J. Alexander Liddle

J. Alexander Liddle is the Group Leader of the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received his B.A. and D. Phil. degrees in Materials Science from the University of Oxford. Alex worked for eleven years at Bell Laboratories, beginning as a postdoctoral researcher and advancing to a staff scientist and technical manager. He then spent four years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the Center for X-ray Optics, and then as Lead Scientist of the Nanofabrication Facility in the Molecular Foundry. Alex's research at NIST is focused on the physics of self-assembly, where he leads several projects on the measurement of the self-assembly of nanostructures. he holds 16 U.S. patents and has over 200 publications, including several in high profile journals such as Nature and Nano Letters. Alex has also helped organize a number of international conferences and workshops on nanofabrication and self-assembly.

• Sculpting the Shape of Semiconductor Heteroepitaxial Islands: From Dots to Rods, J.T. Robinson, D.A. Walko, D.A. Arms, D.S. Tinberg, P.G. Evans, Y. Cao, J.A. Liddle, A. Rastelli, O.G. Schmidt, and O.D. Dubon, Physical Review Letters 98(10), 106102 (2007).
• Bending Soft Block Copolymer Nanostructures by Lithographically Directed Assembly, G.M. Wilmes, D.A. Durkee, N.P. Balsara, J.A. Liddle, Macromolecules 39(7), 2435 (2006).
• Morphological Evolution of Ge Islands on Au-patterned Si, J.T. Robinson, J.A. Liddle, A. Minor, V. Radmilovic, O.D. Dubon, Journal of Crystal Growth 287(2), 518 (2006)
• Soft X-Ray Microscopy at a Spatial Resolution Better Than 15 nm, W.L. Chao, B. D. Harteneck, J.A. Liddle, E.H. Anderson, D.T. Attwood, Nature 435(7046), 1210 (2005).
• Lithographically-Directed Self-Assembly of Nanostructures, J. Alexander Liddle, Yi Cui and Paul Alivisatos, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 22(6), 3409 (2004).
• Integration of Colloidal Nanocrystals into Lithographically Patterned Devices, Y. Cui, M. T. Björk, J. A. Liddle, C. Sönnichsen, B. Boussert and A. P. Alivisatos, Nano Letters 4(6), 1093 (2004).