During his time at Syracuse, he has spent half-year sabbaticals at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and at Innovalight, Inc., a startup company. From 2014-1017, he served concurrently as a program director at ARPA-E, an agency of the Department of Energy. There he initiated the SHIELD research program of a dozen research projects for development of inexpensive efficiency retrofits for legacy single pane windows. He also supervised a portfolio of additional projects on solar energy conversion and other energy technologies.
Schiff鈥檚 own research accomplishments include development of low-mobility solar cell device physics for thin film solar cells such as perovskites, amorphous silicon, and cadmium telluride. His fundamental physics contributions include work on electronic transport and defects in semiconductors as well as on plasmonics. He is co-author of more than 100 refereed research publications with more than 4,000 citations and he is co-inventor on three U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
1979 Ph.D. in Physics Cornell University
1971 B.S. (honors) Physics and English California Institute of Technology
Gravitational wave detection strategies.
Heuristics of gravitational wave detectors.
Thermal noise in mechanical experiments.
Internal friction in materials.
Education
1981 Ph.D. in Physics
Princeton University
1978 A.M. in Physics
Princeton University
1976 A.B. magna cum laude in Physics
Harvard University
Awards & Professional Honors
Martin A. Pomerantz 鈥�37 Professor of Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society (elected 2003)
Scholar-Teacher of the Year for 2003
Physics Department Undergraduate Teaching Award 2002
Selected Publications
A. Ageev, Belkis Cabrera Palmer, Antonio De Felice, Steven D. Penn, and Peter R. Saulson, 鈥淰ery high quality factor measured in annealed fused silica鈥�, Classical and Quantum Gravity 21, 3887 (2004).
Peter R. Saulson, 鈥淚f light waves are stretched by gravitational waves, how can we use light as a ruler to detect gravitational waves?鈥�, American Journal of Physics, 65, 501 (1997).
Gabriela Gonzalez and Peter R. Saulson, 鈥淏rownian motion of a torsional pendulum with internal friction鈥�, Physics Letters A 201, 12 (1995).
Peter R. Saulson, Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Singapore: World Scientific) 300 pp. (1994).
Peter R. Saulson, 鈥淭hermal noise in mechanical experiments鈥�, Physical Review D 42, 2437 (1990).
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2006 Ph.D. in Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2000 Diploma in Physics, with honors in Theoretical Physics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) – Zurich
Awards & Professional Honors
Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship for Experimental Astrophysics (2006), California Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention, GWIC (Gravitational Wave International Committee) Thesis Prize (2006)
Selected Publications
J. Abadie et.al. , “Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 271102 (2012).
S. Ballmer, S. Marka, P. Shawhan, “Feasibility of measuring the Shapiro time delay over meter-scale distances”, Class. Quantum Grav. 27 185018.
B. Abbott, et. al., 鈥淎n upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin鈥� Nature 460 (2009) 990.
E. Thrane, S. Ballmer, J. D. Romano, S. Mitra, D. Talukder, S. Bose, V. Mandic, 鈥淧robing the anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational-wave background using a network of ground-based laser interferometers鈥� Phys. Rev. D80, 122002 (2009).
M. Evans, S. Ballmer, M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, G. Harry, G. Ogin 鈥淭hermo-optic noise in coated mirrors for high-precision optical measurements鈥� Phys. Rev. D78, 102003 (2008).
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