Tony Heinz

Tony F. Heinz (born 30 April 1956 in Palo Alto) is an American physicist.

Heinz studied at Stanford University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978. He received his doctorate in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley, in physics. From 1983 to 1995 he was at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM. He was a professor at Columbia University and isnow a professor at Stanford University.

In 2008 he earned the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. In 1996 he earned the Humboldt Prize. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Heinz is one of the most cited scientists. Since 2019, the media group Clarivate counts him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize (Clarivate Citation Laureates).

His research focuses on ultrafast laser spectroscopy (femtosecond pulses) and thus investigates dynamics at surfaces. His group investigates electronic and optical properties of a few atoms of thin two-dimensional systems (such as graphene or ultrathin crystals of transition-metal di-chalcogen compounds).

• Wang, Feng; Dukovic, Gordana; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F. (2005). "The Optical Resonances in Carbon Nanotubes Arise from Excitons". Science. 308 (5723): 838–841. Bibcode:2005Sci...308..838W. doi:10.1126/science.1110265. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 15879212.
• Mak, Kin Fai; Sfeir, Matthew Y.; Wu, Yang; Lui, Chun Hung; Misewich, James A.; Heinz, Tony F. (2008). "Measurement of the Optical Conductivity of Graphene". Physical Review Letters. 101 (19): 196405. arXiv:0810.1269. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.101s6405M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.196405. PMID 19113291.
• Mak, Kin Fai; Lee, Changgu; Hone, James; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2010). "Atomically Thin MoS₂ A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor". Physical Review Letters. 105 (13): 136805. arXiv:1004.0546. Bibcode:2010PhRvL.105m6805M. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.136805. PMID 21230799.
• Lee, Changgu; Yan, Hugen; Brus, Louis E.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hone, James; Ryu, Sunmin (2010). "Anomalous Lattice Vibrations of Single- and Few-Layer MoS₂". ACS Nano. 4 (5): 2695–2700. arXiv:1005.2509. doi:10.1021/nn1003937. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 20392077.
• Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Shan, Jie; Heinz, Tony F. (2012). "Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS₂ by optical helicity". Nature Nanotechnology. 7 (8): 494–498. arXiv:1205.1822. Bibcode:2012NatNa...7..494M. doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.96. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 22706698.
• Butler, Sheneve Z.; Hollen, Shawna M.; Cao, Linyou; Cui, Yi; Gupta, Jay A.; Gutiérrez, Humberto R.; Heinz, Tony F.; Hong, Seung Sae; Huang, Jiaxing; Ismach, Ariel F.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel (2013). "Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities in Two-Dimensional Materials Beyond Graphene". ACS Nano. 7 (4): 2898–2926. doi:10.1021/nn400280c. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 23464873.
• Mak, Kin Fai; He, Keliang; Lee, Changgu; Lee, Gwan Hyoung; Hone, James; Heinz, Tony F.; Shan, Jie (2013). "Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS₂". Nature Materials. 12 (3): 207–211. arXiv:1210.8226. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..207M. doi:10.1038/nmat3505. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 23202371.
• van der Zande, Arend M.; Huang, Pinshane Y.; Chenet, Daniel A.; Berkelbach, Timothy C.; You, YuMeng; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; Heinz, Tony F.; Reichman, David R.; Muller, David A.; Hone, James C. (2013). "Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide". Nature Materials. 12 (6): 554–561. arXiv:1301.1985. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..554V. doi:10.1038/nmat3633. ISSN 1476-4660. PMID 23644523.
• Xu, Xiaodong; Yao, Wang; Xiao, Di; Heinz, Tony F. (2014). "Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides". Nature Physics. 10 (5): 343–350. Bibcode:2014NatPh..10..343X. doi:10.1038/nphys2942. ISSN 1745-2481.
• Lee, Chul-Ho; Lee, Gwan-Hyoung; van der Zande, Arend M.; Chen, Wenchao; Li, Yilei; Han, Minyong; Cui, Xu; Arefe, Ghidewon; Nuckolls, Colin; Heinz, Tony F.; Guo, Jing (2014). "Atomically thin p–n junctions with van der Waals heterointerfaces". Nature Nanotechnology. 9 (9): 676–681. arXiv:1403.3062. Bibcode:2014NatNa...9..676L. doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.150. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 25108809.