PETER A. WOLFF, Professor of Physics Emeritus

Email: pawolff@mit.edu Office: (617) 253-3283 Address: Room 13-2077 Related Links:

Research Interests

Diluted magnetic semiconductors; optical properties of subwavelength hole arrays.

Biographical Sketch

Professor Wolff's career began at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he worked from 1952-70. He then joined the MIT Physics Department as Head of the Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics Division (1970-76). Subsequently, he was Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics (1976-81), and of the Francis Bitter National Magnet Laboratory (1981-87). Professor Wolff retired from the MIT physics faculty in 1989 to become a Fellow of the newly formed NEC Research Institute in Princeton; returning to MIT in 1994 to lead the Physics/Industry Forum for the Department.

Selected Publications

"Extraordinary optical transmission through sub-wavelength hole arrays," T. W. Ebbesen, H. J. Lezec, H. F. Ghaemi, T. Thio, and P. A. Wolff, Nature, Vol.391, p. 667, (1998).