Center for Emergent Superconductivity

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James N. Eckstein

Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080

Phone: (217) 244-7709
Fax:     (217) 333-2278
Email:  eckstein@uiuc.edu
Web:   http://physics.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?eckstein

 

Educational Background

• St Olaf College, Physics, B.A. (1973)
• Stanford University, Physics, Ph.D. (1978)
• Stanford University, Post-doctoral fellow (1978-1981)

Academic / Professional Appointments

• Professor, Department of Physics, UIUC, 1998–present
• Research Manager, Ginzton Research Center, Varian Associates, 1982-1997
• Member of Technical Staff, Central Research, 3M Corporation, 1981-1982
• Post-doctoral research fellow, Stanford University, 1978–1981

Honors & Awards

• Fellow, American Physical Society (2005)
• Incomplete list of teachers ranked as excellent (2004)
• Accenture excellent advisor award (2002)
• DuPont Graduate Fellowship (1973-1976)
• National Merit Scholar (1969-1973)

Representative Publications

• James N. Eckstein, “Oxide Interfaces: Watch out for the lack of Oxygen”, Nature Materials 7, 473 (2007)
• Seongshik Oh, Joseph A. Bonetti, Kevin Inderhees, D. J. VanHarlingen and J. N. Eckstein, “Spatially selective and reversible doping control in cuprate thin films”, Appl Phys Lett 87, 231911 (2005)
• D. A. Farias and J. N. Eckstein, Dynamic electrooptic frequency shifter for pulsed light signals, IEEE J Quant Elect 41 94-99 (2005).
• Seongshik Oh, M. Warusawithana and J. N. Eckstein, Electric field effect on insulating cuprate planes, Phys Rev B 70, 64509/1-5 (2004)
• Bruce Davidson, Revaz Ramazshivili, Simon Kos and James N. Eckstein, “Broken particle-hole symmetry at flat a-axis YBCO interfaces”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 107004/1-4 (2004)
• M. R. Warusawithana, E. V. Colla, J. N. Eckstein and M. B. Weissman, Artificial dielectric superlattices with broken inversion symmetry, Phys. Rev. Lett 90 036802–1/4 (2003).
• J. N. Eckstein, J. O’Donnell, S. Oh, A.E. Andrus, M. Warusawithana, E. Bertram B.A. Davidson, I. Bozovic, “Defect scattering in high Tc and colossal magnetoresistive tunnel junctions”, Physica C 335, 184 (2000)
• J. O’Donnell, A. E. Andrus, S. Oh, E. V. Colla, and J. N. Eckstein, Colossal magnetoresistance magnetic tunnel junctions grown by molecular-beam epitaxy, Appl Phys Lett 76, 1914-1916 (2000)
• J.N. Eckstein I. Bozovic, “High temperature superconducting multilayers and heterostructures grown by atomic layer by layer molecular beam epitaxy”, Annual Review of Materials Science 25, 679 (1995)
• C. Webb and J. N. Eckstein, Anisotropy in electronic transport of modulation doped structures having strained InGaAs wells, J Cryst Growth 111, 309-311 (1991).
• J. N. Eckstein, C. Webb, S.-L. Weng and K. A. Bertness, Photoemission oscillations during epitaxial growth, Appl Phys Lett 51, 1833-1835 (1987).
• J. N. Eckstein, A. I. Ferguson and T. W. Hänsch, High-resolution two-photon spectroscopy with picosecond light pulses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 40, 847-850 (1978). (invention of the optical frequency comb)

Advisors

• Ph.D. Thesis Advisor: T. W. Hänsch (Stanford University)
• Graduate co-Advisor : A. L. Schawlow (Stanford University)
• Postdoctoral Sponsors: W. Fairbank (Stanford University)