John R. Arthur Jr. is a notable American
materials scientist best known as a pioneer of
molecular beam epitaxy
Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals. MBE is widely used in the manufacture of semiconductor devices, including transistors, and it is considered one of the fundamental tools for the devel ...
.
Together with
Alfred Y. Cho, Arthur pioneered molecular beam epitaxy at
Bell Laboratories
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then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996)
and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007),
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, where he published a paper in July 1968 that described construction of epitaxial
gallium arsenide layers using molecular beam epitaxy. They received the 1982
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award "for the development and application of molecular beam epitaxy technology," and the 1982
James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials
The James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials is a prize that has been awarded annually by the American Physical Society since 1975, but was only given that name following its endowment by IBM in 1999. Prior to that it was known as the Internatio ...
from the
American Physical Society.
Selected works
* Arthur Jr., J. R., ''J. Appl. Phys.'' 39, 4032–4034 (1968).
* Cho, A. Y.; J. R. Arthur Jr. “Molecular beam epitaxy”. Prog. Solid State Chem., 10: 157–192. (1975).
References
IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award recipients* "Atom by Atom, Physicists Create Matter that Nature has Never Known Before", ''New York Times'', June 1, 1982.
* W. Patrick McCray, "MBE deserves a place in the history books", ''Nature Nanotechnology'' 2, 259 - 261 (2007) .
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21st-century American physicists
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