Michael F. Crommie is an American physicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education
Crommie completed his undergraduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor"s degree in 1984. He completed his doctoral studies under Alex Zettl at University of California Berkeley, receiving a Doctor of Philosophy in 1991, and was a postdoctoral fellow at International Business Machines Corporation under Don Eigler.
Career
In 2007 he was elected as a fellow of the American Physical Society. Crommie"s research group currently uses scanning tunneling microscopy and scanning tunneling spectroscopy. Crommie is known for demonstrating the quantum corral in 1993 with Lutz and Eigler by using an elliptical ring of cobalt atoms on a copper surface.
The ferromagnetic cobalt atoms reflected the surface electrons of the copper inside the ring into a wave pattern, as predicted by the theory of quantum mechanics.