Sattler, Klause D. — NanoScienceWorks

Klause D. Sattler Ph.D.

Position	Department / Business Unit
Professor
Institution	Disciplines
University of Hawaii - Manoa	Physics
City	State / Provence
Honolulu	Hawaii
Country	Website
USA
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Klaus D. Sattler pursued his undergraduate and master's courses at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. he received his Ph.D. under the guidance of professors G. Busch and H.C. Siegmann at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETC) in Zurich, where he was among the first to study spin-polarized photo-electron emission. In 1976, he began a group for atomic cluster research at the University of Konstanz in Germany, where he built the first source for atomic clusters and led his team to pioneering discoveries such as "magic numbers" and "Coulomb Explosion." He was at the University of California, Berkeley, for three years as a Heisenberg Fellow, where he initiated the first studies of atomic clusters on surfaces with a scanning tunneling microscope. in 1988. Dr. Sattler accepted a position as a professor of physics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.

His current work focuses on novel nanomaterials and solar photocatalysis with nanoparticles for the purification of water.

Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Sattler was awarded the prestigious Walter Schottky Prize from the German Physical Society in 1983. At the University of Hawaii, he teaches courses in general physics, solid-state physics, and quantum mechanics.