Professor Klaus van Benthem
Professor Van Benthem uses electron microscopy tools to image nano-materials with atomic resolution and correlate their morphologies and atomic structures with nano-scale and macro-scale physical properties. His interests are also in the development of new strategies to investigate materials under more realistic environmental conditions, such as gas phases, liquids, electrical and mechanical fields, etc. His overall vision is the characterization of functional materials with atomic resolution under their anticipated working conditions, i.e., “at work”.
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Professor Ivor Brodie
Professor Ivor Brodie is an expert in the area of physical electronics, which is concerned with the generation and motion of electrons in vacuum, gases and condensed matter. His research has centered on thermionic and field emission electron sources for high-power microwave tubes, electron beam lithography tools, display tubes and other types of vacuum electron devices. He has also made important contributions to the understanding of electrophotographic processes.
Professor Jonathan P. Heritage
Professor Heritage is conducting research in microphotonics, terahertz bandwidth optics, next generation optical networks, optical microwave interactions, and vacuum optoelectronics. Recent developments include MEMS mirror arrays for all optical switching, femtosecond pulse shaping, and miniature broadband time delay scanners. He investigates the impact of physical layer impairments on performance of switched WDM networks. He participates in a UC Davis / SLAC / LLNL project aiming to develop a compact high brightness X-ray source for medical applications and for fundamental studies of ultrafast dynamics of bulk state of matter. His group is developing vacuum photocathodes based on optical gating of arrays of fabricated silicon field emitter tips.