Michael Weinert

Research:

Professor Weinert's main research interests are:

• The investigation of the electronic and magnetic structure of complex materials -- surfaces, interfaces, alloys, and nanostructured systems -- from first-principles, with emphasis on phase stability, defects, transport, and nanostructures.

• The analysis and interpretation of experiments involving spectroscopies such as photoemission, Auger, x-ray absorption, and scanning tunneling spectroscopy, and experiments related to the growth and atomic structure as probed by electron microscopy and scanning probes.

• The development and use of advanced first-principles electronic structure methods to model and understand the properties of materials.

Biographical Sketch:

Michael Weinert received his B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics in 1976 at Northwestern University and his Sc.M in 1977 at Brown University. In 1982 he graduated from Northwestern University with a Ph.D in Physics. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory Physics in the Condensed Matter Theory Group from 1982 to 2001, and was a Visiting Scientist at the KFA-Juelich (Germany) in 1986-7.

Since 2001 Professor Weinert has been at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Surface Studies. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institue of Physics (U.K.), and is an Associate Editor of Physical Review B and a member of the Editorial Board of Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. Professor Weinert is also a member of the Scientific Oversight Committee of the Department of Energy's Computational Materials Science Network.

Selected publications

• M. Weinert, G. Schneider, R. Podlucky, and J. Redinger
  "FLAPW: Applications and implementations"
  J. Phys. Condens. Matter 21, 084201 (2009)
• Y. Qi, S. T. King, S. H. Cheung, M. Weinert, and L. Li
  "Incorporation of Ge on GaN(0001)"
  Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 111918 (2008)
• Yu. S. Dedkov, C. Laubschat, S. Khmelevskyi, J. Redinger, P. Mohn, and M. Weinert
  "YCo₂: Intrinsic Magnetic Surface of a Paramagnetic Bulk Material"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 047204 (2007)
• S. T. King, M. Weinert, and L. Li
  "Atomistic view of the autosurfactant effect during GaN epitaxy"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206106 (2007)
• V. K. Lazarov, J. Zimmerman, S. H. Cheung, L. Li, M. Weinert, and M. Gajdardziska-Josifovska
  "Selected growth of cubic and hexagonal GaN epitaxial films on polar MgO(111)"
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 216101 (2005)