Dror Sarid

Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences

Contact Information

Education

  • Ph.D., Hebrew University, 1972

  • M.Sc., Hebrew University, 1967

  • B.Sc., Hebrew University, 1965

Employment

  • The University of Arizona: Director, Optical Data Storage Center, 2002–2006; Professor, Optical Sciences, 1980–2010; Professor Emeritus, Optical Sciences, 2010–present

  • Hebrew University: Senior Lecturer, 1978–1980

  • Xerox Webster Research Center: Scientist, 1974–1978

  • University of California: Visiting Scholar, Santa Barbara Quantum Institute, 1976; Postdoctoral Fellow, 1972–1974

Research

  • Scanning tunneling microscopy: semiconductor surface reconstruction, adsorption of Ba and Sr on silicon, optical interactions, biology, buckyballs and buckytubes, silicon carbide, hologram with atomic resolution
  • Scanning force microscopy: laser-diode interferometry, combined AFM-STM, tapping mode AFM, data storage, buckyballs and buckytubes, chemical sensors, thermal sensors
  • Nanolithography: Fowler-Nordheim emission, nanofabrication
  • Mathematica modeling: Fractional derivatives, scanning force microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, surface plasmons and metamaterials