PETER Moeck (PhD)

Associate Professor of Physics

pmoeck at pdx dot edu

 

 

Department of Physics, Portland State University

P.O. Box 751,

Portland, OR 97207-0751

 

phone: (503) 725 4227
departmental fax: (503) 725 2815

 

Science Building 2, office 404, lab 401

1719 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR 97201

 

Office hours:

Tuesday and Thursday 12.00 – 12:30 pm (during quarters)

 

Research interests

 

Structural fingerprinting of nanocrystals in the transmission electron microscope, precession electron diffraction, open-access crystallographic databases; nano and micrometer scale materials science and engineering; application of physical crystallography to materials problems of semiconductor technologies

 

click here for a four slide power-point presentation on my research interests

 

leader of the Nano-Crystallography Group

 

 

Currently taught courses

 

Introduction to Modern Physics (to undergraduates)

 

Introduction to Nano(-materials) Science and Engineering (to advanced undergraduates and graduates from all science and engineering disciplines)

 

 

Other student matters

 

PhD/MS student supervisor

 

Adviser/Instructor for independent research projects

 

Assistant to the Chair of the Physics Department for German-American Student Exchange Programs

 

Recently taught coursers

 

at Portland State University

Physical Metallurgy (Materials Science) for Engineers (to undergraduates)

Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (to graduates and advanced undergrads)

 

at University of Illinois at Chicago

Introductory College Physics (to undergraduates)

 

at Oxford University

Atomic force microscopy (to PhD students and interested colleagues – in partial fulfillment

of the requirements for certification as an adult education teacher in Great Britain)

 

 

Education

 

 

1993- 1994                  Practical Information Science

(correspondence course), FernUniversität Hagen (open university)

 

1989- 1992                  PhD in Crystallography

rating “magna cum laude (1)”, Humboldt-University of Berlin

 

1978- 1983                  Diploma in Crystallography

rating “cum laude (2)”, Leipzig University

 

 

Employment

 

2008 –                 Tenured Associate Professor

                            Portland State University, Department of Physics

 

2002 – 2008        Tenure-track Assistant Professor

                            Portland State University, Department of Physics

 

2000 – 2002        Research Assistant Professor

                            University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Physics, Interface Physics Group

 

1998 – 2000        Research Fellow (Electron Microscopist, Materials Scientist)

                            University of Oxford, Department of Materials, Semiconductor Group

 

1997 1998        Research Associate (X-ray Crystallographer, Materials Scientist) 

                            Interdisciplinary Research Center for Semiconductor Materials of the

                            Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of London)

 

1994 – 1997        Senior Research Assistant (X-ray Crystallographer, Materials Scientist)

                            University of Durham, Department of Physics, Condensed Matter Group                           

                                                       

1993 – 1994        Forensic Scientist / Public Analyst

                            Central Forensic Science Laboratories of the German state Brandenburg

 

1992 – 1993        Electron Microscopist, Computer Programmer, X-ray Crystallographer

                            Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials 

                            Science and Technical University Berlin, Central Service Unit for Electron

                            Microscopy

 

1989 – 1991        Staff-PhD researcher (employed primarily to perform research)

                            Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials

                            Science

 

1987 – 1990        Scientific Assistant

                            Humboldt-University of Berlin, Institute for Crystallography and Materials

                            Science

 

1983 – 1986        Entry level scientific staff member

                            Institute for Semiconductor Physics, Academy of Science

 

 CV (for some details on what I have actually been doing at the places mentioned above, but it has not been updated for a long time)

 

Professional Societies: Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kristallographie

  

have a look at some power point slides from a seminar  (on aspects of the nanomaterials challenge, image-based nanocrystallography by means of transmission electron goniometry & how it might be developed into commercial products) I held at the FEI Company, Hillsboro Campus

 have a look at some power point slides from the second part of a lecture (on goniometry and direct crystallographic analyses in TEM) I held at the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Berkeley

click here for some 30 power point slides (on epitaxial and endotaxial semiconductor quantum dots) of a lecture I held at Oregon State University at Corvallis

click here for overheads in *.pdf format from a lecture (on materials science issues of compound semiconductors), I held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

have a look at the overheads in *.pdf format from a popular science lecture (on creating atomic order in semiconductor quantum dots) I held at the Rochester Institute of Technology (I am sorry, there is always some mix-up with some symbols in *.pdf format.)

 

back to physics faculty, back to physics at Portland State University (PSU), back to PSU

 

last updated: December 28, 2008 (just in the nick of time for the new academic year, ….)

 

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