook of Nanophysics (CRC Press 2011). Among his many other accomplishments Dr. Sattler was awarded the prestigious Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society in 1983. At the University of Hawaii he teaches courses in general physics solid state physics and quantum mechanics.