Condensed Matter & Thermal Physics Group, MPA-10

Awards and Honors

Laboratory Fellows
Al Arko
Bob Ecke
Zach Fisk
Chirs Hammel
Al Migliori
Bob Mills
Greg Swift
Joe Thompson

Fellows of American Physical Society
Al Arko
Larry Campbell
Greg Dash
Bob Ecke
Zach Fisk
Chris Hammel
Ed Hammel
Bob Heffner
Bill Keller
Marty Maley
Al Migliori
Roman Movshovich
Bill Overton
Art Ramirez
John Sarrao
Adam Schuch
Bill Steyert
Greg Swift
Toni Taylor
Joe Thompson
John Wheatley

Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America
Greg Swift

Fellow of the Optical Society of America
Toni Taylor

Senior Fellowship of the Japan Physical Society
Joe Thompson

Laboratory Fellows Prize for Research
Roman Movshovich (2002)
Joe Thompson (1995)
Chris Hammel (1994)
Greg Swift (1993)
Al Arko (1991)
Bob Ecke (1991)

Laboratory Fellows Prize for Leadership
Toni Taylor (2003)

Kudos
Physicists and chemists applying the muon spin rotation, relaxation and resonance technique recently founded the Society for Muon Spin Rotation and elected Bob Heffner to serve as the first president. At present most of the muon spin rotation experiments are carried out at the internationally accessible muon sources of the TRIUMF Laboratory in Canada, the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, the ISIS facility at the Rutherford- Appleton Laboratory in the UK, and the KEK laboratory in Japan.

Roman Movshovich was awarded a 2002 Fellows Prize for Outstanding Research in Science or Engineering. Roman was recognized for his outstanding research in experimental low temperature condensed matter physics and, in particular, for his research on unconventional superconductivity and correlated-electron physics.

Toni Taylor is a Director-at-Large of the Optical Society of America. The OSA has a membership of 13,000 optical scientists and strives to be the world's leading society for optics and photonics. Toni was named a Fellow of OSA in 2001.

Recent Patents
6,733,569 (5/11/04), Method and apparatus for separating mixtures of gases using an acoustic wave, D. A. Geller, MST-10, G. W. Swift, MST-10, S. N. Backhaus. MST-10

6,676,813 (1/13/04), Technology for fabrication of a micromagnet on a tip of a MFM/MRFM probe, D. V. Pelekhov, MST-10, P. C. Hammel, MST-10, G. Nunes, Jr., M. M. Midzor, M. Roukes

6,666,033 (12/23/03), Method and apparatus for fine tuning an orifice pulse tube refrigerator, G. W. Swift, MST-10 and J. J. Wollan

6,658,862 (12/9/03), Cascaded thermoacoustic devices, G. W. Swift, S. N. Backhaus, D. L. Gardner, all MST-10

6,644,028 (11/11/03), Method and apparatus for rapid stopping and starting of a thermoacoustic engine, G. W. Swift, S. N. Backhaus, D. L. Gardner, all MST-10

6,637,211 (10/28/03), Circulating heat exchangers for oscillating wave engines and refrigerators, G. W. Swift and S. N. Backhaus, MST-10

6,564,552 (5/20/03), Drift stabilizer for reciprocating free-piston devices, W. C. Ward, J. A. Corey, and G. W. Swift, MST-10

6,560,970 (5/13/03), Oscillating side-branch enhancements of thermoacoustic heat exchangers, G. W. Swift, MST-10

MPA-10 TEAMS

Thermal Physics

• Thermoacoustics
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative R&D

Correlated Electrons

• Materials Synthesis and Characterization
• Transport and Thermodynamics
• Novel Materials at Extreme Conditions
• Very Low Temperature Physics

Actinide Chemistry

• Heavy-Element Chemistry

Low Energy Spectroscopy

• Condensed Matter NMR
• Photoelectron Spectroscopy
• Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
• Mossbauer Spectroscopy
• Neutron Scattering