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Jeffery Drucker

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Department of Physics
Professor
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 1504
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Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 1504
Biography

Jeff Drucker received his BS in Physics from UC Irvine and his PhD in Physics from UC Santa Barbara. During his PhD research he developed a fascination with the atomistic mechanisms of crystal growth which continues to this day. He has studied the formation of low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots and nanowires and is currently investigating the fundamental growth mechanisms of two-dimensional materials such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides.

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Education
  • Ph.D. Physics, University of California-Santa Barbara
  • B.A. Physics, University of California-Irvine
Research Interests

Fundamental science of epitaxy and crystal growth.  Novel electronic materials.  2D materials.  Nanostructures.

Publications
  • Nucleation and growth of single layer graphene on electrodeposited Cu by cold wall CVD, Shantanu Das and Jeff Drucker, Nanotechnology, doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aa593b.
  • Uniform and repeatable cold-wall CVD synthesis of single-layer MoS2, Chad Lunceford and Jeff Drucker, Cryst. Growth Des., 16, 988 (2016).
  • Interpreting plasmonic response of epitaxial Ag/Si (100) island ensembles, Dexin Kong, Liying Jiang and Jeff Drucker, J. Appl. Phys. 118, 213103 (2015).
  • Optimization of In2Se3/Si(111) Heteroepitaxy To Enable Bi2Se3/In2Se3 Bilayer Growth, Somilkumar J. Rathi, David J. Smith and Jeff Drucker, Cryst. Growth Des., 14, 4617 (2014).
  • Kong, Dexin; Drucker, Jeff. Tuning Ag/Si(100) island size, shape, and density. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS (2013).
  • Rathi, Somilkumar J.; Smith, David J.; Drucker, Jeff. Guided VLS Growth of Epitaxial Lateral Si Nanowires. NANO LETTERS (2013).
Research Activity

Drucker,Jeffery S*. Supported solid and liquid metal films for growth of single-layer graphene and boron nitride lateral heterostructures. NSF-MPS-DMR(7/1/2014 - 6/30/2017).

 

Summer 2018
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MSE 792Research
PHY 792Research
MSE 795Continuing Registration
PHY 799Dissertation
Spring 2018
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 361Introductory Modern Physics
PHY 792Research
MSE 792Research
MSE 795Continuing Registration
PHY 799Dissertation
MSE 799Dissertation
Fall 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 361Introductory Modern Physics
PHY 495Project Research
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MSE 795Continuing Registration
PHY 799Dissertation
MSE 799Dissertation
Summer 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
MSE 792Research
PHY 792Research
PHY 799Dissertation
Spring 2017
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 361Introductory Modern Physics
PHY 792Research
MSE 792Research
MSE 795Continuing Registration
PHY 799Dissertation
MSE 799Dissertation
Fall 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 361Introductory Modern Physics
PHY 792Research
MSE 792Research
PHY 799Dissertation
MSE 799Dissertation
Summer 2016
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MSE 792Research
PHY 792Research
PHY 799Dissertation
Spring 2016
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 131Univ Physics II: Elctrc/Magnet
PHY 132University Physics Lab II
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PHY 799Dissertation
MSE 799Dissertation
Fall 2015
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 121Univ Physics I: Mechanics
PHY 122University Physics Lab I
PHY 792Research
MSE 792Research
Summer 2015
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MSE 792Research
Spring 2015
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 131Univ Physics II: Elctrc/Magnet
PHY 132University Physics Lab II
PHY 792Research
MSE 792Research
Fall 2014
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 121Univ Physics I: Mechanics
PHY 122University Physics Lab I
PHY 792Research
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Summer 2014
Course NumberCourse Title
MSE 792Research
Spring 2014
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 131Univ Physics II: Elctrc/Magnet
PHY 132University Physics Lab II
PHY 792Research
Fall 2013
Course NumberCourse Title
PHY 121Univ Physics I: Mechanics
PHY 122University Physics Lab I
PHY 792Research
Presentations
  • Somilkumar J. Rathi and Jeff Drucker. VLS growth of in-plane Si nanowires. Spring 2013 Materials Research Society meeting, San Francisco CA (Mar 2013).
  • Jeff Drucker, Eric Dailey and Prashanth Madras. Au on VLS-grown Si nanowires: spreading of the liquid metal seed. AVS 57th International Symposium (Oct 2010).
  • Jeff Drucker, Eric Dailey and Prashanth Madras. Au on vapor-liquid-solid grown Si nanowires: spreading of the liquid metal seed. Lawrence Symposium on Critical Issues in Epitaxy (Feb 2010).
  • Jeff Drucker, Eric Dailey and Prashanth Madras. Vapor-liquid-solid Si nanowire growth:kinked and Au decorated nanowire sidewalls. DOE Basic Energy Sciences Synthesis and Processing Contractors Meeting (Oct 2009).
  • Eric Dailey and Jeff Drucker. "Seedless" vapor-liquid-solid growth of Si and Ge nanowires: The origin of bimodal diameter distributions. Fall 2008 Materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA 1-5 Dec, 2008 (Dec 2008).
  • Prashanth Madras and Jeff Drucker. Kinetics of Nanowire Kinking. Fall 2008 materials Research Society Meeting, Boston, MA 1-5 Dec, 2008 (Dec 2008).
  • Jeff Drucker. Kinetically stabilized dilute Ge/Si(100) hut and pyramid ensembles. Facets of Heteroepitaxy workshop at the Banff International Research Station (Feb 2008).
  • Jeff Drucker. Self-assembled Si and Ge nanostructures. Facets of Heteroepitaxy workshop at Banff International Research Station (Feb 2008).
  • Drucker, Jeffery. Electron charging in heteroepitaxial Ge/Si(100) quantum dots,. Workshop on nanoscale epitaxial semiconductor heterostructures (Sep 2007).
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Expertise Areas
Physics
Nanoscience and Material Physics