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My Life With Erwin: The Beginning of an Atom-Probe Legacy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2019

John A. Panitz
John A. Panitz*
Affiliation:
The University of New Mexico, Department of Physics and Astronomy, MSC074220, 1919 Lomas Blvd NE, 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001
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Author for correspondence: John A. Panitz, E-mail: panitz@unm.edu
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Abstract

The atom-probe field ion microscope was introduced in 1967 at the 14th Field Emission Symposium held at the National Bureau of Standards (now, NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The atom-probe field ion microscope was, and remains, the only instrument capable of determining “the nature of one single atom seen on a metal surface and selected from neighboring atoms at the discretion of the observer”. The development of the atom-probe is a story of an instrument that one National Science Foundation (NSF) reviewer called “impossible because single atoms could not be detected”. It is also a story of my life with Erwin Wilhelm Müller as his graduate student in the Field Emission Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University in the late 1960s and his strong and volatile personality, perhaps fostered by his pedigree as Gustav Hertz’s student in the Berlin of the 1930s. It is the story that has defined by scientific career.

Keywords

atom-probe tomographyatom probemicroscopyimaging
Type
The Erwin W. Müller Memorial Lecture
Information
Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 25 , Special Issue 2: Atom Probe Tomography and Microscopy APT&M 2018 , April 2019 , pp. 274 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2019 

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