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Rafi Bistritzer

Rafi Bistritzer (born 1974, Israel) is an Israeli physicist and head of an algorithm research group at Applied Materials.[1]

Biography

Bistritzer studied physics at Tel Aviv University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 2000. He earned his master's degree in 2003 and his PhD in 2007 from the Weizmann Institute of Science.

After completing his studies, he moved to the United States for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, working with Professor Allan H. MacDonald. There, he studied the theory of twisted bilayer graphene. He and MacDonald predicted that two layers of graphene twisted at a “magic angle” of 1.1 degrees could become superconductors.[2]

Their theoretical work inspired later experiments by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2018, Jarillo-Herrero’s team confirmed Bistritzer and MacDonald’s predictions.[3] This research led to the creation of a new field called twistronics (a term first used by Jarillo-Herrero and colleagues).

In 2020, Bistritzer, MacDonald, and Jarillo-Herrero were jointly awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics for their "pioneering theoretical and experimental work on twisted bilayer graphene." [4]

In March 2011, Bistritzer returned to Israel and joined Aspect Imaging as a physicist, where he led a research and development team working on rheology. In 2013, he joined Medtronic as head of the physics group. Since December 2015, he has worked at Applied Materials, leading a research team focused on computer vision and machine learning.

As of 2020, Bistritzer lives in Petah Tikva, Israel.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Rafi Bistritzer, Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics 2020". Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Bistritzer, R.; MacDonald, A. H. (26 July 2011). "Moire bands in twisted double-layer graphene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (30): 12233–12237. arXiv:1009.4203. Bibcode:2011PNAS..10812233B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1108174108. PMC 3145708. PMID 21730173.
  3. ↑ Y Cao, V Fatemi, A Demir, S Fang, SL Tomarken, JY Luo, J D Sanchez-Yamagishi, K Watanabe, T Taniguchi, E Kaxiras, R C Ashoori, P Jarillo-Herrero (2018). "Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices". Nature. 556 (7699): 80–84. arXiv:1802.00553. Bibcode:2018Natur.556...80C. doi:10.1038/nature26154. PMID 29512654.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Rafi Bistritzer, Wolf Prize Laureate in Physics 2020". Archived from the original on 13 January 2020. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Rafi Bistritzer from Kfar Ganim wins Wolf Prize" (in Hebrew). Pita. 14 January 2020.

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