Peter Grutter
Department of Physics
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Ph.D. 1989, University of Basel, Switzerland Postdocs at the IBM Almaden Research Center and the IBM Zurich Research Laboratories Current Chair, Department of Physics (2013-present) James McGill Professor (2006-present) Member, Board of Directors of le Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe (RQMP) Previous Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Education, Faculty of Science, (2009-2013) Fellow and Director, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Nanoelectronics Program (CIFAR), (2003-2013) Director of the NSERC Nano Innovation Platform Director of the le Regroupement québécois sur les matériaux de pointe Honours Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Carrie Derick Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching (2005) Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics, Royal Society of Canada (2005) CIFAR Young Explorer Prize - 'Top 20 under 40' (2002) NSERC Staecie Prize (2001) William Dawson Scholar (2000) Memberships NSERC Collaborative Research Experience and Training Program in Neuroengineering (CREATE Neuroengineering) NSERC Collaborative Research Experience and Training Program in Integrated Sensor Systems (CREATE ISS) NSERC Collaborative Research Experience and Training Program in BioNanoMachines (CREATE Bionanomachines) CIHR Training Program in Neurophysics (Neurophysics) McGill Institute of Advanced Materials (MIAM) McGill Department of Chemistry Centre for the Physics of Materials (CPM)
Research Interest
atomic force microscope (AFM) techniques and its application
Publications
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Dissipation modulated Kelvin probe force microscopy method Y. Miyahara and P. Grutter Chapter in Kelvin probe force microscopy - from single charge detection to device characterization; Editors S. Sadewasser and T. Glatzel, Springer-Verlag (2017)
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Rewiring Neuronal Circuits: A New Method for Fast Neurite Extension and Functional Neuronal Connection M.H. Magdesian, M. Anthonisen, G.M. Lopez-Ayon, X.Y. Chua, M. Rigby, and P.Grütter J.Vis.Exp. (124), e55697 doi:10.3791/55697 (2017)
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Measuring Spatially Resolved Collective Ionic Transport on Lithium Battery Cathodes Using Atomic Force Microscopy A. Mascaro, Z. Wang, P. Hovington, Y. Miyahara, A. Paolella, V. Gariépy, Z. Feng, T. Enright, C. Aiken, K. Zaghib, K.H.Bevan, and P. Grutter Nano Lett. 17, 4489 (2017)