Back كريستوف جيربر Arabic كريستوف جيربر ARZ Christoph Gerber German Christoph Gerber French Christoph Gerber Portuguese Гербер, Кристоф Russian Christoph Gerber Swedish 克里斯托夫·格贝尔 Chinese
Christoph Gerber | |
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 Gerber in 2013 | |
| Born | May 15, 1942[1] Basel, Switzerland |
| Known for | Atomic force microscope |
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| Institutions | IBM Research University of Basel |
Christoph Gerber (born 1942) is a Swiss physicist and professor at the University of Basel. He is the co-inventor of the atomic force microscope (AFM), together with Gerd Binnig and Calvin Quate.
He was a founding member and director for scientific communication of the NCCR (National Center of Competence in Research Nanoscale Science). He was formerly a research staff member in nanoscale science at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rueschlikon, Switzerland, and has served as a project leader in various programs of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
For the past 40 years, his research has been focused on nanoscale science. He is a pioneer in scanning probe microscopy, who made major contributions to the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope, the AFM,[2] and AFM techniques in high vacuum and at low temperatures.[3]
He is also the author of several patents.
- ^ "Christoph Gerber autobiography.pdf" (PDF). Kavli Prize. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 February 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
- ^ Binnig, G.; Quate, C. F.; Gerber, Ch. (1986). "Atomic Force Microscope". Physical Review Letters. 56 (9): 930–933. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56..930B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.930. PMID 10033323.
- ^ Giessibl, F. J.; Gerber, Ch.; Binnig, G. (1991). "A low-temperature atomic force/scanning tunneling microscope for ultrahigh vacuum" (PDF). Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B: Microelectronics and Nanometer Structures. 9 (2): 984. Bibcode:1991JVSTB...9..984G. doi:10.1116/1.585441.