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Tony Heinz

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Tony Heinz
Professor
906 CEPSR, Mail Code: 4712

Phone: +1 212-854-6564
Fax: +1 212-854-1909
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Office hours: Monday 1:30-3:30 pm


Tony Heinz joined Columbia in 1995 after 12 years at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. Professor Heinz holds a joint appointment in the departments of electrical engineering and physics. His teaching and research interests lie in the areas of 1) ultrafast optoelectronics and spectroscopy, and 2) surface dynamics and surface process control.

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Berkeley (1982)
  • B.S., Physics (with distinction), Stanford University (1978)

Current Research Interests

  • Ultrafast optoelectronics and spectroscopy
  • Nonlinear optics
  • Surface dynamics
  • Optical diagnostics of surface processes

Relevant Work Experience

  • Senior Department Manager, T.J. Watson Research Center (199395)
  • Department Manager, T.J. Watson Research Center (198793)
  • Research staff, T.J. Watson Research Center (198387)


Publications

A. Nahata and T.F. Heinz, "Detection of Freely Propagating Terahertz Radiation by Optical Second-Harmonic Generation," Opt. Lett. 23,67 (1998).

A. Nahata, J.A. Misewich, and T.F. Heinz, "Ultrafast Measurements of Electric Fields in Semiconductors by Optical Harmonic Generation," Proc. SPIE 3277, 238 (1998).

J.I. Dadap, J. Shan, A.S. Weling, J.A. Misewich, and T.F. Heinz, "Homodyne Detection of Second-Harmonic Generation as a Probe of Electric Fields," Appl. Phys. B 68, 333 (1999).

D. Zimdars, J.I. Dadap, K.B. Eisenthal, and T.F. Heinz, "Femtosecond Solvation Dynamics at the Air-Water Interface," Chem. Phys. Lett. 301, 112 (1999).

D. Zimdar, J.I. Dadap, K.B. Eisenthal, and T.F. Heinz, "Anisotropic Orientational Motion of Molecules at the Air-Water Interface," J. Chem. Phys. (in press).

A. Weling and T.F. Heinz, "Enhancement in the Spectral Irradiance of Photoconducting Terahertz Emitters Using Chirped-Pulse Mixing," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B (in press).

Biedermann, E. Knoesel, Z. Hu, and T.F. Heinz, "Direct Observation of Molecular Dissociative Adsorption of H2 on Si(100) Induced by Atomic H," Phys. Rev. Lett.

J.I. Dapad, J.Shan, A.S. Weling, J.A. Misewich, A. Nahata, and T.F. Heinz, "Measurements of the Vector Character of Electric Fields by Optical Second Harmonic Generation," Opt. Lett.