Aron Pinczuk

Pinczuk was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1939. He received Licenciado in physics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in April 1962 and Ph.D in physics from the University of Pennsylvania, in January 1969.{{Cite web |title=Physics Tree - Aron Pinczuk |url=https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=183092 |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=academictree.org}} He became an assistant professor of physics there after graduation. From 1970 to 1976 he was a member of the National Research Council and National Atomic Energy Commission in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During this time, he was a faculty member in the department of physics at the University of Buenos Aires between 1973 and 1974. He visited the Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart, Germany from 1975 to 1976.

Later, he headed back to United States and worked as a visiting scientist at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights until 1977. From 1978 to 2008, he was a member at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ and Murray Hill, NJ (later renamed AT&T Bell Laboratories and then Lucent Technologies). Since 1998, he became joint professor in the department of physics and the department of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia University in New York, where he was also a member of the Columbia Nano Initiative.{{Cite web |title=In Memoriam: Aron Pinczuk (1939-2022) |date=14 February 2022|url=https://www.apam.columbia.edu/memoriam-aron-pinczuk-1939-2022}}

Pinczuk employed spectroscopy to study electron systems in semiconductors and insulators. He was a leader in the field of photoluminescence and resonant light scattering from solids. He studied interacting quantum fluids in semiconductor quantum well heterostructures,{{Cite journal|date=1975|editor-last=Cardona|editor-first=Manuel|title=Light Scattering in Solids|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37568-5|journal=Topics in Applied Physics|volume=8|language=en-gb|doi=10.1007/978-3-540-37568-5|isbn=978-3-662-22095-5|issn=0303-4216}}{{Cite conference|conference=Proceedings of the International Conference held at New York University, New York, September 3–6, 1968|date=1969|editor-last=Wright|editor-first=George B.|title=Light Scattering Spectra of Solids|language=en-gb|doi=10.1007/978-3-642-87357-7}}{{Cite journal|date=2006|title=Inelastic Light Scattering of Semiconductor Nanostructures|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36526-5|journal=Springer Tracts in Modern Physics|volume=219|language=en-gb|doi=10.1007/3-540-36526-5|isbn=978-3-540-36525-9}} with a focus on excitations in quantum Hall phases.{{Cite book|last=Jain|first=Jainendra K.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/composite-fermions/AB22E09A3F9C4E98F91E1BB447AF5778|title=Composite Fermions|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-86232-5|location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/cbo9780511607561}}{{Cite book|last1=Halperin|first1=Bertrand I|last2=Jain|first2=Jainendra K|date=2020-01-15|title=Fractional Quantum Hall Effects|language=en|doi=10.1142/11751|arxiv=2011.13488|isbn=978-981-121-748-7|s2cid=235694352}} Pinczuk also applied Raman scattering to study phonons in graphene and later explored the engineering of electron states in semiconductor artificial graphene using advanced nanofabrication technology.{{Cite web|title=Artificial Graphene Created in Nanofabricated Semiconductor Structure|date = 13 December 2017|url=https://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=35989}}{{Cite web|title=Engineered artificial graphene in semiconductors: Beyond natural graphene|date=3 April 2018 |url=https://www.laserfocusworld.com/optics/article/16555407/engineered-artificial-graphene-in-semiconductors-beyond-natural-graphene}}{{Cite web|title=Engineers create artificial graphene in a nanofabricated semiconductor structure|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171212184131.htm}}

In 1979, using resonant inelastic light scattering, Pinczuk and his colleagues made the first observation of intersubband excitations in the two dimensional electron systems of Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) heterostructures.{{Cite journal|last1=Pinczuk|first1=A.|last2=Abstreiter|first2=G.|last3=Trommer|first3=R.|last4=Cardona|first4=M.|date=1979-05-01|title=Resonance enhancement of Raman scattering by electron-gas excitations of n-GaAs|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098%2879%2991181-5|journal=Solid State Communications|language=en|volume=30|issue=7|pages=429–432|doi=10.1016/0038-1098(79)91181-5|bibcode=1979SSCom..30..429P|issn=0038-1098}}

In 1989, Pinczuk et al. distinguished intersubband spin density excitations from single particle excitations and showed that exchange Coulomb interactions in the two dimensional electron gas of GaAs microstructures were more important than previously anticipated.{{Cite journal|last1=Pinczuk|first1=A.|last2=Schmitt-Rink|first2=S.|last3=Danan|first3=G.|last4=Valladares|first4=J. P.|last5=Pfeiffer|first5=L. N.|last6=West|first6=K. W.|date=1989-10-09|title=Large exchange interactions in the electron gas of GaAs quantum wells|url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1633|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=63|issue=15|pages=1633–1636|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.63.1633|pmid=10040629|bibcode=1989PhRvL..63.1633P}}

