Hans Bechtel
Staff Scientist, Program Lead
Infrared, Photon Science Operations
Responsibilities
Infrared Program Lead
Beamlines 1.4, 2.4 and 5.4
ALS IDEA Committee, Chair
Safety Advisory Committee, ALS Representative
Biographical Information
- Infrared Beamlines, Advanced Light Source (since 2007)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004-2007)
- Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, Stanford University (2004)
- B.S., summa cum laude, Chemistry and Computer Science / Mathematics, Furman University (1999)
Selected Publications
see my Google Scholar Profile
- Yi-Hsien Lu, Jonathan M Larson, Artem Baskin, Xiao Zhao, Paul D Ashby, David Prendergast, Hans A Bechtel, Robert Kostecki, Miquel Salmeron. “Infrared Nanospectroscopy at the Graphene–Electrolyte Interface” Nano Letters 19 (8), 5388-5393 (2019). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01897
- Omar Khatib, Hans A. Bechtel, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, G. Lawrence Carr. “Far infrared synchrotron near-field nano-imaging and-spectroscopy” ACS Photonics 57, 2773-2779 (2018). DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00565
- Hans A. Bechtel, Eric A. Muller, Robert L. Olmon, Michael C. Martin, Markus B. Raschke, “Ultrabroadband infrared nanospectroscopic imaging” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 7191–7196 (2014). DOI:10.1073/pnas.1400502111
- Andrew J. Westphal et al. “Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft” Science, 345, 786-791 ( 2014). DOI:10.1126/science.1252496
- Hoi-Ying N. Holman, Hans A. Bechtel, Zhao Hao, Michael C. Martin, “Synchrotron IR spectromicroscopy: chemistry of living cells.”Anal. Chem., 82, 8757-8765 (2010). doi:10.1021/ac100991d