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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
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.
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).