In 1993, Pinczuk and his colleagues observed long-wavelength collective excitation of the fractional quantum Hall state for the first time.{{Cite journal|last1=Pinczuk|first1=A.|last2=Dennis|first2=B. S.|last3=Pfeiffer|first3=L. N.|last4=West|first4=K.|date=1993-06-21|title=Observation of collective excitations in the fractional quantum Hall effect|url=https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3983|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=70|issue=25|pages=3983–3986|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3983|pmid=10054015|bibcode=1993PhRvL..70.3983P}} The resonant inelastic light scattering technique, remains one of the few methods that can directly access neutral excitations of electrons in semiconductor microstructures.

Later, Pinczuk contributed to the understanding of low-lying neutral spin-conserving and spin-flip excitations of the fractional quantum Hall fluids.

Pinczuk's association with the journal Solid State Communications began in July 1989, when he joined the board of editors under founding editor Elias Burstein (who was his doctoral advisor). He was later promoted to associate editor-in-chief, working alongside Manuel Cardona. Pinczuk became chief editor of the journal in December 2004, and served through 2019.{{cite journal |last1=Pinczuk |first1=Aron |last2=Peeters |first2=François |title=Aron Pinczuk hands on the torch to new Editor-in-Chief of Solid State Communications: François Peeters |volume=314–315 |journal=Solid State Communications |date=2020 |page=113937 |doi=10.1016/j.ssc.2020.113937|bibcode=2020SSCom.31413937P |s2cid=218790826 }}{{cite journal |last1=Pinczuk |first1=Aron |title=Editorial note |journal=Solid State Communications |date=September 2005 |volume=135 |issue=9–10 |page=525 |doi=10.1016/j.ssc.2005.07.002|bibcode=2005SSCom.135..525P }}

Pinczuk was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1987 "for his pioneering work on the application of light-scattering to study the properties of two-dimensional electron systems."{{Cite web |title=APS Fellow Archive 1987 |url=https://aps.org/programs/honors/fellowships/archive-all.cfm?initial=&year=1987&unit_id=&institution= |publisher=American Physical Society |access-date=March 9, 2022}} He was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Prize for Condensed Matter Physics in 1994.{{Cite web |title=1994 Buckley Prize Recipient |url=https://auth.dev.aps.commonspotcloud.com/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Pinczuk&first_nm=Aron&year=1994}} He was named a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2001{{Cite web |title=AAAS fellow search |url=https://www.aaas.org/fellows/listing}} and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.{{Cite web |title=Aron Pinczuk |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/aron-pinczuk |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |language=en}}

