Andreas J. Heinrich
Andreas J. Heinrich is a physicist working with
scanning tunneling microscopy,
quantum technology,
nanoscience, spin excitation
spectroscopy, and precise atom manipulation. He worked for
IBM Research in
Almaden for 18 years, during which time he developed nanosecond scanning tunneling microscopy which provided an improvement in time resolution of 100,000 times, and combined x-ray absorption spectroscopy with spin excitation spectroscopy. In 2015 his team combined STM with electron spin resonance, which enables single-atom measurements on spins with nano-electronvolt precision REF1, REF2. In 2022 his team demonstrated the extension of ESR-STM to individual molecules REF3. Heinrich was also
principal investigator of the
stop-motion animated short film ''
A Boy and His Atom'' filmed by moving thousands of individual atoms. He is a fellow of the
American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the recipient of the
Heinrich Rohrer Medal (Grand Medal) of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science.
In 2016, he became a distinguished professor at
Ewha Womans University in
Seoul, Republic of Korea and the founding director of the
Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
Center for Quantum Nanoscience. Groundbreaking for the research center's Research Cooperation Building occurred in 2018 and it was opened in 2019 during the IBS Conference on Quantum Nanoscience.
The QNS building features some of the lowest vibration levels for STM labs in the world REF4. QNS is engineering the quantum future by investigating the scientific foundations of quantum-coherent systems at the nanoscale REF5 with a particular focus on spins on surfaces REF6.
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