Steve Tear
Emeritus Professor

Profile

Career

BSc (Warwick), DPhil (York), CPhys, MInstP, FRMS

Summary of expertise

• Quantitative studies of surface and interface atomic structures of materials for next generation spintronic devices
• Growth of ultra thin films and heterostructures for spintronic applications
• Studies of low-energy electron interactions with material surfaces in microscopy and spectroscopy
• Low-energy electron diffraction, scanning tunnelling microscopy and atomic force microscopy

Roles in the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology

• Director, York JEOL Nanocentre

Research

Overview

Research group: Condensed Matter Physics

Research group(s)

PhD students

• Mr Daniel Pingstone (joint with Vlado Lazarov)
• Mr Ashish Suri (joint with Mohamed El Gomati)