University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 Seitz Materials Research Lab
Urbana, IL 61801-3080
Phone: (217) 244-4861
Fax: (217) 333-9819
Email: abbamontillinois.edu
Web: http://www.physics.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?abbamont
Professor Abbamonte received his Ph.D in physics from the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. He then went to the University of
Groningen in The Netherlands on an IRFAP fellowship from the National
Science Foundation. In 2001, he returned to the U.S. as a postdoc in
biophysics at Cornell University, and joined the scientific staff at
Brookhaven National Laboratory in 2003. He moved back to the University of
Illinois in 2005, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Physics
and an affiliate of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.
Professor Abbamonte is regarded as one of the originators of the new
technique of resonant soft x-ray scattering, which he has used, among other
things, to show that stripes in copper-oxide superconductors are charged.
This technique is now in use or under commissioning at every major
synchrotron facility in the world. He is also known for his solution to the
phase problem for inelastic x-ray scattering, which has provided a means to
perform real-time imaging of electron motion in condensed matter, with
attosecond time resolution.
Electron self-organization in condensed matter, stripe phases, topological order; edge and interface effects in oxide devices; quantum phase transitions; collective excitations in interacting electron systems.
Last Modified: November 9, 2009
