Ionel Solomon, Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 20 June 1988, Born 8 January 1929, at Iaşi, Romania[1]

Citizenship: French

Nationality: French and Romanian

Fields: physicist

Alma mater: Paris-Sorbonne University, in France

Notable awards: 1958 Grand Prix for Research (with Anatole Abragam and J. Combrisson); 1963 The CNRS Silver Medal; 1969 Robin Prize of the French Physics Society (Societe Francaise de Physique) Ionel Solomon (born 1929) is a French-Romanian physicist, Member of the French Academy of Sciences,CNRS Research Director, and Professor at the Polytechnic School in Paris.


Education

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 1949-1951 PhD, Polytechnic School (École Polytechnique) in Paris

Major scientific contributions

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Ionel Solomon made major contributions to the fields of:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)[1] [2] doi:10.1103/PhysRev.99.559, Solid state physics[3], Semiconductors[2][4][5], and Photovoltaics[3][6][7]. In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance he derived fundamental equations that bear his name, and specify the nuclear spin-echo response and dipole-dipole interactions in solids (the Solomon equations)[4][5]. * Résonance magnétique (1955-1965) : Découverte de la relaxation dans un système de spins couplés. Magnétomètre terrestre. Détection bolométrique de la résonance.

* Physique des Semiconducteurs (1966-1976) : L'effet Hall “extraordinaire”. Pompage optique dans les solides. Découverte du transport dépendant des Spins.

* Silicium amorphe et photovoltaïque (1977-1987) : transport et optique dans le silicium amorphe. Photopiles solaires. Nouveaux matériaux amorphes.

* Recherche matériaux (depuis 1989) : fibres carbone, fibres SiC et SiCN. Photoluminescence et électroluminescence dans les semiconducteurs et dispositifs.

* I. Solomon. "Amorphous Semiconductors", In Topics in Applied Physics, Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin (1979).

* I. Solomon. Relaxation Processes in a System of Two Spins. Phys. Rev. 99, 559 (1955)[8]

* I. Solomon, M.P. Schmidt, H. Tran Quoc. Selective low-power plasma decomposition of silane-methane mixtures for the preparation of methylated amorphous silicon. Phys. Rev. B38, 9895 (1988)

* I. Solomon, B. Drevillon, H. Shirai, N. Layadi. Plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon: the selective etching model.,J. Non-crystalline Solids, 164-166, p. 989 (1993).

* K. Rerbal, F. Jomard, J.-N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Visible luminescence of porous amorphous Si(1-x) Cx:H due to selective dissolution of silicon. Appl. Phys. lett. 83, p. 45 (2003)

* K. Kerbral, J.N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in amorphous Si1-xCx:H films. Eur. Phys. J. B51, p. 61 (2006).

Scientific career

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* 1951-1952 Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK

* 1955-1956 Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA

* 1953-1962 Researcher in the resonance Group of the Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat Energie Atomique in Saclay)

* 1962 Director of the Laboratory for Condensed Matter (Solid-State) Physics (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matiére Condensée), at the Polytechnic School in Paris

* 1962 Head of Research at C.N.R.S.

* 1962 Head of Conferences

* 1968 CNRS Research Director

* 1973-1976 Physics Departement Head at the Polytechnic School in Paris 1973-1974 President of the Societé Française de Physique (the French Physics Society).

* 1975-1979 Professor, at the Polytechnic School in Paris

* 1976 Invited Visiting Professor at the Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto,USA

* 1980 Invited Visiting Professor at Tokyo University

* 1981-1985 Founder and Scientific Director of SOLEMS Company

* 1987 President of the Scientific Council of PHOTOTRONICS (a French-German Company for photovoltaic products)

  • 1988, June 22, Elected Member of the Physics Institute of the French Academy of Sciences[6]

 Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics

Awards and prizes

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* In 1958 Grand Prix for Research (with Anatole Abragam and J. Combrisson)

* In 1963 The CNRS Silver Medal

* In 1969 Robin Prize of the French Physics Society (Societe Francaise de Physique)

* In 1972 Holweck Prize of the Institute of Physics and S.F.P (French Physics Society)

* In 1981 The Y. Peyches Prize of the Academy of Sciences

Notes

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  1. ^ http://www.enotes.com/topic/Ionel_Solomon
  2. ^ I. Solomon. Relaxation Processes in a system of Two spins. Phys. Rev. 99, 559 (1955)
  3. ^ http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v99/i2/p559_1 Phys. Rev. 99, 559–565 (1955) Relaxation Processes in a System of Two Spins
  4. ^ I. Solomon. "Amorphous Semiconductors", In “Topics in Applied Physics”, Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin (1979).
  5. ^ I. Solomon, M.P. Schmidt, H. Tran Quoc. Selective low-power plasma decomposition of silane-methane mixtures for the preparation of methylated amorphous silicon. Phys. Rev. B ,38: 9895 (1988)
  6. ^ I. Solomon, B. Drevillon, H. Shirai, N. Layadi. Plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon: the selective etching model., J. Non-crystalline Solids, 164-166, p. 989 (1993)
  7. ^ K. Rerbal, F. Jomard, J.N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Visible luminescence of porous amorphous Si(1-x) Cx:H due to selective dissolution of silicon. Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, p. 45 (2003); K. Kerbral, J.N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in amorphous Si1-xCx:H films. Eur. Phys. J., B51, p. 61 (2006
  8. ^ http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v99/i2/p559_1 The Solomon Equations

References cited

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  • 1. ^ Résonance magnétique (1955-1965) : Découverte de la relaxation dans un système de spins couplés. Magnétomètre terrestre. Détection bolométrique de la résonance.
  • 2. ^ Physique des Semiconducteurs (1966-1976) : L'effet Hall “extraordinaire”. Pompage optique dans les solides. Découverte du transport dépendant des Spins.
  • 3. ^ Silicium amorphe et photovoltaïque (1977-1987) : transport et optique dans le silicium amorphe. Photopiles solaires. Nouveaux matériaux amorphes.
  • 4. ^ http://planetphysics.org/encyclopedia/IonelSolomon.html Biography of physicist Ionel Solomon
  • 5. ^ I. Solomon. Relaxation Processes in a System of Two Spins. Phys. Rev. 99: 559 (1955)
  • 6. ^ http://www.academie-sciences.fr/membres/S/liste_alphabetique_S.htm Members of the French Academy of Sciences
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