Faculty in Synchrotron Radiation

Arthur Bienenstock
Professor of Applied Physics, Materials Science and Engineering and at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy

My group's research involves the use of synchrotron radiation, and the development of new techniques, for the determination of atomic arrangements in physically interesting non-crystalline materials, including liquids.

Photo of A Bienenstock by L.A. Cicero / Stanford News Service

Sebastian Doniach
Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics

Theory of cooperative phenomena in condensed matter systems and of structure-function relationships in biological molecules. Applications of synchrotron radiation to structural molecular biology.

Martin Greven
Assistant Professor Applied Physics and SSRL

Our research focuses on the fundamental electronic and magnetic structure and dynamics of certain transition metal oxides with strong electron correlations using state-of-the-art X-ray and neutron scattering techniques. These complex materials are at the frontier of condensed matter physics since they provide myriad possibilities to discover and study novel fundamental phenomena and phases, and because some of their properties, such as high-temperature superconductivity and colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), have potential applications in technology. Topics of particular current interest to us include low-dimensional model magnets, the high-temperature superconductors, and related non-superconducting phases.

Zhi-Xun Shen
Professor of Applied Physics, Physics, and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University
Director, X-Ray Laboratory for Advanced Materials, SLAC, Stanford University

Physics of Quantum Matter: including superconducting, magnetic, ferroelectric and dielectric materials, organic conductors and superconductors, low-dimensional compounds, quantum phase transitions, elementary excitations and collective modes, Kondo and mixed valence problem, magneto-resistive materials, metal-insulator transition. Interaction between Light and Matter, and Advanced Spectroscopy, Scattering and Imaging Techniques: synchrotron radiation and free electron laser, high-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy with angle, spin and time resolution, inelastic x-ray scattering, laser based photoelectron spectroscopy and microcopy, soft x-ray emission, and Raman spectroscopy. Physics of the Ultra-Small and Ultra-Fast: nanostructured materials, scanning microwave microscopy, time resolved photoemission spectroscopy, pump probe experiments.

David A. Reis
Associate Professor of Photon Science and of Applied Physics

My research interests include ultrafast processes in the solid state and fundamental light-matter interactions. In particular, our group is investigates nonequilibrium dynamics in solids with atomic level spatial and temporal resolution. Our tools include ultrafast optical laser and x-ray sources (as well as ultrafast x-ray lasers such as the Linac Coherent Light Source x-ray free-electron laser at SLAC).

Stephen Quake
Professor of Bioengineering
Professor of Applied Physics by Courtesy
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Quake's interests lie at the nexus of physics, biology and biotechnology. Over the past half decade, he has focused on understanding the basic physics and biological applications of microfluidic technology. His group pioneered the development of Microfluidic Large Scale Integration (LSI), demonstrating the first integrated microfluidic devices with thousands of mechanical valves. This technology is helping to pave the way for large scale automation of biology at the nanoliter scale, and he and his students have been exploring applications of "lab on a chip" technology in functional genomics, genetic analysis, and protein design. Throughout his career, Quake has also been active in the field of single molecule biophysics; he has focused on precision measurements on single molecules, and in 2003 his group demonstrated the first successful single molecule DNA sequencing experiments.

Herman Winick
Assistant Director and Professor (Research), Emeritus
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Division of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Professor (Research), Emeritus; Applied Physics Dept, Stanford University

Development of sources and facilities for synchrotron radiation research: storage rings, wiggler and undulator magnets, free electron lasers.