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.642|title=Raman Spectra of Amorphous Si and Related Tetrahedrally Bonded Semiconductors|year=1971|last1=Smith|first1=J. E.|last2=Brodsky|first2=M. H.|last3=Crowder|first3=B. L.|last4=Nathan|first4=M. I.|last5=Pinczuk|first5=A.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=26|issue=11|pages=642–646|bibcode=1971PhRvL..26..642S}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.54.2045|title=Energy-Loss Rates for Hot Electrons and Holes in Ga As Quantum Wells|year=1985|last1=Shah|first1=Jagdeep|last2=Pinczuk|first2=A.|last3=Gossard|first3=A. C.|last4=Wiegmann|first4=W.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=54|issue=18|pages=2045–2048|pmid=10031209|bibcode=1985PhRvL..54.2045S}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.67.3298|title=One-dimensional plasmon dispersion and dispersionless intersubband excitations in Ga As quantum wires|year=1991|last1=Goñi|first1=A. R.|last2=Pinczuk|first2=A.|last3=Weiner|first3=J. S.|last4=Calleja|first4=J. M.|last5=Dennis|first5=B. S.|last6=Pfeiffer|first6=L. N.|last7=West|first7=K. W.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=67|issue=23|pages=3298–3301|pmid=10044697|bibcode=1991PhRvL..67.3298G}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.881352|title=Optical Probes in the Quantum Hall Regime|year=1993|last1=Nurmikko|first1=Arto|last2=Pinczuk|first2=Aron|journal=Physics Today|volume=46|issue=6|pages=24–32|bibcode=1993PhT....46f..24N}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.4071|title=Lasing from excitons in quantum wires|year=1993|last1=Wegscheider|first1=W.|last2=Pfeiffer|first2=L. N.|last3=Dignam|first3=M. M.|last4=Pinczuk|first4=A.|last5=West|first5=K. W.|last6=McCall|first6=S. L.|last7=Hull|first7=R.|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=71|issue=24|pages=4071–4074|pmid=10055146|bibcode=1993PhRvL..71.4071W}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0038-1098(93)90294-W|title=Effect of static uniaxial stress on the Raman spectrum of silicon|year=1993|last1=Anastassakis|first1=E.|last2=Pinczuk|first2=A.|last3=Burstein|first3=E.|last4=Pollak|first4=F.H.|last5=Cardona|first5=M.|journal=Solid State Communications|volume=88|issue=11–12|pages=1053–1058|bibcode=1993SSCom..88.1053A|doi-access=free}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.166802|title=Electric Field Effect Tuning of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene|year=2007|last1=Yan|first1=Jun|last2=Zhang|first2=Yuanbo|last3=Kim|first3=Philip|last4=Pinczuk|first4=Aron|journal=Physical Review Letters|volume=98|issue=16|page=166802|pmid=17501446|arxiv=cond-mat/0612634|bibcode=2007PhRvL..98p6802Y|s2cid=3336551}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.79.241406|title=Engineering artificial graphene in a two-dimensional electron gas|year=2009|last1=Gibertini|first1=Marco|last2=Singha|first2=Achintya|last3=Pellegrini|first3=Vittorio|last4=Polini|first4=Marco|last5=Vignale|first5=Giovanni|last6=Pinczuk|first6=Aron|last7=Pfeiffer|first7=Loren N.|last8=West|first8=Ken W.|journal=Physical Review B|volume=79|issue=24|page=241406|arxiv=0904.4191|bibcode=2009PhRvB..79x1406G|s2cid=119238510}}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1126/science.1208759|title=Visualizing Individual Nitrogen Dopants in Monolayer Graphene|year=2011|last1=Zhao|first1=Liuyan|last2=He|first2=Rui|last3=Rim|first3=Kwang Taeg|last4=Schiros|first4=Theanne|last5=Kim|first5=Keun Soo|last6=Zhou|first6=Hui|last7=Gutiérrez|first7=Christopher|last8=Chockalingam|first8=S. P.|last9=Arguello|first9=Carlos J.|last10=Pálová|first10=Lucia|last11=Nordlund|first11=Dennis|last12=Hybertsen|first12=Mark S.|last13=Reichman|first13=David R.|last14=Heinz|first14=Tony F.|last15=Kim|first15=Philip|last16=Pinczuk|first16=Aron|last17=Flynn|first17=George W.|last18=Pasupathy|first18=Abhay N.|journal=Science|volume=333|issue=6045|pages=999–1003|pmid=21852495|arxiv=1108.4026|bibcode=2011Sci...333..999Z|s2cid=14719674}}

• {{cite book|editor=Lockwood, David J.|editor2=Pinczuk, Aron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wrbwCAAAQBAJ|isbn = 9789401119122|title = Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions|date = 6 December 2012|publisher = Springer}} {{cite book|title=1st edition|location=Dordrecht|publisher=Kluwer|year=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8i9F8xpZFcC|isbn=0792325125}}{{cite journal|author=Phillips, C. C.|title=Review of Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Structures of Reduced Dimensions edited by D. J. Lockwood and A. Pinczuk|year=1994|journal=Journal of Modern Optics|volume=41|issue=7|page=1519|doi=10.1080/09500349414551481}}
• {{cite book|editor=Das Sarma, Sankar|editor-link=Sankar Das Sarma|editor2=Pinczuk, Aron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6jgDg7BI4r4C|isbn = 9783527617265|title = Perspectives in Quantum Hall Effects: Novel Quantum Liquids in Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures|date = 11 July 2008|publisher = John Wiley & Sons}} {{cite book|title=1st edition|year=1996|isbn=0-471-11216-X|last1=Sarma|first1=Sankar Das|last2=Pinczuk|first2=Aron|publisher=Wiley }}

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• [https://engineering.columbia.edu/files/seas/content/faculty-cv/pinczuk-aron_cv-102019.pdf Curriculum vitae]
• [https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty/aron-pinczuk Faculty webpage at Columbia University]

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