Jabez McClelland explained

Jabez Jenkins McClelland is an American physicist. He is best known for his work applying the techniques of laser cooling and atom optics to nanotechnology. This work involved expanding the number of atomic species that could be laser cooled from the alkalis and a few alkaline earth and noble gas species, to transition metals such a chromium^{[1] [2]} and rare earths such as erbium.^[3] In the early 1990s he and colleagues showed that the nodes of an optical standing wave could act as lenses, focusing chromium atoms as they deposit onto a surface^[4] to create a permanent grating structure whose periodicity is precisely tied to an atomic resonance frequency, making it a useful nanoscale length standard.^[5] In the early 2000s his team showed that laser cooled atoms can produce a very high brightness ion beam when ionized just above threshold,^[6] and used this technique to realize a high resolution lithium ion microscope.^[7]

McClelland studied music and physics at Wesleyan University, and pursued graduate study in physics at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and remained there full-time, successively heading the Electron Physics Group and Alternative Computing Group.^[8] McClelland was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 "[f]or elucidation of spin polarized electron-atom interactions, and for pioneering development and application of atom optical methods in nanostructure fabrication."^[9] An equivalent honor bestowed by the Optical Society of America in 2004 acknowledged McClelland for his "contributions to atom optics, including the fabrication of stable structures by direct-write atomic lithography."^[10]

Notes and References

1. Scholten . R. E. . Gupta . R. . McClelland . J. J. . Celotta . R. J. . Levenson . M. S. . Vangel . M. G. . 1997-02-01 . Laser collimation of a chromium beam . Physical Review A . 55 . 2 . 1331–1338 . 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.1331. 1997PhRvA..55.1331S .
2. Bradley . C. C. . McClelland . J. J. . Anderson . W. R. . Celotta . R. J. . 2000-04-14 . Magneto-optical trapping of chromium atoms . Physical Review A . 61 . 5 . 053407 . 10.1103/PhysRevA.61.053407. 2000PhRvA..61e3407B .
3. McClelland . J. J. . Hanssen . J. L. . 2006-04-14 . Laser Cooling without Repumping: A Magneto-Optical Trap for Erbium Atoms . Physical Review Letters . 96 . 14 . 143005 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.143005. 16712071 . 2006PhRvL..96n3005M .
4. McClelland . J. J. . Scholten . R. E. . Palm . E. C. . Celotta . R. J. . 1993-11-05 . Laser-Focused Atomic Deposition . Science . en . 262 . 5135 . 877–880 . 10.1126/science.262.5135.877 . 17757354 . 1993Sci...262..877M . 38274034 . 0036-8075.
5. McClelland . Jabez J. . Anderson . William R. . Bradley . Curtis C. . Walkiewicz . Mirek . Celotta . Robert J. . Jurdik . Erich . Deslattes . Richard D. . 2003 . Accuracy of Nanoscale Pitch Standards Fabricated by Laser-Focused Atomic Deposition . Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology . 108 . 2 . 99–113 . 10.6028/jres.108.0010 . 1044-677X . 4844512 . 27413597.
6. Steele . A. V. . Knuffman . B. . McClelland . J. J. . Orloff . J. . 2010 . Focused chromium ion beam . Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B . 28 . 6 . C6F1 - C6F5. 10.1116/1.3502668 . 2010JVSTB..28F...1S .
7. Twedt . Kevin A. . Chen . Lei . McClelland . Jabez J. . 2014-07-01 . Scanning ion microscopy with low energy lithium ions . Ultramicroscopy . 142 . 24–31 . 10.1016/j.ultramic.2014.03.014 . 24751577 . 0304-3991.
8. News: Jabez J McClelland (Fed) . 22 February 2022 . National Institute of Standards and Technology.
9. News: APS fellow archive . American Physical Society . 22 February 2022.
10. News: 2004 Fellows . 22 February 2022 . Optica.