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Arthur
R. Smith – Biosketch. Arthur R. Smith completed
his B.S. degree in
physics
at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO in 1987. He
received his Ph.D. in physics in 1995 from the
University
of Texas at Austin, working with Dr. Chih-Kang Shih and
specializing in atomic-scale scanning tunneling
microscopy (STM) of
semiconductor heterostructures. He went
on to do post-doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon
University
with Dr. Randall Feenstra from 1996 through 1998, where
he focused on
molecular
beam epitaxy combined with STM to investigate the growth
and surface
structure
of gallium nitride. Then, in 1998 he
joined the faculty as a new Assistant Professor in the
Department of
Physics
& Astronomy at Ohio University, and developed
his own lab focusing on MBE growth and STM studies of
transition metal
nitride
materials. In 2000, Smith was awarded
the U.S. Presidential Early CAREER Award in Science
and Engineering
(PECASE, $500K,
2000-05) for his work on gallium nitride and for his
educational
commitments. In 2002, Smith’s research
expanded to include spin-polarized STM with a first
publication on that topic in Physical
Review Letters. Dr. Smith was
promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2003 and
to full
professor in
2008. Smith led an effort to win a $1.1
Million NSF Nanoscale Interdisciplinary
Research Team grant for nanospintronics &
nanomagnetics
research in
2003, and a $2.5 Million NSF Partnership
for International Research & Education grant
in 2007. Dr. Smith was elected to
directorship of the
Ohio University Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena
Institute (NQPI) in
2005, and re-elected for two additional terms (total of
9 years as Director). Under
his leadership NQPI won, through a tough internal
competition, a solid base budget and gained recognition
internationally for
its nanoscience
research. Dr. Smith also led the effort at Ohio
University to establish a helium liquefaction and
recovery system which has high efficiency, high
capacity, and is currently in full operation, making
OHIO's low-temperature physics very cool! As of October 2020, Dr.
Smith has supervised 17 Ph.D. students (13 Ph.D’s
granted), 3
postdoctoral associates, and numerous undergraduates.
He has been awarded (as PI) more than $7.7 Million in
Federal grant
funding and published over 95 peer-reviewed
articles in
numerous high profile journals on topics including
surface structure,
magnetic
properties, phase transitions, dilute magnetic
semiconductors, 2D material room-temperature ferromagnetism,
and atomic-scale spin-polarized STM. |