Dr. Michael C. Martin

I founded the travlang company after my Foreign Languages for Travelers www pages became too popular for the university server they were residing on. We now offer a number of Travel and Language related services to the online community. [travlang front page]

Physics activities:

Since July 1997, I am a scientist at the Advanced Light Source sychrotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I built and operate a new Infrared Beamline which is a tool for scientists in studying molecules and compounds of all types. See my professional home page.

In 1996-1997, I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Zettl Research Group in the Physics Department at U.C. Berkeley. I was aiding in the construction of a low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope.

From May 1995 until June 1996 I worked in the Neutron Scattering group of the Physics Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory as an experimental condensed matter physicist. I primarily studied the spin-Peierls compound CuGeO₃, as well as the giant magnetorestance material La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ under various doping conditions.

I obtained my Ph.D. in May of 1995 while working in Prof. Laszlo Mihaly's group in the Physics Department at SUNY @ Stony Brook. I primarily studied the basic properties of Fullerenes (Carbon-60) and doped fullerenes, using Infrared Spectroscopy done at Stony Brook, and at the U4IR and U2B Beamlines at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

Professional Details:

My first physics book has recently been published: Solid State Physics: Problems and Solutions, by Laszlo Mihaly and Michael C. Martin, © 1996 John Wiley and Sons. Visit our web page about it and look for it at a bookstore near you!

Here are my list of publications (including preprint postscript files). Also see my e-prints on the XXX Physics Preprint Server: Search for `Michael C. Martin'.

WWW activities:

I have also helped put together and manage the ALS IR Beamlines web pages, the USB Buckyball Homepage, and the Zettl Group Web Pages.