Nanoprobe Network

Udo Schwarz

• User Name:

  udoschwarz

• Member Since:

  Mon, September 29, 2008

• Website:

  http://www.eng.yale.edu/nanomechanics

• Occupation:

  Professor

• Areas of Expertise:

• Employer:

  Yale University

• Department:

  Mechanical Engineering

• Sector:

• City:

  New Haven

• State:

  Connecticut

• Country:

  United States

• Description:

  Prof. Dr. UDO D. SCHWARZ is professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Professor Schwarz graduated from the University of Basel in 1989, receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the same institution in 1993. Subsequently, he continued his work as a staff scientist and lecturer at the Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Hamburg, where made his “habilitation” in 1999. In 2001, Prof. Schwarz moved to the Materials Science Department of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. From 2002-2009, he worked as an associate professor at Yale’s Mechanical Engineering Department, where he got promoted to full professor in 2009. Prof. Schwarz has published more than 90 scientific papers in international journals and books and gave more than 190 scientific presentations at domestic and international conferences including many invited ones (June 2009). His research interests are in nanomechanics, nanotribology, and the local measurement of atomic-scale interactions including atomic-scale imaging. More specific, he uses scanning probe microscopy techniques with a focus on scanning force microscopy to study problems in contact mechanics on the nanometer scale, friction, adhesion, lubrication, and the physics of metals, semiconductors, and dielectrics. These techniques are also continuously further developed in his lab, with a focus on ultrahigh vacuum low-temperature scanning force microscopy, friction force microscopy, and the local mapping of surface elasticity and interaction potentials. Prof. Schwarz is a member of the American Vacuum Society (AVS), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the German Physical Society (DPG), and the German Vacuum Society (DVG). Among his many professional service activities, most notable are his membership in the board of the Nanometer-scale Scinece and Technology Division of the AVS (since 2008), the membership in the International Steering Committee of the World Conferences for Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy (NC-AFM) (since 2003), and his chairmanship of the 2009 NC-AFM conference.