Curriculum Vitae for Neil M. Zimmerman

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Education

M.S. and Ph.D. Cornell University, Physics (May 1989)
Thesis topic: 1/f Noise Produced by the Movement of Hydrogen in Palladium
Thesis adviser: Professor Watt Webb
B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Physics (cum laude), May 1982


Professional Employment

4/94 to present: Research physicist, NIST.
Applications for standards, and basic research in single electron tunneling devices.

3/92 to 4/94: Research physicist, NRL.
Measured phonons/acoustics in microstructures.

8/89 to 2/92: Postdoctoral member of technical staff, AT\&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill).
Measured dynamics of individual tunneling defects at low temperatures in Bi.
Supervisors: Dr. Alice White and Dr. Brage Golding.

6/84 to 7/89: Graduate research assistant, Applied Physics Department, Cornell University. Measured 1/f noise due to motion of hydrogen in metal films.
Supervisor: Professor Watt Webb.


Recent Publications

List of publications since joining NIST.


Earlier Publications

Neil M. Zimmerman, J. Alex Liddle, Alice E. White and Ken T. Short,
"Transport in Submicrometer Buried Mesotaxial Cobalt Silicide Wires,"
Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 387 (1993).

Brage Golding, Neil M. Zimmerman, and S. N. Coppersmith,
"Dissipative Quantum Tunneling of a Single Microscopic Defect in a Mesoscopic Metal,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 998 (1992).

Neil M. Zimmerman, Brage Golding, and William H. Haemmerle,
"Magnetic Field-Tuned Energy of a Single Two-Level-System in a Mesoscopic Metal,"
Phys. Rev. Lett 67, 1322 (1991).

R. C. Haddon, S. H. Glarum, S.B. Chichester, A. P. Ramirez, and N. M. Zimmerman,
"Microwave-loss Studies of Organic Superconductors,"
Phys. Rev. B 43, 2642 (1991).

A. Wallace Cordes, Robert C. Haddon, Richard T. Oakley, Lynn F. Schneemeyer, Joseph V. Waszczak, Kelly M. Young, and Neil M. Zimmerman,
"Molecular Semiconductors from Bifunctional Dithia and Diselenadizolyl Radicals. Preparation and Solid-State Properties of 1,4-[(E2N2C)C6H4(CN2E2)] (E = S, Se),"
Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc. 113, 582 (1991).

M. P. Andrews, A. W. Cordes, D. C. Douglass, R. M. Fleming, S. H. Glarum, R. C. Haddon, P. Marsh, R. T. Oakley, T.T.M. Palstra, and L. F. Schneemeyer, G. W. Trucks, J. V. Waszczak, K. M. Young, and N. M. Zimmerman,
"One-Dimensional Stacking of Bifunctional Dithia- and Diselenadizolyl Radicals: Preparation and Structural and Electronic Properties of 1,3-[(E2N2C)C6H4(CN2E2)] (E = S, Se),"
Jour. Amer. Chem. Soc. 113, 3559 (1991).

Neil M. Zimmerman and Watt W. Webb,
"1/f Resistance Noise Complements Anelasticity Measurements of Hydrogen Motion in Amorphous Pd80Si20,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1040 (1990).

Neil M. Zimmerman and Watt W. Webb,
"Microscopic Scatterer Displacements Generate the 1/f Resistance Noise of H in Pd,"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 889 (1988).

Neil M. Zimmerman, John H. Scofield, Joseph V. Mantese, and Watt W. Webb,
"Volume versus surface origin of 1/f noise in metals,"
Phys. Rev. B 34, 773 (1986).


Last update: December 2006   -   neilz at mailaps.org