Rafi Bistritzer (Hebrew: רפי ביסטריצר; born 1974 in Israel) is an Israeli physicist, and manager of an algorithms group at Applied Materials. He is the winner of the 2020 Wolf Prize in Physics, together with Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Allan MacDonald, for "pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene."[1]
Rafi Bistritzer | |
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רפי ביסטריצר | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) |
| Education | Tel Aviv University |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Biography
editBistritzer received a bachelor's degree in physics from Tel Aviv University in 2000. He received an MSc in physics in 2003, and a PhD in physics in 2007, both from the Weizmann Institute of Science. He moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, under the supervision of Alan H. MacDonald, where he studied the theoretical physics of bilayer graphene, and specifically twisted bilayer graphene. Their calculations predicted that two parallel graphene sheets twisted at an angle of 1.1 degrees relative to each other (an angle known as the "magic angle") would host flat moiré bands and thus possibly correlated states.[2]
MacDonald's and Bistritzer's work served as the basis for later experimental research by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT, whose group validated the correctness of the calculations in 2018.[3] The result was a breakthrough in the field of twistronics. For their work, Bistritzer, MacDonald, and Jarillo-Herrero were jointly awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in physics.
In March 2011 Bistritzer returned to Israel and joined Aspect Imaging, where he worked as a physicist and led a research and development rheology team. In 2013 he moved to Medtronic as the manager of the physics group. Since December 2015, he has been working at Applied Materials as the director of an algorithms group that focuses on computer vision and machine learning. In 2020 he was appointed as an associate professor[4] in Tel Aviv University.
Bistritzer currently lives in Petah Tikva, Israel.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Rafi Bistritzer, Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics 2020". 13 January 2020.
- ^ Bistritzer, R.; MacDonald, A. H. (2011-07-26). "Moire bands in twisted double-layer graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (30): 12233–12237. doi:10.1073/pnas.1108174108. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3145708. PMID 21730173.
- ^ Y Cao, V Fatemi, A Demir, S Fang, SL Tomarken, JY Luo, J D Sanchez-Yamagishi, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, E Kaxiras, R C Ashoori, P Jarillo-Herrero (2018). "Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices". Nature. 556 (7699): 80–84. arXiv:1802.00553. Bibcode:2018Natur.556...80C. doi:10.1038/nature26154. PMID 29512654. S2CID 4601086.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Prof. Rafi Bistritzer". Tel Aviv University. Retrieved 2024-07-18.
- ^ "ד"ר רפי ביסטריצר מכפ"ג– זוכה פרס וולף". Pita (in Hebrew). 14 January 2020.
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